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Saturday, June 29, 2024

Melanie Fiona Louisa Black (née Lowson) 1940-2024

 Melanie Fiona Louisa Black (née Lowson), who died 23 June, 2024, aged 84, was a scion of the Lowson baronets, a daughter of Sir Denys Lowson, 1st Baronet (1906-1975), Lord Mayor of London, 1950-51.

She was born 12 June, 1940, the younger daughter of Denys Colquhoun Flowerdew Lowson, and his wife the former Hon Ann Patricia Macpherson (1919-2003), daughter of the 1st Baron Strathcarron (1880-1937); her elder sister, Gay (1938-2016), was wife of the 15th Earl of Kinnoull (1935-2013).

She married 17 September, 1964, Charles Archibald Adam Black (1937-2013), son of Archibald Adam Gordon Black (1907-1990), and his wife the former Violet Rosamund Hyde Villiers (1911-1985), scion of the Earls of Clarendon, by whom she had issue, a son, Adam Sebastian Black (born 25 Aug, 1965), and a daughter, Holly Patricia Black (born 27 January, 1968).

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