Simon William Alastair Whiteley died 29 September, 2026, aged 68.
He was born 9 April, 1958, the son of Peter John Henry Whiteeley (1928-2015), and his wife Lady Angela Mary North (1931-2017), scion of the Earls of Guilford.
He married 7 April, 1988, Winifred Wu Shu-Chih, daughter of the Hon Alex Wu Shu-Chih, CBE (1920-2005), of Kowloon, Hong Kong. No issue of the the marriage.
He was a nephew of the 9th Earl of Guilford (1933-1999).
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Natasha Mary Collins (nee Seel, born 1989), wife of Edward Douglas Collins [born 10 October, 1979], gave birth to a daughter, Matilda Patricia, 26 September, 2026, a sister for Isabella.
Natasha is a daughter of Jeremy Simon Seel [born 1955], of Fawley, Hampshire, and his wife the former Carolyn Mary Webb [born 1958], and is descended from the Baron Wakefield of Kendal [Ext]:-
1st and last Baron Wakefield of Kendal > Hon Ruth Isabel Wakefield > Carolyn Webb > Natasha Seel
Edward Collins is a son of Christopher Douglas Collins [born 19 January, 1940], of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, and his wife the former Susan Anne Lumb.
Edward Collins descends from the Backhouse baronets:-
Sir Jonathan Backhouse, 1st Baronet > Miles Roland Charles Backhouse > Una Patricia Backhouse > Christopher Collins > Edward Collins [b 1979]
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Anastasia Augusta Thane Mackaness-Mills (nee Mackaness, born 26 May, 1995), wife of Frederick L.Mills, gave birth to a son, Felix James David, 28 September, 2026.
Frederick is a son of David Mills, of Highgate, London.
Anastasia is a scion of the Mackaness landed family of Boughton Hall, daughter of Brigadier James Richard St Duthus Mackaness, MBE (1957-2018), and his wife the former Mary Anne Herbert (born 1962), scion of that landed gentry family of Upper Hemsley & Old Leigh Place.
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He was a scion of the Scottish landed gentry family of that name, and a younger brother of the life peer the Baron Bruce-Gardyne (1930-1990).
He was born 13 November, 1933, the third son of Capt Evan Bruce-Gardyne, DSO, RN (1885-1949), 13th of Middleton, and his wife the former Joan McLaren (1898-1996); and married 11 April, 1964, Angela Pauline Fane (1936-2014), scion of the Earls of Westmorland, by whom he had issue, two sons, James Patrick (born 7 Sept, 1965) and Vere Alexander (born 1973), and a daughter, Victoria Sophia (born 8 Aug, 1969).
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Nicholas Piers Turnbull, LVO, MBE, QGM, who died 16 September, 2026, aged 63, was Private Secretary to HRH The Duke of Kent.
On 18 September, 2026, His Majesty the King appointed Turnbull to be a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order, with the date of 14 September.
He was born in 1962, a son of John Earle Turnbull (1931-1994), and his wife the former Mary K Heath, and married in circa 2006, the Hon Arabella Maroussia Phillimore (born 22 February, 1975), daughter of the 5th Baron Phillimore (born 25 November, 1944), and his wife the former Nathalie Berthe Louisa Pequin, by whom he had issue, two sons, Alexander Tristan (born 11 November, 2008), and Crispin Finlay John (born 15 May, 2012).
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Katrina E. van den Broek (née Hadsley-Chaplin), wife of Naboth van den Broek, gave birth to a son, Charles Johannes Brodie, 29 September, 2026.
Naboth is a son of Mr and Mrs Gerard van den Broek-van-Drongelen, of Saint-Cyr-de-Favieres, France.
Katrina is a scion of the Henderson Barons Faringdon, daughter of Mark R. Hadsley-Chaplin (born 1961), of Mersea Island, Essex, and his wife the former Lavinia Brodie Henderson (born 9 May, 1962, now Mrs James Gilbey, of London, wife of James Newman Gilbey, born 1956, scion of the Gilbey baronets).
Katrina is descended from a brother of the 1st Baron Faringdon:-
George Henderson (1819-89) father of the 1st Baron Faringdon and Katrina's ancestor, Brig Gen Sir Brodie Haldane Henderson, KCMG (1869-1936) > Neil Brodie Henderson (1904-82) > Ian Brodie Henderson (b 1930) > Lavinia Brodie Henderson (b 1962) > Katrina Hadsley-Chaplin > Charles van den Broek
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Theodore Hunt is a grandson of the life peer the Baron Hunt of Tanworth, GCB (1919-2008), and a great-grandson of the 10th Baron Hawke (1904-1992).
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Henry Thomas Pelham, who died 30 September, 2026, aged 83, was a scion of the Earls of Chichester.
He was born 10 June, 1943, the eldest son of Major Eric Thomas Pelham (1915-1984), Welsh Guards, and his wife the former Barbara Hilda Fordham (1915-1969); and married 24 February, 1978, Sarah Charlton, daughter of John Charlton, by whom he had issue, a son, Charles Thomas Pelham (born 3 November, 1987), and two daughters, Sophie Emma (born 1980), and Clare Louise (born 1981).
He was a descendant of the 2nd Earl of Chichester.
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James Harbord is a son of Jeremy Julian Harbord (born 22 May, 1953), of Netheravon, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Monique Katherine Marie Fetherstonhaugh (born 15 Aug, 1953).
Charlotte is a daughter of Mrs Alison Brook, of Heathfield, East Sussex, and the late Mr David Brook, of Frensham, Surrey.
The 3rd Baron Suffield (1781-1835) > Hon Ralph Harbord (1833-78) > Edward Ralph Harbord (1870-1950) > Ralph Evelyn Harbord (1915-1993) > Jeremy Harbord (b 1953) > James Harbord (b 1988) > Rufus Harbord (b 2026)
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| Lord Archer. |
Archer sold more than 320 million copies worldwide.
Jeffrey Howard Archer was born 15 April, 1940, son of William Archer, and his wife the former Lola Cook.
He married in 1966, Mary Weeden (born 22 December, 1944), daughter of Harold Norman Weeden, by whom he had two sons, the Hon William Archer (b 1972), and the Hon James Archer (b 1974).
Educated at Wellington and Brasenose College, Oxford. Athletics Blues, 1963-65, Gymnastics Blue, 1963, President, OUAC 1965; Member of the Greater London Council for Havering 1966-1970; Conservative MP for Louth, December 1969 to September 1974; Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party 1985-1986. His political career was paused in 2001 with the disgrace of his imprisonment for four years for perjury and perverting the course of justice. An Old Bailey jury found that he had lied in a libel action he had brought against The Star newspaper 13 years earlier, in which he was awarded £500,000 damages. He was released early in 2003 and returned to the House of Lords until he retired in 2024.
He was President, World Snooker Organisation (formerly World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association) 1997-1999: Co-ordinator, Simple Truth Campaign, 1991.
His plays include: Beyond Reasonable Doubt, 1987, Exclusive, 1990; The Accused (in which he acted) at the Haymarket and Theatre Royal, in 2000.
Some of his great publications include: Not a Penny More Not a Penny Less (1975), Shall We Tell the President (1977); Kane and Abel (1979); A Quiver Full of Arrows (1980); The Prodigal Daughter (1982); First Among Equals (1984); A Matter of Honour (1986); A Twist in the Tale (1988); As The Crow Flies (1991); Honour Among Thieves (1993); Twelve Red Herrings (1994); The Fourth Estate (1996); The Collected Short Stories (1997), The Eleventh Commandment (1998); To Cut a Long Story Short (2000); A Prison Diary (2002); Sons of Fortune (2003); The Clifton Chronicles Series (from 2011); The Short, the Long and the Tall (2020). His final novel Adam and Eve is to be published this week.
Archer was made a life peer on 27 July 1992 as Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare, of Mark in the County of Somerset.
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Colonel (John) Malcolm Carmichael Watson, Queen's Own Hussars, died 23 September, 2026.
He was born in 1948, a son of John Bernard Watson (1920-1997), of Northallerton North Yorkshire, and his wife the former Margaret Denholm Carmichael (1923-2013), sister of the actor Ian Carmichael, OBE (1920-2010); & married in 1979, Jane Rosemary Eleanor Spooner (born 23 June, 1955), daughter of Derek Richard Spooner (1921-1978), and his wife the former Patricia Mary Sackville Hamilton (1924-2013), scion of the Viscounts Boyne.
He leaves issue, three daughters, Anna (b 1983), Edwina (b 1986) and Fenella (b 1990).
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