John Armine Wodehouse, 5th Earl of Kimberley (born 15 January 1951) is the only child of John Wodehouse, 4th Earl of Kimberley

John Wodehouse, 4th Earl of Kimberley

John Wodehouse, 4th Earl of Kimberley was the oft-married Earl of Kimberley from 1941 to 2002. He inherited the title when his father, John Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of Kimberley, was killed in an air raid...

 and Carmel Maguire, daughter of Mickey Maguire

Michael Maguire (footballer)

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, welterweight

Welterweight

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 champion of Australia

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. He succeeded to the earldom and barony in 2002.

Following an education at Eton College

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 and the University of East Anglia

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 where he took BSc and MSc degrees, he married the Hon. Carol Palmer in 1973. Together they have two children: Lady Katherine Frances Wodehouse and David John Simon Wodehouse, Lord Wodehouse (born 1978), heir-apparent to the earldom.

Lord Kimberley is a chemist and computer systems programmer, and a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society

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, member of the British Computer Society

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 and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

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Lady Kimberley is an ordained minister in the Church of England

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