Angus McDonnell

The Honourable Angus McDonnell (7 June 1881 – 22 April 1966) was a British engineer, diplomat and Conservative Party politician.

Early life He was the second son of William Randal McDonnell, 6th Earl of Antrim, and Louisa McDonnell, Countess of Antrim. After his education at Eton College, he briefly entered business as a merchant banker with Morgan Grenfell. He subsequently moved to the United States, where he worked for Chiswell Langhorne in constructing railways in Virginia. McDonnell became a close friend of Langhorne's daughter Nancy Astor.

Personal life and death He married actress Ethelwyne Sylvia Arthur Jones, the daughter of dramatist Henry Arthur Jones, on 13 December 1913. They had no issue, and she died in 1948. He died at 84 at his home in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in April 1966.