Keith Schellenberg
Clifford Keith Wain Schellenberg was a British businessman and Winter Olympian. He was known for his legal disputes related to his ownership of the Scottish island of Eigg. He also stood in the 1964 UK general election in Richmond and the October 1974 UK general election in Moray and Nairn as a Liberal candidate.Personal life
Schellenberg was the son of Clifford Robertshaw Schellenberg, of Woodlands, The Grove, Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire. His distant forbears hailed from Wurttemberg. He had six children and was married four times; firstly, in 1957, to Jan Hagenbach, with whom he had two daughters; secondly, in 1964, to Margaret de Hauteville Hamilton, daughter of Robert Hamilton-Udny, 11th Lord Belhaven and Stenton, by whom he had a son and two daughters; thirdly, to garden designer Susan "Suki" Minette Urquhart, daughter of Major-General Robert Urquhart, General officer commanding the 1st Airborne Division at the Battle of Arnhem during Operation Market Garden in 1944; and was survived by his widow Jilly. Schellenberg lived at Davidstone House, near Keith, Aberdeenshire, and at Old Mayen on the River Deveron. He died in Richmond, North Yorkshire in October 2019 at the age of 90.Winter Olympics and sporting endeavours
Schellenberg competed in the two-man and the four-man Bobsleigh events at the 1956 Winter Olympics. He also competed in the men's singles in the luge at the 1964 Winter Olympics. He also played on the Yorkshire rugby team. In 1968 he competed in the London to Sydney Marathon in his vintage Bentley sadly retiring when his car toppled off the edge of the road which had subsided under the weight of the car.
