Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield - Family

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Thomas Patrick John Anson was born 25 April 1939. He was the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas William Arnold Anson, Viscount Anson (1913–1958), the eldest son and heir apparent of Thomas Edward Anson, 4th Earl of Lichfield (1883–1960). His mother was born Anne Bowes-Lyon (1917-1980, who subsequently became Princess Anne of Denmark after divorce and remarriage), a niece of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. He had one sister, Elizabeth Georgiana (born 1941), who married Sir Geoffrey Adam Shakerley, 6th Baronet Shakerly.

In 1958, his father died, so when his grandfather died in 1960, he succeeded as 5th Earl of Lichfield. In 1975 he married Lady Leonora Grosvenor, elder daughter of the 5th Duke of Westminster, but they divorced in 1986. After divorcing, the Countess of Lichfield retained her title and has not remarried. They had one son, Thomas, now 6th Earl of Lichfield, and two daughters, Lady Rose Anson, a god-daughter of Princess Margaret and Lady Eloise Anson, a god-daughter of Princess Anne, The Princess Royal.

His most recent partner was the biographer, Lady Annunziata Asquith, daughter of Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith.

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