Ceawlin Thynn, 8th Marquess of Bath

Ceawlin Henry Laszlo Thynn, 8th Marquess of Bath (born 6 June 1974), styled Viscount Weymouth between 1992 and 2020, is a British businessman and the first son and second child of Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, and his wife Anna Gyarmathy. He is active in a number of companies in the leisure, tourism, real estate, and financial services sectors.

Early Life and Education

Born in Hammersmith, Ceawlin Thynn was educated at Horningsham Primary Schoo, a village school near the family estate of Longleat, in Wiltshire, then at Kingdown School in Warminster and Bedales School in Hampshire, and finally read economics and philosophy at University College London.

In 1996, Thynn was injured in a building collapse in New Delhi, India, which killed his fiancee, Jane Kirby, and his business partner, Crinan Wilde.

Business

Thynn began his business career as an emerging specialist at the London investment bank Caspian Securities, before becoming a partner in Sabre Projects, a real estate development firm. At Sabre he put together a project with Group Menatep, the holding company of Russia's then-largest oil company, Yukos, to develop a mid-market hotel in every major city in Russia.

In 2008, Thynn formed the Lion Trust, a private equity vehicle of which he is the principal. The Lion Trust invests in a range of mature and emerging markets.

Since June 2010, Thynn has been a director at Finmetron AB, a Swedish listed firm offering factoring services in Russia.

From 2010 until 2013, Thynn was executive chairman of Wombat's Holdings GmbH-a chain of hostels in Germany and Austria-having acquired a majority stake in the company. In 2013, the company was bought back by its former owner.

Longleat

In January 2009, Thynn became chairman of Longleat Enterprises, a limited company that comprises operation at Longleat House and Safari Park on the family estate of Longleat, as well as the commercial activities at Cheddar Gorge, in the Mendip Hills in Somerset. In early 2010, Thynn's father passed the management of the family business to him. Following this retirement, Thynn hired a new estate chief executive, David Bradley, formerly of Legoland. Together, they worked with designers from Hollywood to make improvements to the house and park; additions to the park include "Jungle Kingdom," Monkey Temple," and "Hunters of the Sky." In September 2013, Bradley resigned, and in February 2014 the American Bob Montgomery was hired for the same role.

Thynn is a trustee of the Longleat Charitable Trust, a charity established in 1996 that focuses on relieving poverty around the Longleat estate and Cheddar Gorge.

Politics

Thynn made donations of $30,000 and $ 15,000 to the Liberal Democrats during the 2019 United Kingdom general elections.

Personal Life

In November 2012, aged 38, Thynn announced his engagement to Emma McQuiston, the daughter of Suzanna McQuiston and Nigerian oil billionaire Oladipo Jadesimi, a founder and the executive chairman of Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics. She is a younger half-sister of Iain McQuiston, the husband of Thynn's half-aunt, Lady Silvy Cerne Thynn, a daughter of his paternal grandfather, the 6th Marquess of Bath, by his second wife. Thynn's mother was reported as strongly disapproving of her son's planned marriage, due to her prospective daughter-in-law's African ancestry, and she was not invited to the wedding.

It was reported that Thynn intended to evict his father's mistress from their estate cottages, and some murals painted by his father were removed from Longleat. A rift between them developed.

Thynn and McQuiston were married at Longleat on 8 June 2013, with Lord Bath boycotting the event. Despite the absence of both his parents, the marriage was attended by Thynn's sister.

On 26 October 2014, Lady Bath gave birth to the couple's first child, John Alexander Ladi Thynn. On 30 December 2016, their second child, Henry Richard Isaac Thynn, was born by surrogacy at a private clinic in West Hollywood.

Titles

1992-2020 Viscount Weymouth

2020: present: The Most Honorable The Marquess of Bath

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