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Friday, October 20, 2023

Henrietta Croker Poole (née Walford) 1940-2023

Henrietta Croker Poole (née Walford), died 11 October, 2023, aged 82. She was a scion of the Walford landed gentry family.

She was born in 1940, daughter of Geoffrey Hugh Walford (1902-1968), and his 2nd wife the former Ursula Barnett (1904-1980), scion of that landed gentry family; and married 4 September, 1965, (Arthur) Anthony Croker Poole (who died 30 July, 2021, aged 85), son of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Edward Croker Poole [1900-1980], and his wife the former Jean Margaret Balfour Watson [died 2001], descended from the Balfour-Melville landed gentry family.

Her husband was a brother of Sarah [Sally] Croker Poole [born 28 January, 1940] now Princess Salimah Aga Khan, the fashion model, who married [1] 25 June, 1959 [div 1968] Lord James Charles Crichton-Stuart [1935-82], scion of the Marquesses of Bute, and [2] 1969 [div 1995], His Highness The Aga Khan [born 13 Dec, 1936].

She leaves a son Rupert (born 1966), and a daughter, (Emma) Eugenie (born 1970).

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