John Herbert Meade, 7th Earl of Clanwilliam (27 September 1919 – 24 December 2009), was an Anglo-Irish nobleman.
Uppark, Sussex
Meade was the second son of AdmiralSir Herbert Meade and his wife Margaret Glyn. His father inherited Uppark, Sussex in 1930 and adapted the additional surname of Fetherstonhaugh, and it was this estate that John considered home.[1]
Following in the naval tradition of his father and grandfather, he was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and sailed as a midshipman in 1934.[1] In 1940, he was promoted from acting sublieutenant to sublieutenant in the Royal Navy,[2] but his naval career ended abruptly when he was placed on the retired list on 8 March 1942.[3] He spent the rest of World War II working in a munitions factory in Birmingham.[4]
Lady Tania Frances Meade (born 1963), married James Alwyn Compton in 1989
He lived in Tisbury, Wiltshire. On 30 March 1989, he succeeded his first cousin as Earl of Clanwilliam, and took his seat in the British House of Lords (asBaron Clanwilliam). He spoke on a variety of subjects, including soil conservation, a topic in which he took great interest, as a gardener.[1] Lord Clanwilliam was a political conservative.[4] In 2000, he helped organise the Tisbus minibus service for Tisbury. After the death of the Countess, he helped complete a recipe book on which she had collaborated with Graham Rust.[1]
The Earl died on Christmas Eve, 2009, and was succeeded by his son Patrick, theretofore styled Lord Gillford.
