Monday, September 30, 2024

Nicholson/McLeod engagement

The engagement was announced 30 September, 2024, between Edward Ivo Nicholson (born 1994), youngest son of Frank Nicholson (born 11 February, 1954), of Co Durham, and his wife the former Lavinia Margaret Grace Stourton (born 1 October, 1962), scion of the Barons Mowbray, Segrave & Stourton, & Madeleine Kate McLeod (b 1994), daughter of Fraser Neil McLeod, (born 1951), of Bristol, and his wife the former Angela Campbell.

The 19th Baron Stourton (1802-72) > Hon Albert Stourton (1835-1902) > Herbert Stourton (1873-1932) > Sir Ivo Stourton (1901-85) > Nigel Stourton (1929-2021) > Lavinia Stourton (b 1962) > Edward Nicholson (b 1994)

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Sir Thomas Lawson-Tancred, 9th Baronet (1870-1945) > Pauline Lawson-Tancred (b 1916) > Frank Nicholson (b 1954) > Edward Nicholson (b 1994)

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Henson/Rodríguez-Legorburu Cabrera-Kábana marriage

 The marriage has taken place in Madrid, in September, 2024, between Jasper Cornelius Richard Henson (born 1994), only son of Rupert Cornelius Brooke Henson (born 1962), of Longworth, Oxfordshire, and his wife the former Caroline Belinda Frisby (born 17 Aug, 1963), scion of that landed gentry family, & Doña Isabel Rodríguez-Legorburu Cabrera-Kábana (born 25 May, 1988), scion of a Spanish aristocratic family, elder daughter of Eduardo Rodríguez y Legorburu, the Condes de Asmir of Madrid, Spain, and his wife the former Isabel Cabrera-Kábana Sartorius.

 Jasper Henson is a brother of the Duchess of Westminster, wife of the 7th Duke.

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Sunday, September 29, 2024

A son for Maddison Brudenell and Bret Kapetanov

Maddison May Brudenell (born 16 May, 1994), partner of Bret Kapetanov (born circa 1994), gave birth to a son, Michael Adam, 6 August, 2024

Maddison, a descendant of Queen Victoria, announced her engagement to Bret in June, 2023. Mr Kapetanov, a millwright, hails from Windsor, Ontario. The couple plan to marry in October, 2024.

Maddison, daughter of the actor Jeremy Alexander Rothwell Brudenell (born 2 April, 1960) and his wife the former Edwina Victoria Louise Hicks (born 24 December, 1961), elder daughter of the late David Nightingale Hicks (1929-1998), by his wife the former Lady Pamela Carmen Louise Mountbatten (born 19 April, 1929), younger daughter of Admiral of the Fleet the late 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-79).

In 2015 Maddison married Olaoluwa Olamide Modupe-Ojo, a musician under the name "Jazz Purple". The marriage ended in divorce.

Maddison has issue from her first marriage, two daughters, Daphne (born 26 Nov, 2016), and  Phoebe (born 15 Dec, 2018), and a son, Moses (b 2020).

The baby is named in honour of Maddison's paternal grandfather, the late John Michael Brudenell (1925-2015), the royal obstetrician.

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Saturday, September 28, 2024

Bowcock/Cornock engagement

The engagement was announced 28 September, 2024, between Dominic Matthew Bowcock (born 1994), son of Matthew Philip Bowcock (born 1956), of Haslemere, Surrey, and his wife Helen, & Pippa Ann Cornock (born 1995), second daughter of Ian Charles Cornock (born 1963), of Hadley, Worcestershire, and his wife the former Diana Elizabeth Vyvyan-Robinson (born 24 July, 1963), scion of the Vyvyan baronets.

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Patrick Rowan Esau Cumming-Bruce (born 2024)

 Henrietta Perpetua Agnes (Hetty) Cumming-Bruce (nee Scrope, born 1991), wife of the Hon George Patrick Roualeyn Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce [born 19 March, 1990], scion of the Barons Thurlow, gave birth to a son, Patrick Rowan Esau, 18 August, 2024, a brother for Kester Francis, who was born 3 November, 2022.

Hetty Cumming-Bruce is a scion of the ancient landed family og Scrope of Danby, youngest daughter of Maj. Peter Geoffrey Scrope [born 3 January, 1955], of Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, and his wife the former Penelope Eldrydd Davies [born 31 March, 1955], scion of the Barons Davies.

The Hon George Cumming-Bruce is the younger son of the 9th Baron Thurlow [born 13 April, 1952], of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, and his wife the former Bridget Anne Julia Cheape.

John Savile, 6th Earl of Mexborough [1868-1945] > Lady Beatrice Savile [1910-73] > Peter Scrope [b 1955] > Hetty Scrope [b 1991] > Patrick Cumming-Bruce (b 2024)

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Friday, September 27, 2024

Ann Mary Muir (née Corbally) 1944-2024

  Ann Mary Muir (née Corbally) died 14 September, 2024, aged 80.

She was born in Oxfordshire, in 1944, scion of a landed gentry family, a daughter of Air Vice Marshal Edward John Corbally, CBE, RAF (1908-1981), and his wife the former Alfreda Clare Sumner (1908-1993), a scion of that landed gentry family; and married 1stly, in 1966 (div) Timothy M. Jenkins (born 1942), by whom she had three sons and two daughters; married secondly, in 1993, as his second wife, Andrew Hugh John Muir (born 28 August, 1943), third son of Sir John Harling Muir, 3rd Baronet (1910-1994), and his wife the former Elizabeth Mary Dundas (1914-2008), scion of the Earls (later Marquesses) of Zetland. Her husband is a younger brother of Sir Richard Muir, 4th Baronet (1939-2023), and Sir Ian Muir, 5th Baronet (born 16 September, 1940).

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Cecilia Marina Campbell de Almeida (born 2024)

 Ishbel Elizabeth Rose Campbell de Almeida (née Campbell, born 30 November, 1988), wife of Marco Silva de Almeida, and scion of the Earls Cawdor, gave birth to a daughter, Cecilia Marina, 16 September, 2024, a sister for Orlando Jorge, who was born 25 October, 2022.

Ishbel is the elder daughter of James Farquhar Robin Campbell (born 26 November, 1958), and his wife the former Marina Caroline Vere Norton (born 6 May, 1961), descended from the Ogilvy baronets.

The 2nd Earl Cawdor (1817-1898) > Capt The Hon Ronald Campbell (1848-1879) > Lt-Col Robert Campbell (1878-1945) > Maj Robin Campbell (b 1927) > James Campbell (b 1958) > Ishbel Campbell (b 1988) > Cecilia Campbell de Almeida (b 2024)

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Victor Jules Barnett 1933-2024

 Victor Jules Barnett, who died 20 September, 2024, aged 91, was a British-American businessman, former executive chairman of Burberry, and member of the wealthy Wolfson family.

Victor Jules Barnett was born in London, in 1933 to Esmond Barnett (1901-1934), of London, and Edith Wolfson (1902-1997), sister of Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1st Baronet (1897-1991).

His father died young, leaving Barnett to be raised by his mother and her siblings, among them Sir Isaac Wolfson, Bt. Moving to New York City after World War II, Barnett graduated from the Horace Mann School and with a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Barnett began his career managing what was then the fledgling American operation of Burberry, a subsidiary of his family's retail conglomerate Great Universal Stores (GUS). He joined Revlon, Inc. in 1961, serving as executive vice president under Charles Revson until 1976. Barnett then returned to help manage the family business, GUS, joining his cousins Leonard (1927-2010), the life peer as Baron Wolfson, and David Wolfson (1935-2021), the life peer as Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, on the group's board of directors and executive committee. As head of GUS in North America, Barnett led the acquisition and growth of credit agency Experian in 1996.

In 1997, he became executive chairman of Burberry to reinvigorate the house's neglected management. At Burberry, Barnett led a reorganization of the company, hiring Rose Marie Bravo as chief executive, renegotiating deals with Burberry's Japanese licensees, acquiring their licensee in Spain, and driving major real estate purchases including its flagship stores on New Bond Street and East 57th Street. Over Barnett's tenure Burberry's operating profits more than quadrupled and the brand became recognized as a global luxury fashion house. In January 2001, Burberry started to look for a replacement for Barnett. In July 2001, Barnett stepped down as chairman of Burberry.

The family took Burberry public in 2002, and demerged GUS into Home Retail Group and Experian in 2006. Following his retirement from GUS and Burberry, Barnett bought pharmaceutical company Shaklee with his younger son Roger and joined the board of Grey Global Group.

Barnett was married to Helaine M. Barnett, a prominent legal aid attorney and former president of the Legal Services Corporation. They had two sons, Craig Edward (born 1962), an investment banker, and Roger Lawrence (born 1964), CEO of Shaklee.

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Thursday, September 26, 2024

Julia Mary Jaques (née Hamilton-Russell) 1967-2024

 Julia Mary Jaques, who died 22 September, 2024, aged 57, was a scion of the Viscounts Boyne.

Julia Mary Hamilton-Russell was born 14 September, 1967, daughter of James Gustavus Hamilton-Russell (born 11 September, 1938), and his wife the former Alison Mary Heard (who died 18 Oct, 2022); and married 5 September, 1998, Victor Huntington Jaques, son of Ralph Jaques, of Hampstead, London, by whom she had issue, a son, Frederick (born 7 March, 2001), and two daughters, Rosie (born 14 July, 2002), and Florence (born 18 Oct, 2005).

Gustavus, 9th Viscount Boyne (1864-1942) > Maj Hon John Hamilton-Russell (1911-1943) > James Hamilton-Russell (b 1938) > Julia Mary Hamilton-Russell (1967-2024)

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Mark Antony Loveday 1943-2024

 Mark Antony Loveday, who died 4 September, 2024, aged 80, was a stockbroker, head of Cazenove at a time of upheaval, and behind the inevitable, yet historic, decision to convert the City’s most blue-blooded firm into a limited company. Loveday was a scion of the landed gentry family of that name.

He followed his father into stockbroking, and was drawn to Cazenove by his godfather, Sir Anthony Hornby, senior partner there. Initially, TB kept him away from the office for months. He became a stock exchange member in 1972 and was a partner from 1974 until 2001. He specialised in raising finance for companies, mainly through share issues. He was senior partner, Cazenove & Co, 1994-2001; Chairman, Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust PLC from 2002; Director, London Catalyst 1972-; Trustee of Magdalen College Development Trust 1982-; a Trustee of the Grosvenor Estate 1999-; Liveyman of the Skinners' Co 1972.

He was born 22 September, 1943, a son of George Arthur Loveday, TD, (1909-1981), stockbroker, and sometime chairman of the London Stock Exchange, by his first wife Sylvia Mary Gibbs (1907-1967), kinswoman of the Barons Wraxall and Aldenham & Hunsdon.

He married in 1981, Mary Elizabeth Tolmie (born 1943), daughter of John Simpson Tolmie (1913-1965), and his wife the former Mary Catherine Deirdre Mitchell (1910-1998), by whom he had issue, a son, Sam, and a daughter, Lucy.

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Death of Lady Benn, wife of Sir Robin Benn, 5th Baronet

 Lady Benn, who died 19 September, 2024, aged 64, was the wife of Sir Robert Ernest (Robin) Benn, 5th Baronet.

The former Angela Valerio married in 2019, as his second wife Robert Ernest (Robin) Benn (born 17 October, 1963), son of Sir (James)Jonathan Benn, 4th Baronet (born 27 July, 1933), and his wife the former Jennifer Mary Howells (born 1936). Her husband succeeded his father, 3 October, 2023, as the fifth baronet. The baronetcy was created in 1914 for John Benn, Liberal MP for Devonport 1904-1910, who was father the 2nd Bt and of the 1st Viscount Stansgate.

Lady Benn is survived by her husband and step-children.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Goldsmith of Richmond Park/Fleming engagement

 The engagement has been announced between Frank Zacharias Robin (Zac) Goldsmith, The Baron Goldsmith of Richmond Park, PC (born 20 January, 1975), the politician and life peer, son of the late Sir James Goldsmith (1933-1997), and his third wife the Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart (born 13 June, 1934), scion of the Marquesses of Londonderry, & Hermione Kirsty Fleming (born 1989), scion of that landed gentry family, of Nettlefold, daughter of Roderick John Fleming (born 12 November, 1953), and his wife Diana Julia Wake (born 20 March, 1955), daughter of Maj Sir Hereward Wake, 14th Baronet (1916-2017).

It will be Lord Goldsmith of Richmond's third marriage. His first marriage, 5 June, 1999, was to socialite Sheherazade Ventura-Bentley (born 14 March, 1974), from whom he was divorced in 2010. He married 2ndly, 15 March, 2013, Alice Miranda Rothschild (born 29 Nov, 1983), scion of the Barons Rothschild, daughter of the late Hon Amschel Mayor James Rothschild (1955-1996), and his wife the former Anita Patience Guinness (born 7 December, 1957), scion of the banking branch of the Guinness dynasty. Lord Goldsmith is the father of six (three offspring from each of his marriages).

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Vanessa Clare Campbell-Harris 1967-2024

Vanessa Clare Campbell-Harris (nee Hogan-Hern), died 14 September, 2024, aged 57.

She was born in 1967, a daughter of George Peter Henry Gogan-Hern (born 1939), by his wife the former Maureen Mahoney; and married in 1992, James Neil (Jamie) Campbell-Harris (born 22 January, 1966), son of Alastair Neil Campbell-Harris (1926-2010), and hisn wife the former Zara Carolyn Harrison (1938-2022), descended from the Lord Ruthven of Freeland, in the Peerage of Scotland.

She leaves three children, Alexandra, Hugo and Geordie.

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Maj. David Gybrian Flood 1933-2024

 Major David Flood, who died 15 September, 2024, aged 91, was descended from the Viscounts of Arbuthnott.

He was born 8 May, 1933, second son of Philip Adrian Flood (1903-1971), and his wife the former Mary Frances Clementina Arbuthnott (1904-1990).

He served in the Royal Tank Regiment, and was unmarried.

The 8th Viscount of Arbuthnott (1778-1860) > Hon David Arbuthnott (1820-1901) > Donald Stuart Arbuthnott (1860-1918) > Mary Arbuthnott (1904-90) > Maj David Gybrian Flood (1933-2024)

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Monday, September 23, 2024

Petty/Currey engagement

The engagement was announced 23 September, 2024, between Samuel David Watson Petty (born 1989), son of Ian Robert Watson Petty (born 1942), and his late wife Mrs Susan Mary Petty (nee Hedges), of Burley, Hampshire, & Louisa Henrietta Ann Currey (born 1990), third daughter of (Charles) Alistair Currey (born 1947), of Fulham, London, and his wife the former Hon Henrietta Mary Rosario Czernin (born 10 January, 1960), scion of the Barons Howard De Walden.

 William Cavendish-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland (1768-1854) > Lady Lucy Joan Scott-Bentinck (d 1899) > The 7th Baron Howard De Walden (1830-99) > 8th Baron Howard De Walden (1880-1946) > The 9th Baron Howard De Walden (1912-99) > Baroness Howard De Walden (1935-2024) >Hon Henrietta Czernin (b 1960) > Louisa Currey (b 1990)

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Sunday, September 22, 2024

Hon Peter Jay 1937-2024

 Peter Jay, who died 22 September, 2024, aged 87, was an economist, diplomat and broadcaster.

He was sometime British ambassador to the United States, and son-in-law of the prime minister James Callaghan.

He was born 7 February, 1937, son of Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, the Baron Jay, PC (1907-1996), the Labour Party politician, and his wife the former Margaret Christian 'Peggy' Garnett (1913-2008), who was a grande dame of the Labour movement, known for her good works on a host of local government committees. 

In 1977, when his father-in-law James Callaghan, had become Prime Minister, Jay was appointed to the post of Ambassador to the United States by the Foreign Secretary, his friend David Owen. As Jay was just 40 years old, was not a diplomat and had never held any public office, this appointment caused some controversy and accusations of nepotism.

Jay later returned to broadcast journalism; John Birt appointed him Economics Editor of the BBC, and Jay presented editions of The Money Programme.

He wrote The Road to Riches or the Wealth of Man (2000, Weidenfeld & Nicolson), presented a related BBC TV documentary series, and also co-wrote, with Michael Stewart, the speculative historical novel Apocalypse 2000: Economic Breakdown and the Suicide of Democracy (1987).

While his father was closely linked with Keynesian economics, Jay increasingly identified himself with the new "monetarian" school associated with Milton Friedman, a man with whom he was close friends. Jay also debated with Friedman and Thomas Sowell, including two episodes of Friedman's TV series Free to Choose (1980). Jay was also the moderator of the discussions in the British version of Free to Choose. Jay was credited with helping write James Callaghan's speech at the 1976 Labour Party Conference. The speech is seen as something of a turning point, with Callaghan declaring: "We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession, and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting Government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists", a rejection of the previously dominant Keynesian logic and a reflection of the ascendency of Monetarism. Jay used his column in The Times to advocate for neoliberal policies in Britain.

Between June 2003 and May 2009, Jay was a non-executive director of the Bank of England. He was a governor of the Ditchley Foundation from 1982 until 1987, and was formerly a councillor on Woodstock Town Council and was Town Mayor in 2010.

Jay married in 1961, the Hon Margaret Ann Callaghan, PC (born 18 Nov, 1939), the daughter of Labour politician James Callaghan, the Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (1912-2005), prime minister 1976-79.  Margaret Jay, a Labour party politician was raised to the peerage for life, in 1992, as Baroness Jay of Paddington, and was appointed Leader of the House of Lords in 1998. Peter and Margaret Jay divorced in 1986. Later that year Jay married his second wife, Emma Bettina, daughter of the museum curator and writer Peter Thornton, by whom he had 3 sons.

From his marriage to Margaret Callaghan he leaves issue, a son, the Hon Paricik James Peter Jay (b 1971), and daughters, the Hon Tamsin Jay (born 1965), and the Hon Alice Jay (b 1968).

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Saturday, September 21, 2024

Llewellyn/Sangster engagement

 The engagement was announced 21 September, 2024, between John William Bolitho (Johnnie) Llewellyn (born 1993), son of Henry Bolitho Llewellyn (born3 April, 1954), of Oakford, Devon, by his wife the former Caroline Bell, & Eliza Camilla Sangster (born 1992), daughter of Benjamin Vernon Sangster (born 1964), of Manton, co Wiltshire, and his wife the former Lucy Olga Wigram (born 3 December, 1966), descended from the Barons Bethell.

John Bethell, 1st Baron Bethell (1861-1945) > Hon William Gladstone Bethell (1904-64) > Sally Ann Bethell (1943-2024) > Lucy Olga Wigram (b 1966) > Eliza Camilla Sangster (b 1992)


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Groat/Ouvaroff engagement

The engagement was announced 21 September, 2024, between Cameron J.M. Groat, son of Mr and Mrs M.J.M. Groat, of Wimborne, Dorset, & Lara Alexandra Ouvaroff (born 1996), daughter of (Count) Dominic William Ouvaroff (born December, 1966), of Wandsworth, London, and his wife the former Jennifer J. Baxendale.

Lara's descent from the Marquesses of Exeter:-

The 3rd Marquess of Exeter, PC (1825-1895) > Lord Francis Cecil (1851-1889) > Violet Dorothea Cecil (1878-1953) > Aubretia Phyllis Ames (b 1909) > Count Stephen Ouvaroff (1935-2017) > Count Dominic Ouvaroff (b 1966) > Lara Ouvaroff (b 1996)

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Demelza Kiki June McPherson (born 2024)

  Olivia Catherine Anne McPherson (nee Stevens, born 1989), wife of Rory John McPherson [born 2 Nov, 1989], gave birth to a daughter, Demelza Kiki June, 16 September, 2024.

Rory is the only son of Malcolm William McPherson, of Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, and his late wife the former Hilary Ann Cobb.

Olivia is the younger daughter of Julian Bryan Stevens, of Clanfield, Oxfordshire, and his wife the former Elizabeth Margaret Moira Bevis [born 29 Aug, 1960], and is descended from the Earls of Haddington:-

6th Earl of Haddington [1680-1735] > Charles, Lord Binning [1697-1732] > Hon George Baillie [1721-97] > George Baillie [1763-1841] > Hon John Baillie [1810-88] > Cecilia Baillie [1846-1914] > John Barstow [1872-1914] > John Barstow [1905-77] > Elizabeth Barstow [b 1933] > Elizabeth Bevis [b 1960] > Olivia Stevens [b 1989] > Demelza McPherson [b 2024]

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Friday, September 20, 2024

McIntyre of Sorn/Greenall engagement

 The engagement was announced 20 September, 2024, between Jamie Alastair McIntyre of Sorn (born 1971), head of that landed gentry family of Sorn, Ayrshire, son of the late Robert Gordon McInyre (1931-1988), and his wife the former Rachel Watherston (now Mrs Charles May, of Northumberland), & Cleoni Victoria Greenall (born 1974), younger daughter of John D.T. Greenall (born 1939), of Dunure, Ayrshire, by his wife the former Margaret Anne Stewart.

Jamie McIntyre is a grandson paternally of James Gordon McIntyre, MC, born in 1896, a Scottish lawyer, Called to the Scottish Bar in 1922; King's Counsel 1936; Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1939-44; was a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland 1944-63, who took the title *Lord Sorn* - but he was not a peer of Parliament. "Lord Sorn" married Madeline Scott Moncreiff, daughter of Robert Scott Moncrieff, of Downhill, of that Scotslanded gentry family.

It will be Jamie McIntyre's second marriage. By his first union to Jemma Folley, he has a son, Archie (born 13 September, 2011), and two daughters, Lola Violet (born 20 Apr, 2009), and Ottilie Rose (twin with her brother Archie).

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Thursday, September 19, 2024

The 3rd Baron Selsdon 1937-2024

 Lord Selsdon, the 3rd Baron, died 15 September, 2024, aged 86.

The peer, who succeeded to the peerage in 1963, was elected to the House of Lords in 1999 after Blair's ousting of the heredditary members, and he sat as a Conservative.

Malcolm McEacharn Mitchell-Thomson was born 27 October, 1937, the son of the 2nd Baron (1913-1963), and his first wife the former Phoebette Swithinbank, and succeeded to the peerage (created in 1932), and baronetcy (created in 1900), on the death of his father, 7 February, 1963.

Lord Selsdon was twice married, firstly, 2 June, 1965 (div.) Patricia Anne Smith (who died 20 Aug, 2018), daughter of Donald Smith, of Haslemere, co Surrey; married 2ndly, 1995, Mrs Gabrielle Tesseron, daughter of Richard G. Williams.

Lord Selsdon is succeeded by his only child by his first wife, the Hon Callum Malcolm McEacharn Mitchell-Thomson (who was born 7 November, 1969).

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Ireland/Coleridge marriage

The marriage has taken place in September, 2024, at Pershore, Worcestershire, between Lucien Oliver D. Ireland (born 1995), son of John D. Ireland and his wife the former Joanna E.A. Gillis (born 1963), & Sophie Cecily Coleridge (born 1996), the only daughter of Sir Nicholas David Coleridge, CBE, DL (born 4 March, 1957),  the 43rd Provost of Eton College, by his wife the former Georgia E. Metcalfe (born 1965).

The bride is descended from a brother of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), and is a kinswoman of the Barons Coleridge (Peerage of the UK, cr 1874).

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Clementine Iris Mary Webb (born 2024)

 Isobel Loveday Webb (nee Probert, born 1991), wife of Guy Anthony Webb (born 31 March, 1989), gave birth to a daughter, Clementine Iris Mary, 11 September, 2024.

Guy is a son of Anthony Webb, of Canterbury, Kent, and Mrs Sarah Webb (nee Kleft), of Ticehurst, East Sussex.

Isobel, scion of the Probert landed family, is the second daughter of Geoffrey Thomas Carwardine Probert (born 1953), head of the landed family, of Bures, Suffolk, and his wife the former Penelope Anne Bevan (born 2 March, 1955), descended from the Viscounts Molesworth.

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Monday, September 16, 2024

Doreen Elizabeth Boddington (née Cooke-Collis) 1935-2024

Doreen Elizabeth Boddington, who died 9 September, 2024, aged 89, was a scion of the Cooke-Collis landed gentry family; born 31 May, 1935, the second daughter of Brigadier Edward Cunliffe Cooke-Collis, CBE, DSO (1902-1989), head of the Irish landed family, and his wife the former Elizabeth Grace Heigham(1903-1983), a scion of that landed gentry family. 

She married 12 April, 1961, Richard Stewart Boddington (1930-2009), a scion of that landed gentry family, son of Philip Boddington (1893-1952), and his wife the former Mary Stewart-Brown (1891-1983), descended from the Brown baronets.

She leaves issue, a son, Rupert (born 1963), and a daughter, Joanna (born 1965).

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Saturday, September 14, 2024

Nicoll/Hayward engagement

The engagement was announced 14 September, 2024, between Murdo Angus Gordon Nicoll (born 1992), youngest son of Angus W.G. Nicoll, MBE, of Calvine, Pitlochry, Perthshire, and his wife the former Rosemary Wilson, & Antonia Katharine (Tershie) Hayward (born 23 August, 1994), scion of that landed gentry family, youngest daughter of John Kenrick Hayward (born 1954), of Upper Siddington, Gloucestershire, & his wife the former Georgiana Mary Hamilton-Russell (born 31 May, 1955), scion of the Viscounts Boyne.

The 8th Viscount Boyne (1830-1907) > Hon Arthur Hamilton-Russell (1872-1951) > David Hamilton-Russell (1911-1988) > Georgiana Hamilton-Russell (b 1955) > Tershie Hayward (b 1994)

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Edwards/Grant engagement

The engagement was announced 14 September, 2024, between Jack Thomas A. Edwards (born 22 August, 1995), son of Mark James Thomas Edwards (born 1957), of Upton Bishop, Herefordshire, descended from the Brooke landed family of Sibton Park, and his wife the former Catherine A.A (Kate). Worley, and Georgina Rose (Georgie) Grant (born 1994), daughter of Capt Patrick M.A. Grant, of Weyhill, Hampshire, and his wife the former Catherine A. Virr.

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Walsh/Ingilby engagement

The engagement was announced 14 September, 2024, between Simon Ernest Walsh (born 1986), son of Martin Stuart Walsh (born 1950), of Bristol, and his wife the former Jeannette M. Wythe, & Eleanor Jane Pamela Ingilby (born 14 February, 1989), the only daughter of Sir Thomas Colvin William Ingilby, 6th Baronet (born 17 July, 1955), of Ripley Castle, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, and his wife the former Emma Clare Roebuck Thompson (born 1960).

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Friday, September 13, 2024

Jennifer Rose Ann Goldsmid (nee Russell) 1945-2024

 Jennifer Goldsmid (nee Russell), who died 6 September, 2024, aged 79, was a scion of the Barons Ampthill (who were descended from the Dukes of Bedford).

Jennifer Rose Ann Russell was born 12 April, 1945, the second daughter of Major Cosmo Rex Ivor Russell (1911- Oct 2003), scion of the Barons Ampthill, by his wife the former Agnes Mary Parsons (1918-Sept 2003), scion of the Earls of Rosse; and married 26 April, 1966, Julian Nicholas Hoffnung-Goldsmid (1939-2006), son of Vivian Edward Hoffnung-Goldsmid (1903-78), of Binfield, Berkshire, and his wife the former Vera Ruth Levy (1904-1993). by whom he had issue, a daughter, Tara Alexandra (who was born 24 Nov, 1970).

The 6th Duke of Bedford > Maj-Gen Lord George Russell > Odo Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill > Hon Sir Odo Russell > Maj Cosmo Russell > Jennifer Russell

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Prof. Noel John Parker-Jervis 1920-2024

 Professor Noel John Parker-Jervis,  who died 1 September, 2024, aged 103, was a scion of the Viscounts St Vincent.

He was born in Singapore, on Christmas Day 1920, the second son of Lieut. St Vincent John Parker-Jervis, RNVR (1891-1930), of Vancouver, and his wife the former Marianita Roller, and was descended from the 2nd Viscount St Vincent.

He was educated at Ampleforth and the University of British Columbia, and was a professor of English at the University of Alberta.

He married firstly, 1950 (div 1954), Jean Mary Columbus. He married 2ndly, 28 September, 1956, Betty Rutherford (1926-2017), third daughter of Jasper Rutherford, of Cumberland, BC, and had an adopted son, Jonathan Rutherford Parker-Jervis (born 5 Nov, 1962).

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Hetta Thalia Jane Young-Herries (born 2024)

 Rosanna Cortlandt Young-Herries [born 1988, née Cator], wife of Fergus William R. Young-Herries [born 15 March, 1987], has given birth to a daughter, Hetta Thalia Jane, a sister for Isobel Jacquetta, born 8 Dec, 2018, and for Ophelia Rose, who was born 8 January, 2021.

Rosanna is a daughter of Charles Francis Cator [1959-2015], scion of the Cator landed gentry family, of Woodbastwick Hall, Norfolk, by his wife the former Jane Culverwell.

Fergus Young-Herries is a son of William Michael Young-Herries of Spottes, head of that Scottish landed family, and his wife the former Amanda Jane Deirdre McIlwain.

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Thursday, September 12, 2024

Josephine Beryl Crawley-Boevey (née Kindersley) 1931-2024

 Josephine Beryl 'Josie' Crawley-Boevey (née Kindersley), died 6 September, 2024. She was 93.

She was born in 1931, the only child of Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Henry Kindersley (1900-1980), scion of that landed gentry family, by his wife the former Beryl Ritchie (1900-1987); and married 17 December, 1960, as his second wife, Major Anthony Crawley-Boevey, MBE (1921-1996), of the 17th/21st Lancers, scion of the baronets of that name, son of Major Martin Crawley-Boevey, DSO, MC (1883-1954), and his wife Elizabeth Adela Hall (1892-1972); by whom she had two sons, Martin (born 4 May, 1963), and Simon (born 29 June, 1967), and a daughter, Katherine (born 12 July, 1964).

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Hugo Orlando Barclay Bridgeman (born 2024)

 Jacquetta Lucy Eyre Bridgeman [born 1984, nee Straker], wife of the Hon Orlando Henry Geoffrey Bridgeman [born 11 April, 1983], scion of the Viscounts Bridgeman, gave birth to a son, Hugo Orlando Barclay, 21 August, 2024, a brother for twins, Imogen Cecilia B, and Ottilie Felicia B, born 12 May, 2022.

Orlando Bridgeman is the fourth and youngest son of the 3rd Viscount Bridgeman [born 5 December, 1930], by his wife the former [Victoria] Harriet Lucy Turton, scion of that landed family.

Jacquetta Bridgeman is a  scion of the Straker landed gentry family, eldest daughter of Nicholas David Barclay Straker [born 6 May, 1952], by his wife the former Victoria Eyre Gray [born 15 July, 1958].

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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Albert Ian Barnaby Portal (born 2024)

Alice Elizabeth Portal (nee Vine, born 1991), wife of Robert Jonathan Portal [born 5 February, 1989],  scion of the Portal baronets, gave birth to a son, Albert Ian Barnaby, 8 September, 2024.

Robert Portal is the second son of Sir Jonathan Francis Portal, 6th Baronet [born 13 January, 1953], of Ashe, Hampshire, by his wife the former Louisa Caroline Hervey-Bathurst [born 25 September, 1959], scion of the Hervey-Bathurst baronets.

Alice Portal is a daughter of Mr Ian P. Vine, of Milverton, Somerset, by his wife the former Sarah Vincent.

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Laurelie, Lady Laurie 1939-2024

 Laurelie, Lady Laurie, who died 5 September, 2024, was widow of Sir Robert Laurie, 7th Baronet. She was 85.

She was born Laurelie Meriol Winifrida Williams, 20 July, 1939, the elder daughter of Sir Reginald Lawrence William Williams, 7th Baronet (1900-1971), and his wife the former Elinor Meriol Enriqueta Trevor (1908-1982); and married 14 September, 1968, Robert Bayley Emilius Laurie (born 8 March, 1931), son of Major General Sir John Laurie, 6th Baronet, CB, DSO & Bar, DL (1892-1983), and his wife the former Evelyn Clare Gardner Richardson-Gardner (1896-1987). Her husband succeeded to the baronetcy (cr UK, 1834) on his father's death, 10 January, 1983, and died 27 December, 2017.

Lady Laurie was the mother of two daughters, Clare (born 25 Dec, 1974, died 21 May, 2023), and Serena (born 31 Aug, 1976).

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Peart/Chapman engagement

 The engagement was announced 11 September, 2024, between Benjamin A. Peart, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Ian Peart of Penn, Buckinghamshire, & Tatiana Poppy Ruth Chapman (born 16 September, 1996), youngest daughter of Nicholas J. Chapman, of Shillingstone, Dorset, by his wife the former Helen Fiona Pelly (born 18 July, 1964), scion of the Pelly baronets.

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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Lady Buchanan 1936-2024, wife of Sir Andrew Buchanan, Bt

 Lady Buchanan, who died 3 September, 2024, aged 88, was the wife of Sir Andrew Buchanan, KCVO, 5th Baronet.

She was born in 1936, as Belinda Jane Virginia Maclean, daughter of Donald Colquhoun Maclean (1898-1967), and his wife the former Cecilia Valerie Cooper (1910-1998); and married firstly, Commander Gresham Neilus Vaughan, RN (1934-1964), son of Malcolm Septimus Vaughan (1903-1967), and his wife the former Judith Elyn Gresham (1905-94), descended from the Leveson-Gower Earls Gower; and married 2ndly, 26 April, 1966, Andrew George Buchanan (born 21 July, 1937), son and heir of Major Sir Charles Buchanan, 4th Baronet (1899-1984), and his wife the former Barbara Helen Stanley (1906-1986), scion of the Earls of Derby.

Her husband served as High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire 1976-77; and appointed a deputy lieutenant for Nottinghamshire in 1985. Between 1991 and 2012, he was Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire  and was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 2011, in the New Year Honours for his service in that office. Buchanan succeeded his father in the baronetcy, 25 May, 1984.

Lady Buchanan leaves a son from her first marriage, Andrew Gresham Vaughan (born 1963), and a son, George Buchanan (born 27 Jan, 1975), and daughter, Laura (born 13 Jan, 1967), from her marriage to Sir Andrew.

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Richard Wallace Vernon 1927-2024

Richard Wallace Vernon, who died 25 August, 2024, aged 96, was a scion of the Vernon baronets.

He was born 18 October, 1927, the second son of Herbert Wallace Vernon (1890-1974), and his wife the former Gertrude Mary Jackson (who died 15 January, 1959); & married 8 January, 1955, Pamela Violet Grierson (1925-2017), scion of the Grierson baronets, daughter of Lt-Col Alexander George William Grierson, RM (1884-1951), and his wife the former Violet Ethel Brewis (1900-1980), by whom he had issue, two sons, Richard (born 31 May, 1956), and Simon (born 28 March, 1958), and two daughters, Sally (born 22 Apr, 1960), and Joanna (born 26 March, 1963).

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Saturday, September 07, 2024

Hon David Edward Hugh Bigham 1938-2024

 The Hon David Bigham, who died 24 August, 2024, aged 86, was a scion of the Viscounts Mersey.

He was born 14 April, 1938, second son of the 3rd Viscount Mersey (1906-1979), and Lady Katherine Evelyn Constance Petty-Fitzmaurice, suo jure the 12th Lady Nairne in the peerage of Scotland (1912-1995); and married 2 January, 1965, Anthea Rosemary Seymour (born 1 July, 1941), scion of the Marquesses of Hertford, daughter of Leopold Richard Seymour (1912-2000), and his wife the former Sheila Isabel Adelaide Butler (1920-1999); by whom he had issue, three sons, Charles (born 21 Apr, 1967), Patrick (born 21 Aug, 1969), and James (born 12 May, 1973), and a daughter, Lucinda (born 3 Nov, 1965).

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Bromley-Davenport/Bertie engagement

The engagement was announced 7 September, 2024, between Harry Nicholas Bromley-Davenport (born 27 February, 1995), scion of that landed gentry family, eldest son of Nicholas Walter Bromley-Davenport (born 11 June, 1964), of Capesthorne Hall, Macclesfield, and his former wife Emma L. Barnes (now Mrs Emma Hopkins, of Upper Shelspit, Thornborough), & (Charlotte Iona) Rose Bertie (born 27 March, 1995), scion of the Earls of Lindsey & Abingdon, eldest daughter of David Montagu Albemarle Bertie (born 12 February, 1963), of Allanbay Park, Binfield, Berkshire, by his wife the former Catherine Cecily Feilden Mason-Hornby (born 7 May, 1964).

The bride to be is a second cousin, several times removed, of HM King Charles III, and is descended from Lady Mary Bowes Lyon, a sister of HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother:-


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Lt-Cdr Antony Charles Reynardson Fane, RN 1927-2024

 Lieutenant-Commander Antony Charles Reynardson (Tony) Fane, RN, died 1 September, 2024, aged 96. He was a scion of the Earls of Westmorland.

He was born 11 October, 1927, son of Major the Hon Mountjoy John Charles Wedderburn Fane (1900-1963), and Agatha Isabel Acland-Hood-Reynardson (1903-1993), scion of the Acland-Hood baronets; married 17 January, 1956, Caroline Mary Rokeby Holland (1933-2010), scion of the Rokeby landed gentry family, by whom he had issue, a son, Edward (born 11 June, 1957), and two daughters, Olivia (born 9 May, 1960), and Charlotte (born 9 Sept, 1967).

Tony Fane was a grandson of the 13th Earl of Westmorland (1859-1922).

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Christopher Marten Smallwood

 Christopher Smallwood died 17 August, 2027.

The son of Canon Graham Marten Smallwood he married in 1975, as her second husband, the Hon Kirsty Jane Aitken (born 22 June, 1947), eldest daughter of Sir Max Aitken, 2nd Baronet (the disclaimed 2nd Baron Beaverbrook) (1910-1985), and his wife the former Ursula Jane Kenyon-Slaney (1920-2012), who was a granddaughter of the maternally of the 3rd Duke of Abercorn KG, KP, PC (1869-1953). 

He leaves a daughter, Eleanor Blubell, who was born in 1982.

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The 4th Baron Wakehurst 1958-2024

The 4th Baron Wakehurst died 22 August, 2024. He was 66.

Timothy Walter Loder was born 28 March, 1958, son of the late 3rd Baron Wakehurst (1925-2022), by his first wife the former Ingeborg Liesolotte Krumbholz-Hess (1931-1977); and succeeded to the peerage (cr UK, 1934) on his father's death, 29 July, 2022.

He married in 1987 (divorced 1997) Susan Elaine Hurst. No issue of the union.

Lord Wakehurst is succeeded in the peerage by his cousin, John James Loder, who was born 7 June, 1977.

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Friday, September 06, 2024

Cousin of the King for Sandhurst

Alexander Ogilvy is the latest descendant of the Royal House of Windsor to enroll at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. 

Ogilvy's sister, Flora Vesterberg, has spoken of her pride that he's joined the Forces. 'We're full of admiration for you,' she writes online. 'Forever thoughtful and inspiring.' Richard Eden, of the Daily Mail, reports that Ogilvy is heading for the RMC next weekend, the start of his military career.

Alexander Charles Ogilvy (born 12 November, 1996), is the only son of James Ronert Bruce Ogilvy (born 29 February, 1964) and his wife the former Julia Rawlinson (born 28 October, 1964), and is a grandson of HRH Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady Ogilvy (born 25 December, 1936), a first cousin of the late Queen Elizabeth II.

He was head boy at the £43,500-per-year Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, Alex was an academic high-flyer who achieved A*s and As in his exams. He has a double major in Computer Science and Economics from the Ivy League Brown University in the USA, where he went out with Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo. Her mother, Kerry, is the daughter of assassinated presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy.

They have since split up and Alex has been romantically linked to 'It Girl' Isabella Charlotta Poppius.

Until now, Alex worked in New York at tech firm Prove, which helps businesses enable customers to prove their identity.

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Capt Stephen David Pettifer 1930-2024

 Capt Stephen David Pettifer died 30 August, 2024, aged 94. 

He was born in 1930, son of Richard Jackson Pettifer (1897-1980), and his wife the former Ada Anne Toomer (1898-1946); and married in 1958, Elizabeth Mary Drage (born 1936), daughter of Charles Christie Binyoun Drage (1902-1943), and his wife the former Rowena Mary Hames (1900-1974); by whom he had two sons, (1) Charles (born 1965), who married in Oct, 1999, Alexandra Shân "Tiggy" Legge-Bourke, MVO (born 1 Apr, 1965), scion of the Earls of Darmouth, former nanny and companion to the Prince of Wales and Duke of Sussex and personal assistant to HM The King (when Prince of Wales), & (2) Henry Pettifer (born 1968), who married 1 June, 1996, Nicola Anne Floyd (born 29 December, 1967), scion of the Floyd baronets.

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Margaret Anne (Mig) Bacon (nee Craig) 1945-2024

 Margaret Anne (Mig) Bacon died 29 August, 2024. She was the widow of Christopher Bacon (1945-2018), scion of the Bacon baronets, premier baronets of England.

She was born in 1945, daughter of John Lawrie Walker Craig, MC (1897-1964), and his wife the former Anne Halifax Western (1910-1987), descended from the Cobbold landed gentry family; and married in 1977, Christopher Nicholas Bacon (born 5 September, 1945), son of Anthony Walter Bacon (1902-1999), and his wife the former Lola Mary Stanley Martin (who died 1998). Her husband died 17 December, 2018.

Mrs Bacon leaves a son, Nathaniel John (born 29 Aug, 1978), and a daughter, Catherine Anne (born 18 Nov, 1979).

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John Kellie Heber-Percy 1935-2024

 John Kellie Heber-Percy, who died in Australia, 3 September, 2024, aged 89, was a sion of the Percy Dukes of Northumberland.

He was born 13 June, 1935, the third son of Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Alan Heber-Percy, OBE (1897-1976), and his wife, the former Monica Violet Erskine (1897-1977), scion of the Earls of Mar & Kellie, & widow of Lt-Col. G.D. Maynard.

He was educated at Hilton College, Natal, South Africa, and was for many years a resident of Victoria, Australia. He married 2 September, 1961, Rosalind Marion Gathercole, daughter of Walter Harvey Gathercole, of Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa, by whom he had issue, two daughters, Gillian Dorothy (Gill) (born 31 May, 1965), and Helen Marjorie (born 28 March, 1968).

His elder daughter, Gill, married in 1987, Michael Alan Dixon who later assumed the surname of Heber-Percy in lieu of his patronymic.

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Lane Fox/Holden engagement

 The engagement was announced 6 September, 2024, between Frederick Evelyn Lane Fox (born June, 1994), second son of Capt George Charles Nicholas (Nick) Lane Fox (born 25 December, 1963), head of that landed gentry family, of Bramham Park, near Wetherby, by his wife the former Hon Rachel Monica Baring (born 29 June, 1967), and Georgiana Helen Sophia Holden (born 1996), daughter of Geoffrey Alexander Holden (born 1957), of Flore, Northamptonshire, and his wife the former Kyriaki Droussiotou.

Frederick Lane Fox is a grandson maternally of the 2nd Baron Howick of Glendale (born 30 Dec, 1937), and is a great-great grandson of the 1st and last Baron Bingley (1870-1947).

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Thursday, September 05, 2024

Daughter for Chelsy Davy & Sam Cutmore-Scott

  Chelsy Yvonne Cutmore-Scott (nee Davy, born 13 Oct, 1985), wife of Old Etonian Samuel Mark [Sam] Cutmore-Scott [born 1984], has given birth to a daughter, Chloe (?), a sister for Leo, who was born in January, 2022.

Sam is the son of Robert Mark C. Cutmore-Scott (born 1951), and his wife the former Joanne Joy Cutmore (born 1951).

Chelsy Davy, former girlfriend of the Duke of Sussex, is a daughter of Charles Davy [born 1952], and his wife the former Beverley Donald.

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Wednesday, September 04, 2024

Perumalpillai/Macmillan Douglas engagement

 The engagement was announced 4 September, 2024, between Arjun Nadarajah Perumalpillai (born 1992), son of Ranjit Srignana Perumalpillai (born 1957), & Mrs Vasuhi Nadarajah-Pillai, of London, & Iona Charlotte Mary Macmillan Douglas (born 27 February, 1992), scion of that landed gentry family, younger daughter of Angus William Macmillan Douglas, OBE (born 1946), of Douglastown, Angus, and Mrs Rosemary Jane (Rosie)  Macmillan Douglas (nee Meynell), of Rye, East Sussex.

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Lady Diana Lucy Wolfe Murray (née Douglas-Home) 1940-2024

 The Lady Diana Wolfe Murray, who died 22 August, 2024, aged 83, was the third and youngest daughter of the late former prime minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home.

She was born Diana Lucy Douglas-Home, 18 December, 1940, scion of the Earls of Home, daughter of the then Alexander Frederick (Alec) Douglas-Home, styled Lord Dunglas, MP (born 2 July, 1903), Conservative MP for Lanarkshire, & his wife the former Elizabeth Hester Alington (1909-1990), scion of that landed gentry family.

Her father was Tory MP for Lanarkshire, and later for Perthshire and Kinross, a government minister in the 1950s and 1960s including holding the office of Foreign Secretary in the Macmillan administration. He succeeded his father, 11 July, 1951, as 14th Earl of Home, and Lord Dunglas, both in the Peerage of Scotland. He was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Thistle in 1962. In October, 1963, Home succeeded Macmillan as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury. He was the last prime minister to be appointed whilst sitting in the House of Lords. Days after his appointment he disclaimed his peerages for life, and was found a safe seat and elected to the Commons, becoming Sir Alec Douglas-Home. He was prime minister 1963-64, and later created a life peer as Baron Home of the Hirsel, and he was Foreign Secretary in the Heath administration. He died 9 Oct, 1995.

Diana was styled Lady Diana, as daughter of an earl, from 1951, and continued to be so styled after her father disclaimed his peerages in 1963. She married 8 June, 1963 (divorced 1976), as his first wife, James Archibald Wolfe Murray (1936-2011), scion of the Murray of Blackbarony baronets, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Malcolm Victor Alexander Wolfe Murray (1908-1985), and his first wife the former Lady Grizel Mary Boyle (1913-1942), daughter of the 8th Earl of Glasgow (1874-1963), by whom she had a son, Rory (born 28 March, 1965), and two daughters, Fiona (born 12 Mar, 1964), and Clare (born 6 Mar, 1969).

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Tuesday, September 03, 2024

Lady Saltoun 1930-2024

 The Lady Saltoun, who died 3 September, 2024, aged 93, was the twenty first holder of a Scottish peerage, and until her retirement in 2014 she was the only holder of a lordship of Parliament who had a seat in the House of Lords as an elected hereditary peer. 

Lady Saltoun, of Cairnbulg Castle, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, was, as a daughter-in-law of Lady Patricia Ramsay, a member of the Royal Family, and a regular visitor to Balmoral, and frequently seen on the platform of the Highland Games at Braemar as a guest of her husband's cousin, Queen Elizabeth II. The Braemar Gathering attended by the King and Queen is to take place on Saturday 7 September, 2024.

Lady Saltoun (pronounced Salton) was the Chief of the Name and Arms of Clan Fraser since 1 May 1984, by decree of the Court of the Lord Lyon. She was also the head of the Scottish lowland family the Frasers of Philorth.

The Saltoun title was created in 1445 for Sir Lawrence Abernethy, descendant of Hugh, Hereditary Abbot of the Pictish Abbacy of Abernethy on Tay, extant in 1172. The 4th Lord Saltoun fought at Flodden and escaped. On the death in 1669 of Margaret Abernethy, the title went to her cousin Alexander Fraser, a faithful supporter of both Charles I and Charles II, and has remained with the Frasers of Philorth ever since.

Flora Marjory Fraser was born 18 October, 1930, the only daughter of the 20th Lord Saltoun, MC, DL, JP (1886-1979), of Cairnbulg Castle, and his wife the former Dorothy Geraldine Welby (1890-1985), scion of the Welby baronets.

An elder brother, Lt Alexander Fraser, Master of Saltoun, MC, Grenadier Guards, was killed in action in February, 1944, aged 22, leaving Flora as heiress presumptive to her father's peerage.

She married 6 October, 1956, Capt Alexander Arthur Alfonso David Maule Ramsay of Mar, of the Grenadier Guards (born 21 December, 1919), scion of the Earls of Dalhousie, a godson of the then Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor) and of Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, the only child of Admiral the Hon Sir Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay, GCVO, KCB, DSO (1881-1972), and his wife HRH Princess (Victoria) Patricia Helena Elizabeth of Connaught, CI, GCStJ (1886-1974), who on her marriage was authorised by Royal Licence to relinquish the style of royal highness and title of princess, and by another royal warrant was granted the style of Lady Patricia Ramsay, with precedence immendiately before marchionesses of England.

She succeeded her father in the Scottish peerage, 31 August, 1979.

Flora's husband succeeded his aunt Princess Arthur of Connaught, Duchess of Fife in the Mar Lodge estate, Aberdeenshire, and became the laird of Mar and was authorised by the Lord Lyon to add the designation 'of Mar' to his surname.

Lady Saltoun, as Chief of the Name and Arms of Fraser retained that name on marriage. Her husband died 20 December, 2000, the day before his 81st birthday.

The last major royal event at which Lady Saltoun was present was the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in Westminster Abbey in 2011. The King and Lord Lyon King of Arms had to be informed of her death before it could be made public, but the news was leaked several hours before.

Lady Saltoun leaves three daughters, the Hon Katharine Fraser (who retained that surname on her marriage), the Hon Alice, and the Hon Elizabeth. The eldest daughter, born 11 October, 1957), a goddaughter of Queen Ingrid of Denmark and the late Princess Mary, Princess Royal, succeeds to the Lordship of Saltoun (Peerage of Scotland, created 28 June, 1445)

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Tollast/Parker engagement

The engagement was announced 3 September, 2024, between Archie Crispin Tollast (born 20 August, 1990),  son of Crispin John Ralph Tollast (born 1951), of Steeple Langford, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Ianthe F. Harrison, & Lucy Harriet Parker (born 1997), scion of the Earls of Macclesfield, daughter of Michael Henry Parker (born 6 Oct, 1955), of Corsley, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Julia Jane Craven Humphreys (born 1964).

Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster > Lady Mary Grosvenor = 6th Earl of Macclesfield > Hon Francis Parker > Capt Oliver Parker >Capt Timothy Parker > Michael Parker > Lucy Parker

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Monday, September 02, 2024

Daisy Flora Alison Kaye (born 2024)

The Hon Alice Mary Kaye (nee Hewitt, born 14 September, 1990), wife of Harry Edward F. Kaye [born 1991], and scion of the Viscounts Lifford, gave birth to a daughter, Daisy Flora Alison, 22 August, 2024, a sister for Clementine Emma Mary , who was born 5 March, 2022.

Harry Kaye is a son of Gerald Anthony Kaye [born 1958], of Henham, Hertfordshire, by his wife the former Emma A.J. Ferens [born 1962].

The Hon Alice Kaye is the second daughter of the 9th Viscount Lifford [born 27 January, 1949], of Kings Somborne, Hampshire, by his wife the former Alison Mary Law.

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Hon Robert William Hervey Erskine 1930-2024

The Hon Robert William Hervey Erskine, who died 2 August, 2024, aged 93, was a scion of the Earls of Mar  Kellie, a grandson of the 12th Earl of Mar & (14th) of Kellie, and a grandson maternally of the 4th Marquess of Bristol.

The youngest of four brothers (one of whom was killed in action in 1945), Robert William Hervey Erskine was born 13 October, 1930, at 6 St James’s Square, the London home of his maternal grandfather, the 4th Marquess of Bristol (1863-1951). Robert’s father was the Unionist politician John Francis Ashley Erskine, styled Lord Erskine (1895-1953) (elder son of the 12th Earl of Mar and 14th Earl of Kellie (1865-1955)), who in 1934 was appointed governor of Madras. The family followed him there and for the next six years lived at Government House, where an Indian groom would regale young Robert with stories from the Mahabharata.

Robert's mother was Lady Marjorie Hervey (1898-1967), daughter of the 4th Marquess of Bristol (1863-1951), of Ickworth, Suffolk, and his wife Alice Frances Theodora Wythes (1875-1957).

He was thrice wed, firstly 21 May, 1955 (div 1964), to Jennifer Shirley Wood, daughter of L.J. Cardew Wood, of Kintbury, Berkshire; married 2ndly, Oct 1969 (div 1975), Anne-Marie Lattès, daughter of Jean Lattès, of Paris; married thirdly, 1977, Belinda Mary Rosalind (Lindy) Blackburn, daughter of Raymond Blackburn, of London.

Robert Erskine leaves three sons ~ one from his second marriage, Alistair (born 1970), and two sons from his third marriage, Thomas (born 1978), and Felix (born 1980).

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Beaumont/Wheeker engagement

 The engagement was announced 2 September, 2024, between George Richard Benson Beaumont (born 1987), elder son of the Hon Mark Henry Beaumont (born 21 July, 1950), of Newbrough, Northumberland, and his wife the former Diana Elizabeth Benson (born 1958), & Rebecca Heather Wheeker (born 1990), daughter of Anthony K. Wheeker, of East Hendred, Oxfordshire, and his wife the former Diana Mary Poll.

George's younger brother, John Wentworth Beaumont (born 1989), died 22 May, 2022.

George Beaumont is a grandson of the late 3rd Viscount Allendale (1922-2002).

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Sunday, September 01, 2024

Macpherson/von Seilern und Aspang marriage

 The marriage has taken place between Philip Strone Alexander Stewart Macpherson (born 18 April, 1984), son of Philip Strone Srewart Macpherson (born 21 July, 1948), and his wife the former Hon Alexandra Grace Baring (born 4 February, 1957), & Katharina Gräfin von Seilern und Aspang (born 1984), daughter of Benedikt Graf von Seilern und Aspang (born 1956) and his former wife Claudia Gräfin Batthyány de Németújvár (born 1960).

Philip Macpherson is a grandson maternally of the late 5th Baron Northbrook (1915-1990)

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Sir Ian D'Olier (Jack) Biddulph, 11th Baronet 1940-2024

Sir Ian D'Olier (known as Jack) Biddulph, 11th Baronet, died in Australia, 28 August, 2024. He was 84.

He was born 28 February, 1940, son of Sir Stuart Royden Biddulph, 10th Baronet (1908-1986), and his wife the former Muriel Margaret Harkness, daughter of Angus Harkness, of Hamley Bridge, South Australia; and married in 1967, Margaret Eleanor Gablonski, daughter of the late John Gablonsky, of Oxley, Brisbane, by whom he had issue, a son, Paul, and two daughters, Julie and Roslyn.

The son, Paul William Biddulph (born 30 Oct, 1967), succeeds to the baronetcy, of Westcombe, Greenwich, which was created 2 Nov, 1664 for his ancestor Theophilus Biddulph (1615-83).

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