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Samuel George Armstrong Vestey, 3rd Baron Vestey (19 March 1941 – 4 February 2021), was a British hereditary peer, landowner, and businessman. He served as Master of the Horse to Queen Elizabeth II from 1999 to 2018.[1] Lord Vestey was part of the family dynasty that founded and still runs the Vestey Holdings multinational corporation.
Vestey was born on 19 March 1941 as the son of Captain The Hon. William Howarth Vestey, a Scots Guards officer who was killed in action in 1944 during the Second World War, and Pamela Vestey (née Armstrong). He was a great-grandson of the celebrated opera singer Dame Nellie Melba on his mother's side.[2] He was educated at Eton College before attending Sandhurst and serving as a Lieutenant in the Scots Guards.
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Vestey was the chairman of the Meat Training Council from 1991 to 1995, before becoming chairman of the Vestey Group (now Vestey Holdings) in 1995. He was also a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Butchers. In 1980, A Sunday Times investigation revealed that he and his cousin Edmund were found to have paid just £10 in tax on the family business's £2.3m profit made by the Dewhurst chain.[3][4]
Vestey, through his family company, owned the Wave Hill Station in Australia at the time of the Gurindji strike (also known as the Wave Hill walk-off) which ran for nine years from 1966, after 200 Aboriginal Australian workers staged a strike against poor working conditions and pay, and land dispossession.[5][6]
Vestey married Kathryn Eccles on 11 September 1970, and they were divorced in 1981. They have two daughters:
The Honourable Saffron Alexandra Vestey (27 August 1971). She married Matthew Charles Idiens and they were divorced in 2001. They have two children. She married Charles Foster in 2008.
The Honourable Flora Grace Vestey (22 September 1978). She married Laurence J. Kilby and they were divorced in 2010. She married James Hall in 2011.
He married Celia Elizabeth Knight on 22 December 1981.[18] Celia Vestey was a godmother of the Duke of Sussex. They have three children:
William Vestey, 4th Baron Vestey (27 August 1983). He married Violet Gweneth Henderson on 29 September 2012. They have two children.
The Honourable Arthur George Vestey (1985). He married Hon. Martha Beaumont in June 2015. They have three children.
The Honourable Mary Henrietta Vestey (1992). She married Edward Cookson in May 2019.
^Singley, Blake (10 August 2016). "Song for the Gurindji". Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Archived from the original on 30 April 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
^"Gurindji Blues". National Museum of Australia. 26 March 2020. Archived from the original on 29 May 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
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