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Friday, July 01, 2022

Alison Audrey Primrose Windham 1928-2022

Alison Audrey Primrose Windham [nee Curtis], who died 29 June 2022, aged 94, was the widow of William Ashe Dymoke Windham, of Glasbury, Powys, a scion of the Smith-Bowyer baronets.

She was the former Alison Audrey Primrose Curtis [born 23 Feb 1928], scion of the Curtis baronets, daughter of Maj. Philip Pinckney Curtis [1884-1974], and his wife the former Hélène Ellinor Clare Kidston [d 2005], scion of that landed gentry family, and married 9 June, 1956, William Windham, a British Olympian, having rowed for GB at the 1952 Olympic Games, born 2 April, 1926, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Steuart Windham [1873-1958], of Shefford, Bedfordshire, and his wife the former Marjorie Russell Dymock [d 1971]. Her husband died 5 January, 2021, aged 94. 

Mrs Windham leaves issue, two sons, Ashe [b 1957], and Charles [b 1960], and a daughter, Emma [b 1959].

Her elder son, Capt Ashe George Russell Windham, LVO, Irish Guards [b 11 July, 1957], was Temp Equerry to HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother 1980-82, and Exra Equerry to Her Majesty until her death in 2002.

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