The 3rd Viscount Knollys died 21 April, 2023. He was 91.
David Francis Dudley Knollys (pronounced 'Knowles') was born 12 June, 1931, son of the 2nd Viscount Knollys, GCMG, MBE, DFC (1895-1966), and his wife the former Margaret Mary Josephine Coats (died 1987), a scion of the Coats baronets, daughter of Sir Stuart Coats, 2nd Baronet.
He was a grandson of the courtier Sir Francis Knollys, GCB, GCVO, KCMG, ISO, PC (1837-1924), who served as Private Secretary to HRH The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) 1870-1910, and to HM King George V 1910-1913, who was created a Baron in 1902, and advanced to Viscount Knollys, of Caversham, in 1911.
He was educated at Eton and served at a lieutenant in the Scots Guards (1951). He succeeded his farther in the two peerages, 3 December, 1966.
Viscount Knollys married 1 Oct, 1959, the Hon Sheelin Virginia Maxwell (1937-2022) (who was granted, in 1959, the title, rank and precedence of a Baron's daughter, which would have been hers had her father survived to succeed to the Barony of Farnham), daughter of Lt-Col the Hon Somerset Maxwell, MP (1905-42, he was killed in action at El Alamein), and his wife the former Angela Susan Roberts (later Mrs Edward Remington-Hobbs), who was killed in a plane crash in Jamaica, 10 Apr, 1953.
Viscount Knollys was widowed 26 September, 2022. He leaves three sons, Patrick, Christopher, and Michael, and one daughter, Clarinda. The eldest son, the Hon Patrick Nicholas Mark Knollys, who was born 11 March, 1962, now succeeds as 4th Viscount Knollys.
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