Nicholas Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston

(Jenico) Nicholas Dudley Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston (born 19 November 1939), is an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and British hereditary peer, who sat in the House of Lords (as Baron Gormanston) until 1999.

[1] Lord Gormanston is the premier viscount in the Peerage of Ireland (title created 1478).

[2] The only son and heir of Captain the 16th Viscount Gormanston (1914–1940)[3] and Pamela Hanly, daughter of Captain Edward Hanly and Lady Marjorie Feilding (daughter of the 9th Earl of Denbigh), he succeeded to the family titles before his first birthday; the 16th Viscount (Captain Jenico Preston, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) was killed in action[4] during the Battle of France in 1940.

A Roman Catholic like his forebears, Lord Gormanston attended the Benedictine school of Downside, Somerset.

[6] In 1974, Viscount Gormanston married, firstly, Eva-Antonie Landzianowska (1955–1984),[7][8] having two sons:[9] Viscount Gormanston married, secondly, on 2 November 1997 Lucy Arabella Fox (born 1960), daughter of Edward Fox and Tracy Reed.