Sir William Otho Jaffray, 5th Baronet, died 11 August, 2026. He was 74.
He was born 1 November, 1951, son of Colonel Sir William Jaffray, 4th Baronet (1895-1953), and his second wife the former Anne Paget (1919-2021), scion of that landed gentry family, and succeeded to the baronetcy [UK, 1892], on his father's death, 24 October, 1953.
The Jaffrays were originally from Stirling, Scotland. John Jaffray moved to Birmingham and was involved in almost every aspect of Birmingham life – the Liberal party, hospitals, institutes, libraries, the Birmingham Joint Stock Bank and the founding of the Birmingham Daily Post and the Birmingham Daily Mail. He was created a Baronet in 1892. Sir William’s father, Sir John’s grandson, had been an outstanding sportsman and a keen rider to hounds in North Warwickshire, despite having lost an arm in the First World War. He died in 1953, so William Jaffray succeeded shortly before his second birthday.
He was married three times: 1stly, 9 May, 1981 (div 1997), Cynthia Ross Corrington, daughter of John Corrington III, of Montreal; 2ndly, 2009 (div. 2018), Constance Haynes daughter of John Latshaw, & Mrs Barbara Schreck; and thirdly, 20 May, 2026, at Chelsea Westminster Hospital, to Miss Gowri Siva.
Sir William has issue from his first marriage, three sons, Nicholas (born 18 October, 1982), who now succeeds as 6th baronet, Jack (born 3 Aug, 1987), and William (born 5 May, 1990), and a daughter, Alexandra (born 18 May, 1984).
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