Diana Constance Faure Walker died 3 December, 2024. She was 103.
She was born Diana Constance Seth-Smith, 3 June, 1921, scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Major Kenneth Arthur Seth-Smith, of Chesterwood Grange, Haydon Bridge, co. Northumberland, by his first wife Doris Roberta McKergow, only daughter of Lt Col Robert Wilson McKergow OBE, of Twineham Grange, co. Sussex; and married firstly, 2 Sept, 1948 (div 1956), Charles Stewart McDonnell Vane-Tempest (1921-2008), scion of the Marquesses of Londonderry, son of Ernest Charles William Vane-Tempest (1894-1957), and his wife the former Aline Mary Loftus St George (1897-1967); she married 2ndly, 23 January, 1961, Owen Stanley Buckmaster, 2nd Viscount Buckmaster (1890-1974), son of the 1st Viscount Buckmaster, GCVO, PC (1861-1934), and his wife the former Edith Augusta Lewin (who died 1935). Diana's second husband died 25 September, 1974. She married 3rdly, in 1982, Maj. Roderick Edward Faure Walker (1914-2002), head of that landed gentry family, and leaves issue from her first marriage, Charles Vane-Tempest (born 18 Apr, 1950), and Aline Vane-Tempest (born 10 Dec, 1952).
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