Elizabeth Jane Crichton-Stuart (died 2026)

Elizabeth Jane Douglas Crichton-Stuart (nee Whitson), died 4 July, 2026.

She was a daughter of Ernest James Whitson (c1886-1852), and married 3 October, 1964, Frederick John Patrick Crichton-Stuart (1940-2011) (HE Fra’ Fredrik, Knight & 56th Grand Prior in England of Sovereign Military Order of Malta), scion of the Marquesses of Bute, elder son of Lord Rhidian Crichton-Stuart (1917-1969), and his wife the former Selina van Wijk (1913-1985), and grandson of the 4th Marquess of Bute (1881-1947).

Elizabeth Crichton-Stuart leaves issue, two sons, Rhidian and Edward, and three daughters, Iona, Amanda and Alexandra.

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Hon John Reggie James Lindesay-Bethune, Master of Garnock (born 2026)

Bill and Violet Garnock.

Violet Diana Louise Lindesay-Bethune, styled Viscountess Garnock (born 18 August, 1993), wife of William James Lindesay-Bethune, styled Viscount Garnock [born 30 Dec, 1990], gave birth to a son, the Hon John Reggie James Lindesay-Bethune, Master of Garnock, 4 July, 2026.

Viscount Garnock is the son and heir of the 16th Earl of Lindsay [born 19 Nov 1955], of Lahill, Upper Largo, Fife, and his wife the Countess of Lindsay [nee Diana Mary Chamberlayne-Macdonald, born 12 September, 1961], scion of that landed gentry family.

Viscountess Garnock is the eldest daughter of the 11th Duke of Rutland [born 8 May, 1959], of Belvoir Castle, and the Duchess of Rutland [nee (Rachel) Emma Louise Watkins, born 2 September, 1963].

Bill Garnock is destined to become Earl of Lindsay [Peerage of Scotland, cr 1633], Viscount Garnock [Peerage of Scotland cr 1703], Lord Lindsay  of the Byres [ Scotland 1445], Lord Parbroath [cr 1633], and Lord Kilbirnie, Kingsburn and Drumry [Scot. 1703]

Violet Garnock has younger sisters, Lady Alice (born 1995), and Lady Eliza (born 1997), and two brothers, Charles, styled Marquis of Granby (born 1999), heir to the dukedom, and Lord Hugo Manners (born 2003).

Viscount Garnock's siblings are: a brother, the Hon David Lindesay-Bethune (born 12 May, 1993), and three sisters, Lady Frances Gabinsky (born 1986), Lady Alexandra Coleman (born 1988), and Lady Charlotte (born 12 May, 1993 twin with her brother David) now HRH The Duchess of Noto, wife of His Royal Highness Prince Jaime of Bourbon Two Sicilies, Duke of Noto [born at Madrid, 26 June, 1992], eldest son of HRH Prince Pedro Juan Maria Alejo Saturnino y todos los Santos, Duke of Calabria (born Madrid, 16 October, 1968), by his wife HRH The Duchess of Calabria [nee Sofia Landaluce y Melgarejo, born Madrid, 23 Nov, 1973]. 

Both Viscount Garnock and Viscountess Garnock have numerous ties of blood in that vast aristocratic web, and are descended in a direct legitimate line from the founder of the Royal House of Tudor King Henry VII. The couple also have a descent from The ‘Merrie Monarch’ King Charles II, via his illegitimate offspring. They are sixth cousins once removed, both are descended from Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford (1721-1803).

Violet's ancestor, the 8th Duke of Rutland, married Marion Margaret Violet Lindsay, scion of the Earls of Crawford & Balcarres, kinsmen of the Earls of Lindsay.

Lord Garnock's ancestor, the 13th Earl of Lindsay [1872-1943] married in 1900, US heiress Ethel Tucker [who died in 1942], daughter of William Austin Tucker [1850-1931], banker of New York and Boston.

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Kincaid of Kincaid/Wilson engagement

 The engagement was announced 8 July, 2026, between (John) Angus Inglis-Jones Kincaid of Kincaid, Younger (born 25 September, 1998), elder son of the late Maj. Giles Vivian Inglis-Jones (1967-2020), and his wife Madam Arabella Jane Kincaid of Kincaid (born 22 August, 1965), Chief of the Name and Arms of Kincaid, & Grace E. Wilson, daughter of Ross Wilson, BEM, DL (born 13December, 1957), of Coleraine, Co Londonderry, and his wife Elizabeth.

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The Baron Mackay of Clashfern, KT 1927-2026

 The Baron Mackay of Clashfern, KT, PC, who died 7 July, 2026, aged 99, was Lord Chancellor in the administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major.

James Peter Hymers Mackay was born 2 July, 1927, son of James Mackay and Janet Hymers.

Mackay was elected to the Faculty of Advocates in 1955. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1965. He was Sheriff Principal for Renfrew and Argyll from 1972 to 1974.  In 1973 he became Vice-Dean of the Faculty on Advocates and from 1976 until 1979 served as its Dean, the leader of the Scots bar.

In 1979, Mackay was appointed Lord Advocate, the senior law officer in Scotland, and was created a life peer as Baron Mackay of Clashfern, of Eddrachillis in the District of Sutherland, taking his territorial designation from his father's birthplace, a cottage beside Loch na Claise Fearna. He served as Lord High Chancellor from 1987 to 1997.

Mackay was appointed a Knight of the Thistle by Queen Elizabeth II on 27 November 1997.  In 2007, the Queen appointed him to the office of Lord Clerk Register, replacing David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss. He retired from this office in November 2022, and was succeeded by Lady Elish Angiolini. He became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1984. In 1989, he was elected honorary fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

He married Elizabeth Gunn Hymers in 1958, by whom he had a son and two daughters.

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Christopher Patrick Cavendish Pelly 1939-2026

 Christopher Patrick Cavendish Pelly, who died 23 June, 2026, aged 86, was a scion of the Pelly baronets.

He was born 30 June, 1939, the elder son of Charles Nigel Cavendish Pelly, OBE (1908-1966), and his wife the former Betty Joan Cole (who died 29 Oct, 1995); and married 5 April, 1969, Brenda Amy Grosvenor Herd (1932-2012), daughter of Alfred Mutlow Grosvenor Herd (1901-1970),and his wife the former Heather Sybil Stewart (1900-1975), scion of the Marquesses of Bute, by whom he had issue, a son, Nigel, and a daughter, Amanda.

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The Baroness Weatherill 1928-2026

 The Baroness Weatherill, who died 2 July, 2026, aged 97, was the widow of the life peer the Baron Weatherill, KStJ, PC, DL (1920-2007), who as the Rt Hon Bernard Weatherill, was Speaker of the House of Commons, 1983-1992.

She was Daphne Iona Lyn Eatwell, born in 1928, daughter of Henry Thomas Eatwell (1901-1958), and his wife the former Edith Gertrude Jones (1898-1962), and married in 1949, the then (Bruce) Bernard Weatherill (born 25 November, 1920), son of Bernard Bruce Weatherill (1883-1962), and his wife the former Annie Gertrude Creak (1886-1966).

Her husband was elected the Member of Parliament on 15 October 1964 for Croydon North East as a Conservative. He became a party whip three years later, and deputy Chief Whip six years after that. He was re-elected seven times for the same seat until his retirement in 1992.

On his retirement as Speaker of the Commons Bernard Weatherill was raised to the peerage for life as Baron Weatherill, of North East Croydon in the London Borough of Croydon. He died 6 May, 2007.

Baroness Weatherill had issue , two sons, Bernard Richard (1951-2021), Henry Bruce (b 1953), and a daughter, Virginia (b 1955)

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The Baron Sanderson of Bowden 1933-2026

The Baron Sanderson of Bowden, who died 2 July, 2026, aged 93, was a Scottish Conservative Party politician and a life peer.

He was a member of the House of Lords from 1985 until his retirement in 2018.

Charles Russell Sanderson was born 30 April, 1933, son of Charles Plummer Sanderson, and his wife the former Martha Evelyn Gardiner.

He was Chairman of Clydesdale Bank PLC 1999-2003, Deputy Chairman 1996-99, and in 2003, he was appointed Vice Lord Lieutenant of the Borders Region (Roxburgh, Ettrick & Lauderdale).

 He was knighted in 1981, and was created a life peer in 1985 as Baron Sanderson of Bowden, of Melrose in the District of Ettrick and Lauderdale and spoke regularly in the House of Lords. Bowden in his title is taken from a village in the Roxburghshire area of the Scottish Borders.

From 1987 to 1990 Lord Sanderson was a Minister of State in the Scottish Office, responsible for housing, agriculture and fisheries. He also served as Chairman of the Conservative Party in Scotland in the early 1990s.

Lord Sanderson retired from the House of Lords on 29 March 2018.

He married in 1958, Frances Elizabeth Macaulay, by whom he had issue, two sons and two daughters.

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Elvidge/Power engagement

 The engagement was announced 4 July, 2026, between George Rufus Tristram Elvidge (born 5 October, 1996), son of Rusty G.C.F. Elvidge, of Painswick, Gloucestershire, and his wife the former Victoria T. Holland, & Emilia Mary Power (born 1998), daughter of Anthony George Bertram Power (born 23 Apri, 1968), of Belvedere Ostrense, Italy, and his wife the former Giuliana Erica Sharp.

Emilia Power descends from the Earls of Lichfield:-

Thomas Anson, 2nd Earl of Lichfield > Hon Sir George Augustus Anson > Claud Ronald Anson > Mary Anson > Margaret Dene > Anthony Power >Emilia Power

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Thomas Arthur Sampson (born 2026)

 Lily Annabel Mary Sampson (nee Bristow, born 1989), wife of Hamish A. Sampson, gave birth to a son, Thomas Arthur, 25 March, 2026, a brother for Wilbur Riley, who was born 21 Nov, 2021, and for Rowan Alexander, who was born born 12 July, 2023.

Hamish is a son of Mr and Mrs Nigel Sampson, of Thorpe Underwood, North Yorkshire.

Lily is a daughter of Mr Timothy Dominic Ian James Bristow [born 1 July, 1959], of the Isle of Wight, and his former wife the former Annabel J.D. Palmer [now Mrs Richard Fife, of Great Langton, North Yorkshire].

Lily Bristow's grandfather, James Percy Bristow married in 1958, the Hon Caroline Jean Lawson Johnston [born 25 Dec, 1935], daughter of the 2nd Baron Luke [1905-96].

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Chisenhale-Marsh/Armstrong engagement

The engagement was announced 4 July, 2026, between Hugo Max Chisenhale-Marsh (born 15 February, 1998), scion of that landed gentry family, son of Guy Hugo Atherton Chisenhale-Marsh (born 2 December, 1963), of Gaynes Park, Essex, and his wife the former Liselle Brockman, & Ella R.P. Armstrong, daughter of Mr and Mrs Dominic Armstrong of Great Shefford, Berkshire.

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Ramsay/Hooft Graafland engagement

 Te engagement was announced 4 July, 2026, between Nicholas George M. Ramsay (born 1992), scion of the Erals of Dalhousie, son of Patrick William Maule Ramsay (born 17 May, 1951), of Burmington Grange, and his wife the former Fiona Stoddart, & Jonkvrouwe Nina Grace Hooft Graafland (born 1991) , daughter of Jonkheer and Mrs Ferdinand Hooft Graafland (nee Maureen Walsh), of London.

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Trustram Eve/Kennedy engagement

The engagement was announced 4 July, 2026, between James Arthur Richard Trustram Eve (born 15 May, 1996), scion of the Barons Silsoe, younger son of Richard Malcolm Jannion Trustram Eve (born 9 March, 1963), of Wilbartson, Northamptonshire, and his wife the former Albinia Julia Diggle(born 8 July, 1964), of Inglefied and Wyvill descent, & Charlotte R. Kennedy, daughter of Mr Timothy and Dr Deborah Kennedy, of Kirk Ireton, Derbyshire.

Jamie Trustram Eve is a great-grandson of the 1st Baron Silsoe.

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Berwine Ruth Barrett-Lennard 1928-2026

 Berwine Ruth Berrett-Lennard (nee Cook), died 2 July, 2026, aged 97.

She was born 3 October, 1928, daughter of Dr Leigh Cook, of Claremont, Western Australia, and married in 1953, Irwin Prescott Barrett-Lennard (born 1929), scion of the Barrett-Lennard baronets, son of George Graham Barrett-Lennard (1887-1968), and his wife the former Maud Gladys Hastings Hester, by whom he had issue, three sons, Edward, Hugh and James, and a daughter, Ann.

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Anthony Mackintosh 1938-2026

 Anthony Mackintosh, who has died aged 88, was a cousin of the Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax, though not in remainder to the peerage.

He was founder and executive chairman of London's Groucho Club.

 Mackintosh came from a business family, the same Mackintoshes who made Toff-o-Lux and related sweeties. Amazingly, toffee was invented by Anthony's granny in the 1880s, by mistake (she got the ingredients wrong while making butterscotch). His father, Eric, was a Halifax baker, but all the family went into the toffee business, bought factories, and diversified into chocolate in the Twenties. 

Anthony was born in Norwich, in April, 1938, and grew up in the fens, went to Stowe public school, was conscripted into the Army for two years, studied at Columbia University and worked in the United States before joining the family firm. After its takeover by Rountree, he experienced corporate culture at its most stilted and boring, and got out as soon as he could, thoroughly groomed in business matters.

He was a son of Eric Donald Mackintosh (1906-1978), of Brooke House, Brooke, Norwich, and his wife the former Gwendolyn France (1904-1992), and was a nephew of the 1st Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax (1891-1964).

Anthony's grandfather, John Mackintosh (1868-1920), was father of Harold, the 1st Viscount.

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Miles/Buxton engagement

 The engagement was announced 2 July, 2026, between Edmund Oliver H. Miles (born 1997), son of Christopher M. Miles, of Surlingham, Norfolk, and his wife the former Joanna S.E. Pigott (born 1962), and Kate Patricia Mary Buxton (born 1 October, 1996), scion of the Buxton baronets, eldest daughter of Robin Anthony Buxton (born 21 February, 1963), of Horsey, Norfolk, and his wife the former Suzanna Patricia D'Arcy McCarthy.

Kate Buxton is descended from the Lords Herries of Terregles:-

The 10th Lord Herries of Terregles (1804-76) > Hon Bernard Constable-Maxwell (1848-1938) > Mary Philomena Constable-Maxwell (1893-1953) > John Joseph Buxton (1927-2014) > Robin Buxton (b 1963) > Kate Buxton (b 1996)

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Mikaila Stainton (nee Lykiardopolos) (died 2026)

 Mikaila Stainton (nee Lykiardopolos), died 23 June, 2026. She was 91.

She was a daughter of Constantine Lykiardopolos, of Athens, and married 2 November, 1956, Andrew Thomas Stainton (1925-2001), second son of Sir John Armitage Stainton, KCB, KBE, QC (1888-1957), the lawyer and parliamentary draftsman, by his wife the Hon Janet Bertha Dewar (1895-1979), daughter of the 1st Baron Forteviot (1856-1929).

She leaves a son, John (born 9 Aug, 1968), and three daughters, Deborah (born 16 Nov, 1957), Joanna (born 13 July, 1959), and Antigone (born 13 May, 1962).

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