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Saturday, March 28, 2020

Philippa Innes [nee Gordon-Cumming] 1933-2020

+. Philippa Innes [nee Gordon-Cumming], who died 27 March, 2020, aged 87, was a scion of the Gordon-Cumming baronets.

She was born 29 January, 1933, daughter of Major Sir Alexander Penrose Gordon-Cumming, 5th Baronet [1893-1939], by his wife the former Elizabeth Topham Richardson [died 1985]. Her mother was later Countess Cawdor, wife of the 5th Earl, the Thane of Cawdor.

Philippa's sister, Cecily [1925-2012], was the wife successively of three peers, the 2nd Earl of Woolton, the 3rd Baron Forres, and the 3rd Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor.

She married 10 June, 1955, David Archibald Innes [born 1931], son of Lieutenant-Col James Archibald Innes [1875-1948], by his 3rd wife, the former Evelyn Adelaide Dawnay, a great-granddaughter of the 7th Viscount Downe [1812-57], by whom she had issue, two sons Guy and John, and a daughter, Davina.

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