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Monday, February 10, 2025

Lieutenant-Colonel Alastair William Scott Elliot 1934-2025

 Lieutenant-Colonel Alastair William Scott Elliot, late the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, died 1 February, 2025. He was 90.

He was born in November, 1934, into a distinguished military family, the son of Major General James Scott Elliot, DSO* (1902-96), and grandson of Lt Colonel William Scott Elliot DSO (1873-1943). 

His mother was the former Cecil Margaret Du Buisson, a sister of Major Thomas Gerard Du Buisson, MBE, MC was in the Royal Artillery during the First World War. In 1932 he married the Hon Sylvia Grace Portman (1900-84), daughter of the 4th Viscount Portman.

His father, Maj-Gen Scott Elliot, had an impressive military career. This included service in Egypt, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and India. During the Second World War, Scott Elliot was sent to France where he contributed to battles in Lille and Le Havre. In 1942, he was then put in command of the 6th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He was awarded the DSO twice. In 1943 he was sent to the west coast of Italy where he commanded the 167th (London) Brigade of the 56th Division.

He leaves a widow, Frances, and two sons, Robin and Simon.

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Sunday, February 09, 2025

New Aga Khan is named

Prince Rahim, the eldest son of the late Aga Khan has been named the Aga Khan V, the fiftieth hereditary Iman of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, in accordance with the historical Shia Imami Ismaili Muslim tradition

The announcement was made in the presence of the Imam’s family and senior Jamati leaders, in Lisbon on 5 February 2025, following the reading of the late Aga Khan's Will.

In 1957 when his father succeeded as the 49th Iman, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II bestowed upon him the title of His Highness. Will King Charles III now bestow the same personal title upon Rahim?

Prince Rahim is now Mawlana Shah Rahim al-Hussaini Aga Khan V. He married in 2013 (div) Kendra Spears, who was thereafter styled Princess Salwa Aga Khan, and they have two sons, Irfan and Sinan.

The Aga Khan, has numerous descents and connections to the British peerage and landed gentry. 

He was born 12 October, 1971, the first son of the late Aga Khan IV (1936-2025), and his first wife the former Sarah Frances Croker-Poole (born 28 January, 1940), whose first husband, Lord James Crichton-Stuart (1935-82), was a younger son of the 5th Marquess of Bute (1907-56). 

The late Aga Khan's mother was the former Hon Joan Barbara Yarde-Buller (1908-1997), eldest daughter of the 3rd Baron Churston, OBE, MVO (1873-1930), of Laleham House, Middlesex, by his wife the actress Jessie Smither (who took to the stage as Denise Orme) (1884-1960).

The Aga Khan V is a great-nephew of Denise Yarde-Buller (1916-2005), Baroness Ebury, wife of the 5th Baron, and of Lydia Yarde-Buller (1917-2006), Duchess of Bedford, wife of the late 13th Duke of Bedford (1917-2002). Another great-aunt was Primrose Yarde-Buller (1918-1970), Countess Cadogan, wife of the 7th Earl Cadogan (1914-1997), owner of the vast Cadogan estates in Central London. 

The Aga Khan is also a descendant of King Edward III.

Edward III > John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster > Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland > Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury > Katherine Neville > Cecily Bonville > Elizabeth Fitzgerald > Elizabeth Grey > Edward Fitzgerald > Thomas Fitzgerald > George, 16th Earl of Kildare > Robert Fitzgerald > Robert, 19th Earl of Kildare > James, 1st Duke of Leinster > William, 2nd Duke of Leinster > Lady Emily Fitzgerald > Admiral Sir Hastings Yelverton > Barbara Yelverton > John, 3rd Baron Churston > Joan Yarde-Buller > HH The Aga Khan IV > The Aga Khan V

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Saturday, February 08, 2025

Penelope Rose Alexander (née Lee-Warner) 1925-2025

Penelope Rose Alexander (née Lee Warner), who died in Kenya 25 January, 2025, aged 99, was a scion of the Lee-Warner landed gentry family, of Walsingham Abbey, Norfolk.

She was born in 1925, daughter of the Rev Canon Alfred Lee-Warner (1877-1973), and his wife the former Dorothy Cresswell Eyres (who died in 1928); and married in 1952, Gerald Francis Alexander, by whom she had four daughters.

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Maitland/Morrison engagement

 The engagement was announced 8 February, 2025, between William Whitaker Maitland (born 1996), scion of that landed gentry family, elder son of John Whitaker (Johnny) Maitland (born 1961), of Somersby, Lincolnshire, and his wife the former Moira Jane Bracher (born 1963), & the Hon Nancy Lorna Morrison (born 22 January, 1995), daughter of the 3rd Baron Margadale (born 4 Apr, 1958), of Fonthill, and his 1st wife the former Lady Sophia Louise Sydney Cavendish (now Topley, of Chirton, Wiltshire) (born 18 May, 1957), daughter of the 11th Duke of Devonshire, KG (1920-2004), and the Hon Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford, DCVO (1920-2014).

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Twin daughters for Harry and Camellia Ingham (born 2025)

  Camellia Aline Ingham [born 1988, nee Buckmaster], wife of Harry James Fraser Ingham [born 1988], gave birth to twin daughters, Cosima Violet Henrietta and Iris Marina Mary, 22 January, 2025, a sister for Leo Henry (born 31 January, 2020), and for Ferdinand Guy Buckmaster, born 18 February, 2022.

Harry Ingham is the son of Michael Ingham, of Wimbledon, London, by his wife the former Shirley Cairns, and Camelia Ingham is a daughter of Henry G. Buckmaster, of Little Blakenham, co Suffolk, by his wife the former Julia Mary Hobhouse [born 1956], scion of the Hobhouse baronets.

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Hamilton-Russell/Mundy engagement

The engagement was announced 8 February, 2025, between the Hon Frederick Gustavus George Hamilton-Russell (born 23 May, 1997), adopted son of the 11th Viscount Boyne (born 27 May, 1965), of Burwarton House, Shropshire, and his wife the former Lucy Potter (born 1965), & Annabel Lucy Hainhault Mundy (born 21 January, 1998), daughter of Justin Rupert John Hainhault Mundy (born 1960), of Faintree, Shropshire, by his wife the former Fiona Neville (born 1961).

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The Baron Cameron of Lochbroom, PC

 The Baron Cameron of Lochbroom, PC, died a his home 28 January, 2025. He was 93.

He was a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, 1989-2003.

Kenneth John Cameron was born 11 June, 1931, son of the Hon Lord Cameron, KT, DSC (1900-1996), a Lord of Session in Scotland, and was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

He served in the Royal Navy 1950-52, commissioned into the RNVR 1951; Admiralty Faculty of Advocates 1958; QC (Scotland) 1972; Standing Junior to the Department of Trasnport, 1964-71, to the DoE 1971-72; Chairman of Industrial Tribunals in Scotland 1966-81; Advocate Depute 1981-84; Lord Advocate 1984-89; Chairman, Pensions Appeals Tribunal (Scotland) 1975, President 1976-84; Chairman: Committee for Investigation in Scotland of Agricultural Marketing Schemes, 1980-84; Chairman, Scottish Civic Trust 1989-95; Chairman Edinburgh New Town Conservation Committee 1991-94; Chairman Royal Fine Arts Commission for Scotland, from 1995; President, Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations 1989-2001; Hon Bencher Lincoln's Inn, 1984; FRSE 1990; Sworn of the Privy Council 1984. He was raised to the peerage of life in 1984 as Baron Cameron of Lochbroom, of Lochbrooom in the District of Ross & Cromarty.

He married Jean Pamela Murray in 1964, and was the father of two daughters.

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The 11th Earl of Sandwich 1943-2025

 The Earl of Sandwich, 11th holder of the peerage, died 1 February, 2025. He was 81.

The Old Etonian, of Mapperton House, Beaminster, Dorset, was an editor and researcher. He was Information Officer and member of the board, Christian Aid; Editor, Save The Children Fund 1987-92; Consultant, CARE Britain 1987-93; Member of the Council, Anti-Slavery International (1997); sometime Chairman Britain Afghanistan Trust; Trustee, TSW Telethon Trust; Governor of Beaminster School; Administrator of the Mapperton Estate from 1982; a Crossbencher in the House of Lords from 1995, and was elected to the House of Lords in 1999.

John Edward Hollister Montagu was born 11 April, 1943, son of the Conservative politician Victor Montagu, then syled Viscount Hinchingbrooke, who was Private Secretary to Stanley Baldwin 1932-34; Member of Parliament (Conservative) for Dorset South 1941-62; who disclaimed the Earldom and other honours for life on 24 Jul 1964 under the terms of the Peerage Act 1963. Victor Montagu married as his first wife, 1934 (div 1958) Rosemary Peto (who died 1988), scion of the Peto baronets. John Montagu was the fourth of their seven children.

John Montagu was styled Viscount Hinchingbrooke, only briefly, from the date of his father's succession to the family honours, 15 June, 1962 until he disclaimed the peerages for life, 24 July, 1964.

He married 1 July, 1968, Susan Caroline Hayman, daughter of the Rev Canon Perceval Ecroyd Cobham Hayman, of Petersfield, co. Hampshire, by whom he had issue, two sons, Luke and Orlando and a daughter Lady Jemima. The second son married 1stly, Laura Roundell (later wife of the Earl of Burlington, heir to the Duke of Devondshire, KCVO, & married 2ndly, Lady Honor Wellesley, daughter of the Duke of Wellington).

He succeeded his father, 25 February, 1995, as 11th Earl of Sandwich (England, let. pat. 12 Jul 1660), 11th Viscount Hinchingbrooke (England, let. pat. 12 Jul 1660), & 11th Baron Montagu of St Neots (England, let. pat. 12 Jul 1660).

He is succeeded by his elder son, Luke Timothy Charles Montagu, styled Viscount Hinchingbrooke (who was born 5 December, 1969). He married Julie Fisher, a royal commentator, daughter of Thomas Fisher, of Chicago, USA, by whom he has issue, a son William (born 2 Nov, 2004).

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Ignatius James William Spalton (born 2025)

Clementine Rose Spalton [born 1984, nee Jepson-Turner], wife of James Michael Jackson Spalton [born 1983], gave birth to a son, Ignatius James William, 2 February, 2025, a brother for Jackson (born 2013), for Grace (born 2015), & for Alice (born 2019).

James Spalton is a son of David Spalton by his wife the former Catherine Bompas, and Clementine is a daughter of Anthony William Jepson-Turner, and a granddaughter of Maj Bertram William Jepson-Turner [1870-1954], by his wife the former Rosemarie Helen Lucas, scion of the Lucas baronets, daughter of Maj Sir Archibald Lucas, 2nd and last Baronet.

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Roger William Ferrard 1930-2025

Roger William Ferrard died 24 January, 2025, aged 94.

He was born in 1930, scion of a landed gentry family, son of Lieutenant-Col Stafford Hubert Ferrand, DSO, MC (1888-1975), and Margaret Frances Riddell (1896-1980), scion of the Riddell baronets; and married in 1954, Jocelyn Kemble Bubb, daughter of Capt Charles Henry Lewis Bubb (1898-1979), of Cricklade, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Elizabeth Laura Kemble (1905-1978), by whom he had issue a son, Charles (born 1955), and two daughters, Victoria and Margaret.

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Diana Marion Pennell (nee Trevor) 1924-2025

 Diana Marion Pennell (nee Trevor) died 23 January, 2025, aged 100.

She was born 1 September, 1924, fourth daughter of Capt Stephen Lloyd Trevor (who died 22 January, 1959), of Auchmacoy House, Ellon, Aberdeenshire, and his wife Lady Olivia Sinclair (1894-1973), who assumed the surname of Buchan, 4 April, 1913, and was 17th of Auchmacoy, eldest of the five daughters of the 18th Earl of Caithness (1862-1947), and his wife the former Lilian Higford (1873-1933). She married 6 December, 1958, Commander Richard George Lovell Pennell (1913-1973), by whom she had issue, a son, Mark (1960-1999), and a daughter, Olivia (born 30 Sept, 1963).

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Wilfred Arthur Laurie Hodgson (born 2025)

  The Hon Mrs Barnaby Hodgson [nee Megan Grace Sandow, born 1990], wife of the Hon Barnaby Peter Granville Hodgson [born 1986], gave birth to a son, Wilfred Arthur Laurie, 27 January, 2025, a brother for Hector James Granville, who was born 17 March, 2020, and for Jago Henry Frederick, born 18 May, 2023.

Barnaby Hodgson is a son of the life peer Baron Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, CBE [born 1942], of London, by his wife the life peeress Baroness Hodgson of Abinger, CBE [born 1954].

Megan Hodgson is a daughter of Frederick K. Sandow, of Taunton, Somerset, by his wife the former Joanna P. Richards.

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Friday, February 07, 2025

The Baron Elis-Thomas, PC 1946-2025

The Baron Elis-Thomas, PC, who died 7 February, 2025, aged 78, was, as Dafydd Elis Thomas,  a Welsh politician who served as the leader of Plaid Cymru from 1984 to 1991 and represented the Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency in the Senedd from 1999 to 2021.

He was born 18 October, 1946, as Dafydd Elis Thomas, and assumed the surname of Elis-Thomas is lieu of his patronymic, by deed poll, in 1992.

He married firstly, in 1970 (div.) Elen M Williams, by whom he had three sons, and married 2ndly, in 1993, Mair Parry Jones.

Having come third at Conwy in the 1970 general election, Thomas served as MP for Merioneth between 1974 and 1983, initially as the Baby of the House, and subsequently as MP for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy from 1983 to 1992. On entering the House of Commons in 1974, he became one of the first MPs to be allowed to take the oath of allegiance in Welsh as well as in English.

He was created a life peer on 18 September 1992 as Baron Elis-Thomas, of Nant Conwy in the County of Gwynedd, with a change of his surname from Thomas to Elis-Thomas. He sat as a crossbench peer because at that time he had taken on the non-political role of chair of the Welsh Language Board; in 2012, he took the Plaid Cymru whip in the Lords until leaving the party in 2016.

From 2011, Elis-Thomas was Plaid Cymru's spokesperson for Environment, Energy and Planning before transferring to Rural Affairs, Fisheries and Food in 2012. In October 2016 he left Plaid Cymru, but remained in the Assembly as an Independent member. In November 2017, as part of a Welsh Government reshuffle, Elis-Thomas was appointed as Minister for Culture, Tourism and Sport.

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William George Stirling Home Drummond Moray 1940-2025

William George Stirling Home Drummond Moray, who died 2 February, 2025, aged 84, was 22nd of Abercairny, head of that landed gentry family.

He was born 22 August, 1940, the second son of Major James William Stirling Home Drummond Moray, 21st of Abercairny (1900-67), of Abercairny, Crieff, Perthshire, and his wife the former Jeanetta Ruth Montagu Douglas Scott (1906-1997), scion of the Dukes of Buccleuch & Queensberry. William had an elder brother, Henry, who died aged 4 in 1942, and younger brothers John and David and a sister Lucy. His mother, Jeaanetta, was a granddaughter of the 6th Duke of Buccleuch (1831-1914).

He married firstly, 7 January, 1969 (div. 1991) Angela Jane Baring (born 26 Dec, 1946), scion of the banking family of Baring baronets, daughter of Lt-Cdr Michael John Baring (1921-1955), and his wife the former Pamela Anne Barnardo; married 2ndly, 1991, Emma Moyra Rattray (born 16 Nov, 1952), scion of that landed family, daughter of Captain James Silvester Rattray of Craighall-Rattray, 28th of Rattray (1919-1999), and his wife the former Christian Hilda Guthrie (1924-1963), scion of that landed family.

From his first marriage he leaves issue, three daughters, Anna (born 1971), Frances (born 1974), and Georgina (born 1979), and he leaves a daughter from his second marriage, Caroline.

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Selina Violet Douglas-Home 2005-2025

 Selina Violet Douglas-Home, who died 24 January, 2025, aged 19, was a scion of the Earls of Home.

She was born 1 February, 2005, the only daughter of Tara John Douglas-Home (born 8 Apr, 1969), and his wife the former Francina Aurelia Beelaerts van Blokland (born 13 May, 1972), and a granddaughter of Charles Cospatrick Douglas-Home (1937-85), sometime editor of The Times newspaper, by his wife Jessica Violet Gwynne (born 7 Feb, 1944).

Selina was a great-granddaughter of the Hon Henry Montagu Douglas-Home (1907-1980), and his wife the Lady Alexandra Margaret Elizabeth Spencer (1906-96), daughter of the 6th Earl Spencer, KG, GCVO, VD, PC (1857-1922).

Selina's great-grandfather was a younger brother of the 14th Earl of Home, KT (1903-1995), later Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister 1963-64, and afterwards Baron Home of the Hirsel, life peer.

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Thursday, February 06, 2025

Dodd-Noble/Murray engagement

 The engagement was announced 6 February, 2025, between Maximilian Alexander Patrick Dodd-Noble (born 14 June, 1994), son of Patrick Robin Dodd-Noble (born 10 November, 1951), of London SW11, and his wife the former Julia Leys Geddes (born 1957), and Isabella Henrietta Laura Murray (born 20 Nov, 1994), eldest daughter of Stephen Christopher Jerningham Murray (born 1957), of Saffron Walden, and his wife the Hon Amanda Muriel Mary Neville (born 8 Apr, 1962), eldest of the five daughters of the 10th Baron Braybrooke (1932-2017).

Patrick Dodd-Noble is the second son of Adrian Dodd-Noble (1922-2013), and his wife the Lady Elizabeth Theresa Boyle (1920-1981), who was a sister of the 13th Earl of Cork & Orrery (1910-95), and the 14th Earl of Cork & Orrery (1916-2003).

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Rémi Sophia Cederström Comyn (born 2024)

 The Hon  Lara Fiona Brita Comyn [nee Bampfylde, born 14 May, 1990], wife of Capt Edward John FitzWalter Comyn [born 1989], descended from the Barons FitzWalter, gave birth to a daughter, Rémi Sophia Cederström, 22 December, 2024, a sister for Rory William Fitzwalter, who was born 20 September, 2022.

Capt Comyn is the younger son of Timoty John Comyn [born 1951], of Westcot, co Oxford, by his wife the former Jane Fairrie Drinkwater [born 1954].

The Hon Lara Comyn is a daughter of the 7th Baron Poltimore [born 8 June, 1957], of Hungerford, Berkshire, by his wife the former Sally Anne Miles [born 1957].

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Wednesday, February 05, 2025

Caroline Joanna Spragge (née Baird) 1935-2025

Caroline Joanna Spragge (née Baird), who died 14 January, 2025, aged 89, was a scion of the Baird landed gentry family.

She was born 3 May, 1935, the eldest daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel David Everard Baird (1906-1987), and his wife the former Winifred Isobel Thorburn (1911-1990); and married 20 April, 1963, her first cousin, Lieutenant-Commander David Charles Spragge, RN (1932-2010), younger son of Commander Harold Edward Spragge, RN (1894-1975), and his former wife the former Vida Janet Baird (1899-1980), by whom she had issue, three daughters, Hannah, Clare and Katie.

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(Angus) Richard Bonsor 1947-2025

 (Angus) Richard Bonsor, who died 27 January, 2025, aged 77, was a scion of the Bonsor baronets.

He was born 3 February, 1947, the second son of Sir Bryan Bonsor, 3rd Baronet (1916-1977), and his wife the former Elizabeth Hambro (1920-1995), scion of that landed gentry banking family; and was sometime a director of J.O. Hambro Investment Management; he married 14 January, 1971, Susan Anne Wigan (born 1949), scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Flight Lieutenant David Henry Lewis Wigan (1924-2006), and his 1st wife the former Anne Heyworth (1924-2017), scion of that landed family and descended from the Barons Tweedmouth, by whom he had issue, two sons, Rupert (born 26 Sept, 1974), and Edward (born 16 July, 1976), and a daughter, Clare (born 3 Sept, 1981).

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Rosanna Catherine Frances Clarke (born 2025)

Polly Jane Beaumont Clarke (nee Fairbank, born 1993), wife of Thomas H. Clarke, gave birth to a daughter, Rosanna Catherine Frances (Rosie), 4 January, 2025, a sister for Eliza Jane.

Tom Clarke is the elder son of Mr & Mrs Francis Clarke, of Harston, 

Polly Clarke is the eldest daughter of Simon Neville Fairbank [born 6 July, 1965], of South Dalton, Yorkshire, by his wife the former Catherine Jane Beaumont Sanders [born 1967].

Polly's is a granddaughter of John Anthony Fairbank [1931-1966], by his wife the former Jane Truscott [born 14 September, 1937], scion of the Truscott baronets, third daughter of Sir Denis Truscott, GBE [1908-89], sometime Lord Mayor of London.

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Scarlett Elizabeth Brooke (born 31 Jan 2025)

 Emily Anne K. Brooke (nee Close, born 1990), wife of George Francis Geoffrey Brooke [born 10 September, 1991], gave birth to a daughter, Scarlett Elizabeth, 31 January, 2025.

George Brooke is the son and heir of Sir Francis George Windham Brooke, 4th Baronet [born 15 October, 1963], of Glenbevan, Croom, County Limerick, and his wife the Hon Lady Brooke [nee the Hon Katharine Elizabeth Hussey, born 1 Feb, 1964]/

Emily Brooke is the the only daughter of Thomas D. Close, of Horsham, West Sussex, and his wife the former Sarah Pool.

George Brooke is a grandson maternally of Lady Susan Hussey, GCVO [nee Waldegrave] [born 1 May, 1939] long serving Woman of the Bedchamber to HM Queen Elizabeth II.

12th Earl Waldegrave, KG [1905-95] > Lady Susan Waldegrave [b 1939] > Hon Katharine Hussey [b 1964] > George Brooke [b 1991] > Scarlett Elizabeth Brooke [b 2025]

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Tuesday, February 04, 2025

His Highness The Aga Khan IV 1936-2025

 His Highness The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims at age 20 as a Harvard undergraduate and who poured a material empire built on billions of dollars in tithes into building homes, hospitals and schools in developing countries, died 4 February, 2025, at Lisbon. He was 88.

His Aga Khan Foundation and the Ismaili religious community announced on their websites that His Highness Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV and 49th hereditary imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, died on Tuesday in Portugal surrounded by his family. They said an announcement on his successor would come later.

Considered by his followers to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV was a student when his grandfather passed over his playboy father as his successor to lead the diaspora of Shia Ismaili Muslims, saying his followers should be led by a young man “who has been brought up in the midst of the new age.”

Over decades, the Aga Khan evolved into a business magnate and a philanthropist, moving between the spiritual and the worldly and mixing them with ease.

Treated as a head of state, the Aga Khan was given the title of “His Highness” by HM Queen Elizabeth II in July 1957, two weeks after his grandfather the Aga Khan III unexpectedly made him heir to the family’s 1,300-year dynasty as leader of the Ismaili Muslim sect.

He became the Aga Khan IV on Oct. 19, 1957, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on the spot where his grandfather once had his weight equalled in diamonds in gifts from his followers.

He had left Harvard to be at his ailing grandfather’s side, and returned to school 18 months later with an entourage and a deep sense of responsibility.

“I was an undergraduate who knew what his work for the rest of his life was going to be,” he said in a 2012 interview with Vanity Fair magazine. “I don’t think anyone in my situation would have been prepared.”

Accounts differ as to the date and place of Prince Karim Aga Khan’s birth. According to “Who’s Who in France,” he was born 13 December, 1936, at Creux-de-Genthod, near Geneva, Switzerland.

He was the son of Prince Ali Salman Shah (1911-1960), and his first wife, the Hon Joan Barbara Yarde-Buller (1908-1997), former wife of Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness (1906-88), and eldest daughter of the 3rd Baron Churston (1873-1930), and his first wife the actress Jessie Smither (who used the stage name Denise Orme) (1884-1960). Jessie was later wife of the 7th Duke of Leinster (1892-1976). His mother's third husband was the 2nd Viscount Camrose (1909-1995).

His Highness had an elder half-brother, Patrick Benjamin Guinness (born 10 March, 1931), who married in 1955, the German aristocrat Dolores Maria Agatha Wilhelmine Luise Gräfin von Fürstenberg (born 31 July, 1936), and he was killed in a motor accident, 5 Oct, 1965. 

His Highness had numerous lines of descent from peerage families, and a royal descent from King Edward III.

The Aga Khan married firstly, in 1969 (divorced 1995), the model Sarah Frances Croker Poole (born 28 January, 1940), former wife of Lord James Charles Crichton-Stuart (1935-82), a younger son of the 4th Marquess of Bute (1907-1956), and his wife Lady Eileen Beatrice Forbes (1912-93), and daughter of Lieutenant-Col Arthur Edward Croker Poole (1900-80), and his wife the former Jean Margaret Balfour Watson (who died 2001). His Highness the Aga Khan married 2ndly, 30 May, 1998 (div 2014) Gabriele Renate Thyssen (Princess Inaara Aga Khan) (born 1 April, 1963), former wife of Karl-Emich Nikolaus Friedrich Hermann Erbprinz zu Leiningen (born 12 June, 1952), and daughter of   Helmut Friedhelm Homey, and his wife Renate Kerkhoff.

The Aga Khan leaves issue by his first wife, known as the Begum Salimah Aga Khan, two sons, Rahim (born 12 Oct, 1971), and Hussain (born 10 Apr, 1974), and a daughter, Zahra (born 18 Sept, 1970), and a son by his second wife, Aly Muhammad (born 7 March, 2000).

The eldest son, Rahim, married the American model Kendra Spears (now Princess Salwa Aga Khan) in 2013, and they have two sons.

The Aga Khan's daughter, Zahra, married in 1997 (div 2005), (Jonathan) Mark Boyden (born 1961), son of a Dorset farmer, and has issue, a son, Iliyan Boyden (born 8 May, 2002), and a daughter, Sara Boyden (born 14 Nov, 2000).

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Elizabeth Caroline Anderson (nee Hibbert) 1943-2025

 Elizabeth Caroline Anderson, who died 25 January, 2025, aged 81, was a scion of the Hibbert landed gentry family, and a granddaughter of the 2nd Earl of Inchcape.

She was born 9 June, 1943, second daughter of Major Hugh Washington Hibbert (1911-1985), and his wife the former Lady Patricia Margery Kathleen Mackay (1916-1973), daughter of the 2nd Earl of Inchcape (1887-1939), and his wife Joan Moriarty (1896-1933); and married 1stly, 12 June, 1965, Capt Jeremy Michael Porter (1937-1985), son of Capt Ludovic Ernest Porter, RN (1902-1976) and his wife the former Joan Caulfeild (1903-95), scion of the Viscounts Charlemont; married 2ndly, 6 March, 1991, Kenneth Rouse Anderson, son of Austin Innes Anderson, and leaves issue from her first marriage, two sons, James Robert Porter (born 11 Oct, 1967), and Toby Hugh Washington Porter (born 4 May, 1969).

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Mary Fleur Cameron (nee Mount) 1934-2025

 Mary Fleur Cameron (nee Mount), who has died aged 90, was a scion of the Mount baronets, and mother of the former Prime Minister the Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, PC.

Mary Fleur Mount was born 22 October, 1934, the second daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Malcolm Mount, 2nd Baronet (1904-1993), and his wife the former Elizabeth Nance Llewellyn (1904-1997); and married 20 October, 1962, Ian Donald Cameron (1932-2010), scion of the clan Cameron and a descendant of King William IV & Mrs Dorothea Jordan, by whom she had issue, two sons, Allan Cameron, QC (1963-2023), the Rt Hon David Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, PC (born 9 Oct, 1966), and two daughters, Tania (born 7 March, 1965), and Clare (born 1971).

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Paloma Leo Lorimer Worsley (born 25 Jan. 2025)

 Eliza Worsley (née Lorimer), wife of Hugo Justin Pitfield Worsley (born 5 Aug, 1992), scion of the Worsley baronets, gave birth to a daughter, Paloma Leo Lorimer Worsley, 25 January, 2025, at Homerton University Hospital.

Hugo Worsley is the third son of Jonathan Hugh Worsley (born 3 October, 1960), and his wife the former Laura Weldon Pitfield (born 1957), and is a grandson of the late John Arthington Worsley (1928-2022), and his wife the Hon Carolyn Mary Wynyard Hardinge (1932-2007), daughter of the 4th Viscount Hardinge (1905-79).

The infant is a great-great niece of HRH The Duchess of Kent, GCVO.

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