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Life
1909-82 [William Basil Goulding; 3rd Bart.]; b. Earlsfort Tce., Dublin; ed. Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford; joined family fertiliser firm and became major Irish industrialist and Governor of Bank of Ireland; leading shareholding in Fitzwilliam Securities, and afterwards Fitzwilton; family
company devastated by reverse takeover; distinguised himself as an art collector and art patron; m. Valerie Monckton, the friend of Edward VII; served in RAF during WWII; settled in Ireland; directorships incl. directorships Bank of Ireland, Hibernian Insurance Co., Rio Tinto Zinc, Irish Times, Independent Newspapers, Irish Pensions Trust, Johnston Mooney & O'Brien [bread], Massey Waterford, Irish Metal Industrie; co-founded the Kilkenny Design Workshops; his wife Valerie fnd. Central Remedial Clinic; became a Catholic; f. of Tim Goulding, painter, and one time member of Strangely Strange. RIA/DIB
Works
Jacqueline Hayden, Lady G: A Biography of the Hon. Lady Goulding, LLD (Dublin: Town House 1994), 214pp.
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