Robie David Corbett Uniacke, who died 13 October, 2023, aged 88, was head of the Irish landed gentry family of that name; born in 1935, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Robie Dennis Woodgate Uniacke (1905-1942), Royal Tank Regiment, killed in action at Tobruk, 2 June, 1942, and his wife the former Edith Barbara Corbett (1905-2000).
He married firstly, 1957, Jennifer Sally Cunningham (1936-1968), daughter of Commander Maxwell Cunningham, RN, and his wife the former Elsie Veronica Havelock Groves; married 2ndly, 10 March, 1972 (div), as her second husband, the Hon Susan Geraldine Verney (1942-2009), former wife of Jeremy James Wagg, and daughter of the 20th Baron Willoughby de Broke (1896-1986), and his wife the former Rachel Wrey (1911-1991), scion of the Wrey baronets; and married 3rd, in Oct, 1991, (Sarah) Carinthia Alston-Roberts-West (born 1951), the model, actress, photographer, scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of General Sir Michael Montgomerie Alston-Roberts-West, GCB, DSO** (1905-1978), and his wife the former Christine Sybil Oppenheim (1913-2000), descended from the Barons Dunboyne.
From his first marriage he had issue, a son, Robie Patrick Maxwell Uniacke (born 8 Oct, 1960), who succeeds as head of the landed gentry family, and a daughter, Camilla Alexandra (born 1959), and from his second marriage he had a son, Caspar John (born 14 March, 1973), and a daughter, Kate Rachel (born in 1975, and died 10 July, 1979).
The funeral takes place at Stonefall Crematorium, Harrogate on 7 November, 2023.
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