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Lord Rossmore, the Irish society photographer, has died aged 90.
He could not have been a more different suitor for 1960s It girl Marianne Faithfull than her former partner, the Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, but Patrick Paddy Rossmore, the 7th Baron Rossmore, somehow captured her heart during a brief romance at Glin Castle in 1970. Within days, the couple, whose age gap was 16 years, were engaged, though it never produced a marriage.
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As Olda Fitzgerald, Glin s châteleine in the Sixties, told
Tatler: Mick and Marianne came to stay - it was all very easy, very relaxed and jolly. And then she gave us a terrible fright and said she d fallen in love with Paddy Rossmore.
Lord Rossmore, architectural photographer who wooed Marianne Faithfull away from Mick Jagger – obituary
Rossmore’s photos evoked Ireland’s heritage, while he was proud of his part in the founding of the Coolmine addiction recovery centre
Lord Rossmore with Marianne Faithfull at Dublin airport in 1970
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Lord Rossmore, who has died aged 90, was a lanky and diffident Irish peer who established a reputation as an architectural photographer and briefly made headlines when he became engaged to the ultimate rock chick, Marianne Faithfull.
The link was Desmond FitzGerald, Knight of Glin, who had become involved in efforts to conserve Ireland’s architectural heritage with Mariga Guinness, and her husband Desmond, co-founders of the Irish Georgian Society. After coming down from Cambridge Paddy Rossmore took his camera and joined Desmond FitzGerald and Mariga Guinness on their travels around Ireland.
Lord Paddy Rossmore, from Co Monaghan, was an aristocratic photographer
Born in 1931, he went to Scaitcliffe prep school before attending Cambridge
Visited Soviet Union with friends and officials attempted to recruit him as a spy
Hit headlines in 1970s when he won Marianne Faithfull s love from Mick Jagger
He did not know of her drug addiction and engagement didn t lead to marriage
Spurred lifetime s mission to help recovering addicts and set up rehab centre
Became the 7th Baron Rossmore in 1958 but his home was burnt down by the IRA