Rebecca Mary Linnell [born 1991, nee Culverwell] wife of Harry Charles Francis Linnell [born 1990], gave birth to a son, Freddie Harvey Francis, 7 September, 2023, a brother for Charles Mark James, who was born 24 January, 2021.
Rebecca is a scion of the Culverwell landed gentry family, daughter of [Anthony] James Culverwell [born 5 Aug, 1956], and his wife, the former Catriona Andrew [born 1956].
-=-
Lauretta Rose, who died 24 August, 2023, aged 73, was a scion of the Rose landed gentry family, of Leweston. She was born 3 October, 1949, second of the six daughters of Major Hugh Lancelot St Vincent Rose, Scots Guards (1916-2003), and his wife the former Georgina Isabel Dora Phillippi (b 1927)
Her sisters were Arabella (b 1948), Caroline (b 1950), Alexandra (b 1953), Roberta (b 1959), and Henrietta (b 1962).
The 12th Baron Petre > Hon Eleanor Mary Petre > Rosamund Mary Trafford > Maj Hugh Rose > Lauretta Rose
-=-
Benjamin Harold Plantagenet Bather, who died 6 August, 2023, aged 68, was a scion of that landed gentry family, formerly of Meole Brace.
He was born in December, 1954, the elder son of Eric Walcot Bather (1908-95), and his wife the former Melitta Paula Anselma Wodenegg (1920-1989).
-=-
James Seymour Lee died 31 July, 2023, aged 77.
Lee was, according to the Daily Telegraph, a winsome and well-spoken ‘wild child of Sixties fashion photography’ whose subversive work is now in the V&A permanent collection.
He was born 20 November, 1945, son of Harry Illtyd Lee (1913-1985), and his wife the former Judith Spencer-Smith (1917-1998), scion of the Smith baronets, and descended from the Seymours later Dukes of Somerset. He married 1stly, 1967 (div), Sally Hill-Brookes, daughter of Edwin Hector Gordon Hill-Brookes (1908-1947), and his wife the former Minnie Dorothy Eileen Doland (1909-99); and married 2ndly, 1978 (div 2002), Hannah Marion Teresa Lennon, daughter of Patrick Joseph Lennon.
He leaves issue, a son, from his first marriage, Orlando Spencer Seymour Lee (1968-81), and 2 sons and two daughters from his second marriage, Edward Joseph Seymour Lee (born 1985), and Jack Illtyd Seymour Lee (born 1989), Grace Olivia Seymour Lee (born 1986), and Florence Daphne Seymour Lee (born 1993).
-=-
Cecily Anne Tyler Henderson [nee Breese, born 1983], wife of Alexander Storm David Hope Henderson [born 1982], scion of the Barons Faringdon, gave birth to a third son, Robin Peter Ian Hope, 7 September, 2023, in Hong Kong, a brother for Laurence Alfred Douglas Hope [Laurie], who was born in 2017, and for Claude Ernest Breese Hope, born 16 January, 2020.
-=-
Rupert Gerard Xavier March Phillipps De Lisle, who die 27 August, 2023, aged 37, was descended from the Barons Dormer; born in 1986, son of Peter Andrew Paul March Phillipps De Lisle (adopted into the landed family of that name), by his wife the former Leanda XeniaSophia Stanhope (born 24 December, 1959), scion of the Barons Dormer. He was unm.
-=-
The Hon Alexandra Elizabeth Charmian (Lizzie) Hare, died 2 September, 2023, aged 67.
Lizzie Hare was a granddaughter of the British prime minister Harold Macmillan, 1stEarl of Stockton.
She was born in London in 1956, the third daughter of Julian Amery, MP, PC (1919-1996), the Conservative politician, created a life peer in 1992 as Baron Amery of Lustleigh, and his wife the Lady Catherine Macmillan (1926-1991), daughter of the 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (1894-1986), and his wife the Lady Dorothy Evelyn Cavendish, GBE (1900-66), daughter of the 9th Duke of Devonshire, KG, GCMG, GCVO, TD, PC, JP, FRS (1868-1938).
She married 28 April, 1988, Alan Simon Mercury Hare (born 22 June, 1948), scion of the Earls of Listowel, son of Major the Hon Alan Victor Hare (1919-1995), and his wife the former Jill Peggotty North (1925-2015), and a grandson of the 4th Earl of Listowel (1866-1931).
Lizzie Hare leaves issue, two daughters, Alice (born 1989), and Florence (born 1993).
-=-
The engagement was announced 9 September, 2023, between James Hamilton Gladstone (born 28 November, 1994), scion of that landed gentry family of Capenoch, son of Andrew Malcolm Gladstone (born 4 October, 1958), of Craichlaw, Wigtownshire, and his wife the former Mary Sweet-Escott (born 1961), scion of that landed family, & Kate Victoria Wrigley (born 1992), daughter of John Patrick Wrigley (born 3 November, 1946), of Diddlebury, Shropshire, and his late wife the former Lucinda Elizabeth Scarlett Trehearne (1957-2020).
-=-
The engagement was announced 9 September, 2023, between Terrence J. Sinnott, son of Mr and Mrs John Sinnott of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, USA, and Georgina Iona Helena Colquhoun (born 4 February, 1993), daughter of Sir (Rory) Malcolm Colquhoun of Luss, 9th Baronet (born 20 December, 1947), of Luss, Argyllshire, and his 2nd wife the former Katharine Anne Hilton Mears.
-=-
The engagement was announced 9 September, 2023, between Sebastian John Hipwood (born 15 August, 1988), son of the late Howard John Hipwood (1950-2023), of Englefield, Berkshire, and his wife the Lady Camilla Diana Hipwood, of Little Badminton, Gloucestershire, (nee Fane, born 26 December, 1957), and Emma J. Harley, daughter of Mr and Mrs Nick Harley, of Little Sodbury, South Gloucestershire.
It is Sebastian's second marriage. In 2015 he married Sophie Arglas, by whom he has two children. He is a grandson maternally of the 15th Earl of Westmorland, GCVO (1924-1993).
-=-
The engagement was announced 9 September, 2023, between George Edmund Cooke-Yarborough (born 11 June, 1991), only son & heir of Sir Anthony Edmund Cooke-Yarborough, 13th Baronet (born 6 Aug, 1956), of Barford St Michael, Oxfordshire, and his wife the former Joanna Susan Norhtrop (born 1957), and Lucy Grace Swinton (born 3 June, 1991), scion of that landed gentry family, middle daughter of Alexander Harold (Sandy) Swinton (born 6 November, 1958), of Hammersith, London, and his wife the former Emma Louise Carbutt (born 1961).
-=-
Sir John Welch, 2nd Baronet, died 5 September, 2023. He was 90.
He was a partner in Wedlake Bell 1972-1996; Chairman, John Fairfax (UK) Ltd 1977-1990.
He was born 26 July, 1933, son of Sir George James Cullum Welch, 1st Baronet (1895-1980), who was created a baronet in 1957, by his wife the former Gertrude Evelyn Sladin Harrison (1896-1966); and succeeded to the baronetcy on his father's death, 28 July, 1980.
The 1st Baronet served as Lord Mayor of London 1956-57, and in those days the retiring Lord Mayor was always awarded a baronetcy at the end of his year of office.
John Reader Welch did his national service with the Royal Signals 1952-54, and with the TA 1954-62; was admitted a solicitor in 1960, Partner, Bell, Brodrick & Gray 1961-71; Ward Clark of Walbrook Ward, City of London, 1961-74; Registrar of Archdeaconry of London, 1964-99; Gov of City of London School for Girls 1977-82; Governor: Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree 1981-85, and 1990-91; Chairman, Committee of Management, London Homes for the Elderly 1980-90, President, Grand Charity of Freemasons, 1985-95; Senior Grand Warden, United Grand Lodge of England, 1998-2000; CStJ 1981, &c.
He married 25 September, 1962, Margaret Kerry Douglass, daughter of Kenneth Victor Douglass, of Sydney, Australia, by whom he had issue, one son, James, and twin daughters, Margaret and Jane (born 17 January, 1965). The son, James Douglass Cullum Welch, who was born 10 November, 1973, succeeds to the baronetcy.
-=-
James Frederick Trevor Dundas, who died in France, 27 August, 2023, aged 72, was a scion of the Earls (later Marquesses of Zetland).
He was born 4 November, 1950, son of Group Captain Sir Hugh Spencer Lisle Dundas, CBE, DSO, DFC (1920-1995), and his wife the Hon Enid Rosamond Lawrence (1924-2023), scion of the Barons Trevethin & Oaksey; and married in 1979, Jennifer Ann Daukes (born 1947), daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel John Clendon Daukes (1916-2000), and his wife the former Elizabeth Douglas (1919-2006), by whom he had a son, David Lawrence Charles (born 2 May, 1989), and two daughters, Clare Jessica (born 27 April, 1984), & Lucy Rose (born 7 January, 1986).
The 1st Earl of Zetland (1766-1839) > Hon John Charles Dundas (1808-66) > Hon John Charles Dundas (1845-92) > Frederick James Dundas (1877-1950) > Sir Hugh Dundas (1920-95) > James Dundas (1950-2023)
-=-
The engagement was announced 5 September, 2023, between Francis Andrew William George Kerr (born 1991), scion of the Marquesses of Lothian, third son of Lord Ralph William Francis Joseph Kerr (born 7 November, 1957), of Melbourne Hall, co Derby, and his second wife the former Marie-Claire Black, & Saskia Josephine Lumley (born 11 October, 1993), daughter of Christopher Francis Richard Lumley (born August, 1963), of Cold Ash, Berkshire, and his wife the former Wendela Colomba Romany Yseulte Troup (born 1963).
Francis Kerr is a nephew of the 13th Marquis of Lothian, KC, PC.
-=-
The 5th Baron Brougham & Vaux, CBE, who died 27 August, 2023, aged 85, was a former deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, and one of the hereditary peers elected to the House of Lords in 1999.
Lord Bougham (pronounced 'Broom') and Vaux was one of the longest serving members of the Lords having taken his seat 55 years ago.
Lord Brougham served as a deputy chairman of the Committees of the House of Lords, a deputy speaker of the House of Lords from 1995 and was vice-chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers. He was president of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents from 1986 to 1989 (and vice-president since 1990), and was president of Safety Groups UK since it replaced the National Health and Safety Groups Council in 2005. He had also been chairman of the Tax Payers' Society from 1989 to 1991 and chairman of the European Secure Vehicle Alliance since 1992. In 1995, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for political services.
Michael John Brougham was born 2 August, 1938, son of the 4th Baron Brougham & Vaux (1909-1967), and his 2nd wife the former Jean Follett (1915-1992); and succeeded to the peerage on his father's death, 20 June, 1967.
The peerage was created 22 May, 1860, for Henry Brougham, PC, FRS, who served as Lord Chancellor 1830-34, who played a prominent role in passing the 1832 Reform Act and 1833 Slavery Abolition Act.
Michael Brougham married three times - firstly, 20 July, 1963 (div 1967) Olivia Susan Gray (1941-1986), daughter of Rear Admiral Gordon Thomas Seccombe Gray, CB, DSC (1911-97), of Midhurst, by his wife the former Sonia Moore-Gwyn (1918-2001), scion of that landed gentry family; married 2ndly, 17 January, 1969 (div 1981), Catherine Jill Gulliver, 1st daughter of William Gulliver, of London; & married 3rdly, 14 September, 2022, Mrs Sezgin Petterson (nee Murad), who survives him.
Lord Brougham & Vaux leaves a daughter from his first marriage, the Hon Henrietta Louise (born 23 Feb, 1965), and a son from his second marriage, the Hon Charles William Brougham (born 9 November, 1971), who now succeeds as the 6th Baron Brougham & Vaux.
-=-
The engagement was announced 4 September, 2023, between Rufus Drake Kleinwort (born 16 August, 1994), eldest son and heir of Sir Richard Drake Kleinwort, 4th Baronet (born 4 November, 1960), of Heaselands, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, and his wife the former Lucinda Shand Kydd (born November, 1963), & Kristin Maddalozzo, only daughter of Mr and Mrs Todd Maddalozzo, of Vancouver, Canada.
Lady Kleinwort is a niece of Peter Shand Kydd (1925-2006), who married in 1969, as his 2nd wife, Frances, Viscountess Althorp (1936-2004), mother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
The 4th Marquess of Abergavenny (1883-1954) > Lady Angela Larnach-Nevill (1910-80) > Lady Davina Pepys (1940-73) > Sir Richard Kleinwort, 4th Bt (b 1960) > Rufus Kleinwort (b 1994)
-=-
The engagement was announced 2 September, 2023, between Patrick Ian Lowsley Peake (born 14 March, 1994), son of Anthony John Lowsley Peake (born 1 April, 1960), of Hannington, Wiltshire, and his wife the Lady Tanya Jean Farquhar Cochrane Bouhrazen (born 9 July, 1964), of Cerney Wick, Gloucestershire, scion of the Earls of Dundonald, & Holly Olivia Browne (born 7 December, 1994), daughter of Simon M. Browne, of Winchester, by his wife the former Kathryn Wharton (born 1960).
Patrick Peake is a grandson maternally of the 14th Earl of Dundonald (1918-1986).
-=-
Rosanna [Posie] Scrope [nee Staveley] wife of [Simon] Harry Richard Scrope [born 1974], head of the landed gentry family of Scrope of Danby, has given birth to a second son, Henry Miles Titus 'Milo', 28 August, 2023, a brother for Maximus Simon Parkinson, who was born 30 April, 2022.
Harry is the only son of the late Simon Egerton Scrope [1934-2010], of Danby on Yore, and his wife the former Jennifer Jane Parkinson, descended from the extinct Barons Bingley.
Rosanna Lorna Scrope [born 1988], scion of the Staveley landed gentry family, is a daughter of the late Simon Henry Staveley [1949-98], and his wife the former Judy O. Willis Fleming [b 28 June, 1954], scion of that landed gentry family, of Willis Fleming, of Stoneham.
Harry Scrope is a grandson maternally of the late Sir Kenneth Parkinson, Kt [1908-81], sometime chairman of Yorkshire Post Newspapers, and his wife the former Hon Dorothy Lane Fox [1909-80], a daughter of the 1st and last Baron Bingley [1870-1947].
The Scrope family (pronounced "Scroop") are seated at Danby, the family's 1,500-acre estate in North Yorkshire. The family descend from one of Edward the Confessor's Norman favourites, and were thus already settled in England at the time of the Conquest. The family motto, Devant si je puis (Forward if I am able), is a sardonic allusion to their name,which means "crab" in the Norman dialect. Establishing themselves in Wensleydale in the 12th century, Scropes distinguished themselves on the Crusades and in the Hundred Years War, were regularly summoned to medieval parliaments as barons, and have produced five Garter knights, and an Archbishop of York.
The Scrope coat of arms, Azure a bend or, was one of the earliest to be adopted and, to amateurs of heraldry, is a celebrated curiosity. Campaigning in Scotland in 1385, Richard, Lord Scrope of Bolton, was aghast to see it borne by a fellow knight, Sir Richard le Grosvenor. The matter was tried in the Court of Chivalry – John of Gaunt, Harry "Hotspur" and Geoffrey Chaucer all giving evidence on Scrope's behalf.
Depositions were conveniently heard in York Minster, the family burial place, where the Scrope arms were prominently on display, as they were – in glass, alabaster and stone – in more than 40 other churches in Yorkshire. The court's decision in favour of Scrope has long rankled with the Grosvenors. Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, was to name his famous racehorse (the 1880 Derby winner) Bend Or, and it was also his nickname for his grandson, the 2nd Duke, whose chestnut hair reminded him of the horse. For their part, the proud Scropes sport a distinctive family tie, based on their arms, of blue with diagonal gold stripes.
Harry Scrope descends from a junior branch of the family which succeeded to the headship in 1630. Christopher Scrope was by that time a convicted recusant and knew better than to press his claim to the titles and estates. Christopher's son seated himself at Danby-on-Yore, in the heart of the Scrope country, which the family had acquired through an heiress in 1576. Largely rebuilt in the 16th century, Danby Hall incorporates one of the most southerly examples of a peel tower, dating from the early 14th century. A small chamber at the top of the "old Tower" served as a chapel, the only place of Catholic worship for miles around. In the early 1800s a capacious priest's hole was rediscovered at the back of a fireplace. Generations of Scropes were barred, as Catholics, from public office. Their sons were sent abroad, with false identities, for their schooling. Forbidden to own any horse worth more than £5, they depended on kindly Protestant neighbours to hold them in their own names. The Scrope who bred Danby Cade, a famous 18th-century racehorse, was not his legal owner. "Penal times" ended with the passing of the Catholic Relief Act in 1829. Scrope of Danby petitioned in vain for the earldom of Wiltshire, but retained the heraldic supporters (a pair of Cornish choughs) that the family claim by prescription – supporters being an honour usually afforded only to peers and knights grand cross under Royal Warrant.
Rosanna Scrope is a granddaughter of Capt [William Arthur] Miles Staveley [1913-81], scion of the Staveleys of North Stainley Hall, Ripon, and his wife the former Nancy Constance Cail [1914-2007].
-=-
The engagement was announced 2 September, 2023, between Andrew James George Stirling Home Drummond Moray (born 1987), scion of that landed gentry family, the only son of Capt John Robert Stirling Home Drummond Moray (born 14 October, 1943), of Kinross, and his former wife the former Carole Anne Peniston, and Jennifer Alanna E.O. Goslett (born 1988), daughter of Mr & Mrs Edward Goslett, of Hove East Sussex.
The 6th Duke of Buccleuch (1831-1914) > Lord George Montagu Douglas Scott (1866-1947) > Jeanetta Montagu Douglas Scott (1906-97) > John Stirling Home Drummond Moray (b 1943) > Andrew Stirling Home Drummond Moray (b 1987)
-=-
Sacha Grimston (nee Tasker), wife of Edward Charles Lucklyn Grimston [born 1985], scion of the Barons Grimston of Westbury, gave birth to a daughter, Antigone Rosslyn Katherine, 23 July, 2023.
Sacha Grimston (née Miss A.S.R. Tasker), is the youngest daughter of Mr & Mrs Alan Tasker, of Lower Failand, North Somerset.
Edward Grimston is the son of Major the Hon [Gerald] Charles Walter [Charley] Grimston [born 4 September, 1953], of Finmere, Oxfordshire, and his wife the former Katherine Evelyn Kettle.
The Hon Charley Grimston is the younger brother and heir presumptive of the 3rd Baron Grimston of Westbury.
(The infant's name is pronounced An-ti-guh-nee)
-=-
Katherine Griselda Eveline Lort-Phillips (nee Boyle, born 1982), wife of Hugh Thomas Lort-Phillips (born 1981), scion of that landed gentry family, gave birth to a son, Geordie David, 10 August, 2023.
Hugh is a son of Maj Thomas Tudor Riversdale Lort-Phillips (born 1944), of Lawrenny, Pembrokeshire, and the Rev Elizabeth Priscilla Lort-Phillips (nee Buxton, born 12 September, 1947), scion of the Buxton baronets/
Katherine Lort-Phillips is a scion of the Earls of Glasgow, daughter of David Thomas Alan Boyle (born 15 January, 1943), of Fairstead, Essex, and his wife the former Angela Rose Pinney (born 8 February, 1944).
-=-
Sir Jeremy Grayson, 5th Baronet, photographer, died 21 August, 2023, aged 90.
Jeremy Brian Vincent Grayson was born 30 January, 1933, son of Brian Harrington Grayson (1900-1989), and his first wife the former Sofia Buchanan, and was a grandson of Sir Henry Grayson (1865-1951), who was Director of Ship Repairs at the Admiralty 1916-1919, and created a baronet in 1922.
Jeremy Grayson succeeded to the baronetcy in 1991 on the demise of his uncle, Sir Rupert Grayson, 4th Baronet (1897-1991), the novelist. He married in 1958, Sara Mary Upton, daughter of C.P. Upton, by whom he had issue, three sons, Simon, Paul, and Mark, and four daughters, Caroline, Anna, Mary, and Lucy. The baronetcy now passes to his eldest son, Simon Jeremy Grayson, who was born 12th July, 1959.
-=-
The engagement was announced 31 August, 2023, between Carey L. de Yong, son of Mr L. de Yong and Ms N. Giovannini, of Surrey Hills, Melbourne, Australia, and Charlotte Caroline Wills (born 23 September, 1991), scion of the Wills baronets, second daughter of Richard Arnold Wills (born 5 March, 1962), of Middleton, Hampshire, and his wife the former (Gia) Netta Morris (born 1962).
Charlotte Wills is a cousin of the King via her Bowes Lyon ancestry:-
The 14th Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne (1855-1944) > Lady Mary Frances Bowes Lyon (1883-1961) > Hon Jean Constance Elphinstone (1915-1999) > Capt Andrew Wills (1937-1998) > Richard Arnold Wills (b 1962) > Charlotte Wills (b 1991)
-=-
The 14th Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne (1855-1944) > Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon (1900-2002) > HM Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) > HM King Charles III (b 1948)
-=-
The engagement was announced 31 August, 2023, between Archie Alan John Brooke (born 17 December, 1991), scion of the Viscounts Brookeborough, eldest son of the Hon Christopher Arthur Brooke (born 16 May, 1954), of Colebrooke, and his wife the former Amanda Hodges, and Isobel A. Rankin, daughter of John Rankin of Tortola, British Virgin Islands, and Lesley Rankin of Glastonbury, Somerset.
Archie's father is the younger brother and heir presumptive of the 3rd Viscount Brookeborough, KG (born 30 June, 1952).
-=-
The Baron Haworth, who died at Reykjavík, Iceland, 28 August 2023, aged 75.
Alan Robert Haworth, who was born 26 April 1948, was a Labour politician. He was an official in the party from 1975 to 2004, including serving as Secretary of the Parliamentary Labour Party from 1992 to 2004. In 2004, he was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer.
Haworth was appointed to the staff of the Parliamentary Labour Party in 1975, became Senior Committee Officer in 1985, and served as Secretary of the PLP from 1992 to 2004. He was elevated to the House of Lords on 28 June 2004, and his peerage was gazetted in the name, style and title of Baron Haworth, of Fisherfield in Ross and Cromarty.
Haworth married in 1991, lawyer Maggie Rae.
-=-
The Baroness MacAndrew (née Clare Lindsay Woodman), wife of the 4th Baron MacAndrew (born 3 September, 1983), gave birth to a son, Orlando Christopher George, 31 July, 2023, a brother for the Hon Archie Charles Wilbur, who was born 2 May, 2017.
Lord MacAndrew is the son of the late 3rd Baron (1945-2023), and his wife the former Sarah Helen Brazier (born 1955).
Lady MacAndrew is a daughter of Mr & Mrs Gordon Woodman, of Haslemere, Surrey.
-=-
Hugh John Alexander Lindsay, who died 18 August, 2023, aged 89, was a scion of the Earls of Crawford & Balcarres.
He was born 30 July, 1934, the eldest son of the Hon James Louis Lindsay (1906-1997), and his wife the Hon Bronwen Mary Scott-Ellis (1912-2003), daughter of the 8th Baron Howard De Walden (1880-1946), and was a grandson paternally of the 27th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres, KT, PC (1871-1940).
He married 7 October, 1961, Constance Carolyn (Carol) Buchanan (1934-2021), 2nd daughter of Major Sir Charles James Buchanan, 4th Baronet (1899-1984), and his wife the former Barbara Helen Stanley (1906-1986), scion of the Earls of Derby, by whom he had issue, three sons, David (born 3 Sept, 1962), Alastair (born 24 Aug, 1964), and Robert (born 12 March, 1967), and a daughter, Clare (born 18 March, 1970).
-=-
Rev. The 2nd Baron Milverton died at Helensburgh, 10 August, 2023. He was 93.
Lord Milverton was ordained Deacon 1957, Priest 1958; Curate, St George's Beckenham, Kent, 1957-59; Assistant Priest, St John the Baptist, Sevenoaks, 1959-60; Curate and Assistant Priest, St Nicholas, Great Bookham, Surrey, 1960-63; Vicar of Okewood with Forest Green, Surrey, 1963-67; Rector, Christian Malford with Sutton Benger and Tytherton Kellaways, Wiltshire, 1967-93, &c.
Fraser Arthur Richard Richards was born 21 July, 1930, son of the 1st Baron Milverton, GCMG (1885-1978), and his wife the former Noelle Brenda Whitehead (1905-2010); and succeeded to the peerage on his father's death, 27 Oct, 1978.
His father, Arthur Frederick Richards entered the Malaysian Civil Service 1908; Acting First Assistant Colony Secretary, Straits Settlement 1921; Acting Under-Secretary, Federation of Malay States 1926; Under-Secretary, Federation of Malay States 1927-29; Acting General Adviser, Sultanate of Johore 1929-30; Governor of North Borneo 1930-33; CMG 1933; Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Gambia 1933-36; KCMG 1935; Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Fiji and High Commissioner, Western Pacific 1936-38; Captain-General and Commander-in-Chief of Jamaica 1938-43; GCMG 1942; Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria 1943-47; KStJ, &c. He was raised to the peerage, 10 Oct, 1947, as Baron Milverton, of Lagos and of Clifton in the City of Bristol.
The 2nd Baron married 10 Aug, 1957, Mary Dorothy Fly (1931-2020), daughter of Leslie Aubrey Fly, of Corsham, co Wiltshire, and his wife the former (Alice) Dorothy Wheeler (1899-1980), by whom he had two daughters, the Hon Susan Mary Richards (born 23 Jan, 1962), and the Hon Juliet Elisabeth Richards (born 8 Nov, 1964).
The peerage now passes to his younger brother, the Hon Michael Hugh Richards (who was born 1 August, 1936). The 3rd Baron is married with a son.
-=-
The 5th Baron Lawrence died 14 August, 2023, aged 85. His peerage now becomes extinct.
David John Downer Lawrence was born 4 September, 1937, the only son of the 4th Baron Lawrence (1908-1968), and his first wife the former Margaret Jean Downer (1915-1976); and he succeeded to the peerage and baronetcy on his father's death, 8 October, 1968.
His great-great-grandfather was Sir John Lawrence, GCB, GCSI, PC (1811-79), who entered the Bengal Civil Service 1829; assistant to the Chief Commissioner at Delhi 1831; Magistrate and Collector of Delhi 1836; Settlement Officer at Ettawah 1838; Commissioner of the Sutlej 1848, and of the Punjaub 1852-58; KCB 1856; GCB 1857; created a Baronet for having aided materially in the quelling of the Sepoy Mutiny 1857, for which he received the thanks of Parliament and a pension of £2,000 from the East India Company; Lieutenant Governor of the Punjaub 1859; Privy Councillor 1859; Member of the Supreme Council of India 1858-63; KCSI 1861; Governor General of India 1863-68; GCSI 1866; Chairman of the London School Board 1870-73. He was raised to the peerage, 3 Apr, 1869, as Baron Lawrence, of the Punjaub and of Grateley in the County of Southampton.
Lord Lawrence was unmarried and his peerage and baronetcy now become extinct.
-=-
Eliza Charlotte A. Cobb [nee Ferguson, born 1985], wife since 2017 of Harry Timothy Cobb (b 1985), and scion of the Ferguson landed gentry family, of Dummer, gave birth to a second daughter, Cassia Alice Phyllis, 2 August, 2023, a sister for Elba Pear Rosemary, who was born 15 October, 2020.
Eliza is a half-sister of Sarah, Duchess of York, descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch & Queensberry etc, and is a daughter of the late Maj Ronald Ivor Ferguson [1931-2003], by his second wife the former Susan Rosemary Deptford (later Lady Swinburn, of Dummer Down, Hampshire).
Harry Cobb is descended from the Holland-Martin landed family, son of Mr Timothy B Cobb, of Bothampstead, Hampstead Norreys, Berkshire, by his wife the former Emma Rose Holland-Martin (b 5 Sep 1953).
The Duchess of York and Princess Beatrice attended the wedding of Eliza and Harry, at Dummer, Hants, in 2017.
-=-
John Henry Inge-Innes-Lillingston, who died 6 August, 2023, aged 66, ws scion of that landed gentry family, of Thorpe Constantine, Staffordshire.
He was born 9n March, 1957, son of Henry Anthony Inge-Innes-Lillingston (1925-2017), of Lagg House, Dunure, Ayr, by his wife the former Pamela Nancy Aldous, scion of that landed gentry family; and married 26 July, 1980, Felicity Bullen (born 1958), daughter of Hugh Brian Bullen (1915-2012), of co Hereford, by his wife the former Nora Jennie Holt (1918-1975), by whom he had issue, two sons, Anthony Hugh (born 5 Sept, 1985), and Peter George (born c 1990), and a daughter, Victoria Anne (born in 1982).
He was descended from the Gough baronets (now the Barons Calthorpe).
-=-
Jane Ewart (nee Elliot), who died 9 August, 2023, aged 79, was a scion of the Earls of Minto.
She was born 23 September, 1943, daughter of Gilbert Cecil Ninian Elliot (1907-2002), and his wife the former Rosamond Cholmley (who died 1987); and was twice wed, firstly, 9 January, 1963 (div 1985), to Major Iain Alastair McKay, Scots Guards; married 2ndly, 1994, David Ewart. She leaves issue from her first marriage, 2 sons, Alastair (b 19 Oct, 1963), and Andrew (born 1970), and two daughters, Catriona (born 6 Mar, 1966), and Arabella (born 12 Apr, 1968).
The 1st Earl of Minto > Hon John Edmund Elliot > Augustus John Elliot > Archibald Campbell Elliot > Gilbert Augustus Elliot > Gilbert Cecil Ninian Elliot > Jane Elliot (d 2023)
-=-
Maureen, Lady Harrison, who died 26 July, 2023, aged 85, was the widow of Sir Colin Harrison, 4th Baronet, of Stearsby Hall, North Yorkshire.
The former Maureen Marie Chiverton was born in 1938, daughter of Ernest Leonard Chiverton (1903-1990), of Langley House, Lanchester, County Durham, and his wife the former Kathleen Frances Dossett (1901-83), and married 27 July, 1963, Sir (Robert) Colin Harrison, 4th Baronet (born 25 May, 1938), second son of Sir John Fowler Harrison, 2nd Baronet (1899-1947), and his wife the former Kathleen Livingston (died 1993). Her husband succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his elder brother, Sir John Wyndham Harrison, 3rd Bt, 24 June, 1955.
Her husband died 23 March, 2020. She is leaves issue, a son, Sir John Wyndham Fowler Harrison, 5th Baronet (born 14 Dec, 1972), and two daughters, Rachel (born 22 Apr, 1966), and Claire (born 7 Oct, 1974),
-=-
The Marchioness of Worcester [nee Lucy Eleanor Yorke-Long, born 23 June, 1986], wife of Henry Robert Fitzroy [Bobby] Somerset, styled Marquess of Worcester [born 20 January, 1989], gave birth to a daughter, Lady Lara Charlotte Somerset, 4 July, 2023, a sister for Henry, styled Earl of Glamorgan, who was born 26 May, 2021.
The Marquess of Worcester is the elder son & heir of the 12th Duke of Beaufort [born 22 May, 1952], of Badminton House, by his former wife, Tracy, Duchess of Beaufort [born 22 Dec 1958], of Badminton, Gloucestershire [who is known as Tracy, Marchioness of Worcester].
The Marchioness of Worcester is the only daughter of Mr Jonathan Crispin Yorke-Long [born Oct 1951], of Old Stratford, Northamptonshire, by his wife the former Charlotte Rose Fownes-Luttrell [born 1954]. The Marchioness descends from the Williams & Peek baronets, the Luttrells of Dunster, and the extinct Earls of Midleton.
-=-
Kevin Aubrey Francis Burke, who died 7 August, 2023, aged 77, was descended maternally from the Norman baronets. He was an escort in the 1960s of the debutante Camilla Shand (now HM The Queen).
He was born 15 November, 1945, son of Sir Aubrey Francis Burke, OBE (1904-1989), sometime deputy chairman of the aircraft manufacturer Hawker Siddeley, by his wife the former Laura Rosalind Norman (1908-1994), scion of the Norman baronets; and was twice married, firstly, in 1987 (div 2001), Peta Jacqueline Clare Baker; and married 2ndly, Luisa Fairey, by whom he had a son, Max.
The 1st Baron Aberconway (1850-1934) > Hon Florence Priscilla McLaren (d 1964) = Sir Henry Norman, 1st Bt > Laura Norman (1908-94) > Kevin Burke (1945-2023)
-=-
The engagement was announced 18 August, 2023, between Hugh F. Campbell Tennant (born 1992), son of Robert M. Tennant, of Frinkley, Hampshire, and of Ms Joanna Louise Campbell (born 9 July, 1953), of Idle Hill, Kent, scion of the Barons Colgrain, & Serena Camilla Frisby (born 2 June, 1994), scion of that landed gentry family, and descended from the Marquesses of Bristol, daughter of Richard Lionel William Frisby (born 20 May, 1961), of Cowlinge, Suffolk, and his wife the former Anne-Louise Landless (born 1961).
Serena Frisby is a first cousin of Olivia Grace Henson (born 1992), the future Duchess of Westminster, betrothed of the 7th Duke.
-=-
Alison Marjorie Gundrede Trappes-Lomax (nee Perkins), died 2 August, 2023, aged 96.
She was born 8 August, 1926, the only daughter of Capt George Algernon Perkins (1896-1980), of that landed gentry family, of Bure House, Lamas, Norwich, and his wife the former Marjory Emily Morse (1900-1992); and married 25 November, 1952, Major Stephen Richard Trappes-Lomax, MC, TD (1913-1982), scion of that landed gentry family, 7th son of Major Richard Trappes-Lomax (1870-1936), of Allsprings, Lancashire, and his wife the Hon Alice Mary Wilhelmina Fitzherbert (1873-1955), scion of the Barons Stafford, by whom she had issue, two sons, Francis (born 8 March, 1955), and Richard (born 28 Nov, 1960), and two daughters, Mary (born 3 Sept, 1953), and Clare (born 18 Dec, 1957).
-=-
John Lennox Napier, who died 9 August, 2023, aged 89, was a scion of the Napier baronets.
He was born 25 January, 1934, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Joseph William Lennox Napier, 4th Baronet (1895-1986), and his wife the former Isabel Muriel Surtees (1906-2006), scion of that landed gentry family; married Apr, 1967, Cecily Mary Mortimer, daughter of Arthur Mortimer, of Malta, by whom he had issue, a son, James (born 5 March, 1969), and a daughter, Jessica (born 1971).
He was a younger brother of Sir Robert Surtees Napier, 5th Bt (1932-1994), and an uncle of Sir Charles Joseph Napier, 6th Bt (born 15 Apr, 1973).
-=-
The engagement was announced 17 August, 2023, between Jackson R.B. Whitton (born 1996), the only son of Mr and Mrs Peter Whitton, of Penrith, Cumbria, and Polly Rachel Goodman (born 1996), elder daughter of Rupert Andrew Woodward Goodman (born 1963), of Elmbridge, Worcestershire, and his wife the former Pamela Jane Blount (born 24 March, 1965), scion of that landed gentry family.
The 1st Baron Cobbold, KG > Hon Susan Victoria Cobbold > Pamela Jane Blount > Polly Goodman
-=-
The engagement was announced 17 August, 2023, between Ivo James Michael Yates (born 24 August, 1993), eldest son of Christian A. Yates, of Bedchester, Dorset, and his wife the former Rosemary Anne (Rosie) Cookson (born 1963), and Jade Naomi Charlotte Letts (born 1993), youngest daughter of Daniel Letts, of Boys Hill, Dorset, and his wife the former Jean Catherine Fraser (born 16 April, 1954), descended from the Dukes of Atholl.
John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl > Rt Rev Lord George Murray > Rt Rev George Murray > Rev George Murray > Rev Douglas Murray > Lt-Col Walter Murray > Jean Pamela Murray > Jean Fraser > Jade Letts
-=-
Zandra Powell, who died 8 August, 2023, aged 82, was a scion of the Kennard baronets.
She was born Zandra Kennard, 17 June, 1941, the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George Arnold Ford Kennard, 3rd Baronet (1915-1999), and his first wife the former Cecilia Violet Cokayne Maunsell (1919-2001), scion of that Irish landed gentry family, and a descendant of King William IV; and married 18 August, 1962, Major John Middleton Neilson Powell (born 1936), son of Maj John Beresford Powell, MC (1896-1976), and his wife the former Fortune Middleton (1900-1988); and had issue, a son, Edward (born 2 Feb, 1964), and a daughter, Louise (born 20 Nov, 1966).
King William IV > George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster > William FitzClarence, 2nd Earl of Munster > Hon William George FitzClarence > Wilhelmine FitzClarence > Cecilia Maunsell > Zandra Kennard
-=-
The Lady Elizabeth (Eliza) Leslie Melville (nee Compton), who died 13 August, 2023, aged 78, was a scion of the Marquesses of Northampton.
She was born Lady Elizabeth Compton, 7 December, 1944, second daughter of the 6th Marquess of Northampton (1885-1978), and his second wife the former Virginia Lucie Heaton (1919-1997); and married 30 March, 1968, (Ian) Hamish Leslie Melville (born 22 Aug, 1944), scion of the Earls of Leven & Melville, son of Major Michael Ian Leslie Melville (1918-1997), and his wife the former Cynthia Hambro (1921-1986), scion of that eponymous banking dynasty; by whom she had issue, two sons, James Ian (born 4 Sept, 1969), and Henry Bingham (born 30 January, 1975).
-=-
Lord Bradbury, the 3rd Baron, died 8 August, 2023. He was 83.
John Bradbury was born 17 March, 1940, son of the 3rd Baron Bradbury (1914-1994), and his 1st wife the former Joan Knight (1916-1988). The peerage was created in 1925 for his grandfather, John Swanwick Bradbury (1872-1950), the economist who was the government's chief economic adviser in the First World War.
John Bradbury succeeded to the peerage on his father's death, 31 March, 1994. He married 28 September, 1968, Susan Liddiard (born 1942), daughter of William Liddiard (1897-1968), and his wife the former Florence Edith Pither (1908-67); by whom he had two sons, the Hon John Timothy Bradbury (born 16 January, 1973), and the Hon Benjamin Edward Bradbury (born 14 March, 1975). The elder son inherits the barony.
-=-
Lord Young of Old Windsor, GCB, GCVO, PC, former private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II & King Charles III, has been appointed a Permanent Lord in Waiting to His Majesty, 15 Aug, 2023.
Lord Young of Old Windsor served Queen Elizabeth II as her principal private secretary from 2017 until her death, and fulfilled the same role for King Charles III, until his retirement in May, 2023.
Edward Young was born 24 October, 1966, son of Dr Edward Young, and his wife the former Sally Rougier Chapman. He was recruited to the Royal Household in 2004, serving as Queen Elizabeth II's Assistant and then Deputy Private Secretary until his promotion to Private Secretary in 2017. After the death of the Queen in 2022, Young served as joint principal private secretary to King Charles III until his resignation in May 2023.
Young was appointed LVO in 2010, CVO in 2015, KCVO in 2020, GCVO in 2023, and GCB in 2023. He was created a life peer in June, 2023, after his retirement.
Camilla Juliet (Milly) Marsden (born 1992, nee Parkins), wife of Angus Austin Hodgart Marsden (born 1987), gave birth to a daughter, Penelope Katharine, 26 July, 2023.
Angus Marsden is a son of Austin Philip Marsden, MBE (born 18 Apr, 1956), and his wife the former Valerie Judith Sloan Hodgart (born 16 May, 1957).
Milly Marsden is a daughter of Timothy James Parkins (born 1956), and his wife the former Juliet Susan Liddle (born 1966), descended from the Douglas baronets (now the Marquesses of Queensberry).
-=-
Julian Ogilvie Thompson, died 11 August, 2023, in South Africa. He was 89.
He was born in 1934, son of Newton Ogilvie Thompson (1904-1992), and his wife the former (Anne Agnes) Eve Wiener (1905-2000); and married 24 July, 1956, the Hon Tessa Brand (1934-2020), a daughter of the 4th Viscount Hampden (1900-1965), and his wife the former Leila Emily Seely (1900-1996), scion of the Seely baronets, by whom he had issue, two sons, Christopher (born 31 Aug, 1958), and Anthony (born 21 May, 1964), and two daughters, Rachel (born 12 Oct, 1960), and Leila (born 17 Nov, 1965).
His wife died 14 February, 2020.
-=-
Howard Huw Robin Crawshay, who died 6 August, 2023, was a scion of that landed gentry family.
He was born in 1952, son of Capt Codrington Francis Crawshay (1920-1993), and his wife the former Rachel Arden Bury (who died 19 Nov, 2006); and married 1979, Philippa Axeandra Gibbs, daughter of Donald Webster Gibbs (1925-82), and his wife the former Alexandra Ruth Young-Herries (1925-2011), scion of that landed gentry family, by whom he had issue, three daughters, Louise (born 1984), Isobel (b 1986), and Georgina (b 1988).
-=-
Emily Jane Hunter Smart (nee Milford, born 1981), wife of Angus David Alastair Hunter Smart (born 1978), gave birth to a daughter, Isla Bridget Tillman, 5 August, 2023, a sister for Essie Lorna Mary, who was born 4 March, 2022.
Angus is a son of Alastair Philip Hunter Smart (1949-1992), and his wife the former Susan Lorna Agnew (born 31 December, 1950), scion of the Agnew baronets.
Emily is a daughter of John Tillman Milford, QC (born 1946), and his wife the former Mary Alice Spriggs.
Sir William Agnew, 1st Bt (1825-1910) > Walter Agnew (1861-1915) > Victor Agnew (1887-1929) > Charles Agnew (1916-87) > Susan Lorna Agnew (b 1950) > Angus Hunter Smart (b 1978) > Isla Hunter Smart (b 2023)
-=-
Celia Rose Woodhouse [nee McCorquodale, born 1989], wife of George Woodhouse, gave birth to a daughter, Winifred Sarah Rosemary, 27 July, 2023, a sister for Walter George Spencer, who was born 27 November, 2020.
Celia Woodhouse is a first cousin of the Prince of Wales and Duke of Sussex. Harry and Meghan attended Celia's wedding to George Woodhouse, at Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire, on 16 June, 2018, just a few weeks after their own wedding in Windsor. Celia wore the Spencer tiara famously worn by her aunt, Lady Diana Spencer, at her marriage to the Prince of Wales, 29 July, 1981.
Celia is scion of the McCorquodale landed gentry family, the younger daughter of Mr Neil McCorquodale by his wife the former Lady [Elizabeth] Sarah Lavinia Spencer [b 1955], eldest daughter of the late 8th Earl Spencer [1924-92].
George John Woodhouse [born 1991] is the younger son of Mr Philip J. Woodhouse and the late Mrs Sarah J. [Pudding] Woodhouse [nee George].
Charles Woodhouse, George's elder brother, is married to a daughter of Baroness Shackleton, the noted divorce lawyer.
-=-
Princess (Maria) Christina Sapieha died 6 August, 2023, aged 89.
She was born 5 May, 1934, daughter of Prince Paul Sapieha (1900-1987), and his wife Virgila Brahe Peterson (1904-1966); and married 18 May, 1963 (div 1978), Adam Fremantle (1934-2009), scion of the Barons Cottesloe, eldest son of the Hon Christopher Evelyn Fremantle (1906-1978), and his wife the former Anne-Marie Huth (1909-2002), descended from the Jackson baronets; by whom she had two sons, Christopher Nicholas (born 31 Aug, 1965), and Paul Zachary (born 5 Dec, 1968).
-=-
Julian Arthur Charles Haviland, who died 11 August, 2023, aged 93, was a scion of that landed gentry family, and sometime political editor of ITN.
He was born 8 June, 1930, son of Major Leonard Proby Haviland (1884-1971), of the 6th Duke of Connaught’s Own Lancers and a military secretary to the governor-general of New Zealand, and his wife the former Helen Dorothea Fergusson (1902-1972), scion of the Fergusson baronets of Kilkerran; & married in September, 1959, Caroline Victoria Barbour (born 1930), daughter of George Freeland Barbour (1882-1946), and his wife the former Hon Helen Victoria Hepburne-Scott (1891-1982), daughter of the 9th Lord Polwarth (1864-1944); and had issue, three sons, Peter Leonard (born 31 Dec, 1961), Charles Freeland (born 28 Jan, 1964), and Richard Francis (born 5 Oct, 1967).
-=-
(Mary) Imogen Macdonald of Tote died 6 August, 2023. She was 91.
She was born 15 August, 1931, daughter of Major Richard Gerald Micklethwait, TD (1896-1976), head of that landed gentry family, of Ardsley House, Barnsley, and his wife the Hon Ivy Mary Stapleton (1895-1967), daughter of the 10th Baron Beaumont (1850-1895); and married 2 June, 1961, Major John Lachlan Macdonald of Tote (1919-2002), son of Colonel Kenneth Lachlan Macdonald of Tote, DSO (1867-1938), and his second wife the former Margaret Florence Elinor Caldwell (1887-1973), by whom she had issue, two sons, Charles Lachlan (born 9 July, 1964), and Andrew Kenneth (born 29 Nov, 1965), and a daughter, Lisabel Mary (born 1969).
-=-
The engagement was announced 11 August, 2023, between Thomas Bernard Bartholomew X. Sullivan (born 17 August, 1993), younger son of Professor Peter Bernard Sullivan, of Sparsholt, co Oxford, and his wife the former Susan Elizabeth Chalstrey (born 1959), & Eliza Harriet Rosemary Elliott (born 29 August, 1994), daughter of Rupert Edmund Ivo Elliott (born 1964), of Sandhurst, Kent, and his wife the former Catherine Jane Lawrence (born 24 November, 1964), scion of the Lawrence baronets.
-=-
Tom Sullivan is a grandson maternally of Sir John Chalstrey, FRCS, JP (1931-2020), the 668th Lord Mayor of London in 1995-96.
-=-
Maj-Gen Sir Walter Lawrence, GCVO, 1st Baronet (1857-1940) > Henry Walter Neville Lawrence (1891-1959) > Walter Nicholas Murray Lawrence (b 1935) > Catherine Jane Lawrence (b 1964) > Eliza Elliott (b 1994)
-=-
The engagement was announced 11 August, 2023, between Max Alexander Wicher (born 1992), son of Adrian B. Whicher, of Surrey, and his wife the former Rosemary (Rosie) Pratt, & Louise Rachel Wellby (born 1990), daughter of (Christopher) Mark Wellby (born 8 March, 1943), of London, descended from the Wyldbore Smith baronets, and his wife the former Barbara Elston (born 1951).
Sir John Wyldbore Smith, 2nd Baronet (1770-1852) > Maj Edward Heathcote Smith (1813-1870) > Rev Heathcote Smith (1847-1914) > Sir Clifford Heathcote-Smith (1883-1963) > Elaine Mary Elisabeth Heathcote-Smith > Christopher Mark Wellby (b 1943) > Louise Rachel Welby (b 1990)
-=-
Mark Phythian-Adams, who died 2 August, 2023, ws a scion of that landed gentry family.
He was born in 1944, the youngest son of Lieutenant-Colonel Rev William John Telia Phythian-Adams, DSO, MC (1888-1967), and his wife the former Adela Noel Evelyn Robinson (1901-1983); and married 1978, (Elizabeth) Anne Colchester (born 1946), daughter of Cecil Francis Colchester (1912-1997), of Hove, Sussex, and his wife the former Ruth Marjorie Edmundson (1905-1999); by whom he had three sons (James Edward b 1980, Thomas Alexander Luke b 1982 and Henry William b 1985).
-=-
The engagement was announced 10 August, 2023, between Thomas Alick James Dalrymple (born 1995), scion of the Earls of Stair, younger son of Andrew David Dalrymple (born 10 Oct, 1959), of Gifford, East Lothian, and his wife the former Bryony Winterton Major, & Elizabeth Harriet Emma (Kiki) Norman (born 1995), daughter of Ross Anthony Norman (born 1959), of Stoke by Clare, Suffolk, and his wife the former Sarah-Jane Ellis (born 1964).
The 12th Earl of Stair (1879-1961) > Maj Hon Colin Dalrymple (1920-2017) > Andrew Dalrymple (b 1959) > Thomas Dalrymple (born 1995)
-=-
The engagement was announced 10 August, 2023, between William John Ramsay Willis (born 1992), eldest son of Hugh John Ramsay Willis (born 1960), of Whitchurch, Hampshire, and his wife the former Louise Elizabeth Talbot-Weiss (born 1961), & Portia Elizabeth Arbuthnot Leslie (born 1990), third and youngest daughter of Sebastian Anthony Arbuthnot Leslie (born 1954), scion of the Scots landed family of Leslie of Warthill, and his wife the former Candida Mary Sibyl (Candy) Weld (born 1956), scion of that landed gentry family.
Portia Arbuthnot Leslie is the younger sister of the actress Rose Leslie (born 1987) ("Game of Thrones") wife of actor Kit Harington (born 26 Dec, 1986).
-=-
Sir Timothy Daunt, KCMG, who died 5 August, 2023, aged 87, was a diplomat and sometime Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man.
Daunt was commissioned into the Royal Armoured Corps in 1955 and posted to the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars. After completing national service, he joined the diplomatic service and, after a series of postings, became Permanent Representative to NATO in Brussels in 1982 and then British Ambassador to Turkey from 1986 to his retirement in 1992. In retirement he became Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. He later became chairman of the Ottoman Fund, a business established to provide mortgages for properties in Turkey.
Timothy Lewis Achilles Daunt was born 11 October, 1935, and was head of that Irish landed gentry family, son of Leslie Henry Graeme Daunt (1904-1975), and his wife the former Margery Mary Kenny Jones (1900-1981); and married 26 July, 1962, Patricia Susan Knight (born 4 October, 1938), daughter of Major Claude Thorburn Knight (1910-1993), and his wife the former Hon Priscilla Dodson (1914-1995), daughter of the 2nd Baron Monk Bretton, CB (1869-1933).
He leaves a son, James (born 18 Oct, 1963), and two daughters, Eleanor (born 25 Apr, 1965), and Alice (born 23 Nov, 1969).
-=-
David Frank Chaplin died 3 August, 2023. He was 71.
He was born 6 October, 1951, a descendant of the Earls of Cork & Orrery, the 1st son of Major Richard Mark Chaplin (1919-1973), and his wife the former Susan Frances Mary Ridley (1921-1998), scion of the Ridley baronets (later Viscounts). He was unmarried.
Gen The 8th Earl of Cork (1767-1856) > Col Hon Robert Boyle (1809-54) > Emily Cecilia Boyle (d 1924) > Vere Chaplin (1874-1964) > Maj Richard Chaplin (1919-73) > David Chaplin (1951-2023)
-=-
Sir Matthew Ridley, 2nd Bt (1745-1813) > Rev Henry Ridley (1780-1832) > Rev Nicholas Ridley (1821-1888) > Arthur William Ridley (1852-1916) > Mervyn Ridley (1886-1951) > Susan Ridley (1921-98) > David Chaplin (died 2023)
-=-
Princess Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, French-born author of a work on Madame Tallien and an autobiography, died at Chimay, 2 August, 2023. She was 97.
She was born at Bordeaux, 20 March, 1926, the daughter of Octave Manset (1889-1939) and Marie-Charlotte Guestier (1891-1939); and married 18 December, 1947, Élie de Riquet, 21st Prince of Chimay and Prince of Caraman (1924-1980), descendant of Pierre-Paul Riquet, Baron de Bonrepos, builder of the Canal du Midi (1604-1680). The couple had three children: Philippe, 22nd Prince of Chimay in the the Holy Roman Empire (born 12 Oct,1948), Marie-Gilone (b 2 Sept, 1950) and Alexandra (born 13 June, 1952).
She was Lady of honor and familiar to Queen Fabiola of Belgium.
Élisabeth de Chimay was involved in the maintenance of the real estate heritage of the Riquet de Caraman family and the preservation of the archives of the Château de Chimay as well as in the organization at the Château de Chimay of an internationally renowned baroque music festival (1957 to 1980).
She was the author of two books: one, on Madame Tallien, who was Princess of Chimay, entitled La Princesse des Chimères (Plon, 1993) and the other, an autobiography, entitled La Fin d'un siècle, souvenirs (Perrin, 2000).
-=-
Juliet Victoria Katharine Rood [born 1988, nee Nicolson], wife of Simon Alexander Rood (born 1985), gave birth to a daughter, Xanthe Victoria Ingrid, 2 August, 2023, a sister for Albert Alexander Gordon Rood, who was born 7 June, 2018, and for Edmund Walter Nicolson Rood, to be known as Edo, born 11 December, 2020.
Simon Rood is the only son of Mr Peter O. Rood, of Compton Dundon, Somerset, by his wife the former Jennifer J. Sims.
Juliet Rood, a descended from the Royal House, & scion of the Lords Saltoun (Peerage of Scotland, cr 1445), is the younger daughter of Capt Mark Malise Nicolson, of Cairnbulg Castle, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, by his wife the Hon Katharine Ingrid Mary Isabel FRASER, Mistress of Saltoun (b 11 Oct, 1957).
The infant is a great-granddaughter of the Lady Saltoun (born 18 Oct, 1930) (a peeress in her own right), and the late Capt Alexander Arthur Alfonso David Maule Ramsay of Mar (1919-2000), and a great-great-granddaughter of HRH Princess Patricia of Connaught (1886-1974) (afterwards Lady Patricia Ramsay), and a great-great-great granddaughter of HRH The Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught & Strathearn (1850-1942), son of HM Queen Victoria (1819-1901), &c.
-=-
Lady Vernon, who died 25 July, 2023, aged 70, was the wife of Sir James Vernon, 5th Baronet.
She was the former Davinia Elizabeth Howard, born 8 July, 1953, daughter of Christopher David Howard (who died 13 July, 1991), and his wife the former Luisa Edwina Portman (1931-2020), scion of the Viscounts Portman, descended from the 1st Viscount; and married 30 May, 1981, James William Vernon (born 2 April, 1949), son and heir of Sir Nigel John Douglas Vernon, 4th Baronet (1924-2007), and his wife the former Margaret Ellen Dobell (who died 1999). Her husband succeeded his father as 5th Baronet (cr UK, 1914), 4 September, 2007.
Lady Vernon, of The Hall, Lygan-y-Wern, Pentre Halkyn, Clwyd, is survived by her husband. She leaves issue, two sons, George William Howard Vernon (born 25 July, 1987), and Guy Alexander Howard Vernon (born 26 Apr, 1993), and a daughter, Harriet Lucy Howard Vernon (born 29 May, 1985).
-=-
The engagement was announced 5 August, 2023, between Andrew Hugh Kiszely (born 28 April, 1990), son of General Sir John Panton Kiszely, KCB, MC (born 2 April, 1948), of Little Buckland, Gloucestershire, and his wife the Hon Lady Kiszely (nee the Hon Arabella Jane Herschell (born 20 February, 1955), and Lily May Emily Showering (born 29 July, 1993), second daughter of Mr Jonathan Showering, of Stoke Trister, Somerset, and his wife the former Emily Frances Irene Ashley Azis.
Andrew Kiszely is a grandson maternally of the 3rd Baron Herschell (1923-2008).
-=-
The Baroness Derwent, who died 1 August, 2023, aged 90, was the wife of the 5th Baron Derwent, LVO, DL, of Hackness Hall, Hackness, near Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
She was the former Sybille Marie Louise Marcelle de Simard de Pitray, born in Paris, 3 May, 1933, daughter of the Vicomte de Simard de Pitray (1896-1979), and his wife the former Jeanine Hennessy (1908-1987), she was descended from Philippe II, Duc d'Orléans ; and married 12 January, 1957, the Hon Robin Evelyn Leo Vanden Bempde Johnstone (born 30 Oct, 1930), son and heir of the 4th Baron Derwent (1901-1986), and his wife the former Marie-Louisa Henriette Picard (former wife of Brig Philip Stafford Myburgh CBE DSO MC. She died 1985).
Her husband succeeded his father, 2 January, 1986, in the Barony of Derwent (Peerage of the UK cr 1881) and baronetcy (cr 1795).
Lady Derwent leaves issue, a son, Francis (born 23 Sept, 1965), and three daughters, Emmeline (born 3 Nov, 1958), Joanna (born 1 March, 1962), & Isabelle (born 26 Nov, 1968).
-=-
Louisa Alice Clare Codrington (nee Dalrymple, born 1990), wife of Major Hugo C. Codrington, of the Coldstream Guards, gave birth to a daughter, Serena Emily, 22 July, 2023.
Maj Codrington is a scion of that landed gentry family, son of Stephen Mark Codrington [born 1957], of Brightwalton, co Berkshire, by his wife the former Ursula J. Dawson.
Louisa Codrington, a scion of the Earls of Stair, is daughter of Andrew David Dalrymple [born 1959], of Gifford, East Lothian, by his wife the former Bryony Winterton Major.
-=-
Francis Anthony Brinsley Valentine, a grandson of the 8th Earl of Lanesborough, died in Canada, 24 July, 2023. He was 88.
He was born in 1935, a son of Francis Cyril Oliphant Valentine, MRCS, MRCP, if The Gate House, Astrop, King's Sutton, Banbury, Oxfordshire, and his wife the Lady Freda Butler (1895-1989), eldest daughter of the 8th Earl of Lanesborough (1868-1950), and his wife the former Isabel Daniell (who died 1905); and married 11 November, 1978, the Hon Janet Sibella Weir (born 13 Apr, 1947), second daughter of the 2nd Viscount Weir (1905-1975), and his wife the former Dorothy Isabel Lucy Crowdy (who died 1972), by whom he had issue, a son, Robert (born 1983), and a daughter, Sibella (born 1981).
-=-
The engagement was announced 5 August, 2023, between Matthew Alastair Rigg (born 1987), youngest son of Mr Tony and Dr Rita Rigg of Edinburgh, and the Hon Lucinda Jane Arundell (born 18 August, 1991), fourth and youngest daughter of the 11th Baron Talbot of Malahide (born 28 March, 1957), of Wardour, and his wife the former Jane Catherine Unwin.
-=-
Charlotte Nevling Murray, styled Viscountess Stormont (nee Clune), wife of William Philip David Mungo Murray, styled Viscount Stormont [born 1 November, 1988], gave birth to a son, Helier Edward David Mungo, 20 July, 2023. The infant takes the courtesy title Master of Stormont.
Viscount Stormont is the son and heir of the Earl of Mansfield & Mansfield [born 17 Oct, 1956], of Scone Palace, Perthshire, and his wife the former Sophia Mary Veronica Ashbrooke [born 22 Jan, 1959].
Viscountess Stormont is a daughter of Mr Jonathan E. Clune [born 17 Dec, 1952], of West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, and his wife the former Sarah Potter [born 17 Aug, 1950].
Viscountess Stormont is destined to become chatelaine of Scone Palace. There can be few places of interest in Scotland as historically potent as Scone Palace. When you visit the Palace you are walking in the footsteps of Scotland’s ancient founding fathers, both pagan and Christian. It was an important religious gathering place of the Picts, it was the site of an early Christian church and it housed the Stone of Destiny.
Robert the Bruce was crowned at Scone in 1306, and the last coronation was of Charles II when he accepted the Scottish crown in 1651.
The place of coronation was called Caislean Credi, 'Hill of Credulity', which survives as the present Moot Hill.
Viscount Stormont's father is the 9th Earl of Mansfield, Alexander David Mungo Murray, who succeeded his father in 2015. He is married to Sophia, daughter of Biden Ashbrooke and Veronica Ashbrooke, nee Stourton. Lord Mansfield is also 14th Viscount Stormont and Lord Scone, 12th Lord Balvaird and Hereditary Keeper of Bruce’s Castle of Lochmaben.
In the 9th century, Kenneth MacAlpin established himself as the first true King of Scots. According to legend, he is said to have invited the Pictish King Drostan with all his nobles to banquet with him at Scone. While they were seated, and perhaps taking advantage of their gluttony of both drink and food, the Scots drew out the bolts supporting the boards, whereupon the Picts fell into the hollows below their benches. While caught in some strange contraption up to their knees, they were all slaughtered.
The last coronation in Scotland took place at Scone in 1651 when King Charles II was crowned King of Scots upon the Moot Hill. The Earls following the 3rd Earl all suffered imprisonment, mainly in consequence of their support of the Jacobite cause.
The 4th Viscount Stormont was briefly imprisoned for his part in a fatal duel. The 5th Viscount opposed the Treaty of Union and entertained James Stuart, the Old Pretender, at Scone Palace during the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion, for which he was imprisoned.
The 6th Viscount suffered the same fate when his sisters received the Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie, at Scone during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion.
-=-
The engagement was announced 4 August, 2023, between Harry W. Steel, son of Mr and Mrs Peter Steel, of Compton Valence, Dorset, and Gräfin Eleonora Julie Gunilla Alexandra Louise Henckel von Donnersmarck (born 1 May 1984), daughter of Dr Graf Guido Kraft Evald Henrik Karl Erdmann Henckel von Donnersmarck (born 22 October, 1947), of Rottach-Egern, Bavaria, Germany, and his wife the former Solveig Samzelius (born 15 Aug, 1948).
-=-
Homayoun, Baroness Renwick, who died 5 July, 2023, aged 83, was the second wife, and widow, of the 2nd Baron Renwick (1935-2020).
Lady Renwick was an Iranian-born socialite who interviewed Ayatollah Khomeini before making her home in Britain, where she was dubbed ‘the caviar queen’
Sh was born 11 July, 1939, as Homayoun Pakzad, one of five children of Major Mahmoud Yazdanparast Pakzad and his wife Nusrat al-Muluk.
She married firstly, in 1960 (divorced 1986), Youssef (Joe) Mazandi, of Los Angeles, California, United States; and married 2ndly, 12 June, 1989, as his second wife, Harry Andrew Renwick, 2nd Baron Renwick (born 10 Oct, 1935), son of the 1st Baron Renwick, KBE (1904-73), and his 1st wife the former Dorothy Mary Parkes. The 2nd Baron Renwick died 2 August, 2020.
She leaves two children from her first marriage, Shariar Mazandi, an artist and hotelier, and Yassi Mazandi Castilla, a sculptor and artist in Los Angeles.
-=-
The marriage has recently taken place at Ely Cathedral between Tristram St John R. Coates [born 1994], younger son of Nicholas John Coates, of Northington House, Overton, and his wife the former Virginia Anne Julia Frances de Stacpoole [born 28 January, 1963], scion of that Irish landed gentry family who hold a Papal dukedom, & [Portia Ruth] Isobel Stanley [born 19 April, 1995], scion of the Earls of Derby, only daughter of the Hon Peter Hugh Charles Stanley, DL [born 4 March, 1964], of New England Stud, Newmarket, & his wife the former Hon Frances Caroline Burke Roche, DL [born 31 March, 1965], daughter of the late 5th Baron Fermoy [1939-1984].
In Aug 2021 Tristram's elder brother, Jolyon [b 21 May, 1992], announced his engagement to Isabel Rose [Wizz] Douglas-Hamilton [born 1991], a granddaughter paternally of the 14th Duke of Hamilton [1903-73].
The bride is a second cousin of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex. Her grandfather, the late Lord Fermoy, was a brother of the Hon Mrs Frances Shand Kydd [1936-2004], mother of Diana, Princess of Wales [1961-97].
-=-
Victoria [Tori] Hanbury [nee Bigge, born 1989], wife of George Christopher Osgood Hanbury [born 6 Nov, 1987], scion of that landed gentry family, gave birth to a son, Monty Christopher Osgood, 19 July, 2023, a brother for Ned William Hunter Osgood, born 2 Jan 2018, Rhoda Willow, to be known as Willow, born 18 March, 2020, and Tiggy Rose, who was born 30 September, 2021.
George Hanbury is a son of Maj Christopher Osgood Philip Hanbury (b 1944), of Shefford Woodlands, Berkshire, by his wife the former Bridget Anne Birch, & Victoria is a daughter of Peter William Bigge [born 1956], of Whorlton, co Durham, by his wife the former Michele Louise Kitson [born 1960].
-=-
Rebecca Rose [Rosie] Farnfield [née Miles, born 1987], wife of Sam Patrick Farnfield [born 1988], gave birth to a son, Max John Miles, 14 May, 2023, a brother for Ottilie Rose Jean, who was born 3 July, 2021.
Rosie Farnfield is a descendant of the Greenwell and Buxton baronets, a daughter of Richard John Miles [born 1957], and his wife the former Juliet Caroline Frances Rigby.
Sam Farnfield is a son of Ian Murray Farnfield [b 1955], and his wife the former Janet Elizabeth Harper [b 1957].
Sir Bernard Greenwell, 2nd Baronet [1874-1939] > Joyce Marjorie Greenwell [b 1903] > Christopher Miles [b 1928] > Richard Miles [b 1957] > Rosie Miles [b 1987] > Max Farnfield [b 2023]
10th Baron Herries of Terregles [1804-76] > Hon Bernard Constable-Maxwell > Mary Constable-Maxwell [1893-1953] > Jean Buxton [b 1930] > Richard Miles [b 1957] see above.
-=-
The engagement was announced 29 July, 2023, between Alistair Youngs, only son of Peter Youngs, of Southsea, Hampshire, and his wife Heather, & Katherine Frances (Lily) Montgomery (born 1985), daughter of Bruce Stuart Irlam Montgomery, of Crondall, Hampshire, and his wife the Hon Bridget Ann Fisher (born 24 December, 1956), daughter of the 3rd Baron Fisher (1921-2012), and his 1st wife the former Elizabeth Ann Penelope Holt.
-=-
Lily Annabel Mary Sampson (nee Bristow, born 1989), wife of Hamish A. Sampson, gave birth to a son, Rowan Alexander, born 12 July, 2023, brother for Wilbur Riley, who was born 21 Nov, 2021.
Hampish is a son of Mr and Mrs Nigel Sampson, of Thorpe Underwood, North Yorkshire.
Lily is a daughter of Mr Timothy Dominic Ian James Bristow [born 1 July, 1959], of the Isle of Wight, and his former wife the former Annabel J.D. Palmer [now Mrs Richard Fife, of Great Langton, North Yorkshire].
Lily Bristow's grandfather, James Percy Bristow married in 1958, the Hon Caroline Jean Lawson Johnston [born 25 Dec, 1935], daughter of the 2nd Baron Luke [1905-96].
-=-
Colonel Greville Wyndham Tufnell, CVO, DL, Grenadier Guards, who died 10 July, 2023, aged 91, was a scion of that landed gentry family, and was the step-grandfather of (Count) Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, husband of Princess Beatrice.
Colonel Tufnell died in a nursing home in Cirencester. He was Regimental Lieutenant Colonel of the Grenadier Guards for two years from 1976-78, at a time when it was a full-time appointment for a serving officer. He was born in April 1932 and the son of Major Kenneth Edward Mortimer Tufnell, MC (1902-1976).
He was married twice; firstly, 2 March, 1962, as her second husband, the Hon Anne Rosemary Trench (1936-1992), widow of Capt Timothy Patrick Arnold Gosselin, Scots Guards (who died 17 March, 1961), and daughter of the 5th Baron Ashtown (1901-79), and his wife the former Ellen Nancy Garton (died 1949); he married secondly, 1994, Mrs Susan Arnot Burrows (nee Heath, who died 1 Nov, 2018, aged 87), widow of Robert David Burrows (1929-1993).
He leaves three daughters from his first marriage, Caroline (1963-2018), Belinda (born 18 Jun 1964), and Georgina (born 27 Oct, 1968). His step-daughter, Nicola Diana (Nikki) Burrows, MBE (born 1956 - now Nikki Williams-Ellis) is the mother of Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi (born 1 Nov, 1983), husband of HRH Princess Beatrice (b 8 Aug, 1988).
After Eton College he followed his uncle into the Regiment (Capt Neville Tufnell, in his youth a first class cricketer, later a Gentleman Usher to HM King George VI), joining the 3rd Battalion on the Canal Zone in August 1952, based at Deversoir on the Great Bitter Lake for two years. This was a different age; the effective strength of the Regiment (as at 31 March 1952) was 134 officers and 3197 Other Ranks, including 614 National Servicemen and his early career was a busy and challenging one.
After instructing at the Guards Depot and then two years as ADC to Maj Gen Geordie Gordon Lennox in the 3rd Division, he became Adjutant of the 2nd Battalion in 1959, based in Hubbelrath. Following attendance at the Staff College in Camberley, he returned to the 2nd Battalion in London; in 1965 he was one of four Grenadier officers to stand vigil during the Lying-in-State of Sir Winston Churchill in Westminster Hall. By the late 1960’s he was The Captain and this included a memorable nine-month unaccompanied tour to Sharjah. He went on to command the 1st Battalion from 1971-73, initially employed on Public Duties in Chelsea Barracks, later in Munster as a Mechanized Battalion. During his command there were two lively emergency tours to Northern Ireland, the first starting in August 1971, when the battalion moved at a week’s notice to Belfast. While there, it took part in some of the most bitter fighting ever seen in the City and the first live round was fired in action by a Grenadier since 1961.
Colonel Tufnell retired from the Army after completing his tour as Regimental Lieutenant Colonel, but he remained active in Gloucestershire and he served as President of the Cheltenham and District Branch of the Association for many years . He became Lieutenant of the Queen’s Bodyguard of the Yeoman of the Guard and was appointed CVO in 2001.
-=-
The engagement was announced 28 July, 2023, between Gilbert William Frederick Harrap (born 1987), second son of Giles Thresher Harrap (1948-2017), of Bentley, Hampshire, & his wife the former Sona Sophia Gladstone (born 14 June, 1952), scion of that landed gentry family, & Courtney M. Hopkins, daughter of Mr Robert Hopkins of Palm Springs, California, and Mrs Karna Rincon of Santa Barbara, California.
-=-
Camilla Julia Margaret Hamilton Stubber (nee Trotter, born 1983), wife of Henry James Hamilton Stubber (born 1984) scion of that landed gentry family, gave birth to a third daughter, Cecily Constance, 28 March, 2023, a sister for Nina Cecily, who was born 13 November, 2018, and for Nancy Georgina, born 23 December, 2020.
Henry Hamilton Stubber is a son of Mr James Hamilton Stubber, of Aughentaine, County Tyrone, by his wife the former Carola E. A. Savill.
Camilla Hamilton Stubber is a daughter of the late Martin Frederick Trotter (who d. 2009) by his wife the former Georgina Lavinia Blunt (born 1945), daughter of Sir Richard Blunt, 11th Baronet.
-=-
[Eleanor] Rose Duffell [nee Buckmaster, born 1986], wife of Charles Basil Royson [Charlie] Duffell, gave birth to a son, Jake Henry Basil, 5 July, 2023, a brother for Sam Henry, who was born 31 May, 2021.
Charlie Duffell is a son of Lieutenant-General Sir Peter Royson Duffell, KCB, CBE, MC [born 1939], of Britford, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Ann Murray Woodd [born 1948], scion of that landed gentry family.
Rose Duffell is a daughter of Henry G. Buckmaster, of Little Blakenham, Suffolk, and his wife the former Julia Mary Hobhouse [born 26 September, 1956], scion of the Hobhouse baronets, daughter of Hugh Cam Hobhouse [1917-87], by his wife the former Aline Hunter Blair [1921-2010].
-=-
Donald Maclaren of Maclaren, Chief of the Name & Arms of Maclaren, died 22 July, 2023, aged 68.
The Maclaren of Maclaren's home was at Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland.
He was born in 1954, son of Donald Maclaren of Maclaren (1910-1966), Chief of the Clan Maclaren (whose chieftainship was recognised by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, 7 February, 1958), and his wife the former Margaret Sinclair Miller; & married 1978, Maida-Jane Aitchison, by whom he had issue. His son, Florian (born 1981), succeeds to the clan chieftainship.
-=-
Sir Edward Lake, 11th Baronet, died 17 July, 2023, his 95th birthday.
Sir Edward, of High Acre, Cowgill, Dent, Cumbria, was registered as a Member, Associaiton of Occupational Therapists, in 1964.
Edward Geoffrey Lake was born 17 July, 1928, the third son of Capt Sir Atwell Henry Lake, 9th Baronet (1891-1972), and his wife the former Kathleen Marion Turner, and succeeded to the baronetcy (created GB, 1711), on the demise of his elder brother, Sir Atwell Graham Lake, 10th Baronet, 25 May, 2013.
He married 28 August, 1965, Judith Ann Fox, daughter of John Fox, by whom he had issue, a son, Mark, and a daughter, Sophie Louise (born 6 January, 1971). His son, who was born 26 October, 1968, succeeds to the baronetcy.
-=-
Sir Edward Lake, 11th Baronet, died at Cowgill, near Dent, Cumbria, on his 95th birthday, 17 July, 2023.
Edward Geoffrey Lake was born 17 July, 1928, the third son of Capt Sir Atwell Henry Lake, 9th Baronet CB, OBE, RN (1891-1972), and his wife the former Kathleen Marion Turner.
He succeeded to the baronetcy (cr GB, 1711), on the death of his elder brother, Sir (Atwell) Graham Lake, 10th Baronet, 25 May, 2013.
He married 28 August, 1965, Judith Ann Fox, daughter of John Fox, by whom he had a son and a daughter. The son, Mark Winter Lake, born 26 October, 1968, succeeds to the baronetcy.
-=-
The Hon Caroline Seebohm, who died 22 July, 2023, aged 82, was a daughter of the life peer, the Baron Seebohm.
She was born 14 November, 1940, daughter of the Baron Seebohm (1909-1990), and his wife the former Evangeline Hurst; and married 1stly, in 1962 (div 1967) Roger John Smith' married 2ndly, 1974 (div 1993), to Walter Heulings Lippincott Jr. She leaves two children from her second marriage, Sophie Lippincott Ferrer and Hugh Lippincott.
-=-
HRH Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi was present and her her daughter Sienna a bridesmaid at the marriage which has taken place between Raoul de Lantsheere, younger son of Mr and Mrs Jean-François de Lantsheere, and Phoebe Constance Mary Williams-Ellis [born 1994], scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of David Hugo Martyn Williams-Ellis and his former wife Mrs Serena Jane Clare Williams-Ellis [nee Stapleton, born 17 July, 1961], descended from the Ley baronets.
The bride is a step-daughter of Mrs Nicola Diana Williams-Ellis, MBE [nee Burrows], who is mother of Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, husband of Princess Beatrice.
Phoebe Williams-Ellis's descent from the Ley baronets:-
Sir Gerald Ley, 3rd Baronet [1902-80] > Annabel Alison Ley [b 1939] > Serena Stapleton [b 1961] > Phoebe Williams-Ellis
-=-
Emily Alexandra M. Tyrwhitt-Drake [nee Moore, born 1988], wife of Jack Montague F. Tyrwhitt-Drake [born 1988], scion of that landed gentry family, gave birth to a son, Barney Bear, 17 July, 2023, a brother for Tiggy, who was born 22 June, 2020, and for Effie Margo, born 30 September, 2021.
Jack is the youngest son of William Thomas Perceval Tyrwhitt-Drake [born 10 Sept, 1942], of East Meon, Hampshire, head of that landed gentry family, by his wife the former Philippa J.M. Bibby [born 1957].
Emily is the eldest daughter of Dr Simon P.G. Moore, of Chiswick, London, and Dr Anna C. Moore [nee Thompson].
-=-
Josephine Anne Jeffcock, who died 3 July, 2023, aged 90, was a scion of the Warde-Norbury landed gentry family.
She was born Josephine Anne Norbury, 8 August, 1932, the only daughter of Major Harold George Norbury, DL, JP (1899-1974), of Hooton Pagnell Hall, Doncaster, who assumed by Royal Licence 1958 the additional surname of Warde before that of Norbury, by his wife the former Mary Betty Warde-Aldam (1909-1978), scion of that landed gentry family; and married 14 December, 1963, David Philip Jeffcock (1933-2002), of Caroline Terrace, London SW1, scion of that landed family, son of William Philip Jeffcock (1891-1963), of Worlingham Grove, Beccles, Suffolk, and his wife the former Margaret Renee Cayley (1892-1975), scion of the Cayley baronets, by whom she had issue, two sons, John and George, and and two daughters Venetia and Cordelia.
-=-
Walter Anthony Gilbey, who has died aged 88, was a scion of the Gilbey baronets.
He was born 26 February, 1935, a son of Sir Henry Walter Gilbey, 2nd Baronet (1859-1945), and his second wife the former Marion Robert; and educated at Eton. He married 20 April, 1964, Jenifer Mary Price (born 6 January, 1944), daughter of James Timothy Noel Price, and his wife the Hon Anne Margaret Younger, daughter of the 2nd Viscount Younger of Leckie.
The Old Etonian was a long time Tynwald representative, and he served as a Member of the House of Keys for Glenfaba, Isle of Man, for almost 20 years.
He is survived by his wife and children, - son, Walter (born 20 Jan, 1966), and daughters, Caroline (born 2 Oct, 1967), and Sarah (born 3 Nov, 1969),
-=-
David William Leslie Medlicott Vereker, who died 9 July, 2023, aged 92, was a scion of the Viscounts Gort.
He was born 19 October, 1930, second son of Capt Stanley Lloyd Medlicott Vereker (1899-1967), and his wife the former Elaine Eileen Edwards (1898-1982); and married 24 April, 1964, Jane Elizabeth Gairdner (born 1935), daughter of Alan Campbell Gairdner (1900-1977), and his wife the former Elizabeth Rosemary Crimp, by whom he had two sons, William (b 19 Dec, 1966), and Henry (b 2 Jun 1969).
The 3rd Viscount Gort (1790-1865) > Hon John Vereker (1822-1891) > Maj John Vereker (1863-1940) > Capt Stanley Vereker (1899-1967) > David Vereker (1930-2023)
-=-
The Hon Simon Campden Buxton, who died 7 July, 2023, aged 80, was a scion of the Barons Noel-Buxton. He was a TV producer.
He was born 9 April, 1943, the second son of the 2nd Baron Noel-Buxton (1917-1970), and his first wife the former Helen Nancy Connal (1919-1949); and married 1981, Alison Liddle, daughter of S.J. Liddle, of Exmouth, Devon, by whom he had issue, a son, Christopher John (born 11 June, 1988), and a daughter, Katherine Helen (born 1983).
He was a younger brother of the 3rd Baron (1940-2013), and heir presumptive to his nephew, the 4th Baron (born 17 Apr, 1975)
-=-
The Dowager Countess of Iddesleigh, OBE, DL, who died 11 July, 2023, was the widow of the 4th Earl of Iddesleigh.
She was born in 1934 as Maria Luisa (Mima) Alvarez-Builla y Urquijo (Condesa del Real Agrado, in Spain, a title created in 1771), the only daughter of Don Gonzalo Alvarez-Builla y Alvera and of Maria Luisa de Urquijo, Marquesa de Olias (a Spanish title cr 1652). Her mother, the Marquesa de Olias married 2ndly, 2 Jan, 1938, the 9th Viscount Exmouth (1908-1970).
She married 20 July, 1955, Stafford Henry Northcote, styled Viscount St Cyres (born 14 July, 1932), son and heir of the 3rd Earl of Iddesleigh (1901-1970), and his wife the former Elizabeth Susan Angela Mary Lowndes (died 1991), scion of that landed gentry family. Her husband succeeded his father, 16 February, 1970, as 4th Earl of Iddesleigh (Peerage of the UK cr 1885) and Viscount Saint Cyres (Peerage of the UK cr 1885), and as the 11th Baronet (cr 1641).
The family home was Shillands House, Upton Pyne, near Exeter. The 4th Earl of Iddesleigh, Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Devon, died 8 July, 2004.
The Countess is survived by a son, John, 5th Earl of Iddesleigh (born 15 February, 1957), and a daughter, Lady Mary Louise Northcote (born 14 April, 1959).
Lady Iddesleigh was appointed OBE and served as a deputy lieutenant of Devon from 1987.
-=-
Lieutenant-Colonel George Arthur Alston-Roberts-West, CVO, DL, who died 16 July, 2023, aged 85, was a scion of that landed gentry family, and a former senior member of the Royal Household.
George West, as he was often known, served as a member of the Royal Household as Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office from 1987 to 1990.
Alston-Roberts-West trained at the RMA, Sandhurst, and was then commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in December 1957. He saw service in England, Northern Ireland, Germany and Cyprus. He retired from the army in 1980. On 10 February 1981, Alston-Roberts-West was appointed Assistant Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office.He served as an Extra Equerry to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, from 1982. In December 1987, he was appointed as Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, in succession to Sir John Johnston. He was succeeded by Malcolm Ross on 1 January 1991.
In November 1988, he was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Warwickshire. He was appointed CVO in 1988.
He was born 23 November, 1937, the second son of Major William Reginald James Alston-Roberts-West (1900-1940), of Alscot Park, Stratford-upon-Avon, of the Genadier Guards, who was killed in action 21 May, 1940, and his wife the former Constance Isolde Grosvenor (1900-1987).
He married 20 May, 1970, Hazel Elizabeth Margaret Cook, sometime Lady-in-Waiting to Diana, Princess of Wales, daughter of Sir Thomas Russell Albert Cook (1902-1970), sometime head of that landed gentry family, of Sennowe Park, Guist, Norfolk, & Conservative MP for North Norfolk, 1931-45, and his wife the former Gweneth Margaret Evan-Jones (1908-1999).
-=-
Cherry Anne Palmer (née Gibbs), died 12 July, 2023, aged 95.
She was born in 1928, daughter of Capt Arthur Gibbs, and married 14 July, 1949, William Alexander Palmer, CBE, DL (1925-2020), scion of the Barons Palmer and sometime chairman of the family biscuit manufacturing company Huntley & Palmers. She was widowed 31 October, 2020.
Mrs Palmer leaves two sons, Howard (born 24 Jun 1954), and John (born 20 Apr, 1957), and two daughters, Serena (born 17 May 1950), and Alexandra (born 9 Apr 1952).
-=-
The Baroness Williams of Elvel, who died 15 July, 2023, aged 93, was the widow of the life peer the Baron Williams of Elvel, CBE, PC, and was mother of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
She was born Jane Gillian Portal, 11 December, 1929, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Gervas Edward Portal (1890-1961), and his wife the former Iris Mary Butler (died 2002), and a sister of R.A. Butler, KG, PC, the Conservative politician (the Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, &c). She was a niece of Viscount Portal of Hungerford.
She married firstly, 23 April, 1955 (div 1959), Gavin Bramhall Welby (1914-1977); and married 2ndly, 1975, Charles Cuthbert Powell Williams, who was born 9 February, 1933, the son of N.P. Williams by his wife the former Muriel de Lerisson Cazenove, scion of that landed family. Her 2nd husband was Chairman of the Prices Commission 1985-92; appointed CBE in 1980, and created a life peer in 1985, and sat in the Lords on the Labour benches as Baron Williams of Elvel. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 2013, and died 30 Dec, 2019.
Whilst wife of Gavin Welby she had a relationship with Sir Anthony Montague Browne, KCMG, CBE (1923-2013), sometime private secretary to the Rt Hon Sir Winston Churchill, KG, by whom she had one son (who took her husband's surname) - the Most Rev and Rt Hon Justin Portal Welby (born 6 January, 1956), 105th Archbishop of Canterbury since 2013.
-=-
Jane Birkin, the English-French singer and actress, who died 16 July, 2023, aged 76, attained international fame and notability for her decade-long musical and romantic partnership with Serge Gainsbourg. She also had a prolific career as an actress in British and French cinema.
In 1969, Gainsbourg and she released the duet "Je t'aime... moi non plus" ("I love you ... me neither"). Gainsbourg originally had written the song for Brigitte Bardot. Birkin has said it was “jealousy” that drove her to sing the song. The song caused a scandal for its sexual explicitness, and was banned by radio stations in Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
She was a scion of the Birkin baronets and a descendant of the Dukes of Bedford, and from King Charles II.. She was a first cousin once removed of Freda Dudley Ward (nee Birkin) (1894-1983), for several decades the mistress of the then Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor).
She was born Jane Mallory Birkin, 14 December, 1946, the elder daughter of Lieutenant-Commander David Leslie Birkin, RN, DSC (1914-1991), and his actress wife, the former Judy Mary Gamble (1916-2004) (known as Judy Campbell). Judy's roles include Joanna in Noel Coward's Present Laughter, and Ethel in his The Happy Breed. The song 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square', was written for her.
Jane Birkin married 16 October, 1965 (div 1968), the composer John Barry Prendergast (aka John Barry), OBE (1933-2011), by whom she had a daughter, Kate Barry (1967-2013).
Jane Birkin had a romantic and creative relationship with French musician Serge Gainsbourg, whom she met on the set of the film Slogan in 1968. They were together for 12 years but never married, despite rumours and misreporting to the contrary. They had a daughter, actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg (born 1971). On 4 September 1982, she gave birth to her third daughter, Lou Doillon, from her relationship with director Jacques Doillon.
Jane Birkin's studio albums include: Je t'aime... moi non plus (1969, with Serge Gainsbourg), Di doo dah (1973), Lolita Go Home (1975), Ex fan des sixties (1978), Baby Alone in Babylone (1983), Lost Song (1987), Amours des feintes (1990), Versions Jane (1996), À la légère (1999), Rendez-vous (2004), Fictions (2006), Enfants d'Hiver (2008), Birkin/Gainsbourg: Le symphonique (2017), Oh! Pardon tu dormais… (2020).
She was appointed OBE in 2001.
Descent from the Dukes of Bedford-
The 6th Duke of Bedford > Lord Charles James Fox Russell > Rev Henry Charles Russell > Olive Russell > David Leslie Birkin > Jane Birkin
-=-
Harriet Mary C. Mahony (nee Walsh), wife of Dermot Edward Struan Mahony (born 16 November, 1988), scion of that Irish landed gentry family, gave birth to a daughter, Beatrice Mary Lucinda, 15 May, 2023.
Harriet is a daughter of Jeremy Walsh, of Stockland, Devon, and his wife the former Mary M. Hardwick.
Dermot is a son of Stephen Dominic Patrick Mahony (born 1956), and his wife the former Lucinda Margaret Ann Robertson (born 23 July, 1960), a great-granddaughter of the 1st Baron Forres.
Dermot Mahony is a descendant of the Barons Forres:-
The 1st Baron Forres (1860-1931) > Hon Gerald Williamson (1893-1966) > Hersey Williamson (1920-2012) > Lucinda Robertson (b 1960) > Dermot Mahony (b 1988) > Beatrice Mahony (b 2023)
-=-
Camilla Emily Charlotte Bacon (née Carter, born 1991), wife of Thomas Castell Bacon [born 1992], scion of the Bacon baronets, gace birth to a son, George Castell, 30 June, 2023.
Thomas Bacon is the youngest son of Sir Nicholas Hickman Ponsonby Bacon, 14th and 15th Baronet [born 15 May, 1953] of Raveningham Hall, Norfolk, and his wife the former Susan Henrietta Dinnis.
Camilla Bacon is the younger daughter of Robert George Russell Carter, of Letheringsett, Norfolk, and his wife the former Charlotte M.L. Miller.
Sir Nicholas Hickman, who as a boy was a Page of Honour to the Queen, is England's Premier Baronet.
The Carters are members of the Prince and Princess of Wales's Norfolk circle, dubbed the 'Turnip toffs' by organs of the Press. Camilla's sister stood as a sponsor at Prince George's christening.
Camilla Carter's elder sister Sophie [born 14 Oct, 1982], is the wife of Robert Snuggs. The Waleses attended the wedding of Sophie and Robert Snuggs at Letheringsett, Norfolk, in September, 2018, and Princess Charlotte acted as a bridesmaid to her godmother. Prince George was a page boy.
Sophie Snuggs gave birth to a daughter, Amalia Rose Charlotte, 21 June, 2019.
-=-
Harriett Elizabeth Jenkins (nee Baker Baker, born 6 May, 1987), wife of Edward Jenkins, and scion of the Baker Baker landed gentry family, gave birth to a son, Frederick Oswald Richmond (to be known as Ozzie), 30 June, 2023.
Harriett Jenkins is a daughter of William George Baker Baker (born 1955), and his wife the former Sarah M.B. Lloyd.
Harriett is a descendant of the Viscounts Strathallan (now Earls of Perth), viz:-
The 6th Viscount Strathallan (1767-1851) > Hon Sir Edmund Drummond (1814-95) > Admiral Edmund Drummond (1841-1911) > Constance Dora Drummond > Anne Bruen (b 1914) > William George Baker Baker (b 1955) > Harriett Baker Baker
-=-
Anthony Grahame Loriston-Clarke died 11 July, 2023.
He was the husband of Anne Jennifer (Jennie) Symes-Bullen (born 1943), scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel John Fitzherbert Symes-Bullen (1896-1966), head of that family, of Catherston, and his wife the former Anne Harris-St John (1912-1963), scion of that landed gentry family, by whom he had two daughters, Anne and Lizzie.
-=-
The engagement was announced 15 July, 2023, between George E. Mathers, elder son of Mr & Mrs George Mathers, of Straid, County Antrim, & Charlotte Lauren Sasha Hurley (born 1992), eldest daughter of Guy John Desmond Hurley, of Portsalon, County Donegal, and his former wife the Lady Samantha Clare Barbara Feilding (born 28 November, 1966 - now Lady Samantha Macdonald Johnston, of London), daughter of the 11th Earl of Denbigh & Desmond (1943-1995).
-=-
Charles Ludwig Langton Cobbe, who died 8 July, 2023, aged 11, was a scion of that Irish landed gentry family. He was a great-grandson of the 20th Viscount Dillon.
He was born 7 June, 2012, the second son of Henry Frederick Hugh Cobbe (born 1975), and his wife the former Maria Zahn.
The 20th Viscount Dillon (1911-79) > Hon Isabel Dillon (b 1942) > Henry Cobbe (b 1975) > Charles Cobbe (2012-2023)
-=-
The marriage took place 8 July, 2023, at St Mary's, Linton, Cambridgeshire, between Jonathan Ronald Sebastian Bennett (born 1991), descended from the Bazley baronets, son of Henry Christopher Bennett (born 26 June, 1946), and his wife the former Sarah Margaret Diana Bowles (born 9 July, 1949), & Saskia Julia Eastwood Haining (born 1992), daughter of Andrew Haining (born 1959), and his wife the former Alexandra Caroline Mackay White (born 1961).
Jonathan Bennett's descent from the Earls Cawdor:-
The 2nd Earl Cawdor > Lady Rachel Campbell > Ruth Howard (descended from the Dukes of Norfolk) > Rachel Bazley > Henry Bennett > Jonathan Bennett
Jonathan's Bazley descent:-
Sir Thomas Bazley, 2nd Baronet > Gardner Sebastian Bazley > Rachel Bazley (see above)
-=-
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).
-=-
The life peerage recently conferred upon Daniel Robert Rosenfield, has been gazetted in the name style and title of Baron Rosenfield, of Muswell Hill in the London Borough of Haringey, 12 July, 2023.
Lord Rosenfield (born May 1977) is a political adviser and civil servant who served as the Downing Street Chief of Staff from January 2021 to February 2022. Between July 2007 and April 2011, he served as the principal private secretary to chancellors Alistair Darling and George Osborne, and subsequently as a managing director for Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
He was ennobled by Boris Johnson in his resignation honours list.
-=-
Jocelyn Ishabel Ann Floyd, who died 9 July, 2023, aged 76, was a descendant of the Wills baronets (now Barons Dulverton).
She was born 10 July, 1946, the second daughter of Sir John Macleod, TD (1913-1984), sometime MP for Ross and Cromarty, by his wife Rosemary Theodora Hamilton Wills (1913-1994); and married 1stly, 2 February, 1967 (div) David Algernon Fleming (born 24 Nov, 1938), son of Capt Michael Valentine Paul Fleming (1913-1944), and his wife the former Letitia Blanche Borthwick (1913-2001), scion of the Borthwick baronets; married 2ndly, 1978, as his second wife, John Edmund Kincaid Floyd (born 8 September, 1936), third son of Sir John Duckett Floyd, 6th Baronet (1903-1975), and his wife the former Jocelin Evadne Wyldbore-Smith (1907-1976), scion of the baronets of that name; and had issue by her first marriage, Lara (born 18 Jan, 1968), Annabel (born 28 Dec, 1968), and Katrina (born 23 Sept, 1971).
-=-
The engagement was announced 13 July, 2023, between William Patrick Lanyon (born 1988) son of Richard Patrick Lanyon (born 1951), of Manningfold Abbots, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Bridget Nelita Cheyne (born 5 December, 1955), scion of the Cheyne baronets, and Virginia M. Lewis, daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward Lewis, of The Haven, Dilwyn, Herefordshire.
Sir Joseph Cheyne, 2nd Baronet > Brig William Watson Cheyne > Bridget Cheyne > William Lanyon
-=-
(Tatiana) Cleone Anne Augur (née Wheaton-Smith), died 19 June, 2023, aged 79.
Cleone Augur was the great-granddaughter of Harry Selfridge, who revolutionised British shopping with his Oxford Street department store. Selfridge's daughter, Rosalie, married Russian emigre, Prince Serge Wiasemsky de Bolotoff.
She was a daughter of Major Craig Wheaton-Smith (1917-2002), of Wenham, Massachusetts, USA, a scion of the Craig baronets, and his wife Princess Tatiana Rosemary Wiasemsky (1919-98), daughter of Prince Serge Wiasemsky de Bolotoff (1888-1977), & his wife the former Rosalie Dorothea Selfridge (1893-1977); and married 1stly, 11 August, 1967 (div 1985), Richard Timothy George Mansfield Parker, then styled Viscount Parker (born 31 May, 1943), son and heir of the 8th Earl of Macclesfield (1914-1992), of Shirburn Castle, Watlington, co Oxford, and his wife the Hon Valerie Mansfield (died 1995). Her former husband succeeded his father, 7 December, 1992, as 9th Earl of Macclesfield (Peerage of GB, cr 1721), and as Viscount and Baron Parker, also in the peerage of Gt Britain. She married 2ndly, 1997, Frank Augur.
She leaves issue from her first marriage - three daughters, Lady Tanya Parker (b 27 Aug, 1971), and twins, Lady Katherine and Lady Marion Parker (born 19 June, 1973).
-=-
The marriage took place 3 June, 2023, between Prince Amaury Yves Michel Marie Joseph of Bourbon-Parma (b 30 October 1991), son of Prince Charles-Emmanuel Joseph Jacques Hély of Bourbon-Parma (b 3 June 1961), and Baroness Constance de Ravinel (b 18 July 1971), and Pélagie Jeanne Marie Marguerite Charlotte Natalie de MacMahon (born 24 June, 1990), scion of the Barons Strange, daughter of Philippe de MacMahon, 4th Duc de Magenta (born 15 May 1938), and his second wife the Hon Amélie Margaret Mary Drummond (born 2 July, 1963), daughter of Capt Humphrey Drummond of Megginch, MC (who died 2009), and his wife (Jean) Cherry Drummond, suo jure Baroness Strange (16th holder of the title) (1928-2005).
-=-
The life peerage recently conferred upon Charlotte Kathryn Tranter Owen, has been gazetted in the name, style and title of Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge, of Alderley Edge in the County of Cheshire, 12 July, 2023.
Charlotte Owen (born 1993) is a former special adviser to Boris Johnson. She is a Conservative member of the House of Lords and is the youngest life peer in British history.
-=-
The life peerage recently conferred upon Mr Ben Houchen, has been gazetted in the name, style and title of Baron Houchen of High Leven, of Ingleby Barwick in the Borough of Sockton-on-Tees, 12 July, 2023.
Lord Houchen of High Leven (born 9 December 1986), is a Conservative Party politician who was elected as Tees Valley Mayor in May 2017 after winning the 2017 mayoral election, defeating Labour candidate Sue Jeffrey by 2.2 per cent in the second round. He was re-elected in 2021, defeating the Labour candidate, Jessie Joe Jacobs.
Lord Houchen represents the five Tees Valley local authority areas of Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar and Cleveland, Hartlepool and Darlington. He also acts as chairman of the Tees Valley Combined Authority, the body tasked with driving economic growth and job creation in the area.
The peer was a councillor on Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council, representing Yarm ward, between 2011 and 2017. In 2012 he stood as the Conservative parliamentary candidate in the Middlesbrough by-election. In the 2014 European Parliament elections, Houchen was the Conservative candidate for the North East region.
Houchen was selected as the Conservative Party candidate for Mayor of the Tees Valley in December 2016. Upon taking office, he became entitled to the style of Mayor.
He was ennobled in Boris Johnson's controversial resignation honours list.
-=-
