Francis FitzRoy Newdegate, 3rd Viscount Daventry

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Francis Humphrey Maurice FitzRoy Newdegate, 3rd Viscount Daventry (17 December 192115 February 2000) succeeded to the title as 3rd Viscount Daventry on the death of his uncle, the 2nd Viscount Daventry in 1986.

He was the son of John Maurice FitzRoy, (brother of Oliver FitzRoy, 2nd Viscount Daventry) who in 1919 married Lucia Charlotte Susan Newdigate Newdegate, heiress of Sir Francis Alexander Newdigate Newdegate of Arbury Hall, Warwickshire, who took the additional surname of Newdegate and who inherited the Arbury estates on the death of his father-in-law in 1936.

He came into the Arbury estates on the death of his father in 1976.

He was Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire 1990-1996.

He married Rosemary Norrie in 1959 and was succeeded by his son James.

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Honorary Titles
Preceded by
Hugh Kenrick
High Sheriff of Warwickshire
1970-1971
Succeeded by
Sir William Dugdale, 2nd Baronet
Preceded by
Charles Smith-Ryland
Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire
1990–1996
Succeeded by
Martin Dunne
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Oliver FitzRoy
Viscount Daventry
1986–2000
Succeeded by
James FitzRoy Newdegate