Michael Taylour, 6th Marquess of Headfort

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.

Biography Thomas Geoffrey Charles Michael Taylour, known to family and friends simply as Michael, was born on 20 January 1932 to Terence Geoffrey Thomas Taylour, 5th Marquess of Headfort and Elise Florense Tucker.

He was educated at Stowe School in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England, before attending Christ's College, Cambridge. While there, he was a member of the university air squadron. Thomas Michael Ronald Christopher Taylour, 7th Marquess of Headfort (b. 10 February 1959) Lady Rosanagh Elizabeth Angela Mary Taylour (b. 20 January 1961) Lady Olivia Sheelin Davina Anne Taylour (b. 4 October 1963) Following his father's sudden death in Monte Carlo in October 1960, he acceded to become the Marquess of Headfort on 24 October. He later moved to the Philippines, the home of his second wife, Virginia Nable, a friend of Imelda Marcos. The two married in 1972. 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. He also maintained a residence in Manila.

In 1987, he gave his final speech in the House of Lords. The speech was a tribute to the accomplishments of Alcoholics Anonymous.

On 21 October 2005, he died at the age of 73. His funeral took place in Manila, Philippines.

Mental health The Marquis of Headfort suffered from bipolar disorder that occasionally necessitated hospitalisation. This was related to a period of alcoholism.

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. This episode received national attention and was widely recorded, despite Headfort's later denial of the incident.

In another, unrelated, incident, neighbours reported how he had fired three blanks into the ceiling of a local pub during a party.

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