Monday, September 25, 2023

Mervyn Richard Streatfeild 1942-2023

 Mervyn Richard Streatfeild died 14 September, 2023, aged 81. He was a kinsman of the Queen via his Keppel ancestry. A Kent landowner whose home was Hoath House, set in a renowned landscape.

He was a scion of the Streatfeild landed gentry family of Chiddingstone, born in Yorkshire in 1942, eldest son of Brigadier Richard John Streatfeild, DSO (1903-1952), and his wife the former Jane Eglantine Stephenson (1914-1990); and married in 1981, Jane Romanes, daughter of Giles Romanes, by whom he had issue, four sons, Richard, Geoffrey (the actor), Luke, and Roland, and a daughter, Daisy.

Jane Streatfeild has overseen the creation of the spectacular Hoath House Gardens in Kent, in the grounds of the house now the home of their eldest son, Major Richard Streatfeild.

William Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle > Lady Mary Keppel > Sir Augustus Stephenson KCB > Sir Guy Stephenson CB > Jane Stephenson > Mervyn Streatfeild (died 2023)

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