Peter Bennett, 10th Earl of Tankerville explained

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]

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 and References

  1. https://members.parliament.uk/member/2231/career Earl of Tankerville
  2. https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-36991?rskey=J3mQjH&result=5 Tankerville, 10th Earl of, cr 1714 (Peter Grey Bennet) (Baron Ossulston, 1682)
  3. Burkes Peerage vol. 3 (2003), p. 3857
  4. https://communities.northumberland.gov.uk/Chillingham.htm Chillingham