Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Edward Charles Stewart Robert "Robin" Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th Marquess of Londonderry, DL (18 November 1902 – 17 October 1955) was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician.Educated at Eton College, he was the only son of Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry and his wife, Edith Helen (née Chaplin). He worked as honorary attaché to the British Embassy in Rome and as a director of Londonderry Collieries, the family's coal mining company. A keen football fan, he was first a director, and then later chairman of Arsenal Football Club from 1939 to 1946. A portrait of him painted in 1911 as a pageboy at the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary by Philip de Laszlo hangs at Mount Stewart, County Down, the Londonderry ancestral seat in Northern Ireland.[citation needed]Known formally by his courtesy title Viscount Castlereagh and as "Robin" by friends and family, he was an accomplished public speaker and was Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for County Down in the British House of Commons between 1931 and 1945. He succeeded his father as Marquess in 1949.[citation needed]. }
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- Robin_Vane-Tempest-Stewart,_8th_Marquess_of_Londonderry abstract "Edward Charles Stewart Robert "Robin" Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th Marquess of Londonderry, DL (18 November 1902 – 17 October 1955) was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician.Educated at Eton College, he was the only son of Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry and his wife, Edith Helen (née Chaplin). He worked as honorary attaché to the British Embassy in Rome and as a director of Londonderry Collieries, the family's coal mining company. A keen football fan, he was first a director, and then later chairman of Arsenal Football Club from 1939 to 1946. A portrait of him painted in 1911 as a pageboy at the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary by Philip de Laszlo hangs at Mount Stewart, County Down, the Londonderry ancestral seat in Northern Ireland.[citation needed]Known formally by his courtesy title Viscount Castlereagh and as "Robin" by friends and family, he was an accomplished public speaker and was Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for County Down in the British House of Commons between 1931 and 1945. He succeeded his father as Marquess in 1949.[citation needed]".