Quentin Wallop, 10th Earl of Portsmouth

Quentin Gerard Carew Wallop, 10th Earl of Portsmouth, (born 25 July 1954), styled Viscount Lymington in 1984, is a British peer and current head of the Wallop family.

Early life Quentin Wallop was born on 25 July 1954, the son of Oliver Kintzing Wallop, Viscount Lymington (d. 1984) and Ruth Violet née Sladen (d. 1978). His mother was the second daughter of Brigadier General Gerald Carew Sladen and his wife Mabel Ursula Orr-Ewing, a daughter of Sir Archibald Ernest Orr-Ewing. Before his parents' marriage, she had previously been the wife of Richard Desborough Malcolm Mason, of Mau Narok, Kenya. He is the great-grandson of Edward Bosc Sladen, a British army officer.

He was educated at Eton College. whose principal activity is property investment and trading and which in 1998 was reported to have made £8.4 million on a turnover of £44 million. As of 1999, he owned 16.55% of the equity, making him the firm's largest shareholder.

In 1988, Wallop helped to fund £376,000 of the legal expenses of Nikolai Tolstoy in defending his libel case against Lord Aldington. He also helped fund the legal expenses of Neil Hamilton in defending his libel case against Mohammed Al-Fayed.

Personal life On 10 February 1981, he married the author Candia McWilliam, the only daughter of Colin McWilliam of Edinburgh. Before divorcing in 1985, they had two children: Lady Clementine Violet Rohais Wallop (born 20 November 1983)