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Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Penelope Gwendoline Rycroft

Penelope Rycroft (nee Evans-Lombe, scion of that BLG family), who died 21 February, 2006, aged 86, was the widow of Cdr. (Henry) Richard Rycroft, OBE, DSC, RN (1911-85), scion of the Rycroft Baronets (created 1784). She was Penelope Gwendoline, daughter of Lt-Col Charles Spenser Browne Evans-Lombe , late the Leinster Regiment, of Beer, Devon, and married Cdr Rycroft in 1941. She leaves a son, Sir Richard John (Dickon) Rycroft, 8th Baronet b. 15 June, 1946, and daughters, Caroline (b. 1944), Philippa (b. 1949), and Jocelyn (b. 1955). A service of Thanksgiving takes place at St Peter's, Empingham, Rutland, 6 Mar 2006.

Source: Daily Telegraph 27 February, 2006

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