The 5th Baron Churston, who died 16 February, 2023, aged 88, was a peer whose family have played an important role at the Coronation of our Kings and Queens.
The monarch has been invested with golden spurs at the coronation since the end of the 12th century. The spurs are part of the regalia created for King Charles II for his coronation in 1661 after the previous set was melted down under Oliver Cromwell. It was hereditary in the family of Lord Churston for the peer to carry one of the spurs into Westminster Abbey.
John Francis Yarde-Buller was born 29 December, 1934, son of Richard, the 4th Baron (1910-1991), who bore one of the golden spurs at the Coronation, June 2, 1953, and his 1st wife the former Elizabeth Mary Du Pré (1910-1951), scion of that landed gentry family.
Lord Churtson's grandfather, the 3rd Baron, caused something of a sensation in aristocratic circles when in 1907 he married the gaiety girl and music hall actress and singer Jessie Smither (whose stage name was Denise Orme).
John Yarde-Buller, of Puddington, Tiverton, Devon, succeeded his father, 9 April, 1991, as 5th Baron Churston (Peerage of the UK, cr 1858), and as the 7th baronet (Cr GB, 1790).
He married 25 Oct, 1973, Alexandra Joanna Contomichalos, daughter of Anthony Contomichalos, of Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, by whom he had a son, Benjamin, and two daughters, the Hon Katherine Marina (born 23 Dec, 1975), and the Hon Francesca Elizabeth (born 17 Dec, 1980). The son, the Hon Benjamin Francis Anthony Yarde-Buller (born 13 September, 1974), now succeeds as 6th Baron Churston and 8th Baronet, and in him is vested the right to bear one of the golden spurs at the Coronation.
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