Peter Bennett, 10th Earl of Tankerville
Peter Grey Bennet, 10th Earl of Tankerville (born 18 October 1956) is a British peer and musician. Until 1980 he was entitled to the courtesy title of Lord Ossulston.
As a member of the House of Lords from 1980 until 1999 he was not a member of a political group.[1]
The only son of Charles Augustus Grey Bennet, 9th Earl of Tankerville, and Georgiana Lilian Maude Wilson, his father's second wife, a daughter of the Rev. Gilbert Wilson, doctor of divinity, he was educated at Grace Cathedral School, San Francisco, Oberlin Conservatory, where he graduated as a Bachelor of Music, and San Francisco State University, where he took an M.A.[2][3]
On 27 April 1980 he succeeded to the peerages of Baron Ossulston in the peerage of England (1682) and Earl of Tankerville in the peerage of Great Britain (1714).[3] Soon after this, the landed estate at Chillingham Castle was sold.[4]
In 2003, Tankerville was living in San Francisco and working as a musician.[2]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Earl of Tankerville, members.parliament.uk, accessed 13 January 2023
- ^ a b Tankerville, 10th Earl of, cr 1714 (Peter Grey Bennet) (Baron Ossulston, 1682) in Who's Who 2003 (London: A. & C. Black, 2003), p. 2113
- ^ a b Burkes Peerage vol. 3 (2003), p. 3857
- ^ Chillingham, Northumberland County Council, accessed 13 January 2023
