Lady Alice Angela Jane McDonnell (born 5 December 1964), married name Lady Alice Gwinn, is an Anglo-Irish

Anglo-Irish

Anglo-Irish was a term used primarily in the 19th and early 20th centuries to identify a privileged social class in Ireland, whose members were the descendants and successors of the Protestant Ascendancy, mostly belonging to the Church of Ireland, which was the established church of Ireland until...

 aristocrat.

Education

Lady Alice was educated at St Mary's Convent

St Mary's Shaftesbury

St Mary’s School, located in a rural setting near Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, is a Catholic boarding and day school which welcomes girls from all Christian denominations. Its mission is "to educate each individual to the highest standard through fostering traditional values in the spirit of the...

, Shaftesbury

Shaftesbury

Shaftesbury is a town in Dorset, England, situated on the A30 road near the Wiltshire border 20 miles west of Salisbury. The town is built 718 feet above sea level on the side of a chalk and greensand hill, which is part of Cranborne Chase, the only significant hilltop settlement in Dorset...

; Gresham's School

Gresham's School

Gresham’s School is an independent coeducational boarding school in Holt in North Norfolk, England, a member of the HMC.The school was founded in 1555 by Sir John Gresham as a free grammar school for forty boys, following King Henry VIII's dissolution of the Augustinian priory at Beeston Regis...

, Holt

Holt, Norfolk

Holt is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The town is north of the city of Norwich, west of Cromer and east of King's Lynn. The town is on the route of the A148 King's Lynn to Cromer road. The nearest railway station is in the town of Sheringham where access to the...

; and St Hilda's College

St Hilda's College, Oxford

St Hilda's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.The college was founded in 1893 as a hall for women, and remained an all-women's college until 2006....

, Oxford (Literae Humaniores

Literae Humaniores

Literae Humaniores is the name given to an undergraduate course focused on Classics at Oxford and some other universities.The Latin name means literally "more humane letters", but is perhaps better rendered as "Advanced Studies", since humaniores has the sense of "more refined" or "more learned",...

).

Family

The daughter of Alexander Randal Mark McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim

Alexander Randal Mark McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim

Alexander Randal Mark McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim is the son of the late Randal John Somerled McDonnell, 8th Earl of Antrim . As the heir to his father's titles, he was styled Viscount Dunluce from his birth until 1977...

 and Sarah Elizabeth Anne Harmsworth, she is the sister of Lady Flora McDonnell

Lady Flora McDonnell

Lady Flora Mary McDonnell , also known by her married name Flora Pennybacker, is an artist, illustrator, and prize-winning author of children's books.-Family:...

 and Randal Alexander St John McDonnell, Viscount Dunluce

Randal Alexander St John McDonnell, Viscount Dunluce

Randal Alexander St John McDonnell, Viscount Dunluce is the son and heir of the Earl of Antrim in the Peerage of Ireland. As the heir apparent to his father's titles, he uses the courtesy title Viscount Dunluce....

.

She is married to Christian Carey Gwinn and has two children, Louis Richard Alexander (b. 26 May 1991) and Claudia Elizabeth Sarah (b. 25 October 1994).

Sources

• Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, (1999), volume 1, page 90.
• Lady Alice McDonnell at ThePeerage.com
• Old Greshamian Club Address Book (Cheverton & Son Ltd., Cromer, 1999)
• Descendants of William the Conqueror