Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
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The Right Honourable The Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl KP PC |
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Lord Dunraven and Mount-Earl.
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| Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies | |
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In office 24 June 1885 – 28 January 1886 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Marquess of Salisbury |
| Preceded by | Evelyn Ashley |
| Succeeded by | George Osborne Morgan |
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In office 3 August 1886 – 16 February 1887 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Marquess of Salisbury |
| Preceded by | George Osborne Morgan |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Onslow |
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| Born | 12 February 1841 |
| Died | 14 June 1926 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Florence Kerr |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, KP PC (12 February 1841 – 14 June 1926), styled Viscount Adare between 1850 and 1871, was an Anglo-Irish journalist, landowner, entrepreneur, sportsman and Conservative politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies under Lord Salisbury from 1885 to 1886 and 1886 to 1887. He also successfully presided over the 1902 Land Conference and was the founder of the Irish Reform Association. He recruited two regiments of sharpshooters, leading them in the Boer War and later establishing a unit in Ireland.
A big game hunter, in 1874 Dunraven claimed 15,000 acres in Colorado, United States, determined to make the area a game park. He built a tourist hotel there but sold the land in the early 20th century, as he was under continuous pressure from settlers trying to encroach on his holdings.
Lord Dunraven was the son of The 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl by his first wife, Florence Augusta Goold, third daughter of Thomas Goold. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. After serving as a lieutenant in the 1st Life Guards, a cavalry regiment, Dunraven became, at age twenty-six, a war correspondent for the London newspaper The Daily Telegraph. He covered the Abyssinian War in Africa. In this capacity, he shared a tent with Henry Stanley of The New York Herald.
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