Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon


Nicholas James Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon, , is the son of The 6th Earl of Caledon and Anne Louise, Freiin :de:Graevenitz |de Graevenitz.
Lord Caledon inherited the title from his father in 1980 and is a Justice of the Peace and has been Lord Lieutenant of County Armagh since 1989. He lives at Caledon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
He was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 2015 New Year Honours.

Marriages and children

Caledon was educated at Gordonstoun in Elgin, Scotland. He married, firstly, Wendy Catherine Coumantaros, daughter of Spiro Nicholas Coumantaros, a shipping magnate, on 15 November 1979. They were divorced in 1985 without any issue; his first wife uses the style of Wendy, Countess of Caledon.
He married, secondly, on 19 December 1989, the interior designer Henrietta Mary Alison Newman, daughter of John Francis Newman, himself a son of Sir Cecil Newman, 2nd Bt., and has issue:
In November 2007, Caledon announced his engagement to Amanda Cayzer, former wife of The Hon. Charles William Cayzer, second son of Herbert Robin Cayzer, 2nd Baron Rotherwick, by whom she has two children. They were married on 2 February 2008. His second ex-wife is now known as Henrietta, Countess of Caledon, and his third wife Amanda is now The Countess of Caledon.

Siblings

Caledon has two siblings:
  1. Lady Tana Focke, originally named Cayetana for her godmother Cayetana, Duchess of Alba. Lady Tana, a successful fund-manager, is the Earl's elder half-sister by his father's first marriage to Ghislaine Dresselhuys, later Lady Foley. Tana is married to His Honour Justice Paul Focke, and has issue.
  2. Lady Jane Alexander, his younger sister, who has been married three times. She was married to a medical doctor, John Fitzroy Gillespie MBE JP DL. Lady Jane trained racehorses and died in 2017.

    Heirs in remainder to the earldom

The Earl's only son, Viscount Alexander, is his heir apparent, followed by the Earl Alexander of Tunis and several elder cousins who are in remainder to the earldom created in 1801 for the 'nabob' James Alexander, an Ulster-Scot who rose in a matter of decades from an East India Company clerk to an earl in the Peerage of Ireland.