Jainey Anne, Viscountess Bolingbroke & St John (died 2018)

 Jainey Anne, Viscountess Bolingbroke, died at Christchurch, New Zealand, 24 August, 2018, aged 74.

She was the former Jainey Anne McRae, daughter of Alexander Duncan McRae, of Timaru, New Zealand, and married December, 1972, as his second wife, the then Kenneth Oliver Musgrave St John (born 22 March, 1927), scion of the Viscounts Bolingbroke, son of Capt Henry Robert St John (1889-1972), and his wife the former Katharine Mary Musgrave (who died 22 April, 1958).

Her husband succeeded his kinsman, 1 May, 1974, as the 11th Baronet St. John, of Lidiard Tregoze, co. Wilts [E., 1611], and as the 7th Baron St. John of Lydiard Tregoze, co. Wilts [G.B., 1712], & as the 7th Viscount Bolingbroke, co. Lincoln [G.B., 1712], and as the 8th Viscount St. John, of Battersea, co. Surrey [G.B., 1716]. 

She and Viscount Bolingbroke were divorced in 1987, and he died 5 July, 2010, when he was succeeded by his son, Henry, the 9th Viscount (1957-2011), from his first marriage.

Jainey St John leaves issue, two sons, Oliver St John (born in January, 1972 before his parents married), and Nicholas (born 20 June, 1974), who succeeded his elder half-brother as the 9th Viscount, 21 May, 2011.

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Published by The Press on Sep. 1, 2018.