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Saturday, October 02, 2021

Lady Leng [nee Pearson] 1930-2021

 Lady Leng, who died 8 September, 2021, aged 90, was a second cousin of the Queen.

The former Virginia Rosemary Pearson was born in 1930, daughter of Major Archibald David Barclay Pearson [1899-1982], scion of that landed gentry family, and his wife the former Hilda Constance Helen Blackburn [1902-86]; and married in 1951 [div 1981] General Sir Peter Leng, KCB, MBE, MC [1925-2009], by whom she had three sons and two daughters.

Claude, 13th Earl of Strathmore [1824-1904] > Lady Constance Bowes Lyon [1865-1951] > Hilda Blackburn [1902-86] > Virginia Pearson [1930-2021]

A Memorial Service is to take place at St John The Baptist Church, Stockton, Wilts, 22 October 2021.

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