Lord St Helens, the 2nd Baron, died 1 March, 2025. He was 79.
Richard Francis Hughes-Young, was born 4 November, 1945, the second son of the then Lt-Col. Michael Hughes-Young, MC (born 28 Oct, 1912), later Conservative MP for Wandsworth Central 1955-64, and a junior minister in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home administrations, who was raised to the peerage, 30 Dec, 1964, one of the last hereditary peers to be so created. His wife, and Richard's mother, was the former Elizabeth Agnes Blakiston-Houston (1911-1956), scion of the Blakiston baronets.
He succeeded his father in the peerage 27 December, 1980. (His elder brother Patrick having died in 1970 aged 27). He took his seat in the House of Lords in 1982, and sat as a Conservative peer until he was ousted in Blair's shake-up of the upper chamber in 1999.
Lord St Helens married in 1983, Mrs Emma Rosemary Talbot-Smith (1952-2018, nee Lyle), former wife of Nicholas Talbot-Smith, and third daughter of Thomas Keith Lyle, CBE, FRCP (1903-1987), and his wife the former Jane Bouverie Maxwell (1914-2009), descended from the Barnard-Hankey landed family. Lady St Helens died 26 Dec, 2018.
The peer leaves issue, a son the Hon Henry Thomas Hughes-Young (born 7 March, 1986), who now succeeds as 3rd Baron, and a daughter the Hon Lara Elizabeth (born 1987).
Prince Henry and the then Meghan Markle attended the wedding in 2017 of Lara Hughes-Young and Tom Inskip (descended from the Noel-Buxton barons).
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