Thomas Geoffrey Charles Michael Taylour, 6th Marquess of Headfort (20 January 1932 – 21 October 2005), styled Earl of Bective until 1960, was an Irish peer, aircraft salesman, and politician.
[1] By 1968, his marriage with Elizabeth Nall-Cain was collapsing, and the ensuing divorce proceedings in 1969 in the Isle of Man[2] led the legal disputes with her and other family members, causing significant financial hardship.
Settling in a bungalow complex called Kenlis House on Lubang Island, he was active in the coast guard and donated a public library to the local municipality.
[citation needed] The Marquis of Headfort suffered from bipolar disorder that occasionally necessitated hospitalisation.
As a result, to these conditions, police intervention was required on at least one occasion in 1965, when, at the age of 33, he was escorted by the police to St Lawrence's Hospital, Bodmin, after hiring a waiter to row him out in a boat to an uninhabited island in the Isles of Scilly, and during the trip, asked him to kill Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
[1] This episode received national attention and was widely recorded, despite Headfort's later denial of the incident.
[1] In another, unrelated, incident, neighbours reported how he had fired three blanks into the ceiling of a local pub during a party.