Jenico Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston, Date of Birth

Jenico Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston

Irish noble

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1939

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Jenico Nicholas Dudley Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston, 4th Baron Gormanston (born 19 November 1939), is an Anglo-Irish peer. Lord Gormanston is the only son of Jenico William Preston, 16th Viscount Gormanston (1914–1940), and Pamela Hanly, daughter of Captain Edward Hanly and Lady Marjorie Feilding (daughter of the 9th Earl of Denbigh).
An Anglo-Irish aristocrat, he is the Premier Viscount of Ireland.
A Roman Catholic like his forebears, Lord Gormanston attended the Benedictine school at Downside, Somerset.
His great-grandfather was General Sir William Butler of Bansha Castle, County Tipperary, and his great-grandmother was the celebrated Victorian artist, Elizabeth Thompson, aka Lady Butler. He succeeded to the title before his first birthday, when his father died in action at Dunkirk during the Battle of France, 1940.
He is a connoisseur of art and lives in Kensington, London.
His ancestral seat is Gormanston Castle in County Meath, Ireland, though it is no longer in the family's possession.
The castle is fully maintained by the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor (OFM), bought in 1947.
Shortly after its purchase, the order opened a boarding school for boys, Gormanston College, in the adjacent grounds; the college has since become a coeducational day school.