Lady Patricia Milnes Coates, who died at her home at Helperby, Yorkshire, shortly before 24 Oct 2005, aged 92, was the widow of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Robert Edward James Clive Milnes Coates, DSO, 3rd Baronet (b. 27 Sept, 1907; d. 9 May, 1982).
She was born 29 October, 1912, as Lady Ethel Patricia Hare, elder daughter of the 4th Earl of Listowel (1866-1931), by his wife Freda, daughter of the 2nd Baron Derwent. Her siblings included the 5th Earl of Lisowel, the 1st Viscount Blakenham, and Lady Elizabeth Hare, who married, as her 1st husband, the Guinness heir Maj. the Viscount Elveden, son and heir of the 2nd Earl of Iveagh (and was mother of the 3rd Earl).
Lady Patricia married firstly, 12 Nov 1936, Lt-Col Charles Thomas Milnes Gaskell, Coldstream Guards, scion of that BLG family. He died on active service, in a flying accident, 5 Nov 1943; she married secondly, 4 September, 1945, Robert Milnes Coates, who succeeded to the family baronetcy 4 Sept, 1971, and died in 1982.
Lady Patricia leaves 3 sons from her first union, James (b. 1937), Andrew (b. 1939) and Tom (b. 1942), and one son from her second marriage, Sir Anthony Robert Milnes Coates, 4th Baronet (b. 8 Dec, 1948), and a daughter from the second marriage, Mary (b. 1947).
The funeral took place at St Peter's Church, Brafferton & Helperby, Thursday 27 Oct 2005.
Source YP 24 Oct 2005
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