Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
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The Right Honourable The Earl of Snowdon GCVO RDI |
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Armstrong-Jones in 1965
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| Member of the House of Lords | |
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In office 16 November 1999 – 31 March 2016 as Baron Armstrong-Jones |
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In office 6 October 1961 – 11 November 1999 as Earl of Snowdon |
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| Born |
Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones 7 March 1930 London |
| Died | 13 January 2017 (aged 86) Kensington |
| Resting place | St Baglan's Church, Llanfaglan |
| Nationality | British |
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Princess Margaret (m. 1960; div. 1978) Lucy Lindsay-Hogg (m. 1978; div. 2000) |
| Children | Polly Fry David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon Lady Sarah Chatto Lady Frances von Hofmannsthal Jasper Cable-Alexander |
| Parents |
Ronald Armstrong-Jones Anne Messel |
| Alma mater | Jesus College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Known for | Former husband of The Princess Margaret, former brother-in-law of Elizabeth II |
Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, GCVO, RDI (7 March 1930 – 13 January 2017), commonly known as Lord Snowdon, was a British photographer and film maker. He was married to Princess Margaret, younger daughter of King George VI and the sister of Queen Elizabeth II.
Armstrong-Jones was the only son from the marriage of the barrister Ronald Armstrong-Jones (1899–1966) and his first wife Anne Messel (later Countess of Rosse).
Armstrong-Jones's paternal grandfather was Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, the British psychiatrist and physician. His paternal grandmother was the daughter of Sir Owen Roberts, the Welsh educationalist. A maternal uncle was Oliver Messel (1904–1978) and a maternal great-grandfather was the Punch cartoonist Linley Sambourne (1844–1910), and his great-great-uncle Alfred Messel was a well-known Berlin architect.
Armstrong-Jones's parents separated when he was young and as a schoolboy he contracted polio while on holiday at their country home in Wales. For the entire six months that he was in Liverpool Royal Infirmary recuperating, his only family visits were from his sister Susan.
Armstrong-Jones was educated at two boarding independent schools: at Sandroyd School in Wiltshire from 1939 to 1943, and at Eton College, followed by Jesus College, Cambridge, where he studied architecture but failed his second-year exams. He coxed the winning Cambridge boat in the 1950 Boat Race.
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