John Scott-Ellis, 9th Baron Howard de Walden

He was the son of Margarita Dorothy van Raalte (1890 - 1974) and her husband, Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, whose London home was Seaford House in Belgravia; and he was educated at Eton College[2][3] and Magdalene College, Cambridge.

He bought a car and claimed that on his first day behind the wheel, he knocked over a pedestrian – Adolf Hitler.

[3] With his wife he had four daughters:[6] Irene died in 1975, and in 1978 Lord Howard de Walden married Gillian, Lady Mountgarret, 25 years his junior.

[7] Lord Howard de Walden became involved in the sport of Thoroughbred racing immediately after World War II.

Lord Howard de Walden met with considerable success both on the track and in the breeding shed with Kris, who was the 1979 Champion European Miler and 1980 Champion European Older Miler, and who went on to become the Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland in 1985.