Rex Anthony Bovill died 28 October, 2024, aged 76.
He was a grandson maternally of Sir John Leigh, 1st Baronet (1884-1959), a mill-owner, who used his fortune to buy a newspaper and launch his career as a Conservative politician. Leigh, whose family resided for generations at Pennington was descended from a cadet branch of the Barons Leigh (of the first creation). Sir John made his fortune in the Lancashire cotton industry. In February 1918, he was created a baronet of Altrincham in Cheshire, and around 1921 he purchased the Pall Mall Gazette.
Rex Bovill was born 12 February, 1948, the third son of Major William Frederick Bovill, OBE (1905-1982), and his wife the former Marjorie Joan Leigh (1910-1985); and married in 1973, Julia Bell, by whom he had a son, Benjamin (born 1983), and a daughter, Fenella (born 1977).
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