Timothy Miles Farmiloe died 22 April, 2026. He was 91.
He was born 22 February, 1935, second son of Miles Bligh Damer Farmiloe (1903-1983), descended from the Barons Congleton, by his wife the former Cynthia Joyce Holt (died 1990).
The 3rd Baron Congleton > Colonel Hon Arthur Parnell > Bertram Damer Parnell > Myles Bligh Damer Parnell, who assumed the surname of Farmiloe in lieu of his patronymic > Timothy Miles Farmiloe
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Mark Gregory Littledale died 14 April, 2026, aged 49.
He was born in 1976, son of Gregory Bruno Littledale (1932-2004), and his second wife the former Naomi Abigail Martin. He was a descendant of the Stapleton family, and descended from the Bertie Earls of Abingdon.
Willoughby Bertie, 3rd Earl of Abingdon > Lady Mary Bertie > Thomas Stapleton > Bryan John Stapleton > Gregory Stapleton > Marie Josephine Stapleton > Gregory Bruno Littledale > Mark Littledale
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David Wynne-Morgan, former Daily Mail journalist, PR executive, has died aged 95.
He was born 22 Feb, 1931, and married at Kensington in April, 1966, as her second husband, Mrs Sandra Clare Douglas-Home (born circa 1940), former wife of Cecil Robin Douglas-Home (1932-1968), scion of the Earls of Home, and daughter of Wing Commander Saville Paul (1909-1964), and his wife the former Rosa Judith Stephens (1911-2001).
Sandra Paul, a mannequin, had married 1stly, 9 July 1959 (div. 1965), the abovementioned (Cecil) Robin Douglas-Home, who had a brief and passionate liaison with the late Princess Margaret.
After divorcing Wynne-Morgan Sandra Paul married as her 3rd husband, in Oct 1971 (div.) Nigel John Grandfield (1938-1998), and she married 4thly, at Winchester, in July, 1975, Michael Howard, QC (later the Baron Howard of Lympne, PC, QC, sometime leader of the Conservative Party, &c.)
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The Baron Hunt of Chesterton, CB, FRS, who died 20 April, 2026, aged 84, was a life peer, a meteorologist, who was the Director General and Chief Executive of the British Meteorological Office from 1992 to 1997.
Julian Charles Ronald Hunt was born in India, 5 September, 1941, son of a diplomat Roland Hunt and his wife the former Pauline Garnett.
Hunt was raised to the peerage for life in 2000, as Baron Hunt of Chesterton, of Chesterton in the County of Cambridgeshire, and he sat as a Labour peer in the House of Lords until 30 October 2021.
He was the leader on the Labour group of Cambridge City Council in the 1970s, and Professor of Climate modelling in the Department of Space and Climate Physics and Department of Earth Sciences at University College London. In 1989 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was appointed CB in 1998.
He married in 1965, Marylla Shepherd, daughter of Rupert Shepherd, by whom he had three children, a son, Sir Tristram Hunt, a former Labour MP who was knighted earlier this year, and two daughters, Matilda, a doctor, and Jemima, a journalist and novelist.
He was a distant cousin of another life peer, the Baron Hunt of Fawley (1905-1987).
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The marriage took place, 25 April, 2026, at Holy Trinity Church, Bembridge, Isle of Wight, between William Richard Stanley Toogood (born 1 June, 1996), son of Mark William Toogood (born 1964), of the Isle of Wight, and his wife the former Katharine Margaret Chetwynd (born 24 June, 1965), scion of the Viscounts Chetwynd, and Rebecca Victoria Parsons (born 1994), daughter of Ian Parsons, of Bristol, and his wife the former (Brenda) Alison Pittaway (born 1958).
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The engagement was announced 25 April, 2026, between Andrew Michael Leeming (born 23 May, 1996), younger son of Antony Richard Leeming (born 22 June, 1950), of Skirsgill Park, Penrith, descended from the Tempest landed gentry family, by his wife the former Lady Elizabeth Mary Cecilia Bowes Lyon, LVO (born 23 December, 1959), scion of the Earls of Strathmore & Kinghorne, & Safura Shaharuddin, younger daughter of Mr Shaharuddin Zainuddin and Mrs Hafsa Hasan of Kuala Lumpur.
Andrew Leeming is a grandson maternally of the late 17th Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne (1928-1987), and is a second cousin once removed of HM King Charles III.
Lady Elizabeth Leeming is an Extra Lady-in-Waiting to HRH The Princess Royal.
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Major Toby Clements Gore, who died 15 April, 2026, aged 98, was a scion of the Gore baronets.
He was born 28 December, 1927, son of Brigadier Adrian Clements Gore, DSO (1900-1990), of Horton Priory, Ashford, Kent, by his wife the former Enid Aimée Cairnes (1902-1997), and married 28 July, 1959, (Isolde) Marian Macintosh (1936-1996), by whom he had issue, four daughters, Fiona (b 1960), Juiet (b 1962), Tessa (1967-1994), and Stephanie (b 1969).
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Vivienne Mary Patricia Cresswell, who died 19 April, 2026, aged 81, was a scion of the Esmonde baronets, descended from Sir James Esmonde, 7th Baronet.
She was born 22 March, 1945, the third daughter of Owen James Esmonde (1905-1993), and his wife Eira Margaret Antonia Mackenzie (1913- ), scion of the Mackenzie baronets; & married 1970, Charles Timothy Cresswell (born 1941), son of Charles Patrick Skeffington Cresswell (1912-1992), and his wife the former Sidney Nancy Steyning Beard (1911-2007), by whom she had issue, two daughters, Laragh (born 1973), and Dominie (born 1975).
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Henry Vevers Phythian-Adams, scion of that landed gentry family, has died aged 87.
He was born 31 March, 1939, the second son of the Rev William John Telia Phythian-Adams, DSO (1888-1967), head of that family, and his wife the former Adela Noel Evelyn Robinson (1901-1983), and was educated at Rossall and Queen's College, Cambridge, and Leicester University. He married in April, 1974, Margaret Mary Ashby (1937-2018), daughter of Lt-Col A.E. Ashby, of Lamonby, Skelton, Cumbria, by whom he had issue, a son, Thomas Ashby B. Phythian-Adams (born 1982), and a daughter, Mary Anne G. Phythian-Adams (born 1977).
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Major Richard Colin Bonham Sampson, died 4 April, 2026. He was 76.
He was born 10 February, 1950, son of Major Richard Claude Sampson (1916-2000), and his wife Rosemary Anne Collingridge (1924-2022); and married 26 January, 1985 (div. 2008), Mariana Victoria Magdalen Bray (born 26 January, 1956), daughter of Francis Arthur Michael Bray, DSC (1921-2004), and his wife Victoria Seely (b 1933- died 11 February, 2026), daughter of Sir Victor Basil John Seely, 4th Baronet (1900-1980), by whom he had issue, three sons, George (b 29 Jan, 1986), Charles (b 26 Oct, 1988), and Hugo (b 7 May, 1991).
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Dorothy Frances Fleming, who died 29 March, 2026, aged 70, was a scion of that landed gentry family of Nettlebed.
She was born 21 June, 1955, the youngest daughter of Major Richard Evelyn Fleming, MC, TD (1910-1977), and his wife the Hon Dorothy Charmian Hermon-Hodge (1913-2001), daughter of the 2nd Baron Wyfold (1880-1942). She was a niece of the 'James Bond' writer Ian Fleming (1908-1964). She was unmarried.
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Andrew Michael Smiley, who died 17 April, 2026, aged 73, was a scion of the Smiley baronets.
He was born 30 November, 1952, the second son of Major Charles Michael Smiley, CVO (1910-1991), and his wife Lavinia Pearson (1919-1991), scion of the Viscounts Cowdray; and married at Chelsea, in October, 1975, (Sarah) Caroline Coade (born 1956), daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Courtenay Coade (1917-1967), and his wife the former Pauline Violet Ramsden (1927-2002), by whom he had two daughters, Charlotte Sarah (born 1983), and Sarah Miranda (born 1986).
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The Rev David Burton Evans died 11 April, 2026. He was 91.
Born circa 1935, son of Thomas Evans, of Shrewsbury, he married 27 September, 1975, Charlotte Antonia Caulfeild (born 17 April, 1939), scion of the Viscounts Charlemont, daughter of Wade Toby Caulfeild (1902-1991), and his wife Philippa Mary Brocklebank (1911-1996), scion of that landed gentry family. No issue of the union.
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His Majesty the King has marked St George's Day 2026 by appointing three distinguished members of the House of Lords to the ancient and prestigious Order of the Garter.
England's senior order of chivalry has been bestowed upon historian and former journalist the Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield (born 28 March, 1947). Lord Hennessy is a historian and academic specialising in the history of government. Since 1992, he has been Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary University of London.
The accolade has also been awarded to the former cabinet secretary the Baron O'Donnell, GCB (born 1 October, 1952), the former senior civil servant and economist, who between 2005 and 2011 (under three Prime Ministers) served as the Cabinet Secretary, the highest official in the British Civil Service.
The third appointment is filled by the former chief justice the Baron Burnett of Maldon, PC (born 28 February, 1958), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2017 to 2023.
These St George's Day honours bring the number of non royal Knights of the Garter to twenty three. There remains one vacancy in the order of chivalry founded by King Edward III in 1348, reportedly inspired by the tales of King Arthur. The order’s Knights and Lady companions are chosen personally by the sovereign.
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The engagement was announced 22 April, 2026, between Jocelyn William Rupert Boyle (born 6 April, 1998), scion of the Earls of Cork & Orrery, third son of Rupert Lancelot Cavemdish Boyle (born 19 September, 1960), of Laxton, Northamptonshire, by his wife the former Sarah Daphne Berry, & Samantha K. Lang, middle daughter of Mr Martin Lang and the late Mrs Alison Lang, of the Cayman Islands.
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THE KING has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 20 April 2026 to confer the dignity of a Barony of the United Kingdom for life upon Dame Katherine Jane Grainger, D.B.E., by the name, style and title of BARONESS GRAINGER, of Garelochhead in the County of Dunbartonshire.
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