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Friday, July 14, 2023

The Hon Judith Haslam (nee Browne) 1934-2023

 The Hon Judith Haslam, who has died aged 88, was a scion of the Barons Oranmore & Browne.

She was born 23 September, 1934, third daughter of the 4th Baron Oranmore & Browne (1901-2002), and his 1st wife the former Mildred Helen Egerton (1903-80), scion of the Earls of Ellesmere, and she was an elder half-sister of the Hon Tara Browne (1945-66), the Guinness heir, immoratlised by the Beatles in their song 'A Day in the Life' -- 'he blew his mind out in a car...'. (her father's second wife was heiress Oonagh Guinness (1910-95).

She married 6 June, 1958, (Ralph) Michael Haslam (1931-2022), son of William Heywood Haslam (1891-1981), and his 2nd wife the former Diamond Louise Constance (known as Diana) Ponsonby, MBE (born 23 June, 1897, in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year, died 1990), scion of the Earls of Bessborough, by whom she had two sons, Christopher (born 29 June, 1960), and David (born 2 March, 1962), and a daughter, Carina (born 29 Oct, 1965).

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