County Kildare. He was also friends with Boris Johnson, leading the pre-wedding dinner for Johnson's first marriage. He participated in a television documentary about another friend, Guinness heir Garech Browne. Auberon "Bron" Waugh pursued a decades-long public vendetta with Gowrie, over a romantic competition at Oxford which Gowrie had won; despite this, when Waugh died, Gowrie described him as "the greatest journalist of my generation". Death Lord Gowrie died at his home in Llanfechain, Powys, Wales, on 24 September 2021, at the age of 81. His widow, Adelheid "Neiti", Countess of Gowrie, survived him, and his son succeeded to the peerages and the clan chieftainship. References External links |- |- |- |- 1939 births 2021 deaths Anglo-Scots People educated at Eton College Grey Barons Ruthven of Gowrie Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Harvard University alumni Politicians from Dublin (city) Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Northern Ireland Office junior ministers Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature The London Magazine people Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster Gowrie