Wells/Mitchell engagement

The engagement was announced 18 February, 2006, between Capt. William J.D. Wells, elder son of Mr & Mrs Andrew Wells, of Mere House, Kent, & Caroline A.R. Mitchell, edler daughter of Mr Simon Mitchell, of Trull, Gloucestershire, by his wife the former Clarissa Catherine Woollcombe Smith (b. 20 Mar 1952), second daughter of Geoffrey Roy Holland Smith, of Oxton Hall, Tadcaster, Yorks, of the Samuel Smith brewing family, by his wife the former Rosamond Margaret Stirling Woollcombe (b. 21 Sept 1919), scion of that BLG family, daughter of the Rt. Rev. Henry St. John Stirling Woollcombe, sometime Bishop Suffragan of Whitby and of Selby, by his wife Florence Hilda Argles.

Source: Daily Telegraph 18 February 2006

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