The engagement was announced 22 March, 2025, between Peter L. Slade and Rosanna Josephine Major Henniker (born 1989), scion of the Barons Henniker, daughter of Christopher Anthony Major Henniker (born 20 October, 1952), of Chiswick, London, and his wife the former Bernadette Ball.
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Ronald James Bremner Hoare has died aged 85.
He was born in 1939 a son of Wilfred James Hoare (who died in 2003), of Orwell House, Milnathort, Kinross, by his wife the former Grace Margaret Bremner (who died 2009); & married 11 September, 1971, Elizabeth Albinia Bacon (born 15 January, 1944), daughter of Sir Edmund Castell Bacon, Bt, KG, KBE, TD (1903-1982), and his wife the former Priscilla Dora Ponsonby (1913-2000), scion of the Ponsonby Barons De Mauley, by whom he had issue, a son, Jocelyn Charles Stewart Hoare (born 1974), and a daughter, Nicola Clare (born 1977).
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Charlotte Mary Charlesworth [nee Cubitt, born 28 January, 1991], wife of Edward Charlesworth, and scion of the Cubitt landed gentry family, gave birth to a daughter, Poppy Jane, 14 March, 2025, a sister for Harry George, who was born 23 April, 2021, and for Flora Lucy, born 29 September, 2022.
Edward Charlesworth is a son of Mr & Mrs Rodney Charlesworth, of St Albans, Hertfordshire, and Charlotte Charlesworth is a daughter of Major-Gen Sir William George Cubitt, KCVO, CBE, DL [born 1959], of Honing, Norfolk, and his wife the former Lucy Jane Pym [born 24 Sept, 1961], scion of that landed gentry family.
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Sophie L. Henniker-Major [nee Short], wife of George Richard Henniker-Major [born 1985], scion of the Barons Henniker, gave birth to a son, Rory Charles Andrew, 15 March, 2025, a brother for Eliza Beatrice Mary, who was born 18 September, 2019, and for Arthur Henry Rupert, who was born 23 November, 2021.
George is a son of John Alexander Henniker-Major [born 1952], of Great Easton, Leicestershire, by his wife the former Mary Mathiesen.
Sophie Henniker-Major is the elder daughter of Mr & Mrs Andrew Short, of Woking.
7th Baron Henniker > Hon Richard Henniker-Major > John Henniker-Major > George Henniker-Major > Rory Henniker-Major [b 2025]
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Duncan Cameron Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy, who died 8 March, 2025, aged 92, was a scion of the baronets of that name, and was for many years heir presumptive to the title.
His home was the Malt House, Charlecote, Warwickshire, near the family seat at Charlecote Park.
He was born 18 September, 1932, son of Capt Ewen Aymer Robert Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy (1899-1969), and his wife the former Margaret Westall King (1902-1994), daughter of Sir John Westall King, 2nd Baronet (1863-1940); and was a grandson paternally of Sir Henry William Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy, 3rd Baronet (1870-1944).
Duncan was heir presumptive to the baronetcy (cr 1836) of his cousin, Sir Edmund, 6th Baronet, from 1974 until the birth of Edmund's son and heir in 1995.
He married 26 September, 1964, Janet Barclay Niven, (died 11 January, 2017), daughter of Patrick Angus Barclay Niven, of Malt Cottage, Charlecote, by whom he had issue, a son, Spencer Angus James (born 9 May, 1966), and a daughter, Anna Margaret Barclay (born 1 Feb, 1969).
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Sir Torquil Norman, CBE, died 19 March, 2025, aged 91. He was a scion of the Norman baronets.
He was a businessman, aircraft enthusiast and arts philanthropist.
He was born 11 April, 1933, the third son of Air Commodore Sir (Henry) Nigel St Valery Norman, 2nd Baronet, CBE (1897-1943), and his wife the former Patricia Moyra Annesley (1904-1986). His mother married 2ndly, 6 Oct, 1944, Sir Walter Perkins, MP (1903-1988), Conservative MP for Stroud.
He married 8 July, 1961, the Lady Elizabeth Anne Montagu (born 8 February, 1937), second daughter of the 10th Earl of Sandwich (Victor Montagu, MP who disclaimed his peerages for life) (b 1906- d 1995), and his wife the former Maud Rosemary Peto (1916-1998), scion of the Peto baronets, by whom he had three sons, the Rt Hon (Alexander) Jesse Norman, MP (born 23 June, 1962), Casey William (b 1 Oct, 1963), Casper Joe (b 11 Aug, 1967), and two daughters, Lucy Patricia (b 28 Feb, 1965), and Amy Jean Mary (b 13 Oct, 1969).
Norman was appointed CBE in 2002, and knighted in 2007.
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Lady Jane Annabelle Howard, who died 1 March, 2025, aged 78, was a scion of the Earls of Carlisle.
She was born 28 February, 1947, the elder daughter of the 12th Earl of Carlisle (1923-1994), of Naworth Castle. Cumbria, and his wife the former Hon Ela Hilda Aline Beaumont (1925-2002), daughter of the 2nd Viscount Allendale, KG, CB, OBE, MC, DL, JP (1890-1956).
She married 1stly, 8 June, 1968 (div. 1977), as his 1st wife, John David Vaughan Seth-Smith (born 7 Oct, 1946, died 1 July, 2020), scion of that landed family, son of Lt-Cdr David Keith Seth-Smith (1914-1976), by his wife the former Pamela Hilda Stokes (1918-2009); ; she married 2ndly, 1983 (div. 1999), Rodney Spencer Ledward (1938-died 25 Oct, 2000).
Lady Jane, who resumed her maiden name, leaves issue from both marriages.
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The engagement was announced 19 March, 2025, between Lord Thomas Jack Fitzalan Howard (born 14 March, 1992), second of the three sons of the 18th Duke of Norfolk, KCVO (born 2 December, 1956), of Arundel Castle, Sussex, by his former wife Georgina, Duchess of Norfolk, nee Georgina Susan Gore (born 30 January, 1962), scion of the Earls Temple of Stowe, & Helen Anna Bowen Wright (born 1992), daughter of the late Dr Martin Bowen Wright (1946-1994), and his wife the former Annie Richmond (now Mrs Annie Bowen Wright, of Stowupland, Suffolk.)
The bride-to-be has siblings, brothers Matthew (b 1977), Thomas (b 1978), and sister, Philippa (b 1985).
Lord Thomas has an older brother, Henry, Earl of Arundel (born 1987), and a younger brother, Lord Philip (born 1996), and two sisters, Lady Rachel (born 1989), and Lady Isobelle (born 1994).
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Frances Elspeth Luise Manson, who died 21 February, 2025, aged 90, was descended from the Grant of Monymusk baronets.
She was born 12 October, 1934, daughter of Richard Luis Owen Waddington, and his wife the former Elpseth Grant (1913-1978), daughter of Colonel Sir Arthur Grant of Monymusk, 10th Baronet (1879-1931).
She married 16 May, 1961, William Alastair Leslie Manson (1929-2020), son of James Milne Manson, by whom she had a son, William Giles Manson (b 1965), and two daughters, Lucy Elspeth (born 1962), and Alice Jane (born 1967).
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Madeleine Brittain Sangster (born 1988, née Crewe-Read), wife of Sam Edmund Sangster (born May, 1987), gave birth to a second son, Xan Christopher Robert, 28 February, 2025, a brother for Leo (born 2020), and for Sailor Henrietta (born 2022).
Sam Sangster is a son of the late Robert Edmund Sangster (1936-2004), and his 3rd wife the former Susan Lilley.
Madeleine is a scion of the Crewe-Read landed gentry family, daughter of Christopher Thomas Malcolm Crewe-Read (born 1951), and his 1st wife the former Belinda Bennett (born 1957), a Grenfell descendant.
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Sir Anthony John Page Wood, 8th Baronet, has died aged 74.
He was born 6 February, 1951, son of Sir John Hatherley David Page Wood, 7th Baronet (1921-1955), and his wife the former Evelyn Hazel Rosemary Bellville (who died 5 June, 2009). He succeeded to the baronetcy at the aged of 4 on his father's death, 28 November, 1955. He married 2 September, 1997, Kristine Louise Scott, daughter of John Ernest Scott. No issue of the marriage. He is succeeded in the baronetcy (cr 1837), by a kinsman, Mark William Evelyn Wood (who was born 1 Aug, 1940).
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David Peter Mason, DL, who died 15 March, 2025, aged 73, was seated at Eynsham Park, Oxfordshire, home of the Mason family for five generations since 1866. He was a former High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, and a deputy lieutenant of the county.
He was descended from the Lindsay Earls of Crawford & Balcarres.
David Mason was born in 1951, the elder son of Michael Henry Mason (1900-1982), and his second wife the former Dorothy Margaret Sturdee (1915-2006). His father's first wife, who died in 1950, was the Hon Annette Baird (1905-500, daughter of Viscount Stonehaven and the Countess of Kintore.
He was a grandson of James Francis Mason (1861-1929), and his wife Lady Evelyn Margaret Lindsay (1870-1944), daughter of the 26th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres (1847-1913).
He married in 1980, Monique Juranville, by whom he had issue, a son, Michael James (born 1991), and three daughters, Natalie Elizabeth (born 1981), Catherine Evelyn (born 1984), and Chantal Louise (born 1989).
He took over the running of the family estate when his father died in 1982. And until 2020 was responsible for the running of Eynsham Park. He had a career in the Army, and he served 3 tours of duty in Northern Ireland; then in 1974 he volunteered for secondment to the Sultan of Oman’s Armed Forces.
He distinguished himself on active service in the Dhofar War in 1975 by personally saving 12 men’s lives in battle and then later rescuing others from a minefield. He was awarded the Sultan’s Bravery Medal. After leaving the Army in 1979 Mason joined Sir Ranulph Fiennes on the Transglobe Expedition, travelling to both the South and North Poles.
He published his first novel in 1992, Shadow over Babylon, which was an immediate International No.1 bestseller. He was later (1994-5) appointed High Sheriff of Oxfordshire. He was made a Deputy Lieutenant for the county in 2004. He handed over the running of Eynsham Park to his son Michael in 2020.
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Capt Robin Somervell Salvesen, late Capt. 8th/9th Royal Scots (TA), of Eaglescairnie House, Gifford, East Lothian, died 10 March, 2025. He was 89, a scion of the Salvesen landed family of Teaninich.
He was born 4 May, 1935, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Iver Ronald Stuart Salvesen (1901-1957), and his wife the former Marion Hamilton McClure (1911-1997); and married 6 August, 1960, Sari Frances Judith Clarke (born 1937), eldest daughter of Charles Clarke (1904-1960), and his wife the former Audrey Frances Bettison (1915-2006); by whom he had issue, three sons, and four daughters.
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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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Isobel Victoria Parkes, who died 10 March, 2025, aged 80, was a scion of the Clive landed gentry family.
Isobel Victoria Clive-Ponsonby-Fane was born in 1944, third daughter of Nicholas Brabazon Clive-Ponsonby-Fane (1913-1963), and his wife the former Petronilla Dunsterville (1913-1984); and married in 1976, Simon J. Parkes, by whom she had issue, a son, Roderick, and a daughter, Caroline.
Isobel's descent from the Earls of Bessborough:-
The 4th Earl of Bessborough > Hon Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane > John Henry Ponsonby > Violet Ponsonby > Nicholas Clive-Ponsonby-Fane > Isobel Clive-Ponsonby-Fane
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The engagement was announced 18 March, 2025, between W. George Clark, son of the late Matthew Clark and Jane Clark, of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and Arabella Kate Ryland (born 1994), second daughter of Charles John Ryland (born 1962), of Tidebrook, East Sussex, and his wife the former Jane M. Cullis.
Arabella's paternal grandmother, Anne Innes (1929-2019), was a scion of the Irish gentry family of that name of Dromantine and descended from the Wolseley baronets (cr 1628), and the Earls of Meath.
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Hugh Simon Fetherstonhaugh died 13 March, 2025. He was 76.
He was a farmer, a scion of the Fetherstonhaugh landed gentry family and a maternal grandson of the 8th Viscount Galway.
He was born 25 January, 1949, the elder son of David Henry Fetherstonhaugh (1924-1994), head of the landed family, and his wife the former Hon Mary Victoria Monckton-Arundell (1924-2010), elder daughter of the 8th Viscount Galway (1882-1943).
He married 1stly 27 March, 1971 (div. 2005), Louise Philipps (1946-2013), the adopted daughter of Major the Hon Richard Hanning Philipps (1904-1998), scion of the Barons Milford, and his wife the former Lady Marion Violet Dalrymple (1908-1995), daughter of the 12th Earl of Stair, KT, DSO, DL (1879-1961).
He married 2ndly, 2005, Mrs Caroline (Mouse) Springham (nee Robertson).
Hugh Fetherstonhaugh (pronounced 'Fanshaw') leaves issue from his 1st union, two sons, (Edward) Dickon Hanning (born 1981), and Fergus Hugh (born 1990), and two daughters, Sophie Lucia (born 1973), and Alice Maria (born 1975).
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Julian Alexander Ludovic James died 6 March, 2025. He was 85.
He was descended paternally from the Dunbar of Hempriggs baronets (and was in remainder to that baronetcy), and maternally from the Boyle Earls of Glasgow.
Julian James was a page at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, being one of the two pages of Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Lord High Steward, who bore St Edward’s Crown.
He was born 31 October, 1939, the eldest son of Capt Christopher Alexander James, RN, DL, JP (1916-1969), and his wife the former Cynthia Swire (who died 9 April, 1971), descended from the Earls of Glasgow; & married 18 December, 1965, Hilary Jane Browne (born 25 October, 1945), daughter of Capt Thomas Gillespie Browne, JP, Royal Engineers (1913-1997), descended from the Earls of Kintore, by whom he had three sons, Christopher Mark William (born 18 Feb, 1967), David Hugh Geoffrey (born 31 May, 1969), and Andrew Michael Richard (born 2 May, 1976).
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The Rev. (Richard Robert) Bindon Plowman died 26 February, 2025, aged 86.
He was born in 1938, son of Robert Gillbee Plowman (1911-1995), and his wife the former Ruth Wynn Dutton (1913-2014): and married 25 June, 1977, Robina Ann Wyldbore-Smith (born 3 October, 1943), scion of the Smith-Marriott baronets, elder daughter of John Henry Wyldbore-Smith (1916-1982), and his wife the former Robina Ward (1917-1993); by whom he had issue, a son, Andrew John Napier Plowman (b 11 Jan, 1979, d. 8 July, 1989), and a daughter, Felicity Frances Robina (b 1980).
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Jade Naomi Charlotte Yates (nee Letts), wife of Ivo James Michael Yates (born 24 August, 1993), gave birth to a daughter, Beatrice Catherine, 21 February, 2025.
Ivo Yates is the eldest son of Christian A. Yates, of Bedchester, Dorset, and his wife the former Rosemary Anne (Rosie) Cookson (born 1963).
Jade Yates (born 1993), is the youngest daughter of Daniel Letts, of Boys Hill, Dorset, and his wife the former Jean Catherine Fraser (born 16 April, 1954), descended from the Dukes of Atholl.
John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl > Rt Rev Lord George Murray > Rt Rev George Murray > Rev George Murray > Rev Douglas Murray > Lt-Col Walter Murray > Jean Pamela Murray > Jean Fraser > Jade Letts > Beatrice Yates
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Ann Elizabeth Heber-Percy (née Rowley) died 6 March, 2025. She was 83.
She was a daughter of John Douglas Rowley, of Bristol, Avon, and married 1stly ______ Francis, by whom she had issue. She married 2ndly, 1988, as his second wife, Cyril Raymond (Riff) Heber-Percy (born 23 May, 1945), of Folly Farmhouse, Farmington, Gloucestershire, scion of the Dukes of Northumberland, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril Hugh Reginald Heber-Percy, DSO, MC (1905-1989), and his second wife, the former Diana Radclyffe (1917-2006), scion of that landed gentry family.
She leaves two grandsons from her first marriage, George & Hugo.
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The engagement was announced 15 March, 2025, between Ben H. Newton, eldest son Mr Keith Newton and the late Mrs Leyanne Provera, of Sydney, Australia, and Alice Mary Ella Pickthorn (born 22 February, 1996), scion of the Pickthorn baronets, eldest daughter of Thomas David Alexander Pickthorn (born 16 July, 1967), of Cambridge, and his wife the former Nicola Sheerin.
Sir Kenneth Pickthorn, 1st Baronet (1892-1975) > Henry Pickthorn (b 1928) > Thomas Pickthorn (b 1967) > Alice Pickthorn (b 1996)
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The engagement was announced 15 March, 2025, between Angus J.M. Robb, elder son of Gavin John McLean Robb (born 1962), of Humbie, East Lothian, by his wife the former Fiona Margaret Ledingham (born 1965), and Georgina Ann Monro Vestey (born 1994), scion of the Vestey baronets, elder daughter of Robin John Henry Vestey (born 14 April, 1968), of Little Thurlow, Suffolk, and Mrs Victoria Eileen Herbert Vestey (nee Waddell), of Newmarket, Suffolk.
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Bridget Wentworth-Stanley, who died 7 March, 2025, aged 98, was the widow of David Wentworth-Stanley, scion of that landed gentry family.
She was the former Bridget Pease (born 1926), eldest daughter of the late Maj. Philip Ivan Pease (d. 1964, of that BLG family), by his wife Doris Madeline Crichton (1904-1993), scion of the Earls of Erne, and married 1 March, 1951,(Geoffrey) David Wentworth-Stanley, a member of the Burke's Landed Gentry family of Wentworth-Stanley of High Wych. He was born 28 May, 1924, 3rd son of Charles Sidney Bowen Wentworth-Stanley, CBE (1892-1960), of High Wych Grange (head of the family), by his first wife, Edith Katharine Brocklebank (scion of the Brocklebank Baronets), and he died 18 Aug, 2005
She leaves issue:-
(i) [David] Michael, b. 1952, married to Jane Hall (descended from the Marquesses of Dufferin & Ava)
(ii) Nicholas Philip, b. 1954 (his 1st wife, Clare Steel, is now wife of the 4th Marquess of Milford Haven)
(iii) Christopher James, b. 1962.
(iv) Adrian, b. 1965
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Megan MacDonald Johnston (née Steele-Knowles), wife of Archie James MacDonald Johnston (born 15 July, 1991), gave birth to a daughter, Daphne, Jessica, 3 March, 2025, a sister for Hector Robin Steele, who was born 27 February, 2023.
Archie is a son of Iain MacDonald Johnston, and his wife the former Jessica Marion Hoskyns (1967-2017), scion of the baronets of that name, descended from the ninth baronet.
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Iona Katherine Rizzo (nee Dent, born 1991), wife of Dominic G. Rizzo, and scion of the Dent landed gentry family, gave birth to a daughter, Florence Rosanagh, 7 March, 2025, a sister for Joseph Michael, who was born 22 June, 2023.
Dominic is a son of Mr & Mrs Joseph Rizzo, of New Jersey, United States.
Iona is a daughter of Andrew Congreve Dent, of Oxfordshire, by his wife the Lady Rosanagh Elizabeth Angela Mary Taylour [born 20 January, 1961], daughter of the late 6th Marquis of Headfort [1932-2005], by his wife the Hon Elizabeth Angela Veronica Nall-Cain [1938-2017], daughter of the 2nd Baron Brocket [1904-67].
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