The engagement was announced 17 January, 2026, between Henry Hugh Hazell (born May 1994), son of Mark David William Hazell (born 1959), of Monmouthshire, and his wife the former Lucinda Ann (Lucy) John (born 1967), & Iona Frances Haig (born 2 January, 1995), scion of that landed gentry family of Ramornie, younger daughter of Alexander Veitch Haig (born 19 November, 1960), of Stirlingshire, and his wife the former Susan Anne Harriet Campbell.
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David John Charles Farquhar, who died 24 December, 2025, aged 90, was a scion of the Farquhar baronets.
He was born at Weymouth, Dorset, 27 February, 1935, but for the last 60 years of his life he lived in the United States.
He was a son of Commander Charles Robert Stanier Farquhar, RN, OBE (1907-1968), and his wife the former Eleanor Mary Clara Macdonald McHattie (1907-1988). He leaves a widow Martha, and two daughters, Alex and Gillie, and a twin sister, Gillian Mary Tullis.
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The engagement was announced 17 January, 2026, between Charles David Bromley-Martin (born 28 May, 1988), scion of that landed gentry family, son of Michael Granville Bromley-Martin (born 1955), of West Wittering, and his wife the former Anna Frances Birley (born 1 March, 1961), & Georgina Rose Cox (born 1988), daughter of Robin Cox, of Chelwood Gate, and Mrs Sarah Millett, of Uckfield, Sussex.
Charles Bromley-Martin is descended from the Barons Braybrooke and Barons Rayleigh.
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The engagement was announced 17 January, 2026, between Joseph Martin, son of Mr and Mrs Frank Martin, of Moynalvey, Co Meath, and Maud May Baring (born 9 May, 1998), scion of the Barons Revelstoke, daughter of Hugo John Baring (born 12 July, 1970), of Holland Park, London, and his wife the former Annabel Mullion.
Maud Baring is a great-granddaughter of Lady Rose Baring, DCVO (1909-1993), a long serving Woman of the Bedchamber to HM Queen Elizabeth II, and is a kinswoman of the Prince of Wales and Duke of Sussex (both Revelstoke descendants).
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The 4th Baron Kershaw, a peer for 63 years, died 4 January, 2026. He was 89.
Edward John Kershaw was born 12 May, 1936, son of the then Edward Aubrey Kershaw (born 29 August, 1906), and his wife the former Katharine Dorothea Staines, daughter of Charles H Staines, of Clapham, London.
His grandfather, Fred Kershaw, OBE (1881-1961), was a Labour party politician, created a peer in 1947, as Baron Kershaw, of Prestwich in the County Palatine of Lancaster, who later served as a Lord-in-waiting in the Labour government of Clement Attlee, 1945-51.
On the demise of the first Baron, 5 Feb, 1961, the peerage descended to his eldest son, Herbert (1904-1961), the 2nd peer, who died without male issue five months later, 18 July, 1961, when he was succeeded by his younger brother, Edward Aubrey, 3td Baron, who died six months after succeeding, 22 February, 1962.
The 4th Baron married 20 July,l 1963, Rosalind Lilian Rutherford, 2nd daughter of Ian Strachan Rutherford, of Castlegate, Richmond-on-Thames, co. Surrey, by whom he had issue, a son, John, and two daughters, Victoria and Isobel.
His son, the Hon John Charles Edward Kershaw, born 23 December, 1971, succeeds to the peerage.
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The engagement was announced 16 January, 2026, between Fergus Adam Wigan (born 30 April, 1990), son and heir of Sir Michael Iain Wigan, 6th Baronet (born 3 October, 1951), of Borrobol, Sutherland, and his wife the former Julia Theresa De Courcy Ling (born 1961), & Elizabeth A. Spiegel , daughter of Lawrence Spiegel, of Coral Gables, Florida, and Mrs Spiegel.
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Arthur Charles Mole died 8 January, 2026, aged 99.
He was born at Chertsey, Surrey, in April, 1926, son of Sir Charles Johns Mole, KCB, MVO (1886-1962), the architect who served in the Ministry of Works, eventually becoming its Director-General, by his wife the former Annie Eliza Martin (1883-1962); and married 7 September, 1957, the Hon Susan Mary Hinton (1932-2014), daughter of the life peer the Baron Hinton of Bankside, OM, KBE, FRS (1901-1983), the nuclear engineer, and supervisor of the construction of Calder Hall, the first large-scale nuclear power station in the West.
Arthur Mole leaves two sons, Christopher (born 4 Nov, 1960), and Richard (born 6 Feb, 1966).
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The engagement was announced 16 January, 2026, between Adrian C. Fairbank and Mrs Lorna Caroline Denny. The marriage is to take place at Little Missenden, 18 Jan, 2026.
Mrs Denny (nee Statham) is the former wife of Walter Victor Marcel Denny, scion of the Denny baronets.
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The engagement was announced 16 January, 2026, between Benjamin Alexander Francis Fisher (born 28 June, 1995), descended from the Mosley, Talbot, Fitzroy families, only son of Nicholas Francis Fisher (born 12 August, 1964), of Wardour, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Jill Rosemary Allinson, & Georgia Elizabeth Grace Burleigh (born 2002), youngest daughter of Robert G. Burleigh (born 1957), of Sixpenny Handley, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Michelle Anne Rideout (born 1968).
Benjamin's Marlborough descent:-
George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough >Lady Clementine Augusta Spencer-Churchill > Evelyn Frances Henrietta Green > Paul Goudime Levkovitsch > Alexandra Goudime-Levkovitsch > Nicholas Francis Fisher > Benjamin Alexander Francis Fisher
Benjamin's Mosley descent:-
Sir Oswald Mosley, 4th Bt > Constance Mosley > Sheila Violet McNeill > Alexandra Goudime-Levkovitsch > Nicholas Francis Fisher > Benjamin Fisher
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The engagement was announced 16 January, 2026, between William Ramsay Alexander St John (born April, 1995), son of Mr & Mrs John St John, of Hildenborough, Kent, and Dalila Salgueiro Trillo, daughter of Mr and Mrs Jose Salgueiro Sobrino, of Oviedo, Asturias.
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HRH Princess Irene of Greece & Denmark died in Madrid, 15 January, 2026, aged 83.
Princess Irene was the youngest child of Paul I, King of the Hellenes (1901-1964), a sister of Constantine II, King of the Hellenes (1940-2023), and sister of HM Queen Sofia of Spain (born 2 Nov, 1938), and was aunt of Spain's King Felipe, and a second cousin of King Charles III and of the Duke of Kent and Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady Ogilvy.
She was born in exile in South Africa, 11 May, 1942, daughter of the future King Paul and his wife Princess Frederica of Hanover (1917-1981). She was unmarried.
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David Anderson Vetch, late the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, died 11 January, 2026.
He was born in London, circa Apr 1929, son of Colonel George Anderson Vetch (1899-1955), of Queensway, Lincoln, and his wife the former Doris Melita Bedford (1902-1981), & married firstly, in 1953 (div. 1965), Moira Anne St Barbe Emmott (born 1931), daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard St Barbe Emmott (1896-1949), and his wife the former Hon Irene Mary Egidia Clifton-Hastings-Campbell (1898-1961), daughter of the 2rd Baron Donington (1859-1927); and married 2ndly, Eileen Kavanagh. He left issue from both marriages, a son and a daughter from his first marriage, and two sons from his second marriage.
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James Alexander Toby Caulfeild, who died 7 January, 2026, aged 88, was a scion of the Viscounts Charlemont.
He was born 30 March, 1937, son of Wade Toby Caulfeild (1902-1991), and his wife the former Philippa Mary Brocklebank (1911-1996); and married in 1976, Diana Penelope Pound (born 1948), daughter of Colonel Martin Pound, RM, and his wife the former Averil J. Harrison, by whom he has issue, four daughters, Harriet, Victoria, Charlotte and Sophie.
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The Lady Natasha Rose Catherine Linda Quick (nee Howard, born 1987), wife of Charles William H. Quick [born 1985], gave birth to a son, Theodore Charles Valentine, 5 January, 2026, a brother for Vincent Sam (Vinnie), who was born 15 May, 2023.
Lady Natasha is the younger daughter of the 21st Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire [1935-2022], of Charlton Park, Wiltshire, and his third wife, the former Linda Jacqueline Paravicini [born 1950], previously the wife of the 4th Viscount Bridport, and descended from the Swinnerton Dyer baronets.
Charles Quick is a son of the late Michael Quick, and his wife nee Browning, of Banwell Farm, South Mundham, West Sussex.
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Colonel Rhoderick Stuart Cochrane-Dyet, late the 9th/12th Queen's Royal Lancers, died 25 December, 2025.
He was born in 1933, a son of Colonel John Cochrane-Dyet (1894-1954), and his wife the former Mary Eleanor Berry (1898-1985), and married 1stly, 23 August, 1957 (div. 1969) Elizabeth Jennifer Jane Seymour (born 20 Oct, 1934), daughter of Almeric Hugh Seymour, CBE (1894-1950), and his wife the former Margaret Kathleen Browne (1898-1984), scion of the Marquesses of Sligo; and married 2ndly, 28 Aug, 1969, Allela Harwood Annan (born 7 January, 1940), daughter of Maj. John Annan (1912-2001), and his wife the former Pamela Harwood James (who died 9 July, 1972).
From his first marriage he leaves two sons, Charles Nicholas (born 4 Oct, 1958), and Christopher James (born 19 Apr, 1963), and a daughter, Amanda Jane (born 17 March, 1961).
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Angela Mary Horsfall (nee Firth), died in Edinburgh, 3 January, 2026. She was 82.
She was born circa Oct 1943, in Leeds, a daughter of Henry Firth (1914-1990), and his wife the former Josephine Margaret Muller (1917-2001); and married 4 December, 1965, Donald James Linton Horsfall (born 3 Oct, 1942), the second son of Sir John Musgrave Horsfall, 2nd Baronet (1915-2005), and his wife the former Cassandra Nora Bernardine Wright (1919-2009), by whom she had issue, two sons, Peter (born 1970), and Richard (1973), and a daughter, Elizabeth (born 1968).
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The engagement was announced 14 January, 2026, between Alexander Foster Lyon Stephenson (born 9 February, 1995), scion of the Stephenson baronets, the elder son of George Lyon Stephenson (born 23 Apr, 1962), of Barford St Martin, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Lucilla C. Clay (born 1964), scion of that landed gentry family, & Isobel Johanneke McEuen (born 25 November, 1999), daughter of James Stewart McEuen (born 1969), of Owston, Leicestershire, and his wife the former Katharine Johanna Lawson-Dick (born 1970).
Sir Henry Stephenson, 1st Bt (1865-1947) > Charles Eustace Kenyon Stephenson (1903-1971) > Charles Lyon Stephenson (b 1935) > George Lyon Stephenson (b 1962) > Alexander Stephenson (b 1995)
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The engagement was announced 14 January, 2026, between Jack Michael N. Richardson (born 1991), son of Kim Richardson, of Corscombe, West Dorset, and his wife nee Faber, & the Hon Alice India Violet Coe (born 1998), daughter of the Baron Coe, CH, KBE (born 29 September, 1956), life peer, the sports administrator, former politician and retired track and field athlete, who as a middle-distance runner, he won four Olympic medals, by his 1st former wife the former Nicola (Nicky) McIrvine (now Nicky, Lady Coe, of Kensington).
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Kirsty van Zeller died 3 January, 2026, in Nairobi, aged 37.
A daughter of Hugh Smith, and married 25 July, 2020, Jonathan Frederick (Jonty) van Zeller (born 1988), son of Nicholas Howard van Zeller, of Vernham Dean, Andover, by his wife the former Emma Ward Jones (born 1956), scion of the Jones baronets.
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The Hon Una Rowcliffe, who died 5 January, 2025, aged 95, was a scion of the Viscounts Slim.
She was born 1 December, 1930, daughter of Field Marshal the 1st Viscount Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC (1891-1970), and his wife the former Aileen Robertson, DStJ (1901-1994); and was twice wed, firstly, 17 Jan, 1953 (div. 1979), Major Peter Nigel Stewart Frazer, son of Colonel Donald Frazer, of Tiverton, Devon, and married 2ndly, 1980, a his second wife, Ronald Frederick Rowcliffe (1929-2010), son of Reuben Henry Rowcliffe (1899-1972), and is wife the former Clara Elizabeth Buckingham (1898-1967).
From her first marriage she leaves three daughters, Sarah Juliet (born 15 Dec, 1953), Jennifer Jane (born 23 Nov, 1956), and Emma Mary (born 23 July, 1965).
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The Hon Lady Dalyell of The Binns died 27 December, 2025. She was 88.
She was a deputy lieutenant for West Lothian from 2001, and was appointed OBE in 2005. She was chatelaine of The Binns, the historic family home of the Dalyell family.
She was the widow of the firebrand Labour MP Sir Thomas Dalyell, 11th Baronet FRSGS (1932– 2017), known as Tam Dalyell, who was a Scottish politician who served as MP for Linlithgow (formerly West Lothian) from 1962 to 2005. A member of the Labour Party, he was best known for formulating what came to be known as the "West Lothian question", on whether non-English MPs should be able to vote upon English-only matters after political devolution. He was also known for his staunch anti-war views, opposing the Falklands War, the Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq War.
She was born Kathleen Mary Agnes Wheatley, 17 November, 1937, daughter of John Thomas Wheatley (1908-1988), who was Solicitor General for Scotland from March to October 1947, when he was appointed Lord Advocate.] He was appointed a King's Counsel and a Privy Counsellor in 1947. One of his most significant achievements as a politician was the establishment of the legal aid scheme in Scotland. He was appointed to the bench, with the judicial title Lord Wheatley. In 1963, he heard the notorious divorce case of Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll. He granted the Duke a divorce and, in his written opinion, was harshly critical of the Duchess. In 1966 he was appointed chairman of the Royal Commission on Local Government in Scotland.
Kathleen's mother was Nancy Nicholl (1906-1995).
She married 26 December, 1963, Thomas (Tam) Dalyell of the Binns (born 9 August, 1932), son of Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch (who died in 1953), who was recognised in the surname of Dalyell of The Binns, by Lord Lyon King of Arms, by his wife Eleanor Isabel Dalyell (1895-1972), who succeeded her father in 1935 as a 'Baronetess' in her own right, and who died 5 Feb, 1972.
Tam Dalyell succeeded his mother as the 11th Baronet Dalyell [N.S., 1685] on 5 February 1972, but he did not use the title.2 In 1973 his claim to the baronetcy was allowed by the Privy Council. He died 26 January, 2017.
She leaves a son Sir Gordon Wheatley Dalyell, 12th Baronet (born 26 September, 1965), and a daughter, Moira Eleanor (born 25 May, 1968).
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Rear Admiral John Oliver Roberts, CB, died 27 December, 2025, aged 101.
He was a naval officer who saw service in the Second World War. Was a Midshipman on HM Ships Renown and Tartar, 1941-43; Sub-Lieutenant, HMS Serapis 1943-44; Lieutenant, 1945; HMS Triumph 1947-49; RNAS, Lossiemouth, 1949-51; Flag Lieutenant to FOGT, 1952; Lieutenant-Commander, 1953; HMAS Vengeance & Sydney, 1953-54; Commanding Officer No. 803 Squadron, HMS Eagle 1957-58; Commander, 1958; RNVR Southern Air Div 1954-56; later on Naval Staff 1962-64; Captain 1964; CSO Flag Officer Aircraft Carriers, 1964-66; CO, HMS Galatea 1966-68; Naval Staff 1968-70; Commanding Officer HMS Ark Royal 1971-72; Rear Admiral, 1972; Flag Officer, Sea Training 1972-74; COS to C-in-C Fleet 1974-76; Flag Officer Naval Air Command, 1976-78.
He was appointed CB in 1976.
He was born 4 April, 1924, son of John Vaughan Roberts, of Llangurig, Montgomeryshire.
He was four times married - firstly, on 16 June, 1950 (div. 1960), the Lady Hermione Mary Morton Stuart (1925-1969), daughter of the 19th Earl of Moray (1894-1974); married 2ndly, 1963 (div. 1987), Honor Morigold Gordon Gray; married 3rdly, 1987, Sheila Violet Mary Traub (nee Barker) who died in 2012; and fourthly, 2014, Gillian ffrench Reckitt (nee Nobbs).
He leaves a daughter, Doune Joanna, from his first marriage, and a son and a daughter from his second marriage.
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Rosa Laura L. Leigh-Pemberton (née Goodman), wife of Robert Eustace Walter Leigh-Pemberton [born 1991], scion of that landed gentry family, gave birth to a daughter, Primrose Merriweather Lightbody, a sister for Marigold Loveday Lightbody, born 4 November, 2023.
Rosa is a daughter of Professor Robert Goodman, of Dulwich Village, and his wife the former Susan N. Lightbody. Robert is the second son of the Hon John David Leigh-Pemberton [born 16 March, 1955], of Frinsted, Kent, and his wife the former Kathryn Felice Lampard, and is a grandson paternally of the life peer the Baron Kingsdown, KG, JP, PC [1927-2013], who as Sir Robin Leigh-Pemberton was Governor of the Bank of England 1983-1993.
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Primrose Jane Moubray died 29 December, 2025.
She was born in 1932, a daughter of Major Noel Lupton Whitworth (1902-1969), and his wife the former Imelda Wendy Whitworth (same surname); and married in 1955, (John) Michael Moubray (1930-2014), scion of that landed gentry family, son of Colonel John Moubray, DSO (1898-1951), by his wife the former Meriel Christian Maud Bower (1900-1973), scion of that landed gentry family, by whom she had a son, Charles and a daughter, Catherine.
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Alexandra Clutterbuck (née Boughton), wife of Henry Charles Meadows Clutterbuck (born 10 June, 1992), scion of that landed gentry family, gave birth to a son, Austin Robert Meadows, in Sydney, NSW, 16 December, 2025.
Henry is the son of Hugh Meadows Clutterbuck (1959-2011), by his 1st wife Camilla Nicholson (1962-2018), descended from the Barons Sudeley.
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The engagement was announced 10 January, 2026, between William Gordon Cumming of Altyre, Younger (born 4 April, 1993), son and heir of Sir Alexander Penrose Gordon Cumming of Altyre, 7th Baronet (born 15 Apr, 1954), of the Altyre estate, Forres, Moray, and his wife the former Louise Clifton-Brown (born 17 September, 1961), and Florence Isabel O'Donnell (born 1992), daughter of Simon O'Donnell, of Tunbridge Wells, Kent and his wife the former Audrey P. Hall.
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The engagement was announced 9 January, 2025, between Rory William E. Archibald (born 1995), youngest son of James Leslie Archibald (born 1962), of Coton Hall, Shropshire, and his wife the former Nicola-Jane Lucy (nee Howard, born Dec 1960), former wife of Maj Colin Piers Lister Sandbach (born 1956), scion of that landed gentry family; & Tessa Miranda Theakston (born 25 November, 1997), scion of the Theakston brewing family, daughter of Edward David Theakston (born 1962), of Jervaulx, North Yorkshire, and his wife the former Vanda Mary Chisenhale-Marsh (born 1966), scion of that landed gentry family.
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Noa Padovan (née Rataj-Mongelous), wife of Oliver Humphrey Umberto Padovan (born 1997), descended from the 1st Baron Hunsdon, gave birth to a son, Leo Georges Anderson Padovan, 8 November, 2025.
Oliver Padovan is a son of Benedict John Anderson Padovan (born 1965), of Old Burghclere, Hampshire, and his wife the former Arabella Sophie Gibbs (born 4 January, 1967), scion of the Barons Hunsdon (now Aldenham & Hunsdon).
Oliver is a great-grandson of Sir Humphrey Vicary Gibbs, GCVO, KCMG, OBE, PC (1902-1990), penultimate Gov of the Colony of Southern Rhodesia.
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The engagement was announced 9 January, 2026, between Aubrey Thomas Wood (born 1999), son of Philip J. Wood, of Stoney Heath, Hampshire, and his wife the former Lois Pirnie (born 1964), & Daisy Amelia Padovan (born 1999), daughter of Benedict John Anderson Padovan (born 1965), of Old Burghclere, Hampshire, and his wife the former Arabella Sophie Gibbs (born 4 January, 1967), scion of the Barons Hunsdon (now Aldenham & Hunsdon).
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