Forde/Ratcliffe engagement

_.The engagement was announced 7 January, 2014, between Finnian Nicholas Forde (born 1982), descended from the Viscounts Bangot and Earls of Belmore, &, son of the late Patrick Matthew Desmond Forde, by his wife the former Lady Anthea Geraldine Lowry-Corry (b 1952), of Seaforde, County Down, scion of the Earl of Bemore, & Emma Louise Ratcliffe, dau of Maj and Mrs John Ratcliffe, of Fernhurst, West Sussex. Finnian Forde is a gt-grandson of the 6th Viscount Bangor, and nephew of the 8th Earl of Belmore. -=-