Kenelm Charles Everard Digby Pepys, 8th Earl of Cottenham (27 November 1948 – 20 October 2000) was an English peer, baronet, cricketer, equestrian, business man, and designer.
The son of Digby Pepys, 7th Earl of Cottenham, and his wife Lady Angela Larnach-Nevill, a daughter of Guy Larnach-Nevill, 4th Marquess of Abergavenny,[2] he was a second cousin seven times removed of the diarist Samuel Pepys[3] and was educated at Eton College.
[6] He was a three day eventer, competing at Badminton and Burghley Horse Trials, and representing Great Britain overseas.
[7][8] In 1984, after retiring from eventing, Cottenham lent his yard at Priory Manor to his friend Mark Todd, who brought with him his horse Charisma.
[5] He and his wife had three children:[4] In 2007, Cottenham's widow married Richard George Ford, a kinsman of Viscount Hampden.