Jutta Christa Ella Gertrud Gerlach (nee Freiin von Gregory), who died 25 January, 2023, aged 90, was descended from the Hewett baronets, born 28 Apr, 1922, daughter of Konrad Rudolf Georg Fritz Freiherr von Gregory (1879-1971), and his wife the former Christine Freiin von Richthofen (1881-1970), who was a granddaughter maternally of Sir George John Routledge Hewett, 3rd Baronet (1818-1876).
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Richard Hugh Godfrey-Faussett, who died 11 January, 2023, aged 90, was a scion of that landed gentry family, of Heppington, born 28 June, 1932, son of Brigadier Bryan Trevor Godfrey-Faussett, CB, DSO, OBE, MC (1896-1970), and his wife the former Katherine Monica Paterson (1899-1987); and married in 1962, Anne Granville Murray, daughter of Colonel Granville Murray, of Weir, Dumfriesshire, by whom he had issue, two sons, Christopher Bryan (b 26 Aug, 1963), and Matthew, and a daughter, Islay.
Richard was a great-nephew of Sir Bryan Godfrey-Faussett, GCVO (1863-1945), naval officer and courtier, great friend and equetty of King George. Richard's elder son, Christopher married in 1995, Lady Diana Bowes-Lyon (b 1966), daughter of the 17th Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne (1928-1987), and a cousin of the King.
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Jonathan Mark Priaulx Raban, who died 17 January, 2023, aged 80, was a self-scrutinising travel writer and novelist of originality and humour. He was born 14 June, 1942, son of the Rev (James) Peter Caplin Priaulx Raban (1918-1996), and his wife the former Monica Vivienne Sanderson; and married 1stly, 1964 (div.) Bridget Johnson, and married 2ndly, 1985 (div. 1990) Caroline Alice Celia Cuthbert (born 31 March, 1940), scion of that landed gentry family, of Beaufront Castle; and married 3rdly, 1992, Jean Lenihan, by whom he had a daughhter, Julia.
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The engagement was announced 28 January, 2023, between Archie Alexander Clark (born 1991), son of Duncan Allen Clark (born 1960), of Great Braxted, Essex, and his wife the former Nicola Jane Kirkwood Brown (born 15 August, 1960), & Katherine Sarah Stratton (born 6 Apr, 1991), daughter of Christopher Richard de F. Stratton (born 1953), of Wimbledon, London, and his wife the former (Patricia) Clare Grigson.
Archie Clark descends from the Sinclair Earls of Caithness, viz:-
The 19th Earl of Caithness > Lady Margaret Sinclair > Nicola Brown > Archie Clark
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The engagement was announced 28 January, 2023, between Luis R. Rodriguez Tijerina, elder son of Mr and Mrs Luis Rodriguez, of San Pedro, Monterrey, & Holly Caroline M. Catto, scion of the Barons Catto, only daughter of Robert Jeremy Adam Inch Catto (1939-2018), and his wife the former Judith Monday, of Blackboys, East Sussex.
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The engagement was annopunced 28 January, 2023, between Frederick William Edwin McAlpine (born 25 August, 1993), eldest son and heir of Sir Andrew William McAlpine, 7th Baronet (born 22 November, 1960), of Hexham, Northumberland and Lady McAlpine (nee Caroline Claire Hodgson), and Alice Sophie Riddell (born 1992), youngest daughter of Mr Sean Douglas Riddell (born January, 1965), of Ripon, North Yorkshire, and Mrs Riddell.
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Catherine Walwyn, who died at her Lambourn home, 21 January, 2023, aged 94, was the widow of the legendary racehorse trainer Fulke Waywyn, CVO.
Following her husband's death she took over the licence at Saxon House in Lambourn and trained for three seasons, winning 27 races including the 1993 Sefton Novices' Hurdle with Cardinal Red. She also trained The Argonaut and Furry Knowe for the late Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
She was born Catherine de Trafford, 5 November, 1928, fourth daughter of Sir Humphrey Edmund de Trafford, 4th Baronet (1891-1971), and his wife the former Hon Cynthia Hilda Evelyn Cadogan (1896-1966), scion of the Earls Cadogan. Her elder sister Ann (1918-87), was Dame Ann Parker Bowles, DCVO, mother of Brig Andrew Parker Bowles (born 27 Dec, 1939), first husband of HM Queen Camilla.
Her father was a senior Jockey Club steward and Classic-winning owner. She married 24 June, 1952, as his second wife, Fulke Thomas Tyndall Walwyn, CVO (born 8 Nov, 1910), son of Lieutenant-Col Fulke James Walwyn (1875-1945), and his wife the former Louisa Greenshields (who died in 1926).
Her husband moved to the Saxon House stables, Lambourn, in 1944, and became one of the most successful National Hunt trainers of all time. Fulke Walwyn trained for many notable owners including Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. He died 18 February, 1991.
Cath Walwyn also enjoyed great success as an owner, including having a half share with Priscilla Hastings in the 1958 Hennessy Gold Cup and Whitbread Gold Cup winner Taxidermist and owning the 1959 Windsor Castle Stakes winner Monamolin, both trained by her husband. She also won the 2010 Buckingham Palace Stakes with the Jamie Osborne-trained Treadwell, who she co-owned with Tony Taylor.
Cath Walwyn had one child, Jane, who was born in 1957 and died from cancer in 2007, and is survived by Jane's daughter Isabel Sanderson.
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Lady Rupert Nevill, who died 25 January, 2023, aged 97, was a close friend of Queen Elizabeth II and for many years a member of Her Majesty's inner circle.
She was the widow of Lord Rupert Nevill, CVO (1923-82), who served as private secretary to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Both Micky and Rupert Nevill were childhood friends of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, and Lord Rupert stood as godfather to Margaret's son, David, Viscount Linley, now Earl of Snowdon.
She was born Anne Camilla Evelyn Wallop (but always known as 'Micky'), 12 July, 1925, daughter of the 9th Earl of Portsmouth (1898-1984), and his 1st wife the former Mary Lawrence Post (died 6 Aug, 1964), daughter of Waldron Kintzing Post, of Bayport, Suffolk County, New York, United States. Micky's cousin, Jean Wallop (1934-2019), was the wife of the Queen's beloved 'Porchy', 7th Earl of Carnarvon (1924-2001).
Micky Wallop served as an officer in the Women's Royal Naval Reserve during the Second World War, and married 22 April, 1944, the Lord Rupert Charles Montacute Nevill (born 29 January, 1923), a captain in the Life Guards, second son of the 4th Marquess of Abergavenny (1883-1954), and his wife the former Isabel Nellie Larnach (who died 5 Nov, 1953).
The Nevills lived at Horsted Place, Uckfield, Sussex, a bolt hole for Princess Margaret and Group Capt Peter Townsend during their tempestuous romance in the 1950s.
Her husband served as Treasuer to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 1970-82, and private secretary to HRH 1976-82, and was appointed CVO in 1978. He died from cancer, 19 July, 1982, aged 59, and the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince of Wales attended his funeral.
Lady Rupert is survived by a son, Christopher (born 23 Apr, 1955), who in 2000 succeeded his uncle as 6th Marquess of Abergavenny, and by two daughters, Lady Angela Nevill (born 2 Jan, 1948), once tipped as a possbible bride for the future King Charles III, and Lady Henrietta Nevill (born 21 June, 1964), a goddaughter of Prince Philip. Micky Nevill was predeceased by her elder son, Guy (1945-1993), a godson of Queen Elizabeth II and a Page of Honour to HM 1958-61.
Lady Rupert's private funeral takes place 8 February, 2023. It is expected that the King and other members of the Royal Family will be represented.
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Margot Lucy, Lady Burrell (nee Thatcher), who died 19 January, 2023, aged 82, was the second wife and widow of Sir (John) Raymond Burrell, 9th Baronet.
She was born Margot Lucy Thatcher, 8 Aug, 1940, daughter of Frederick Ernest Thatcher (died 1976), of New South Wales, by his wife the former Lucy Violet Wiley (1910-1997); and married 1 July, 1971, (John) Raymond Burrell (born 20 February, 1934), son of Lt-Col Sir Walter Raymond Burrell, 8th Baronet (1903-1985), and his wife the former Hon Anne Judith Denman (1907-87), daughter of the 3rd Baron Denman (1874-1954). Her husband succeeded his father, 4 May, 1985, as 9th Bt, and died at Sydney, NSW, 29 May, 2008.
Lady Burrell leaves a son, Andrew John (born 15 July, 1974), and a daughter, Catherine Anne Lucy (born 29 May, 1977), and a step-son, Sir Charles Burrell, 10th Bt.
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Mary Theresa, Viscountess Selby, who died 20 January, 2023, aged 85, was the widow of the 4th Viscount, mother of the 5th Viscount and grandmother of the 6th Viscount.
She was the former Mary Theresa Powell, scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Capt Thomas Folliott Powell (1887-1975), of Pelham Cresent, South Kensington, and his wife the former Dorothy Mary Fairfax Studd (died 1975), scion of the Studd baronets; & married 29 May, 1965, Michael Guy John Gully, 4th Viscount Selby (Peerage of the UK, cr 1905) (born 15 Aug, 1942), by whom she had issue, a son, the Hon Edward Thomas William Gully (born 21 Sept, 1967), and a daughter the Hon Catherine Mary Albinia Gully (born 17 Mar 1971).
Her husband, who succeeded to the viscountcy, 18 Sept, 1959, died 10 January, 1997, aged 54, and was succeeded by their son, Edward, 5th Viscount, who died 23 January, 2001, aged 33, and was succeeded by his son, Christopher, 6th Viscount (born 18 Oct, 1993).
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The engagement was announced 21 January, 2023, between Jack William Mann (born 1982), scion of the Mann baronets, second son of Simon Francis Mann (born 26 June, 1952), of Hampshire, and his former 1st wife Jennifer Catherine Barham (born 1957), scion of that landed gentry family (now wife of Richard Douglas Schuster (born 4 June, 1953), & Isabella Josephine M. Clark (born circa 1993), daughter of Stephen M Clark, of Suffolk, and his wife the former Felicity A. Whalley.
Jack Mann was at the Royal Military College Sandhurst with the Duke of Sussex, and acted as an usher at Prince Harry's wedding to Meghan Markle in 2018.
Sir Edward Mann, 1st Bt > Francis Thomas Mann > Francis George Mann > Simon Francis Mann > Jack William Mann
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Horatia Mary Felicia Palmer (nee Lamb), who died 9 January, 2023, aged 89, was a granddaughter of the 5th Earl of Longford.
She was born 21 October, 1933 (Trafalgar Day, hence her first christian name, but always known as Felicia), second daughter of Australian-born artist Henry Taylor Lamb, MC, RA (1883-1960), and his 2nd wife the Lady (Margaret) Pansy Felicia Pakenham (1904-1999), the writer, translator, &c, who was the eldest daughter of Brig-Gen the 5th Earl of Longford, KP, MVO (1864-1915), and his wife the Lady Mary Julia Child-Villiers (1877-1933), daughter of the 7th Earl of Jersey (1845-1915), &c.
Felicia Lamb married 26 July, 1958, William Henry Tugwell Palmer (born 1929), of Nun Monkton, North Yorkshire, son of Colonel Henry Wellington Tuthill Palmer, DSO, OBE, by whom she had issue, a son Rufus (1967-86), and two daughters, (1) Primrose (born 18 Feb, 1960), wife of the Col the Hon Alastair James Calthrop Campbell, and (2) Harriet (b 6 July, 1961).
A Service of Thanksgiving takes place at Christ Church, Harrogate, 2 February, 2023.
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(Anne) Charlotte Horsfield (née Debenham), died 14 January, 2023, aged 90. She was a scion of the Debenham baronets.
She was born 12 August, 1932, a daughter of Sir Piers Debenham, 2nd Baronet (1904-1964), and his wife the former Angela Sibell Paget (1906-1965), scion of the Paget baronets; and married 9 June, 1962, Peter Muir Francis Horsfield (1932-2013), by whom she had three sons, Andrew, Charles and Thomas.
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Charlotte Emily L.J. Simpson (born 1986, née Wood-Goulbourn), wife of Matthew Caveen Drury Simpson (born 1985), gave birth to a daughter, Florence Charlotte Theodora, 3 January, 2023.
Charlotte is a daughter of Adrian D.M. Wood-Goulbourn and his wife the former Laura A.L. Morris.
Matthew is the elder son of Capt Graham Simpson, Royal Artillery, and his wife the former Caroline Mabel Gadsden (born 4 Aug, 1957), daughter of Sir Peter Gadsden, GBE (1929-2006), Lord Mayor of London 1979-80, and his wife the former Belinda Ann de Marie Haggerston (born 23 September, 1933), daughter of Sir Hugh Carnaby de Marie Haggerston, 11th Baronet (1906-1971).
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Alastair Warrington died 17 January, 2023.
He was born in January, 1942, son of Group Capt George Ninian Warrington, RAF (1908-1945), and his wife the former Quenelda Clegg (who died in the same yachting accident as her husband, 8 Aug, 1945), scion of the Clegg landed gentry family. He married 2 July, 1966, Sarah Loveday Daly (born 14 Feb, 1944), scion of that Irish landed gentry family, daughter of Capt James Henry Daly (1899-1966), and his wife the former Patricia Elizabeth Flora Irvine (1907-1997), scion of the Irish landed gentry family, by whom he had a son, Giles Ninian (b 6 July, 1969), and a daughter, Catherine Patricia Mary (born 9 Oct, 1971).
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Alice Victoria R. Bethell (nee Mills, born 1991), wife of Nicholas Bethell [born 1990], a scion of the landed gentry family of Bethell of Rise, gave birth to a son, Rudy Casper Ludo, 25 November, 2022.
Alice is the elder daughter of Andrew Mills, of Farthinghoe, Northamptonshire, and his wife the former Vanessa A. Harford. Nicholas Bethell is the third son of Hugh Adrian Bethell [born 23 April, 1952], of Rise, East Riding of Yorkshire, by his wife the former Sarah Elizabeth St Aubyn [born 28 June, 1955], scion of the Barons St Levan. Nicholas's paternal grandfather, Richard Anthony Bethell, married 27 Sept, 1945, Lady Jane Pleydell-Bouverie [1923-2006], daughter of the 7th Earl of Radnor [1895-1968].
On Nicholas's maternal side he descends from the Barons St Levan, of St Michael's Mount, Penzance, and the Earls of Morley, &c.
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Julian Sands, the actor, who disappeared whilst climbing in January, 2023, is now feared dead by his family and friends.
Julian Sands’ brother Nick has said that he knows “in my heart” that his sibling is no longer alive, as the search for the missing British actor entered its 11th day. In comments to his local Yorkshire paper, the Craven Herald, Mr Sands said: “He has not yet been declared missing, presumed dead, but I know in my heart that he has gone. However sibling rivalry being what it is, it would be just like him to walk out of there and prove me wrong.”
The actor known for roles in A Room with a View and Arachnophobia, was feared dead after failing to return from a hike in Southern California on 13 January. He was reported missing by a friend. He had been hiking in the area of Mount Baldy, a 10,000ft peak about 50 miles east of Los Angeles, according to San Bernardino County sheriff’s department. ...It is understood that his son, Henry, 37, was in California helping with the search ...The last successful cell phone “ping” was Sunday [15 Jan], after which his phone has not communicated, probably because it has lost power, police said. A silver Volvo believed to belong to Sands was found on Wednesday night [18 Jan], covered in snow.Rescuers began searching for Sands shortly after the alarm was raised but the operation was paused on Saturday evening [14 Jan], about 24 hours after it began, due to the condition of the trail and the risk of avalanches. The search with helicopters and drones is continuing as weather conditions allow, and the ground search will resume when it is safe, the sheriff’s department said.
Julian Richard Morley Sands was born 4 January, 1958, at Otley, West Yorkshire, son of William Morley Sands (1926-1985), and his wife the former Brenda Leach (b 1930).
He was married twice, firstly, 1984 (div 1987), Sarah Harvey (b 1961), daughter of Noel Harvey, and sister of the entertainer Kit Hesketh-Harvey, and married 2ndly, 1990, Evgenia Citkowitz (born 1964), daughter of the composer Israel Citkowitz (1909-74), and his second wife, and her second husband, Lady Caroline Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (1931-1996), daughter of the 4th Marquess of Dufferin & Ava (1909-1945).]
He leaves a son, Henry (born 20 Sept, 1995), from his first marriage, and two daughters, Natalya (born 16 Aug, 1996), and Imogen (born 31 Dec, 1999).
Human remains thought to be Mr Sands were found in June, 2023.
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It has been announced that HRH Princess Eugenie, Mrs Jack Brooksbank, and her husband Jack, are expecting their second child.
The couple married at St George's Chapel in October, 2018. The Queen's great-grandchild is expected early in 2021. Their first child, a son, August Philip Hawke, was born 9 February, 2021.
Jack Christopher Stamp Brooksbank (born 3 May, 1986), scion of the Brooksbank baronets, is the elder son of Mr George Edward Hugh Brooksbank (b 8 Feb 1949), by his wife the former Nicola J Newton (b 1953).
HRH Princess Eugenie Victoria Helena of York (b 23 Mar, 1990), is the younger daughter of HRH The Duke of York, KG (born 19 Feb, 1960), by his former wife the former Sarah Margaret Ferguson [born 15 Oct, 1959], scion of the Fergusons of Dummer.
Eugenie and Jack are closely related ~ they are third cousins twice removed. Both Eugenie and Jack descend from Thomas William Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester [1822-1909].
2nd Earl of Leicester ->Lady Julia Coke -> 8th Viscount Powerscourt -> Doreen Wingfield -> Susan Wright -> Sarah Ferguson -> Princess Eugenie
2nd Earl of Leicester ->Hon Sir John Coke -> Celia Coke -> George Brooksbank -> Jack Brooksbank
Jack's great-grandfather Major the Hon Sir John Spencer Coke [1880-1957], was Gentleman Usher to HM King George VI between 1938 and 1953. He was appointed Commander, Royal Victorian Order (C.V.O.) in 1946. He was appointed Knight Commander, Royal Victorian Order (K.C.V.O.) in 1953.
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Beverley, Lady Durrant, died at her home on Australia's Gold Coast, 9 January, 2023, aged 84.
She was born Beverley Joy Durrant, 12 July, 1938, a scion of the Durrant baronets, daughter of Reginald Walter Estridge Durrant (1905-1986) (a son of the 6th Bt) and his wife the former Joy Minnie Smith (died 2006); and married 1stly, 1957 (div 1976), Stanley Ross Ackers; and married 2ndly, 1994, Alan Bainbridge (who died 2000); and married 3rdly, 2014 (as his second spouse), her cousin, Sir William Alexander Estridge Durrant, 8th Baronet (1929-2018).
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The engagement was announced 24 January, 2023, between the Hon Alistair Thomas Hay Wilson (born 17 March, 1993), second son of the 3rd Baron Moran (born 6 August, 1952), of Brookline, Massachusetts, and his wife the Hon Mary Jane Hepburne-Scott (born 16 February, 1955), scion of the Lords Polwarth, & Hannah L. Williams, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Gareth Williams, of York, South Carolina, USA.
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Priscilla Mary Chester-Master (née Lutyens), died 8 January, 2023, aged 91.
She was born in 1931, a daughter of Capt. Francis Murray Bernard Lutyens, MC (1895-1955), of Posingford, Hartfield, Sussex, and his wife the former Mary Isabella Crawford (1905-2022); and married in 1951, Richard Thomas George Chester-Master (1927-1994), head of that landed gentry family, son of Lieutenant-Colonel William Alfred Chester-Master (1903-63), and his wife the former Patience Mary Streeter, by whom she had four sons, William, Luke, Francis and Ben.
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Timothy Rowland Morley, FRCS, died 11 January, 2023, aged 83.
He was born 18 March, 1939, son of Henry Seaward Morley, FRCP (1897-1961), of Midhurst, Sussex, and his wife the former Alison Kathleen Hill, scion of the Viscounts Hill; and married 20 Aug, 1966, Mary Elspeth Holbourn Adeney, daughter of Noel Frederick Adeney, FRCS, by whom he had issue, a son, David (born 1969), and a daughter, Nicola (born 1968).
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The Lady Martha Veronica Bruce, OBE, who died 22 January, 2023, aged 101, was a scion of the Earls of Elgin & Kincardine.
Lady Martha was sometime a Lady-in-waiting to HRH The Princess Mary, Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood.
She was born 7 November, 1921, the eldest daughter of the 10th Earl of Elgin, KT, CMG (1881-1968), assistant Private Secretary to Secretary of State for the Colonies 1905-08; CMG 1919; Grand Master Mason of Scotland 1921-72; Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1925 and 1926; Knight of the Thistle 1933; Lord Lieutenant of Fife 1935-65; President, Empire Exhibition Glasgow 1938, by his wife the former Hon Katherine Elizabeth Cochrane, DBE (died 1989).
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Annabel Honor Hardwick Boyd-Bowman (nee Matterson, born 1989), wife of Thomas Boyd-Bowman, and descended from the Child baronets, gave birth to a daughter, Honor Ada Hardwick, 13 December, 2022.
Thomas is a son of Mr & Mrs Robert Boyd-Bowman, of Hanoi, Vietnam.
Annabel is a daughter of Charles John Hardwick Matterson [born 26 December, 1960], of Polstead, Suffolk, and his wife the former Elizabeth Caroline McGregor Moffatt [born 1962].
Sir Coles John Child, 2nd Baronet [1906-71] > Honor Diana Child [b 1936- ] > Charles Matterson [b 1960] > Annabel Matterson [b 1989] > Honor Boyd-Bowman (born 2022)
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The engagement was announced 24 January, 2023, between George William Leslie Melville (born 1993), scion of the Earls of Leven & Melville, second son of James Hugh Leslie Melville (born 5 November, 1960), of Fife, and his wife the former Clare Jean Heywood-Lonsdale (born 15 July, 1961), scion of that landed gentry family, and Serena Daisy Lockwood Clay (born 17 May, 1993), middle daughter of Mr Jeremy Mark Lockwood Clay (born 1961), of Kent, and his wife the former Caroline S. Bird.
George's mother, Clare, is a cousin of the Duchess of Devonshire.
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The engagement was announced 24 January, 2023, between Jack Winston T. Soames (born 22 September, 1994), a great-grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, second son of the Hon Rupert Christopher Soames [born 18 May, 1959], of Cuddington, Buckinghamshire, by his wife the former Camilla Rose Dunne, scion of that landed family, and Eleanor Camilla Cator (born 22 June, 1995), scion of that landed family, third daughter of the late Charles Francis Cator (1959-2015), of Ranworth, Norfolk, and his wife the former Jane Culverwell.
Sir Mark Adair Hodson, 8th Baronet, died 18 January, 2023, aged 58.
Sir Mark is the third Hodson baronet to die in the past nine months. His uncle, Sir Michael, the 6th Baronet, died 8 April, 2022, and his father, Sir Patrick, the 7th Bt, died 21 July, 2022.
He was born 9 April, 1964, eldest son of Sir Patrick Hodson, 7th Baronet (1934-2022), and his wife the former June Shepherd-Cross, and succeeded to the baronetcy (Ireland, cr 1789), on his father's demise, 21 July, 2022.
He married in 1991, Kathleen Mary Florence Bissill, daughter of William Rippon Bissill, and his wife the former Hon Charmaine Elizabeth Violet Cecilia Wilson (1930-2018), daughter of the 3rd Baron Nunburnholme (1904-74), and his wife the former Lady Mary Beatrice Thynne (1903-74), daughter of the 5th Marquess of Bath (1862-1946), &c.
Sir Mark leaves a widow, and a daughter, Charlotte (born 1996), and a son, Edward Charles Adair Hodson (born 7 May, 1998), who now succeeds as 9th baronet.
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Catherine Anna Reed, who died 18 January, 2023, the day after her 63rd birthday. She was descended maternally from the Backhouse baronets.
She was born 17 January, 1960, the elder daughter of Arthur Wreford Reed (1932-1989), and his wife the former Jenifer Ann (Jenny) Backhouse (born 24 March, 1938), daughter of Major Sir John Edmund Backhouse, 3rd Baronet (1909-1944).
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Diarmaid Hugh Douglas-Hamilton, who died in Beverly, Massachusetts, USA, 19 January, 2023, aged 82, was a scion of the Dukes of Hamilton & Brandon.
He was born 17 June, 1940, 1st son of Squadron Leader Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (1912-1944), and his wife the former Ann Prunella Stack, OBE (1914-2010); & was a grandson of the 13th Duke of Hamilton & Brandon (1862-1940); and married 1stly, 14 Oct, 1967 (div 1982) Margaret Barlow Hambrecht; and married 2ndly, 1983, Margaret Mary Spencer, daughter of Duncan MacGlashan Spencer, of New York, United States. he is survived by his second wife and two step-children.
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The engagement was announced 23 January, 2023, between Algernon David B. Trotter (born 1987), scion of that landed gentry family of Mortonhall, son of Gerald Richard Trotter (born 6 Dec, 1946), of Westminster, London, and his wife the former Caroline D.B. Sheppard (born 1951), and Ieva Smilga, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs Andis Smilga, of Valmiera, Latvia.
The 15th Earl of Eglinton > Lady Edith Mary Montgomerie > Lt-Col John Trotter > Gerald Richard Trotter > Algernon Trotter
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The engagement was announced 23 January, 2023, between Harry Walter Jeremy Aitchison (born 16 May, 1994), scion of the Aitchison baronets, only son of Jeremy David Aitchison (born 10 Apr, 1959), of Duncton, West Sussex, and his wife the former Ruth Mary Timmis, & Catherine Lucy Rule (born circa 1995) daughter of Douglas Rule, of Monks Eleigh, Suffolk, and the late Sarah Rule (nee Clayton).
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The engagement wasannounced 21 January, 2023, between Archie J. Mainwaring-Burton (born 24 July, 1986), scion of that landed gentry family, elder son of Guy Anthony Mainwaring-Burton (born 4 November, 1956), of St John, Jersey, Channel Islands, and his wife the former Bridget Mary Riley (born 5 January, 1958), descended from the Viscounts Molesworth, & Charlotte Elisabeth Leatham (born 1989), scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Mark Leatham (born 1955), of Lyons Gate, Dorset, and his late wife the former (Elisabeth) Joanna (Jojo) Blake (1963-2014).
The 8th Viscount Molesworth > Hon Andalusia Molesworth > Lt-Col Christopher Riley > Maj John Riley > Bridget Mary Riley > Archie Mainwaring-Burton
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The engagement was announced 21 January, 2023, between Cian Speers, son of Jonny and Susan Speers, of Monkstown, Co Dublin, & the Lady Tamara Jane Conyngham (born 17 April, 1991), daughter of the 8th Marquess Conyngham (born 23 May, 1951), of Slane Castle, Co Meath, and his second wife the former Lady Iona Charlotte Grimston (born 25 October, 1953), daughter of the 6th Earl of Verulam (1912-1973).
Lady Tamara has an elder half-brother, Alexander, styled Earl of Mount Charles (born 30 Jan, 1975), and a half sister, Lady Henrietta (born 1976), wife of the 6th Earl of Lichfield (born 19 July, 1978).
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Concern is growing for the safety of Constance Dorothea Marten (born 1987) who disappeared with Mark Gordon and their two-day-old child after abandoning their car on the M61. Miss Marten is a great-granddaughter of the 3rd Baron Alington.
The couple abandoned their burning car on the hard shoulder of the M61 and fled – an aristocrat, a sex offender, and their baby, born just one or two days before. From the inferno near Bolton, thought to have destroyed all their belongings, they travelled first to Liverpool, then to Harwich in Essex, to Colchester and on to East Ham station in east London, over the course of two days.
That blurry CCTV footage from 7 January, 2023, is the last confirmed sighting of 35-year-old Constance Marten, the heiress’s face wrapped in a red scarf, her baby swaddled inside her coat. Alongside her is 48-year-old convicted rapist Mark Gordon, his head covered and bowed away from the camera. Police, concerned for the health of the baby, have been searching for the couple, but they are thought to have with them a large amount of cash, allowing them to stay off the grid.
So just how did Marten, whose father was a page of honour to Queen Elizabeth II, go from gracing the pages of society bible Tatler to being on the run with a man who, after burgling and raping a woman as a teenager, spent 20 years imprisoned in Florida before being deported to Britain?
Marten’s father, Napier Anthony Sturt Marten (born 28 March, 1959) points to an estrangement that began when his daughter met Gordon, tearing her away from family and friends to embark on an itinerant life. Making a heartfelt plea to Constance through The Independent newspaper, Napier – his voice wavering with emotion – told his daughter: “Darling Constance, even though we remain estranged at the moment, I stand by, as I have always done and as the family has always done, to do whatever is necessary for your safe return to us.
Constance is a granddaughter of the Hon Mary Anna Sibell Elizabeth Marten, OBE, (nee Sturt), who died at Crichel, Wimborne, Dorset, 18 January, 2010, aged 80. She was a a scion of the extinct Barons Alington (dau of the 3rd Baron), & was a goddaughter of HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother & was a close friend of the Queen & Duke of Edinburgh; she was born in London 12 September, 1929, as the Hon Mary Anna Sturt, dau of the 3rd Baron Alington (1896-1940), by his wife the former Lady Mary Sibell Ashley-Cooper, dau of the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, KP,GCVO, sometime Lord Steward to the Household of King George V & Queen Mary, by his wife Lady Constance Sibell Grosvenor (d 1957), a great friend of Queen Mary, dau of Earl Grosvenor, and sister of Bendor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, &c. Her marriage to Lieutenant-Commander George Gosselin Marten, MVO, DSC, RN, son of Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Marten, KBE, CB, CMG, CVO, took place at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, 25 Nov 1949. He was an equerry to King George VI, and the marriage was attended by King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of Kent, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone and Major-General the Earl of Athlone. The Hon Mrs Marten was High Sheriff of Dorset in 1989.
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Lord Hemingford, the 3rd Baron, died 17 December, 2022, aged 88.
Dennis Nicholas Herbert was born 25 July, 1934, son of the 2nd Baron (1904-1982), and his wife the former Elizabeth McClare Clark (d 29 July, 1979); and succeeded to the peerage (created, UK, 1943), on his father's death, 19 June, 1982.
His grandfather was the politician Sir Dennis Herbert, who served as a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 1931 to 1943. His father, the second Baron, notably served as Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdon and Peterborough from 1968 to 1974.
Lord Hemingford was Assistant Washington correspondent for The Times between 1961 and 1965. He was Middle East correspondent between 1966 and 1968, and was deputy features editor between 1968 and 1970. He was editor of the Cambridge Evening News, 1970-1974. He was editor director of Westminster Press between 1974 and 1992.He was appointed Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (F.R.S.A.) in 1989. He was deputy chief executive of Westminster Press between 1992 and 1995.His home was The Old Rectory, Hemingford Abbots, Huntingdonshire.
Lord Hemingford married firstly, 8 November, 1958, Jennifer Mary Toresen Bailey, CBE (who died 8 Jan, 2018), daughter of Frederick William Bailey, of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, by whom he had issue, a son, Christopher, and three daughters, Elizabeth, Caroline and Alice. He married 2ndly, in 2020, Jill Paton Walsh, who died 18 October, 2020, aged 83, who was a novelist ranging from children’s stories to Dorothy Sayers mysteries. Her novel Knowledge of Angels was turned down by 19 British publishers, but the Booker Prize judges thought differently and shortlisted it. Lady Hemingford was born Gillian Bliss, in North Finchley, 29 April, 1937, the oldest of four children of John Llewellyn Bliss, an engineer and pioneering television cameraman, and his wife Patricia (Patsy).
His only son, the Hon Christopher Dennis Charles Herbert (born 4 July, 1973), now succeeds as 4th Baron Hemingford.
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Cecil Edward Guinness, CVO, who died 29 December, 2022, aged 98, was a scion of the eponymous Irish brewing dynasty.
Guinness was educated at the University of Belfast and the School of Brewing, Birmingham University. Edward began his career as a junior brewer in 1945 and rose to become the Director of Guinness and the Vice Chairman of Guinness International. He served as Chairman of the UK Trustees of the Duke of Edinburgh Commonwealth Study Conferences for many years and often remarked that the program had “a profound effect on my future thinking and indeed my life”. Guinness served as a Patron and Director on numerous Boards including the Trustees Queen Elizabeth, Foundation for Disabled People, International School of Creative Art, Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine, Dame Alice Owens School Potters Bar, and the Wine and Spirit Trades Benevolent Society. He was a published author, having penned The Guinness Book of Guinness, Fulmers Fallen (co-author), and A Brewers Tale, Memoirs.
He was born in 1924, son of John Cecil Cope Jenkinson Guinness (1890-1970), and his wife the former Betty Davies (1902-1976); and married in 1951, Elizabeth Thompson, by whom he had three daughters, Charlotte (born 5 Nov, 1955), Henrietta (born 1957), and Diana (born circa 1962).
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Lydia Alice de Laszlo (born 1980), a descendant of the Dukes of Norfolk, gave birth to a son, Raphael Henry Philip, 12 December, 2022.
Lydia is a daughter of Martin Richard de Laszlo (1940-2017), and his wife the former Mary Gwendolen Freeman (born 1 February, 1945), daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel John Edward Broke Freeman (1910-1986), and his wife Lady Winefride Alice Fitzalan Howard (1914-2006), daughter of the 15th Duke of Norfolk (1847-1917).
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Sir Samuel Whitbread, KCVO, who died 17 January, 2023, aged 85, was chairman of the family brewing company Whitbread plc for eight years, and was Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire from 1991 to 2012.
Samuel Charles Whitbread was born 22 February, 1937, scion of that landed gentry family, son of Major Simon Whitbread (1904-1985), and his wife the former Helen Beatrice Margaret Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis (1917-2006), scion of the Barons Clinton.
He married 31 August, 1961, Jane Mary Hayter, daughter of Charles William John Hugh Hayter, by whom he had issue, three sons, Charles (born 3 Jan, 1963), Henry (b 2 Feb, 1965), and William (b 29 July, 1966), and a daughter, Victoria (b 1969).
Whitbread served on the board of the eponymous brewing company from 1972 until 2001, and was a director of Whitbread Farms Ltd from 1985 and was also a director of Whitbread Investments and Sun Alliance. He served as a magistrate for Bedfordshire from 1969, served as High Sheriff of the county for the 1973–74 year, and in 1974 was appointed a deputy lieutenant and returned as a county councillor (serving on the council until 1982). He was also chairman and later president of the Mid-Bedfordshire Conservative Association. From 1991 to 2012, Whitbread was also Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, during which time he received three royal visits and two honorary doctorates. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1994 and of the Society of Antiquaries in 2007. In 2012, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.
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The engagement was announced 18 January, 2023, between John Samuel Constantine Phipps, styled Earl of Mulgrave (born 26 November, 1994), elder son and heir of the 5th Marquis of Normanby (born 24 February, 1954), of Mulgrave Castle, near Whitby, North Yorkshire, and his wife the former Nicola Shulman, & Rosa Frances Lyster, daughter of Mr and Mrs Richard Lyster, of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Rohays Georgina Galitzine, wife of Prince Alexander Galitzine, and a descendant of the Royal House of Romanov, died 7 January, 2023. She was 70.
Rohays was a descendant of Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia, and was a close friend of members of the British Royal Family. She had numerous British aristocratic links. A sister of the Countess of Dalhousie, and a first cousin of the late Duchess of Abercorn, and of Natalia, Duchess of Westminster.
She was born Rohays Georgina Butter, 9 April, 1952, the third daughter of Maj Sir David Butter, KCVO (1920-2010), and his wife the former Myra Alice Werhner (1925-2022), scion of the Wernher baronets, a close friend from childhood of the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and a member of Queen Elizabeth II's inner circle of friends, who died only weeks before Her Majesty.
Rohays Butter married 7 May, 1988, Prince Alexander Peter Galitzine (born 6 September, 1945), son of Maj Prince George Galitzine (1916-1992), and his 1st wife Anne Marie, Baronin von Slatin (1916-2007), by whom she had issue, Princess Sasha Alice Natalia (born 10 Feb, 1989), and Princess Nadhezda Georgina (born 9 July, 1990).
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Jamie Barys, wife of Duncan Darroch-Thompson (born 1986), scion of the Darroch of Gourock landed gentry family, gave birth to a son, Rory Corbin, 16 December, 2022, in Singapore, a brother for (Duncan) Hamish, who was born 14 November, 2020.
Duncan is a son of Matthew John Thompson, later Darroch-Thompson (born 1954), and his wife Claire Nicola Darroch (born 23 December, 1956), daughter of Duncan Darroch of Gourock, 8th of Gourock (1931-2011).
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Andrée Marie Noel (née Duchen) died 12 January, 2023, aged 94.
She was born circa 1928, a daughter of Pierre Duchen, of Bayonne, France. She married 22 December, 1977, as his second wife, Colonel Archibald Charles William (Archie) Noel (1914-1997), scion of the Earls of Gainsborough, son of Major the Hon Charles Herbert Francis Noel (1885-1947), a William IV descendant, by his wife the former May Dick (1884-1964).
The funeral takes place at the Brompton Oratory, 31 January, 2023.
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The Hon Christopher (Kit) Orde-Powlett, who died 11 January, 2023, aged 91, was a scion of the Barons Bolton.
(Patrick) Christopher Orde-Powlett was born 9 April, 1931, younger son of the 6th Baron Bolton (1900-1963), and his wife the former Victoria Mary Villiers (1903-1933), scion of the Earls of Clarendon and a descendant of the 19th century prime minister Lord John Russell.
He married 29 September, 1962, (Elizabeth) Jane Kent, daughter of Arthur Spencer Kent, by whom he had issue, two daughters, Rosamund Jane (b 22 July, 1964), and (Heather) Victoria (born 5 Feb, 1966).
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The engagement was announced 14 January, 2023, between Patrick A. Müller, only son of Mr Jürgen and Mrs Johanna Korb-Müller of Giessen, Germany, & Lara Lettice Johnson-Wheeler (born 1993), descended from the Royal House of Württemberg, daughter of the Rt Hon (Alexander) Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, MP, PC (born 19 June, 1964), Prime Minister & First Lord of the Treasury, 2019-2022, & his former wife the former Marina Claire Wheeler, KC (born 18 August, 1964).
Miss Johnson-Wheeler is a direct descendant of the House of Hanover:-
George II, King of Gt Britain & Ireland
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Frederick, Prince of Wales
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Princess Augusta of Gt Britain & Ireland
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Princess Auguste Caroline Friederike Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
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Prince Paul Heinrich Karl Friedrich August of Württemberg
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Karolina von Rottenburg
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Hubert Freiherr von Pfeffel
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Marie Luise Freiin von Pfeffel
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Irene Williams
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Stanley Johnson
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Boris Johnson
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The engagement was announced 14 January, 2023, between Thomas Harrison Holt (born 1986), son of James Harrison Holt (b 1936), and his late 2nd wife, the former Mary Allison Thomas (1947-2020), of Ravenswick, North Yorkshire, and Holly Emma Bourne-Arton (born 17 December, 1994), scion of that landed family, of Tanfield, North Yorkshire, daughter of Richard William Bourne-Arton (born 1966), of Tanfield, and his wife the former Daphne Elizabeth Benson (born 1964).
Thomas Holt's firs marriage, 28 Dec, 2016, was to Lucinda Caroline Egerton (b 30 Aug, 1982), scion of that landed gentry family.
Susan Joan Constable Maxwell (nee Davies) died 30 December, 2022. The daughter of W. Trevor Davies, of Pontllanfraith, Monmouthshire, she married 20 January, 1962, Wing Commander Michael Hugh Constable Maxwell, DSO, DFC (1917-2000), scion of the Lords Herries of Terregles, son of the Hon Bernard Constable Maxwell (1848-1938), of Beauly, Inverness-shire, and his second wife the Hon Alice Mary Charlotte Fraser (1870-1958), scion of the Lords Lovat, by whom she had two sons, Hugh Peter (b 16 May, 1963), and Thomas Bernard (b 1 Dec, 1966).
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Sir Michael Rawlins, GBE, who died 1 January, 2023, aged 81, was a clinical pharmacologist and emeritus professor at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. During his medical career he chaired several executive agencies including the Committee on Safety of Medicines from 1993 to 1998.
He was born 28 March, 1941, son of the Rev Jack Rawkins (d 9 July, 1946), of Northwood, Stoke on Trent, by his wife the former Evelyn Daphne Douglas-Hamilton (1916-2003), scion of the Dukes of Hamilton & Brandon; and married 3 Aug, 1963 (div 2005), Elizabeth Cadbury Hambly (b 8 September, 1940), scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Edmund Henry Hambly (1914-85), of Treharrock, Port Isaac, Cornwall, and his wife the former Elizabeth Mary Cadbury (1912-2004), scion of that eponymous chocolate manufacturing landed gentry family, by whom he had three daughters.
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The engagement was announced 14 January, 2023, between Tobias Edward Robert (Toby) Lawes (born 1992), son of Jeremy Charles Lawes (born 1957), of Beer, Devon, and Gillian (Gilly) Lawes (nee Crowhurst), of Wickhambrook, Suffolk, & Clare Rose Alexander (born 24 December, 1994), daughter of Nicholas Walter Alexander, of Kinneston, Fife, by his wife the former (Sara) Rose Pumphrey (born 4 March, 1962), scion of that landed gentry family.
Sir Frederick Alfred Aykroyd, 1st Baronet > Frederic Howard Aykroyd > Joanna Jane Aykroyd > Sara Rose Pumphrey > Clare Rose Alexander
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Lt Col (retired) Gordon Ivor Amphett, MVO, MBE, late the Royal Regiment of Wales, died at Brecon Hospital, 10 January, 2023.
Lt-Col Amphlett paid a vital role in shaping the future military career of the present King.
The then Prince Charles was appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the new regiment in early 1969, his first Army appointment. The amalgamation parade of the two regiments took place in Cardiff Castle in early 1969, in front of HRH. The point of formation of the new regiment - the Royal Regiment of Wales- is taken as the point at which Prince Charles placed the new regimental green goat-coat upon Taffy the goat-mascot, replacing the Welch Regiment’s red one. The goat-coat had been worked by the Royal College of Needlework. Postcards of Prince Charles in the new regiment’s uniform taken at the occasion were still many years later. Amphlett, the then Regimental Sergeant Major, WO1 Gordon Amphlett - was awarded his subsequent MVO decoration - a royal honour in the personal gift of the monarch -for the effectiveness and good humour in teaching the young Prince of Wales (now HM The King) to salute and for his preparedness and poise for the parade.
On July 1, 1969, Prince Charles went to Carnarvon Castle, where his mother invested him as Prince of Wales. Charles wore the uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Regiment of Wales for the ceremony. The newly-formed regiment lined the route on the day at Carnarvon.
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The engagement was announced 14 January, 2023, between Ludovic Sebastian de Ferranti (born May, 1986), son of Adrian Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti (born 24 December, 1958), and his wife the former Christian Roome, & Louisa Clare Wentworth-Stanley (born 1993), scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Nicholas Philip Wentworth-Stanley (born 1954), and his former 1st wife, Clare Husted Steel (born 2 September, 1960), now Marchioness of Milford Haven, 2nd wife of George Ivar Louis Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven (b 6 June, 1961).
Ludovic de Ferranti has numerous descents from the peerage, including the Gore Earls Temple of Stowe, the Earls of Eglinton & Winton, and Earls of Stair, etc. His father, Adrian, is a first cousin of Georgina, Duchess of Norfolk, first wife the current 18th Duke of Norfolk, GCVO.
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Sir Anthony Rawlinson, 5th Baronet, has died aged 86.
Anthony Henry John Rawlinson was born 1 May, 1936, son of Sir Alfred Frederick Rawlinson, 4th Baronet (1900-68), and his wife the former Bessie Ford Emmett (d 1996); and succeeded to the baronetcy (cr UK, 1891), on his fagther's demise, 15 June, 1969.
He married 1stly, 2 Apr, 1960 (div 1967), Penelope Byng Noel (1939-2016), descended from the Noel Bts, daughter of Rear-Admiral Gambier John Byng Noel, CB (1914-95), and his wife the former Joan Stevens (d 2002). married 2ndly, 1967 (div 1976), Pauline Strickland Hardy, daughter of John Holt Hardy; and married 3rdly, 1977 (div 1997), Helen Leone Kennedy, daughter of Thomas Miller Kennedy, and married 4thly, 2013, Mrs Rosalind Snaith (nee Everett).
Sir Anthony had a son and a daughter from his first marriage, Alexander and Caroline, and a son, Rupert, from his second marriage, and a son, Christopher from his third marriage. The eldest son, Alexander Noel Rawlinson (born 15 July, 1964), succeeds to the baronetcy.
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Christina Mary Strutt (nee Amoroso Centeno) died 28 December, 2022, aged 68.
She was a daughter of Dr Eric Amoroso Centeno, and married in 1980, Major Stephen Mark Alisair Strutt (born 18 July, 1948), scion of the Barons Rayleigh, son of Stephen Alastair Strutt (1918-49), and his wife the former Felicity Anne MacDonnell, by whom she had issue, a son, Edward (born 1985), and a daughter, Catherine (b 1983).
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Jeremy Booth died 4 January, 2023, aged 90.
He was born in 1932, son of John Lionel Booth (1893-1966), and his wife the former Mary Kathleen Read (1901-96); and married 22 October, 1977 (div.), as her first husband, Sylvia Dorothy Turton (born 1947), scion of that landed gentry family of Kildale Hall and Upsall, daughter of Major Ralph Meredyth Turton, TD (1908-1988), and his wife the former Mary Blanche Chetwynd-Stapylton (1910-2009), scion of the Viscounts Chetwynd.
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Robert Weston (Robin) Howard, who died 3 January, 2023, aged 94, was head of that landed gentry family, of Ashmore; he was born 19 Apr, 1928, son of Henry Weston Howard, CBE (1899-1981), and his wife the former Christian Alice Eugenie Askwith (who died 1981), scion of that landed gentry family; & married 1957, Mary Lennard-Jones (born 1930), daughter of Sir John Lennard-Jones, KBE (1894-1954), and his wife the former Kathleen Mary Lennard, by whom he had two sons, and three daughters.
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Francis Charles Joseph Radcliffe, who died 1 January, 2023, aged 83, was a scion of the Radcliffe baronets, formerly of Rudding Park, Harrogate.
He was born 2 October, 1939, son of Charles Joseph Basil Radcliffe (1900-83), and his wife the former Kathleen Norah Anne Percy (who d 1994), daughter of Norman Percy; and married 17 Aug, 1968 (div 1982), Nicolette Helen Randag, daughter of Eugene Randag, of Butler's Cross, Buckinghamshire, by whom he had issue, a son, Edward (born 1969), and two daughters, Colette (b 1971), and Alexandra (b 1972).
Caroline Muir, who died 8 January, 2023, aged 93, was a scion of the Graham baronets, of Esk, descended from the 2nd Bt.
Caroline Egeria Malise Graham was born 14 August, 1929, daughter of Colonel Fergus Reginald Winsford Graham, DSO, MC (1884-1961), and his wife the former Egeria Marion Spottiswood Baker (who d 1 Apr, 1975); and married 30 December, 1952, Colonel Thomas Wemyss Muir (1923-2004), of The Queen's Dragoon Guards, son of Capt William Hugh Muir, MC, of The King's Dragoon Guards, by whom she had issue, a son, James, and three daughters, Elizabeth, Sarah, and Alexandra.
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Hugo David Morley-Fletcher, who died 30 December, 2022, aged 82, was a grandson maternally of the 11th Marquess of Tweeddale.
Morley-Fletcher was one of Britain's leading experts in ceramics, and author of numerous publications on the subject. As a porcelain expert he appeared on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow.
He was born in September, 1940, son of Lieutenant-Colonel David Morley-Fletcher (1910-71), and his wife the former Lady Christine Daphne Hay (1919-2000), daughter of the 11th Marquess of Tweeddale (1884-1967).
He married firstly, 14 January, 1967 (div 1980), Josceline Mary Phillimore (born 7y January, 1946), scion of the Barons Phillimore, daughter of Sir Henry Josceline Phillimore, OBE, PC (1910-74), a Lord Justice of Appeal, and his wife the former Katharine Mary Maude Roxby; married 2ndly, in 1980, Belinda Mary David, daughter of William Miles David, of Ponefract, West Yorkshire.
He leaves issue from his first marriage, a son, Gifford (born 13 June, 1969), and a daughter, Hester (born in 1972), and a daughter from his second marriage, (Isabella) Frances (born 1981).
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Charles Edmund Macnaghten, who died 6 January, 2023, aged 85, was a scion of the Macnaghten baronets; born 4 April, 1937, third son of Sir Antony Macnaghten of Macnaghten, 10th Baronet (1899-1972), and his wife the former Magdalene Fisher.
He married 25 September, 1976, (Mary) Jane Saunders, daughter of John Saunders, by whom he had issue, two children, a son, Alexander, and a daughter, Mary. He is also survived by a step-daughter, Elizabeth.
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Edwina Sylvia Bonn (née de Winton-Wills), who died at Pitlochry, 8 January, 2023, aged 89, was a scion of the Wills baronets, and the first wife of the 7th Marquess of Ailesbury.
She was born 13 March, 1933, second daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ernest Edward de Winton Wills, 4th Baronet (1903-1983), late the Scots Guards, of Meggernie Castle, and his first wife the former Sylvia Margaret Ogden (d 26 Jan 1946); she married 1stly, 17 March, 1952 (div 1961), Michael Sydney Cedric Brudenell-Bruce, then styled Viscount Savernake (born 31 March, 1926) (now the 8th Marquess of Ailesbury), son of the late 7th Marquess (1904-74), and his 1st wife Joan Houlton Salter (d 24 July, 1937); married 2ndly, 1963, Major Christopher Leslie Leo Bonn, Welsh Guards (1928-2008), scion of that landed family, sometime Equerry to HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, son of Major Walter Basil Louis Bonn (1885-1973), and his wife the former Leopoldina Theodora Davidson (1894-1974), scion of that landed gentry family.
From her first marriage she leaves issue, a son, David, styled Earl of Cardigan (born 12 Nov, 1952), and two daughters, Lady Sylvia Brudenell-Bruce (born 19 June 1954), and Lady Carina Brudenell-Bruce (born 13 Jan 1956), and from her second marriage, a son, Philip (born 9 Feb 1964), and three daughters, Melissa, Camilla and Melanie.
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Muriel Anne Hamer (née Radclyffe), who died 8 January, 2023, aged 94, was a scion of the Radclyffe landed gentry family; born 1929, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Montague Frederick Radclyffe, OBE, MC (1883-1967), and his wife the former Audrey Muriel Worthington (1906-94), scion of that landed gentry family, and a granddaughter maternally of the 8th Earl of Aylesford (1851-1924); married 1951, Colonel Peter Meredith Hamer, OBE (1926-90), son of Major Geoffrey Meredith Hamer (1890-1976), and his wife the former Betty Yates (1899-1982), by whom she had issue, three sons, Charles, William and Edward.
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Piers Rogers died 3 January, 2023, aged 75. He was a son of Geoffrey Glencross Rogers (1912-82), and his wife the former Davida Mackinnon (1916-83), & married 1974, Miriam Anne Croft (born 31 Oct, 1948), scion of the Croft baronets, daughter of Major Richard Arthur FitzRoy Page Croft (1910-1997), and his 1st wife the former Felice Amy Peggy McClymont (1915-85); by whom he had issue, a son, Samuel (b 1978), and a daughter, Scarlett (b 1980).
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Juliet Marian Guest (née James), died 19 December, 2022, aged 91.
She was born in 1931, a daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Morton James (1885-1942), and his wife Juliette; and married 8 December, 1951, Patrick Henry Guest (1927-2016), scion of the Barons (later Viscounts) Wimborne, son of Major the Hon Oscar Montague Guest (1888-1958), and his wife the former Kathleen Susan Paterson (1902-1982), a granddaughter maternally of the 14th Earl of Huntingdon (1841-1885), by whom she had issue, three sons, Peter (b 2 Nov, 1952), Matthew (b 5 Apr, 1954), and David (b 15 July 1960).
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The engagement was announced 11 January, 2023, between George Dominic Geers Cotterell (born 23 Apr, 1994), second son of Sir Henry Richard Geers Cotterell, 7th Baronet (born 22 August, 1961), of Garnons, Herefordshire, and his first wife the late Carolyn Suzanne Beckwith-Smith (1955-99), scion of that landed gentry family, sometime Extra Lady-in-Waiting to HRH The Duchess of York, & Alice Straker, scion of that landed family of Stagshaw, youngest daughter of Colonel Matthew Adam Straker (born 1954), of Abbey Dore, co Hereford, and his wife the former Jane Clare Anthony (b 1966).
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The engagement was announced 11 January, 2023, between Thomas J. Mason, eldest son of Christopher Mason, of Whittlebury, Northamptonshire, and his wife Johanna, and Olivia Kate Gurney (born 1987), daughter of Jonathan Kendal James Gurney, of Wicken, Northamptonshire, and his wife the former Margaret Rose Wilson (born 11 January, 1957), daughter of Sir Thomas Douglas Wilson, 4th Baronet (1917-1984), and his wife the former Pamela Aileen Hanmer (1923-2004),s cion of the Hanmer Bts.
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The death has been announced of Constantine II, former King of the Hellenes. He was 82. King Constantine died in Athens, 10 January, 2023.
King Constantine, godfather of the Prince of Wales, was doubly descended from Queen Victoria, and a second cousin and close friend of King Charles III.
He was born in Rome, 2 June, 1940, son of King Paul (1901-64), and his wife Princess Frederica of Hanover (1917-81). Both his parents were descendants of Queen Victoria.
He succeeded to the throne of the Hellenes on the sudden death of his father, King Paul, 6 March, 1964, and reigned until the abolition of the Greek monarchy, 1 June, 1973. A referendum of 8 Dec, 1974 confirmed the abolition of the monarchy.
King Constantine married at Athens, 18 Sept, 1964, HRH Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark (born 30 Aug, 1946), a younger daughter of HM King Frederik IX of Denmark (1899-1972), and his wife Princess Ingrid of Sweden (1910-2000), by whom he had issue, three sons, Crown Prince Pavlos, Prince Nikolaos, and Prince Philippos, and two daughters, Alexia and Theodora.
The eldest son, Crown Prince Pavlos (born 20 May, 1967), is now claimant to the throne of the Hellenes. He married 1 July, 1995, Marie-Chantal Miller (b 17 September, 1968), and has issue, 4 sons and one daughter.
King Constantine's sister, Sophie, is the wife of King Juan Carlos I, King of Spain 1975-2014.
Queen Victoria > Victoria, Princess Royal > Sophie of Prussia > King Paul > King Constantine
Queen Victoria > Victoria, Princess Royal > Wilhelm II German Emperor > Viktoria-Luise of Prussia > Frederica of Hanover > King Constantine
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Frances Mary Curwen (nee Holman), died 21 December, 2022, aged 95.
The former Frances Mary Holman married in 1952, Nicholas Francis Curwen (1923-2018), scion of that landed gentry family of Workington Hall, son of the Rev Stanley Patricius Lamplugh Curwen (1876-1965), and his wife the former Lilian Frances Skinner (1891-1933), a granddaughter maternally of the 7th Earl of Bessboeough (1821-1906), &c.
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John Loraine Cherry died 28 December, 2022, aged 83.
He was born in 1939, son of Wing Commander John Cherry, CBE, RAAF, and his first wife the former Corise Helen Margaret Rankin, scion of the extinct Rankin bts; married 1972, Priscilla Mary Vyvyan (b 16 Oct, 1941), scion of the baronets of that name, daughter of Frederick Richard Vyvyan (1913-1991), and his wife the former Barbara Jones, by whom he had issue, a son, Tarquin (b 1974), and a daughter, Amanda (b 1978).
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Alastair Lynas Grant Rice died 3 January, 2023, aged 86. He was born in 1936, son of William George Leonard Rice, MBE, of Muir of Ord, Ross-shire, and married 20 June, 1964, Wendy Elizabeth D'Arcy (born 16 December, 1939), scion of that Irish landed gentry family, daughter of Cecil Vivian Robert D'Arcy (1905-1995), and his wife the former Margery Mary Bailey (1904-1997), by whom he had issue, Julie (b 18 Sept 1965) and Craig (b 24 Aug 1967).
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Margaret, Viscountess Stuart of Findhorn, who died 5 January, 2023, was the third wife and widow of the 2nd Viscount Stuart of Findhorn (1924-99). She was 90.
She was the former Margaret Anne Du Cane, she was born in 1932, daughter of Commander F. Peter du Cane, CBE, RN (1901-84), of Seamark, Glendore, Co Cork, head of that landed gentry family, and his wife the former Victoria Geraldine Pole-Carew (1904-87), scion of the Pole baronets; and married 25 September, 1979, David Randolph Moray Stuart, 2nd Viscount Stuart of Findhorn (born 20 June, 1924_, son of James Stuart, the 1st Viscount, CH, MVO, MC, PC (1897-1971), sometime Govt Chief Whip, Sec of State for Scotland, cr a Visc in 1959, by his wife the former Lady Rachel Cavendish, OBE (died 2 Oct, 1977), 4th daughter of the 9th Duke of Devonshire, KG, GCMG, GCVO, PC (1868-1938). Her husband succeeded as 2nd Viscount Stuart of Findhorn, 20 Feb, 1971, and died 24 Nov 1999.
Hugh Lupus, 1st Duke of Westminster > Lady Elizabeth Harriet Grosvenor > Lady Beatrice Frances Elizabeth Butler > Victoria Geraldine Pole-Carew > Margaret Anne Du Cane (d 2023)
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The engagement was announced 9 January, 2023, between Charles Oliver Edmund Hughes (born 12 November, 1989), second son of the late Roger Hughes and his wife the former Laura Charlotte Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (born 12 September, 1959), of Llanarth, Monmouthshire, and Claire A.S.E. Morgan, younger daughter of Nigel Morgan, of Sutton Scotney, Hampshire, and his wife Eve.
Charles Hughes is descended from the Barons Saye & Sele.
The 14th Baron Saye & Sele (1885-1968) > Very Rev Hon Oliver Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (1926-2011) > Laura Fiennes (b 1959) > Charles Hughes (b 1989)
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A descendant of the Royal House of Windsor has announced her engagement on her Instagram account.
It is something of a first in that it will be the first same-sex marital alliance for a descendant of King George V and Queen Mary.
Ellen Mary Lascelles (born 17 December, 1984), is the elder daughter of the Hon Jeremy Lascelles, and is a granddaughter of the late 7th Earl of Harewood (1923-2011), who was George V's eldest grandchild.
Ellen is a great-granddaughter of Princess Mary, Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood (1897-1965).
On her Instagram account Ellen announced: "On New Year's Day Chan asked me to marry her, and turned what was an incredible 2022, turned into an even more incredible 2023. Two proposals in one day ... plus a cat ring to seal the deal until we get a real engagement ring made. One week later and I'm still floating on a love cloud."
Ellen's bride-to-be is Chantelle McPherson.
Ms Lascelles, who is in line of succession to the throne, and lives in Australia, has two children from a previous relationship with Michael G. Hermans, a son, Jack Marley Hermans (born 21 March, 2016), and a daughter, Penny Moon Hermans (born 1 March, 2018).
In 2018 Ellen's fourth cousin, Lord Ivar Alexander Michael Mountbatten (born 9 March, 1963), a descendant of Queen Victoria, and younger brother of the Marquess of Milford Haven, entered into a same-sex marriage with his partner, James Coyle, thought to be the first such union for a descentant of the Queen Empress.
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The engagement was announced 7 January, 2023, between Thomas Humphrey Elcock (born 1993), son of Dr David Humphrey Elcock (born September, 1962), of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and his wife the former Sarah Elizabeth Clark, & (Katherine) Amilia Buchan (born 1992), scion of the Barons Tweedsmuir, youngest daughter of the Hon (Charles Walter) Edward Ralph Buchan (born 5 Aug, 1951), of Kington Langley, Wiltshire, & his wife the former Fiona Jane Carlisle, descended maternally from the Thursby-Pelham family.
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The engagement was announced 7 January, 2023, between George Edward Curtis (born 31 Oct, 1980), son and heir of Sir Edward Philip Curtis, 8th Baronet (born 25 June, 1940), of Ludlow, Shropshire, and his late wife the former Catherine Mary Armstrong (who died 16 January, 2015); and Chloe Chandra Holding (born May 1984), daughter of John E. Holding, of Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, and Mrs Holding.
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The Rev Canon David Savile Yerburgh died 16 December, 2022. He was 88
He was born 10 June, 1934, son of the Rev Oswald Rochfort Yerburgh (1900-66), and his wife the former Cicely Joan Savile (1901-1981), scion of that landed family, who descended from the Wrey baronets.
Sir Bourchier Wrey, 7th Bt > Eleanor Elizabeth Wrey > Henry Bourchier Osborne Savile > Charles Cornelius Savile > Cicely Joan Savile > Peter Charles Yerburgh
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The engagement was announced 7 January, 2023, between Nicholas Douglas St Vincent Troubridge (born 27 Apr, 1993), younger son of Sir Thomas Richard Troubridge, 7th Baronet (born 23 January, 1955), of Elsted, West Sussexm and his wife the former Hon Rosemary Douglas-Pennant (born 26 Oct, 1957), and India Wadham, youngest daughter of Justin John Wyndham Wadham, of Newmarket, Suffolk, and his wife the former Juliana M.T. Macdonald Walker.
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The engagement was announced 7 January, 2022, between Harry Dominic Bailey (born 1989), son of Kim Charles Bailey (born 25 May, 1953), descended from the Courage landed gentry family, and Tracey Louise Bailey (nee Sutton, born 1969), of Chilton Foliat, Berkshire, & India Smith, daughter of Hunter and Carol Smith, of Benhall, Suffolk.
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Susan Meriel Wood (née Chenevix-Trench), who died 30 December, 2022, aged 87, was a scion of the Barons Ashtown.
She was born 8 September, 1925, daughter of Brigadier Ralph Chenevix Trench, CB, OBE (1885-1974), and his wife the former Meriel Edith Jelf (1890-1985); and married 8 July, 1950, Oscar Patrick Wood (1924-1994), son of Sydney Herbert Wood, CB, MC (1884-1958), and his wife the former Phyllis Hope Taunton (1895-1982), by whom she had two sons, Charles (b 12 Mar, 1955), and Silas (b 14 Apr, 1965), and a daughter, Lucy (b 27 Dec, 1956).
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The engagement was announced 7 January, 2023, between William Jonathan Francis Portal (born 1 Jan, 1987), son and heir of Sir Jonathan Francis Portal, 6th Baronet (born 13 Jan, 1953), of Ashe, Hampshire, and Lady Portal (nee Louisa Caroline Hervery-Bathurst, born 25 Sept, 1959), scion of the baronets of that name, and Rhea Escriba, the only daughter of Mr and Mrs R. Escriba, of Cebu, Philippines.
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The engagement was announced 7 January, 2023, between Mr T.J. (Tim) Smith, elder son of Andrew Smith, of Aberystwyth, and Mrs Patricia Smith, of Solihull, & Juliet Irvine-Fortescue (born 3 Aug, 1991), descended from the Barons Fortescue, daughter of Maj Grenville Archer Irvine-Fortescue (born 4 Nov, 1954), of Auchindoir, Aberdeenshire, and his wife the former Virginia Townsend.
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The Hon Sophie Caroline Harris (née Remnant, born 19 Jan, 1986), wife of Benjamin Loudon Harris (born 1986), and scion of the Barons Remnant, gave birth to a son, Archie James Robert, 20 December, 2022.
Sophie is a daughter of the 4th Baron Remnant (born 20 Dec, 1954), and his wife the former Caroline Elizabeth Clare Cavendish (b 16 June, 1956), scion of the Dukes of Devonshire.
Benjamin is a son of Colin Robert Harris (b 1953), of Frant, East Sussex, and his wife the former Elizabeth Catherine Vose (b 1951).
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Godfrey Charles Inverforth Holdsworth, who died 21 December, 2022, aged 95, was a grandson maternally of the 1st Baron Inverforth.
He was born in 1927, son of Godfrey Holdsworth, MC (who died 22 Apr, 1934), and his wife the former Hon. Andrina Forrestdale Weir (1894-1967), fourth of the five daughters of the 1st Baron Inverforth, PC (1865-1955).
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Jennifer Hales Pakenham Mahon (nee Batten) died 31 December, 2022, aged 90.
She was born in 1932, a daughter of Gordon Batten, and married 15 Aug, 1953, Major Nicholas Hales Pakenham Mahon (1926-2012), scion of that landed gentry family, and descended from the Barons (later Earls of) Longford, son of Wilfrid Stuart Atherstone Hales (later Hales Pakenham Mahon) (1897-1980), and his wife the former Olive Pakenham Mahon, by whom he had issue, Hugh (b 12 Dec 1957), and two daughters, Henrietta (born 18 Jan, 1956), and the late Nicola (B & d Dec 1954).
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The engagement was announced 7 January, 2023, between Christopher D. Saner, younger son of Mr and Mrs Peter Saner of Ferring, West Sussex, & Eleanor Rachel Trefusis (born 26 September, 1995), scion of the Barons Clinton, third daughter of the Rev Charles Rodolph Trefusis (born 1 Sept, 1961), of Woodbridge, Suffolk, and his wife the former Catherine Dudgeon, daughter of Brian Christopher Dudgeon (1923-96), and his wife the former Patricia Mary Biggart (1930-90).
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Agnes Jane Talbot-Ponsonby (née Morrell, born 1989), wife of James Nigel Edward Talbot-Ponsonby (born 1986), scion of the Talbot Earls of Shrewsbury, gave birth to a son, Rocco James Elgin, 1 November, 2022.
Agnes, a scion of the Morrell landed gentry family, is a daughter of David J.G. Morrell (born 1959), and his wife the former Sarah L.M. Wookey.
James Talbot-Ponsonby is a son of Nigel Edward Charles Talbot-Ponsonby (born 24 September, 1946), and his wife the former Robina Helen Bruce (born 27 May, 1952), scion of the Earls of Elgin & Kincardine.
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Edward John Mansel Child-Villiers, who died 31 December, 2022, aged 87, was a scion of the Earls of Jersey, a grandson of the 8th Earl.
He was born 29 April, 1935, son of Squadron Leader the Hon (Edward) Mansel Child-Villiers (1913-80), and his first wife the former Mary Barbara Frampton (1914-1991); and married 2 June, 1958, Celia Elinor Vadyn Green (born 1936), descended from the Blake baronets, daughter of Cyril Hall Green and his wife Elinor Joyce Blake, by whom he had issue, two sons, Alexander (born 24 Aug, 1961), and Roderick (1963-2014).
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Capt Geoffrey Neil van Cutsem, late the Royal Horse Guards, scion of that landed gentry family, died 30 December, 2022. He was 78.
He was born 23 November, 1944, the second son of Bernard Henry Richard van Cutsem (1916-75), of Exning, Suffolk, and his 1st wife, and as her first husband, the former Mary Compton (1919-89), scion of the Marquesses of Northampton.
He married firstly, 30 Oct, 1969 (div 2003), Sarah (Sally) McCorquodale (1948-2008), scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Alastair McCorquodale (1925-2009), of Stoke Rochford, near Grantham, by his wife the former Rosemary Sybil Turnor (1924-2015), scion of that landed family. Sarah McCoruodale's brother, Neil married in 1980, Lady Sarah Spencer, sister of Diana, Princess of Wales. Geoffrey van Cutsem married 2ndly, 2006, Mrs Lucy Hester Price (nee Cartwright) (she died 29 Nov, 2008). In 2012 he married, as his third spouse, Mrs Elizabeth Georgina Gail Jewson (born 19 Oct, 1952), scion of the Earls of Clarendon, former wife of Edward Rivers R. Jewson (b 1953), and daughter of William Nicholas Somers Laurence Hyde Villiers (1916-2000), and his wife the former Mary Cecilia Georgina Weld-Forester (1917-2002), scion of the Barons Forester.
Georffrey van Cutsem, of Old Somerby, Grantham, leaves two daughters from his first marriage, Sophie (born 5 Aug, 1975), and Zara (born 11 December, 1978), wife of Henry Robert Anthony Noel, by courtesy Viscount Campden, DL (born 1 July, 1977), son and heir of the 6th Earl of Gainsborough.
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Margaret Gull (née Berger), died 15 December, 2022, aged 99.
She was born in 1923, daughter of Capt Capel Colquhoun Berger (1879-1941), of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, descended from the Colquhoun baronets of Luss, and his wife the former Winifred Violet Levett-Scrivener (1895-1981), scion of that landed gentry family, and married 1957, John Evelyn Gull (1914-1997), scion of the Gull baronets, son of Sir William Gull, 2nd Baronet (1860-1922), and his second wife Evelyn Louise Snagge (d 1914), by whom she had issue.
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The engagement was announced 5 January, 2023, between James Canning Loyd (born 1 September, 1988), scion of the Loyd landed gentry family formerly of Monk's Orchard, elder son of David William Arnold Loyd (born 4 January, 1949), of Mildenhall, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Anabel Laura Dorothy Morrison (born 31 Dec, 1955), scion of the Barons Margadale, & Stephanie Rachael May Wah Kwan, daughter of Mr and Mrs Steve Kwan of Whitebridge, New South Wales.
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Patricia Frances Marigold Bullard (nee Read), died 30 December, 2022. She was 94.
A daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert John Read, of Hapton Hall, Tharston, Norfolk, and his wife the former Helen Dorothy Winifred Vernon (1899-1942), scion of the Vernon baronets; she married 1951, Gerald Humphrey (Gerry) Bullard (1916-89), descended maternally from the Barclays of Higham.
Mally Bullard leaves issue, three sons, John Gerald (b 1952), William (born 1954), and Samuel (b 1959).
Sir William Vernon, 1st Baronet > William Allen Vernon > Helen Vernon > Mally Read
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The engagement was announced 5 January, 2023, between Jack Nicholas Hope Hoyland (born 9 March, 1986), elder son of Philip John Hoyland, of Hawnby, North Yorkshire, and his wife the former Hon Henrietta Mary Vivian (born 4 Apr, 1963), scion of the Barons Vivian, & Tatiana Cicely Alice Pole-Carew (born 12 April, 1993), descended from the Barons Lyttelton, elder daughter of (Gerald Anthony) Peregrine Pole-Carew (born 2 September, 1957), of Piddlehinton, Dorset, and his wife the former Georgina Elizabeth Moir Harris.
Jack Hoyland is a grandson maternally of the 6th Baron Vivian (1935-2004), and his first wife the former Catherine Joyce Hope (now Countess of Mexborough).
The 1st Baron Lyttelton > Hon Caroline Anne Lyttelton > William Henry Pole-Carew > Charles Edward Pole-Carew > Gerald Ayshford Pole-Carew > Christopher Gerald Pole-Carew > Peregrine Pole-Carew > Tatiana Pole-Carew
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Lady Nevile, OBE, who died 31 December, 2022, aged 99, was chatelaine of Aubourn Hall, a 16th-century manor house, near Lincoln. She was the widow of Sir Henry Nevile, KCVO (1920-1996), a Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire for 20 years.
The family seat at Aubourn Hall was designed by architect James Smythson, was built for Sir John Meres between 1587 and 1628. It has been the home of the Nevile family since the 17th century.
She was born in 1923, the former Jean Rosita Mary Torr, daughter of Cyril James Wenceslas Torr and wife the former Maude Mary Winifred Walpole (1897-1968) (later wife of Vicomte Théophile de Lantsheere).
She married in 1944, Henry Nicholas Nevile (born 13 March, 1920), scion of that landed gentry family, the elder son of Charles Joseph Nevile (1883–1930), of Wellingore in Lincolnshire, and his wife Muriel Margaret, daughter of the diplomat Sir Nicholas Roderick O'Conor, GCB, GCMG. Her husband was Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, 1975-1995, and appointed KCVO in 1992. He died 20 Oct, 1996.
Lady Nevile leaves issue, two sons, Christopher and Hugh, and three daughters, Sarah, Elizabeth and Jill.
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The engagement was announced 3 January, 2023, between Arthur William Boyd (born 1994), scion of the Barons Kilmarnock, younger son of the Hon Jonathan Aubrey Lewis Boyd (born 1 Oct, 1956), of Newton, Lincolnshire, and his wife the former Annette Madeleine Constantine, & Victoria R. Drysdale, younger daughter of Michael Drysdale, KC, of Brisbane, Australia, and Mrs Drysdale.
King William IV > Lady Elizabeth FitzClarence > the 19th Earl of Erroll > 20th Earl of Erroll > 21st Earl of Erroll > 6th Baron Kilmarnock > Hon Jonathan Boyd > Arthur Boyd
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The 7th Baron Camoys, GCVO, PC, DL, who died 4 January, 2023, aged 82, was a City banker who became Lord Chamberlain at an acutely sensitive time in the modern evolution of the monarchy. He was seated at Stonor Park, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
Lord Camoys was Prime Warden, Fishmongers' Company 1992-93; a Lord in Waiting 1992-98; Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire 1994; Privy Councillor 1997; Lord Chamberlain and Chancellor of the Royal Victorian Order 1998-2000; GCVO 1998; a Permanent Lord-in-Waiting 2000.
(Ralph) Thomas Campion Sherman Stonor was born 16 April, 1940, son of the 6th Baron Camoys, DL (1913-76), and his wife the former Mary Jeanne Stourton (who died in 1987), scion of the Barons Mowbray, Segrave & Stourton. He succeeded his father in the barony, 9 March, 1976.
The peerage was created in the Peerage of England by Writ of Summons in 1383, and on the death of the 2nd Baron, 12 Aug, 1426, it fell into abeyance and so remained for 413 years, until the termination of the abeyance, on 14 Sept, 1839.
The 7th Baron married 11 June, 1966, Elizabeth Mary Hyde Parker (born 3 Sept, 1939), scion of the Parker baronets, the only daughter of Sir William Hyde Parker, 11th Baronet, of Melford Hall, Long Melford, by his wife the former Ulla Ditlef Nielsen, by whom he had issue, a son, William, and three daughters, Alina, Emily and Sophia.
The son the Hon (Ralph) William Robert Thomas Stonor (born 10 September, 1974), succeeds as the 8th Baron Camoys.
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Annabel J Arthur (née Hudleston), wife of Anthony James Arthur (born 1979), and scion of the Hudleston landed family, gave birth to a daughter, Ella Iris, 17 December, 2022, a sister for Joseph James Charles (born 10 Nov, 2018), and Iona Bridget (b 2 March, 2017).
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Capt Richard Ker Slingsby Bethell, RN, OBE, died 9 December, 2022, aged 94.
He was born 4 August, 1928, scion of the Barons Westbury, son of Major Vivian Lionel Slingsby Bethell (1897-1967), and his wife the former Joan Ker Manwell (1907-85); and married 29 July, 1953, Anne Rosemary Frost, daughter of Harry Frost, of Amwell, Hertfordshire, by whom he had three daughters, Helena, Theresa and Jane.
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Mary-Anne Dixey (née Trevor-Roper), who died 28 December, 2022, aged 68, was a scion of the Barons Teynham; born 15 December, 1954, eldest daughter of Anthony Dacre Trevor-Roper (1921-1986), and his wife the former Amy Frances Collins (1930-2005); and married 1stly, in 1982 (div) Michael John Frederick Charles Buswell; married 2ndly, 2000, Charles Dixey.
She leaves a son from her first marriage, Jonathan Charles Buswell (b 1982).
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Deborah Susan Sinclair-Stevenson (née Walker-Smith), died 26 December, 2022. She was 81, and a scion of the Walker-Smith baronets; she was born 15 June, 1941, daughter of Sir Derek Walker-Smith, 1st Baronet (1910-92), created a life peer as Baron Broxbourne, and his wife the former Dorothy Ellen Mary Etherton (1906-1999); and married 10 June, 1965, Christopher Terence Sinclair-Stevenson, son of George Sinclair-Stevenson, of Hong Kong.
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Mariota Maud Bosanquet, scion of that landed gentry family, died 27 December, 2022, aged 99.
She was born in 1923 a daughter of Major Arthur Rivers Bosanquet, MC (1890-1971), and his wife the Lady Katherine Ethel Carnegie, daughter of the 10th Earl of Southesk (1854-1941); she was an artist, and unm.
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Mary Moore (née Goschen), who died 13 December, 2022, aged 74, was a scion of the Goschen family now represented by Viscount Goschen; she was born 18 January, 1948, daughter of Brigadier Geoffrey William Goschen (1911-1988), and his wife the former Mary Ernestine Morrison-Bell (1910-2002), scion of the baronets of that name; and married in 1973, David Robson Moore (1947-1987), by whom she had issue, a son, Nathaniel (born 1974), and a daughter, Roxanne (born 1977).
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Margaret Colquhoun Gull (née Berger), died 15 December, 2022, aged 99.
She was born in 1923, a daughter of Capt Capel Colquhoun Berger (1879-1941), of Harfield, Hertfordshire, and his wife the former Winifred Violet Levett-Scrivener (1895-1981), scion of that landed gentry family; and married 27 Apr, 1957, John Evelyn Gull (1914-1997), a younger son of Sir William Cameron Gull, 2nd Baronet (1860-1922), and his second wife the former Evelyn Louise Snagge (d 1914), by whom she had issue, two sons and a daughter.
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Sir John Kemp Barlow, 3rd Baronet, died 30 December, 2022, aged 88.
Sir John was a former Joint Master of Foxhounds, Cheshire, and chairman of Majedie Investment plc. He was chairman of Thomas Barlow & Brothers Ltd.
He was born 22 Apr, 1934, son of Sir John Denman Barlow, 2nd Baronet (1898-1986), and his wife the former Hon Diana Helen Kemp (1904-86), daughter of the 1st Baron Rochdale (1866-1945), and succeeded to the baronetcy on his father's death, 1986.
Sir John was twice wed, firstly, 30 June, 1962 (div 1998), Susan Horsbrugh-Porter (1936-2012), scion of the baronets of that name, daughter of Colonel Sir Andrew Horsbrugh-Porter, 3rd Baronet (1907-1986), and his wife the former Annette Mary Browne-Clayton (1908-1992); married 2ndly, 21 May, 1998, Pauline Margaret Bancroft.
Sir John leaves four sons from his first marriage, William, David, Michael and Charles. The eldest son, (John) William Marshall Barlow (born 12 March, 1964), succeeds to the baronetcy.
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Alice L. Bunbury (nee Martin), wife of Henry Michael Napier Bunbury [born 4 March,1980], gave birth to a son, Joaquin Patrick Napier, 22 December, 2022.
Henry is the elder son and heir of Sir Michael William Bunbury, KCVO, 13th Baronet [born 29 December, 1946], of Rendlesham, co Suffolk, by his wife the former Caroline Anne Mangnall [born 1951].
Alice is the only daughter of Mr Julian Martin and the late Mrs Wishy Martin, of Cappoquin, Co Waterford.
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George Campbell Wilkinson, died 27 December, 2022, aged 92.
He was born in 1930, son of Colonel George Edward Wilkinson, MC, DL, of Wylam, Northumberland; and married 23 November, 1963, Joan Mary Thornton Trevelyan (born 13 February, 1932), scion of the Trevelyan baronets, daughter of John Thornton Trevelyan (1898-1970), and his wife the former Anne Georgina Wardale (1904-89), by whom he had issue, a son who was born and died in 1967, and a daughter, Anne Margaret (born 16 March, 1965).
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Elizabeth Jane B. Sutton (nee Snow, born 1988), wife of Hugo George Richard Sutton [born 1990], scion of the Sutton baronets, gave birth to a son, Edward, 25 November, 2022.
Hugo is a son of Maj. Richard Charles Sutton [born 6 Feb, 1955], of Ansty Cross, Dorset, and his wife the former Jane Elizabeth Bird.
Elizabeth Sutton is a daughter of Mr & Mrs David Snow, of Pencoyd, Herefordshire.
Sir Richard Sutton, 2nd Bt [1799-1855] > Rev Augustus Sutton [1825-85] > Gilbert Sutton [1858-1929] > John Sutton [1892-1982] > Cdr Richard Sutton [b 1922] > Maj Richard Sutton [b 1955] > Hugo Sutton [b 1990] > Edward Sutton [born 2022]
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The engagement was announced 31 December, 2022, between Joseph Fraser McKie (born 1988), son of Richard J. McKie (born 1961), of Wimborne, Dorset, and his wife the former Susan Havelock, & Catherine Janet Denman (Kitty) Campbell (born 10 November, 1994), eldest daughter of Sir James Alexander Moffat Bain Campbell, 9th Baronet (born 23 September, 1956), of Kilbryde, Perthshire, and his wife, Lady Campbell, the former Carola Jane Denman (born 22 Apr, 1963), scion of the Denman baronets.
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The engagement was announced 31 December, 2022, between Jack Harry Benjamin Hanbury (born 1994), scion of the Hanbury landed gentry family, son of James Anthony Christopher Hanbury (born 1964), of Tetbury, Gloucestershire, and Mrs Lucy Hanbury (nee Hudson), of Brightwalton, Berkshire, and Helena H. Robson (born 27 January, 1993), twin daughter of Hugo John Robson (born 20 June, 1962), of Chelsea, descended from the Smith landed gentry family, and his wife the former Josephine Heard.
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Hilary Vernon Lees (nee Harbord) died 13 December, 2022, aged 85.
She was born in 1937, daughter of John Gilbert Harbord (1904-1984), and his wife the former Audrey Hope Anderson Martin (1913-2002); and married 23 April, 1960, Edmund Campbell D'Olier-Lees (1929-2020), of Coaley, Dursley, Gloucestershire, scion of the Lees baronets, son of John Rutherford D'Olier-Lees (1887-1972), and his wife the former Margery Scott (1894-1975), by whom she had issue.
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The engagement was announced 31 December, 2022, between Dr Thomas W. Pearson-Jones, only son of Wyn Pearson-Jones (born 1953), of Rhewl Fawr, Flintshire, & Clara Louise Davies-Cooke (born 21 July, 1995), scion of the Cooke baronets, middle daughter of Richard Piers Davies-Cooke (born 1 July, 1960), of Gwysaney Hall, Flintshire, and Mrs Sarah Jane Davies-Cooke (nee Latham, born 1964), of Gwysaney, Flintshire.
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The engagement was announced 31 December, 2022, between Frederick Alastair (Freddie) Cox (born 27 November, 1992), youngest son of David Arthur Cox, of Kettins, Perthshire, and his wife the former Sarah Elizabeth Buchan-Hepburn (born 17 Apr, 1960), and Alice Victoria R. Scotts (born 1994), second daughter of Roger George Newton Scotts (born 1963), of Putney, London, and his wife the former Nicola (Nicky) Chattle.
Freddie Cox is a grandson maternally of Sir John Alastair Trant Kidd Buchan-Hepburn, 7th Baronet (1931-2022)
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Lady Max Percy [nee Princess Nora Amelie Claudia Christiana Maria Notgera zu Oettingen, born 10 June, 1990], wife of Lord Max Ralph Percy [born 26 May, 1990], gave birth to a second daughter in December, 2022, a sister for Romy Jane, who was born 31 July, 2019.
Lord Ralph is the second son of the 12th Duke of Northumberland [born 16 Nov, 1956], of Alnwick Castle, and Syon House, by his wife the former Isobel Jane Miller Richard.
Lady Max Percy is the third daughter of Albrecht Ernst Otto Joseph Maria Notger, Prince of Oettingen Oettingen & Oettingen-Spielberg, by his wife the former Angela Jank.
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The Hon Carola Hudson (nee Browne), who died 6 December, 2022, aged 90, was a scion of the Barons Kilmaine.
She wsas born 17 May, 1932, daughter of the 6th Baron Kilmaine (1902-1978), and his wife the former Wilhelmina Phyllis Arnott (who died 21 Sept, 2002); and married 30 April, 1960, John Michael Carlyon Lowry Hudson, son of Herbert Hudson, of Tikokino, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, by whom she had issue, two sons, John (b 25 Sept, 1961), and Thomas (b 19 Nov, 1963), and a daughter, Phyllida (b 5 March, 1966).
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The engagement was announced 31 December, 2022, between Hugo Frederick James Seymour (born 1988), scion of the Marquesses of Hertford, eldest son of Hugh James Seymour (born 10 March, 1956), of London, and his late 1st wife the former Felicity Anne Elise Webber (1958-1993), & Alexandra Tigan, daughter of Gheorghe Tigan, of Arad, Romania, and his wife Titiana.
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The engagement was announced 31 Dec, 2022, between Andrew Christian West (born 1990), son of (John) Gordon West, of Sussex, and his wife the former Sharon Hill, and India Grace St Paul Seely (born 1992), scion of the Seely baronets, daughter of Hugo Michael David St Paul Seely (born 1961), of Oxfordshire, and his wife the former (Julia) Caroline Milner.
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The marriage took place 22 December, 2022, at Huntsham Court, Devon, between Mr V.F.P (Felix) Neate, and Rebecca Jane Threlfall (born 1989), scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Christopher Richard Threlfall (b Oct 1963), and his wife the former Susan G. Starkie.
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Major Mark Frederick Hakon Scrase-Dickins, CMG, scion of that landed gentry family, died 10 November, 2022, aged 86. He was a direct descendant of the 1st Marquess of Northampton and from the Merrie Monarch, King Charles II.
He was born 31 May, 1936, son of Wing-Commander Alwyne Rory MacNamara Scrase-Dickins, RAF (1898-1983), and his seconbd wife the former Ingeborg Oskara Fredrrika Gunilla Wijk (1901-1993); and married in 1969, Martina Viviane (Tina) Bayley (born 1944), daughter of Percy Harold Bayley, of Brighton, by whom he had a son, William, and two daughters.
Maj Scrase-Dickins, a soldier turned diplomat, was appointed CMG in 1991. He was a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Sussex in 2004, High Sheriff from 2003 to 2004 and president of St John Ambulance, Sussex, from 2005 to 2011.
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The Hon Sophia Christian Birkbeck (nee Fermor-Hesketh, born 1984), wife of Oliver Benjamin Birkbeck (born 3 Apr 1973), scion of the Birkbeck landed gentry family, gave birth to a son, Alby Arthur, in the autumn of 2022, a brother for Frankie, who was born in 2021.
Oliver Birkbeck is descended from the Royal House of Hanover, son of John Oliver Charles Birkbeck (born 22 June 1936) of Litcham Hall, Norfolk, by his wife the former Hermione Anne Dawes [born 5 Dec, 1941] {descended from the Armytage Bts}.
The Hon Sophia Birkbeck is a daughter of the 3rd Baron Hesketh [born 28 October, 1950], and his wife the Hon Claire Georgina Watson [born 7 January, 1952], daughter of the 3rd Baron Manton [1924-2003].
Oliver Birkbeck was married previously, on 12 May, 2018, was to the Hon Laura Mary Trenchard [born 20 Dec 1987], daughter of the 3rd Viscount Tremchard [born 12 March 1951], and his wife the former Hon Fiona Elizabeth Morrison [born 11 Nov, 1954], daughter of the 2nd Baron Margadale [1930-2003].
Ollie is descended from King William IV and his mistress Dorothea Jordan:-
King William IV > George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster > William FitzClarence, 2nd Earl of Munster > Hon Harold FitzClarence > Lady Wilhelmina Joan FitzClarence > John Oliver Charles Birkbeck > Oliver Benjamin Birkbeck > Alby Birkbeck
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Baron Wim van Lynden died 19 December, 2022, aged 74. He was the husband of Miranda Mary Macrae (born 21 January, 1951), scion of that landed gentry family, eldest daughter of John Duncan Hervey Macrae of Ballimore, 24th Constable of Eilean Donan, a descendant of the Marquesses of Bristol, by whom he had issue, Melanie, Lara, Tristan, Poldy and Iona.
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The Countess of Southesk (born 6 March, 1990), wife of Charles Duff Carnegie, styled Earl of Southesk (born 1 July, 1989), gave birth to a daughter, Lady Chloe Francoise Carnegie, 15 December, 2022.
The Earl of Southesk is the eldest son and heir of the 4th Duke of Fife [born 3 March, 1961], of Kinnaird Castle, Angus, and of the Duchess of Fife [nee Caroline Anne Bunting, born 13 November, 1961].
The Countess of Southesk (nee Camille Ascolli) is a daughter of Roberto Ascoli [born 1961], by his wife the former Valerie Ledoux.
Lord Southesk is a great-great-great grandson of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
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JulIa Jean Isabel Mackenzie, styled Viscountess Tarbat, wife of Colin Ruaridh Mackenzie, styled Viscount Tarbat [born 7 September, 1987], gave birth to a son, the Hon Roderick Christopher Duncan John, in 2022.
Viscount Tarbat is the son and heir of the 5th Earl of Cromartie [born 12 June, 1948], of Castle Leod, Strathpeffer, Ross-shire, and the Countess of Cromartie [nee Janet Clare Harley].
Viscountess Tarbat is a daughter of Duncan Black, and his wife Margaretha.
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