In office 27 November 1960 – 11 November 1999 Hereditary Peerage
Preceded by
The 1st Earl of Gowrie
Succeeded by
Seat abolished
Personal details
Born
Alexander Patrick Greysteil Hore-Ruthven
(1939-11-26)26 November 1939 Dublin, Ireland
Died
24 September 2021(2021-09-24) (aged 81) Llanfechain, Wales
Nationality
British
Political party
Conservative
Spouses
Alexandra Bingley
(m. 1962; div. 1973)
Adelheid Gräfin von der Schulenburg
(m. 1974)
Children
1
Parents
Patrick Hore-Ruthven (father)
Pamela Cooper (mother)
Alma mater
Eton College
Balliol College, Oxford
Harvard University
Alexander Patrick Greysteil Hore-Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie,[1]PC, FRSL (26 November 1939 – 24 September 2021), usually known as Grey Gowrie or Lord Gowrie, was an Irish-born British hereditary peer, politician, and businessman. Lord Gowrie was also the hereditary Clan Chief of Clan Ruthven in Scotland. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and held posts in academia for a period, in the US and London, including time working with poet Robert Lowell and at Harvard University.
Gowrie was a Conservative Party politician for some years, including a period in the British Cabinet. He held ministerial posts under Margaret Thatcher, in the areas of employment and Northern Ireland, and was Minister of State for the Arts, as well as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with responsibility for Civil Service reform. Offered a promotion to full Secretary of State, with responsibility for education across the UK, he turned it down. Previously an arts dealer, he moved to Sotheby's for a reputed salary of around £150,000, chairing parts of the art auction business. He later chaired the Arts Council of England (1994–1998).
He published several volumes of poetry, with a collected edition released in 2014, and a volume on the artist Derek Hill; he was also a contributing author for a book on British painting. He underwent a heart transplant at Harefield Hospital in his early sixties. He died at his home in Llanfechain, Powys, Wales, in September 2021.
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