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6th marquess of Londonderry, Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest-Stewart

Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1852-1915; ODNB), 6th marquess of Londonderry (1884); leading landowner and coal owner in Co Durham, with further properties in Co. Down and Montgomeryshire; Conservative politician; viceroy of Ireland, 1886-9; as first president of the board of education, 1902-5, guided the 1902 Education Bill through the house of lords; lord-lieutenant, Down, 1904-15; mayor of Durham, 1911-12; leader of Irish Unionism, signing the Ulster covenant in 1912.

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See also Vane-Tempest-Stewart [née Talbot], marchioness of Londonderry, Theresa Susey Helen; Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Lord Castlereagh, 7th marquess of Londonderry, Charles Stewart Henry