Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Godfrey Hamilton Bland 1943-2024

 Godfrey Hamilton Bland died 7 December, 2024, aged 81.

He was born 3 July, 1943, the second son of Capt James Frankin McMahon Bland (1905-1984), sometime head of that Irish landed gentry family, and his wife the former Jess Buchan Brodie (1908-1984); and married 5 July, 1969, Olga Mary Hohler (1940-2019), scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Edward Christopher Hohler (1917-1997), and his wife (Mary Alice Olga Sofia) Jane Lane (1919-2014), daughter of Robert Charlton Lane (1873-1943), and his wife Olga Mary Adelaide FitzGeorge (1877-1928), daughter of Sir Adolphus Augustus Frederick FitzGeorge, KCVO (1846-1922), natural son of HRH Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), cousin of Queen Victoria and grandson of King George III.

He leaves two sons, Richard and Alexander, and a daughter, Olga.

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