Lady Elwes, who died suddenly, 23 December, 2022, was wife of Sir Henry Elwes, KCVO, sometime Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, of Colesbourne Park.
She was the former Carolyn Dawn Cripps (born 1940), scion of that landed gentry family, of Ampney Park, daughter of Joseph William Wykeham Cripps (1900-58), and his wife the former Joyce Wilkinson, and married in 1962, Henry William George Elwes (born 24 October,1935), scion of that landed gentry family, son of Maj John Hargreaves Elwes (1906-43), and his wife the former Isabel Pamela Ivy Beckwith (1908-1993), descended from the Dukes of Richmond & Gordon, by whom she had issue, three sons, John, Frederick and George.
Her husband was Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire from 1992 to 2010. He was appointed KCVO in 2009.
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