Patrick Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick

Patrick Edmund Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick KBE, AM, DL (12 April 1930 – 8 January 2003), was an Irish peer, banker and public servant.

Life

Patrick Edmund Pery was the son of Edmund Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick, and Angela, Countess of Limerick. His mother was a daughter of the British Indian Army officer Henry Trotter. He was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford. As he left Oxford, his father Edmund Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick, told him "You have unfortunately been born with a prefix to your name, and unless you get an equivalent number of suffixes people will assume you are a fool". So among other things he became a chartered accountant.

"Pat Glentworth" (as he then was known) was an athlete and skied for the House of Lords against the House of Commons. As Lord Glentworth, he became a director of the merchant bank Kleinwort Benson, having helped during the merger of Kleinwort and Benson.

Family Patrick Pery married Sylvia Rosalind Lush (CBE), daughter of Brigadier Maurice Stanley Lush, on 22 April 1961. The couple had three children:

Edmund Christopher Pery, 7th Earl of Limerick (born 10 February 1963) Lady Alison Dora Pery (born 27 October 1964) Hon. Adrian Patrick Pery (born 14 June 1967)