Roger David Marquis, 2nd Earl of Woolton (16 July 1922 – 7 January 1969), styled Viscount Walberton from 1956 to 1964, and the Hon. Roger Marquis from 1939 to 1956, was a British hereditary peer.
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Early life and education
Woolton was the son of Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton, and his wife Maud (née Smith). He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, from which he graduated in 1943 with a BA.
He gained the rank of Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War.
Marriages and children
Woolton married the Hon. Lucia Edith Lawson, daughter of Edward Lawson, 4th Baron Burnham, on 9 November 1946. They had no children and were divorced in 1953.
In 1957 he married (Cecily) Josephine Gordon-Cumming (1925–2012), elder daughter of Major Sir Alexander Penrose Gordon-Cumming of Altyre, 5th Bt. They had two children:
Simon Frederick Marquis, 3rd Earl of Woolton (born 24 May 1958)