Josephine Beryl Crawley-Boevey (née Kindersley) 1931-2024

 Josephine Beryl 'Josie' Crawley-Boevey (née Kindersley), died 6 September, 2024. She was 93.

She was born in 1931, the only child of Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Henry Kindersley (1900-1980), scion of that landed gentry family, by his wife the former Beryl Ritchie (1900-1987); and married 17 December, 1960, as his second wife, Major Anthony Crawley-Boevey, MBE (1921-1996), of the 17th/21st Lancers, scion of the baronets of that name, son of Major Martin Crawley-Boevey, DSO, MC (1883-1954), and his wife Elizabeth Adela Hall (1892-1972); by whom she had two sons, Martin (born 4 May, 1963), and Simon (born 29 June, 1967), and a daughter, Katherine (born 12 July, 1964).

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Hugo Orlando Barclay Bridgeman (born 2024)

 Jacquetta Lucy Eyre Bridgeman [born 1984, nee Straker], wife of the Hon Orlando Henry Geoffrey Bridgeman [born 11 April, 1983], scion of the Viscounts Bridgeman, gave birth to a son, Hugo Orlando Barclay, 21 August, 2024, a brother for twins, Imogen Cecilia B, and Ottilie Felicia B, born 12 May, 2022.

Orlando Bridgeman is the fourth and youngest son of the 3rd Viscount Bridgeman [born 5 December, 1930], by his wife the former [Victoria] Harriet Lucy Turton, scion of that landed family.

Jacquetta Bridgeman is a  scion of the Straker landed gentry family, eldest daughter of Nicholas David Barclay Straker [born 6 May, 1952], by his wife the former Victoria Eyre Gray [born 15 July, 1958].

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Albert Ian Barnaby Portal (born 2024)

Alice Elizabeth Portal (nee Vine, born 1991), wife of Robert Jonathan Portal [born 5 February, 1989],  scion of the Portal baronets, gave birth to a son, Albert Ian Barnaby, 8 September, 2024.

Robert Portal is the second son of Sir Jonathan Francis Portal, 6th Baronet [born 13 January, 1953], of Ashe, Hampshire, by his wife the former Louisa Caroline Hervey-Bathurst [born 25 September, 1959], scion of the Hervey-Bathurst baronets.

Alice Portal is a daughter of Mr Ian P. Vine, of Milverton, Somerset, by his wife the former Sarah Vincent.

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Laurelie, Lady Laurie 1939-2024

 Laurelie, Lady Laurie, who died 5 September, 2024, was widow of Sir Robert Laurie, 7th Baronet. She was 85.

She was born Laurelie Meriol Winifrida Williams, 20 July, 1939, the elder daughter of Sir Reginald Lawrence William Williams, 7th Baronet (1900-1971), and his wife the former Elinor Meriol Enriqueta Trevor (1908-1982); and married 14 September, 1968, Robert Bayley Emilius Laurie (born 8 March, 1931), son of Major General Sir John Laurie, 6th Baronet, CB, DSO & Bar, DL (1892-1983), and his wife the former Evelyn Clare Gardner Richardson-Gardner (1896-1987). Her husband succeeded to the baronetcy (cr UK, 1834) on his father's death, 10 January, 1983, and died 27 December, 2017.

Lady Laurie leaves two daughters, Clare (born 25 Dec, 1974), and Serena (born 31 Aug, 1976).

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Peart/Chapman engagement

 The engagement was announced 11 September, 2024, between Benjamin A. Peart, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Ian Peart of Penn, Buckinghamshire, & Tatiana Poppy Ruth Chapman (born 16 September, 1996), youngest daughter of Nicholas J. Chapman, of Shillingstone, Dorset, by his wife the former Helen Fiona Pelly (born 18 July, 1964), scion of the Pelly baronets.

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Lady Buchanan 1936-2024, wife of Sir Andrew Buchanan, Bt

 Lady Buchanan, who died 3 September, 2024, aged 88, was the wife of Sir Andrew Buchanan, KCVO, 5th Baronet.

She was born in 1936, as Belinda Jane Virginia Maclean, daughter of Donald Colquhoun Maclean (1898-1967), and his wife the former Cecilia Valerie Cooper (1910-1998); and married firstly, Commander Gresham Neilus Vaughan, RN (1934-1964), son of Malcolm Septimus Vaughan (1903-1967), and his wife the former Judith Elyn Gresham (1905-94), descended from the Leveson-Gower Earls Gower; and married 2ndly, 26 April, 1966, Andrew George Buchanan (born 21 July, 1937), son and heir of Major Sir Charles Buchanan, 4th Baronet (1899-1984), and his wife the former Barbara Helen Stanley (1906-1986), scion of the Earls of Derby.

Her husband served as High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire 1976-77; and appointed a deputy lieutenant for Nottinghamshire in 1985. Between 1991 and 2012, he was Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire  and was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 2011, in the New Year Honours for his service in that office. Buchanan succeeded his father in the baronetcy, 25 May, 1984.

Lady Buchanan leaves a son from her first marriage, Andrew Gresham Vaughan (born 1963), and a son, George Buchanan (born 27 Jan, 1975), and daughter, Laura (born 13 Jan, 1967), from her marriage to Sir Andrew.

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Richard Wallace Vernon 1927-2024

Richard Wallace Vernon, who died 25 August, 2024, aged 96, was a scion of the Vernon baronets.

He was born 18 October, 1927, the second son of Herbert Wallace Vernon (1890-1974), and his wife the former Gertrude Mary Jackson (who died 15 January, 1959); & married 8 January, 1955, Pamela Violet Grierson (1925-2017), scion of the Grierson baronets, daughter of Lt-Col Alexander George William Grierson, RM (1884-1951), and his wife the former Violet Ethel Brewis (1900-1980), by whom he had issue, two sons, Richard (born 31 May, 1956), and Simon (born 28 March, 1958), and two daughters, Sally (born 22 Apr, 1960), and Joanna (born 26 March, 1963).

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Hon David Edward Hugh Bigham 1938-2024

 The Hon David Bigham, who died 24 August, 2024, aged 86, was a scion of the Viscounts Mersey.

He was born 14 April, 1938, second son of the 3rd Viscount Mersey (1906-1979), and Lady Katherine Evelyn Constance Petty-Fitzmaurice, suo jure the 12th Lady Nairne in the peerage of Scotland (1912-1995); and married 2 January, 1965, Anthea Rosemary Seymour (born 1 July, 1941), scion of the Marquesses of Hertford, daughter of Leopold Richard Seymour (1912-2000), and his wife the former Sheila Isabel Adelaide Butler (1920-1999); by whom he had issue, three sons, Charles (born 21 Apr, 1967), Patrick (born 21 Aug, 1969), and James (born 12 May, 1973), and a daughter, Lucinda (born 3 Nov, 1965).

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Bromley-Davenport/Bertie engagement

The engagement was announced 7 September, 2024, between Harry Nicholas Bromley-Davenport (born 27 February, 1995), scion of that landed gentry family, eldest son of Nicholas Walter Bromley-Davenport (born 11 June, 1964), of Capesthorne Hall, Macclesfield, and his former wife Emma L. Barnes (now Mrs Emma Hopkins, of Upper Shelspit, Thornborough), & (Charlotte Iona) Rose Bertie (born 27 March, 1995), scion of the Earls of Lindsey & Abingdon, eldest daughter of David Montagu Albemarle Bertie (born 12 February, 1963), of Allanbay Park, Binfield, Berkshire, by his wife the former Catherine Cecily Feilden Mason-Hornby (born 7 May, 1964).

The bride to be is a second cousin, several times removed, of HM King Charles III, and is descended from Lady Mary Bowes Lyon, a sister of HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother:-

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Lt-Cdr Antony Charles Reynardson Fane, RN 1927-2024

 Lieutenant-Commander Antony Charles Reynardson (Tony) Fane, RN, died 1 September, 2024, aged 96. He was a scion of the Earls of Westmorland.

He was born 11 October, 1927, son of Major the Hon Mountjoy John Charles Wedderburn Fane (1900-1963), and Agatha Isabel Acland-Hood-Reynardson (1903-1993), scion of the Acland-Hood baronets; married 17 January, 1956, Caroline Mary Rokeby Holland (1933-2010), scion of the Rokeby landed gentry family, by whom he had issue, a son, Edward (born 11 June, 1957), and two daughters, Olivia (born 9 May, 1960), and Charlotte (born 9 Sept, 1967).

Tony Fane was a grandson of the 13th Earl of Westmorland (1859-1922).

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Christopher Marten Smallwood

 Christopher Smallwood died 17 August, 2027.

The son of Canon Graham Marten Smallwood he married in 1975, as her second husband, the Hon Kirsty Jane Aitken (born 22 June, 1947), eldest daughter of Sir Max Aitken, 2nd Baronet (the disclaimed 2nd Baron Beaverbrook) (1910-1985), and his wife the former Ursula Jane Kenyon-Slaney (1920-2012), who was a granddaughter of the maternally of the 3rd Duke of Abercorn KG, KP, PC (1869-1953). 

He leaves a daughter, Eleanor Blubell, who was born in 1982.

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The 4th Baron Wakehurst 1958-2024

The 4th Baron Wakehurst died 22 August, 2024. He was 66.

Timothy Walter Loder was born 28 March, 1958, son of the late 3rd Baron Wakehurst (1925-2022), by his first wife the former Ingeborg Liesolotte Krumbholz-Hess (1931-1977); and succeeded to the peerage (cr UK, 1934) on his father's death, 29 July, 2022.

He married in 1987 (divorced 1997) Susan Elaine Hurst. No issue of the union.

Lord Wakehurst is succeeded in the peerage by his cousin, John James Loder, who was born 7 June, 1977.

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Cousin of the King for Sandhurst

Alexander Ogilvy is the latest descendant of the Royal House of Windsor to enroll at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. 

Ogilvy's sister, Flora Vesterberg, has spoken of her pride that he's joined the Forces. 'We're full of admiration for you,' she writes online. 'Forever thoughtful and inspiring.' Richard Eden, of the Daily Mail, reports that Ogilvy is heading for the RMC next weekend, the start of his military career.

Alexander Charles Ogilvy (born 12 November, 1996), is the only son of James Ronert Bruce Ogilvy (born 29 February, 1964) and his wife the former Julia Rawlinson (born 28 October, 1964), and is a grandson of HRH Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady Ogilvy (born 25 December, 1936), a first cousin of the late Queen Elizabeth II.

He was head boy at the £43,500-per-year Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, Alex was an academic high-flyer who achieved A*s and As in his exams. He has a double major in Computer Science and Economics from the Ivy League Brown University in the USA, where he went out with Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo. Her mother, Kerry, is the daughter of assassinated presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy.

They have since split up and Alex has been romantically linked to 'It Girl' Isabella Charlotta Poppius.

Until now, Alex worked in New York at tech firm Prove, which helps businesses enable customers to prove their identity.

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Capt Stephen David Pettifer 1930-2024

 Capt Stephen David Pettifer died 30 August, 2024, aged 94. 

He was born in 1930, son of Richard Jackson Pettifer (1897-1980), and his wife the former Ada Anne Toomer (1898-1946); and married in 1958, Elizabeth Mary Drage (born 1936), daughter of Charles Christie Binyoun Drage (1902-1943), and his wife the former Rowena Mary Hames (1900-1974); by whom he had two sons, (1) Charles (born 1965), who married in Oct, 1999, Alexandra Shân "Tiggy" Legge-Bourke, MVO (born 1 Apr, 1965), scion of the Earls of Darmouth, former nanny and companion to the Prince of Wales and Duke of Sussex and personal assistant to HM The King (when Prince of Wales), & (2) Henry Pettifer (born 1968), who married 1 June, 1996, Nicola Anne Floyd (born 29 December, 1967), scion of the Floyd baronets.

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Margaret Anne (Mig) Bacon (nee Craig) 1945-2024

 Margaret Anne (Mig) Bacon died 29 August, 2024. She was the widow of Christopher Bacon (1945-2018), scion of the Bacon baronets, premier baronets of England.

She was born in 1945, daughter of John Lawrie Walker Craig, MC (1897-1964), and his wife the former Anne Halifax Western (1910-1987), descended from the Cobbold landed gentry family; and married in 1977, Christopher Nicholas Bacon (born 5 September, 1945), son of Anthony Walter Bacon (1902-1999), and his wife the former Lola Mary Stanley Martin (who died 1998). Her husband died 17 December, 2018.

Mrs Bacon leaves a son, Nathaniel John (born 29 Aug, 1978), and a daughter, Catherine Anne (born 18 Nov, 1979).

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John Kellie Heber-Percy 1935-2024

 John Kellie Heber-Percy, who died in Australia, 3 September, 2024, aged 89, was a sion of the Percy Dukes of Northumberland.

He was born 13 June, 1935, the third son of Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Alan Heber-Percy, OBE (1897-1976), and his wife, the former Monica Violet Erskine (1897-1977), scion of the Earls of Mar & Kellie, & widow of Lt-Col. G.D. Maynard.

He was educated at Hilton College, Natal, South Africa, and was for many years a resident of Victoria, Australia. He married 2 September, 1961, Rosalind Marion Gathercole, daughter of Walter Harvey Gathercole, of Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa, by whom he had issue, two daughters, Gillian Dorothy (Gill) (born 31 May, 1965), and Helen Marjorie (born 28 March, 1968).

His elder daughter, Gill, married in 1987, Michael Alan Dixon who later assumed the surname of Heber-Percy in lieu of his patronymic.

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Lane Fox/Holden engagement

 The engagement was announced 6 September, 2024, between Frederick Evelyn Lane Fox (born June, 1994), second son of Capt George Charles Nicholas (Nick) Lane Fox (born 25 December, 1963), head of that landed gentry family, of Bramham Park, near Wetherby, by his wife the former Hon Rachel Monica Baring (born 29 June, 1967), and Georgiana Helen Sophia Holden (born 1996), daughter of Geoffrey Alexander Holden (born 1957), of Flore, Northamptonshire, and his wife the former Kyriaki Droussiotou.

Frederick Lane Fox is a grandson maternally of the 2nd Baron Howick of Glendale (born 30 Dec, 1937), and is a great-great grandson of the 1st and last Baron Bingley (1870-1947).

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Daughter for Chelsy Davy & Sam Cutmore-Scott

  Chelsy Yvonne Cutmore-Scott (nee Davy, born 13 Oct, 1985), wife of Old Etonian Samuel Mark [Sam] Cutmore-Scott [born 1984], has given birth to a daughter, Chloe (?), a sister for Leo, who was born in January, 2022.

Sam is the son of Robert Mark C. Cutmore-Scott (born 1951), and his wife the former Joanne Joy Cutmore (born 1951).

Chelsy Davy, former girlfriend of the Duke of Sussex, is a daughter of Charles Davy [born 1952], and his wife the former Beverley Donald.

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Perumalpillai/Macmillan Douglas engagement

 The engagement was announced 4 September, 2024, between Arjun Nadarajah Perumalpillai (born 1992), son of Ranjit Srignana Perumalpillai (born 1957), & Mrs Vasuhi Nadarajah-Pillai, of London, & Iona Charlotte Mary Macmillan Douglas (born 27 February, 1992), scion of that landed gentry family, younger daughter of Angus William Macmillan Douglas, OBE (born 1946), of Douglastown, Angus, and Mrs Rosemary Jane (Rosie)  Macmillan Douglas (nee Meynell), of Rye, East Sussex.

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Lady Diana Lucy Wolfe Murray (née Douglas-Home) 1940-2024

 The Lady Diana Wolfe Murray, who died 22 August, 2024, aged 83, was the third and youngest daughter of the late former prime minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home.

She was born Diana Lucy Douglas-Home, 18 December, 1940, scion of the Earls of Home, daughter of the then Alexander Frederick (Alec) Douglas-Home, styled Lord Dunglas, MP (born 2 July, 1903), Conservative MP for Lanarkshire, & his wife the former Elizabeth Hester Alington (1909-1990), scion of that landed gentry family.

Her father was Tory MP for Lanarkshire, and later for Perthshire and Kinross, a government minister in the 1950s and 1960s including holding the office of Foreign Secretary in the Macmillan administration. He succeeded his father, 11 July, 1951, as 14th Earl of Home, and Lord Dunglas, both in the Peerage of Scotland. He was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Thistle in 1962. In October, 1963, Home succeeded Macmillan as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury. He was the last prime minister to be appointed whilst sitting in the House of Lords. Days after his appointment he disclaimed his peerages for life, and was found a safe seat and elected to the Commons, becoming Sir Alec Douglas-Home. He was prime minister 1963-64, and later created a life peer as Baron Home of the Hirsel, and he was Foreign Secretary in the Heath administration. He died 9 Oct, 1995.

Diana was styled Lady Diana, as daughter of an earl, from 1951, and continued to be so styled after her father disclaimed his peerages in 1963. She married 8 June, 1963 (divorced 1976), as his first wife, James Archibald Wolfe Murray (1936-2011), scion of the Murray of Blackbarony baronets, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Malcolm Victor Alexander Wolfe Murray (1908-1985), and his first wife the former Lady Grizel Mary Boyle (1913-1942), daughter of the 8th Earl of Glasgow (1874-1963), by whom she had a son, Rory (born 28 March, 1965), and two daughters, Fiona (born 12 Mar, 1964), and Clare (born 6 Mar, 1969).

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