Sir Andrew John Alexander Ogilvy-Wedderburn, 7th Baronet 1952-2025

 Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Andrew Ogilvy-Wedderburn, 7th Baronet, died 9 April, 2025. He was 72. 

Andrew John Alexander Ogilvy-Wedderburn was born 4 August, 1952, the only son of Sir John Peter Ogilvy-Wedderburn, 6th Baronet (1917-1977), and his wife the former Elizabeth Katharine Cox (who died 8 Nov, 2003); and succeeded to the baronetcy (cr UK, 1803), on his father's death, 13 August, 1977.

The baronet, and officer in the Black Watch, of Silvie, Alyth, Perthshire, married 1stly, 1984 (div) Gillian Meade Adderley, daughter of Richard Boyle Adderley; and married 2ndly, 8 March, 2014, Fiona Margaret Anne Beaton.

He is survived by his second wife, Fi, and issue from his first marriage, two sons, Peter (b 20 Apr, 1987), his twin, Geordie, and a daughter, Katherine (b 1985). He was predeceased by a son, Sam (1990-1992).

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Robert James Scott-Kerr 1933-2025

 Robert James Scott-Kerr, who died 4 April, 2025, was a scion of that landed gentry family.

He was born 9 December, 1933, son of William Francis Scott-Kerr (1896-1976), and his wife the former Annette Abrahams; and married in 1962, Ann Sagar, by whom he had issue, a son and a daughter.

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The Hon Esmond Vyvyan Harmsworth 1967-2025

 The Hon Esmond Vyvyan Harmsworth, one of North America's leading literary agents for business, entrepreneurship and management books, died 9 April, 2025, while on holiday in Mauritius. He was 57.

A half uncle of the 4th Viscount Rothermere, chairman of Daily Mail and General Trust plc, Esmond lived in Boston in the US, where he had a hugely successful business representing authors from across the publishing spectrum.

His clients included the New York Times bestseller and the number one Wall Street Journal business bestseller Breakthrough: Secrets of America's Fastest Growing Companies by Keith McFarland; Amanda Ripley's New York Times bestseller The Smartest Kids in the World – And How They Got That Way; and Michelle Hoover's acclaimed 2016 literary novel Bottomland.

He was born 18 June, 1967, son of the 2nd Viscount Rothermere (1898-1978), by his third wife Mrs Mary Ohrstrom (former wife of Richard Ohrstrom, of The Plains, Virginia, USA), and eldest daughter of Kenneth Murchison, of Dallas, Texas, USA.

Mr Harmsworth was a younger half-brother of the 3rd Viscount Rothermere (1925-1998), and a half-uncle of the present 4th Viscount (born 3 Dec, 1967).

He was named after his father and was a half-brother of Vere, the 3rd Viscount. He was educated at Eton and Brown University in America from where he graduated magna cum laude in history and history of art. 

From 1992 to 1995 he studied at Harvard Law School, graduating cum laude. He was a founding partner of the former Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency which in 2016 merged with Kuhn Projects to form Aevitas Creative of which Esmond was president. Each year he sponsored the Esmond Harmsworth lecture at Oxford University's Rothermere American Institute.

With his husband Jerome, Esmond was the father of two children, Alfred and Liliane. 

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Ferdinando Edward Nicholas Fairfax (born 2025)

 Antigone Serena Cleopatra Fairfax (nee Quirini, born 24 April, 1987), wife of the Hon Edward Nicholas Thomas Fairfax [born 20 September, 1984], scion of the Lords Fairfax of Cameron, gave birth to a son, Ferdinando Edward Nicholas, 29 March, 2025, a brother for Olympia Jane Annabel, who was born 5 October, 2022.

Antigone is a daughter of Ms Jane Quirini, of Broadway, Worcestershire. The Hon Edward Fairfax is the eldest son and heir of the 14th Lord Fairfax of Cameron [born 4 January, 1956], of Bembridge, Isle of Wight, by his wife the former Annabel Ruth Morriss.

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Son for Alexander Dru and his wife Lady Tatiana Mountbatten

 The Lady Tatiana Helen Georgia Dru (nee Mountbatten, born 16 April, 1990), wife of Alexander Bernard Molyneux Dru [born 25 August, 1991], gave birth to a son, Auberon James George (to be known as Albie), 14 March, 2025, a brother for  Elodie, who was born 20 September, 2023.

Lady Tatiana posted news of the birth on her Instagram page.

Lady Tatiana is a scion of the Marquesses of Milford Haven and descended from Queen Victoria, daughter of the 4th Marquess of Milford Haven [born 6 June, 1961], and his first wife the former Sarah Georgina Walker [born 1961, now Lady Spencer, of Alresford].

Alexander Dru is the son of Bernard Auberon Alexander Dru [born 29 December, 1951], of Bickham, Somerset, and his wife the former Catherine Margaret Norden [born 1960].

Royal Lineage of the baby :-

HM Queen Victoria > Princess Alice > Princess Victoria of Hesse  > George, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven > David, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven > George, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven > Lady Tatiana Mountbatten > Albie Dru

Dru descent from the Earls of Carnarvon:-

The 4th Earl of Carnarvon > Hon Aubrey Herbert > Gabriel Mary Hermione Herbert > Bernard Dru > Alick Dru > Albie Dru

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Edmonstone/Robertson engagement

 The engagement was announced 12 April, 2025, between Jack William Charles Edmonstone (born 5 September, 1996), scion of the Edmonstone baronets, son of Nicholas William Mark Edmonstone (born 16 April, 1964), of Drumore Farm, Killearn, Stirlingshire, and his wife the former Arabella Charlotte Johnsen (born 30 Dec, 1966), descended from the Bowater baronets, & Sophie Olivia Robertson (born 1997), daughter of Timothy J. Robertson, of Fulham, London, & his wife the former Jane Edwards.

Jack Edmonstone is a grandson of Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 7th Baronet (born 3 Aug, 1934).

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Plunkett/Nicholson of Winterbourne engagement

 The engagement was announced 12 April, 2025, between Brian William Thomas Plunkett (born Nov, 1945), son of William Plunkett (1917-2010), and his wife the former Christine Delaney (1919-1990), and the Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (born 16 Oct, 1941), the Conservative life peer, the former Emma Harriet Nicholson, daughter of Sir Godfrey Nicholson, 1st (and last) Baronet (1901-1991), and his wife the former Lady Katherine Constance Lindsay (1912-1972), daughter of the 27th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres (1871-1940).

It will be Baroness Nicholson's second marriage. She wed 1stly, 9 May, 1987, Sir Michael Harris Caine (1927-1999), businessman, son of the economist Sir Sydney Caine, KCMG (1902-1991).

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Cecil/Jerram engagement

 The engagement was announced 12 April, 2025, between Edward William James Cecil (born 29 June, 1996), scion of the Marquesses of Salisbury, younger son of Lord Michael Hugh Cecil (born 23 March, 1960), of Battersea, London, and his wife the former Camilla Julia Scott (born 17 April, 1958), scion of the Scott baronets, and Lucinda Arabella Jerram (born 1996), youngest daughter of the late Mark John Jerram (born circa 1962), by his wife the former Charlotte Emma Rowe (born 1964).

Edward Cecil is a grandson of the late 6th Marquess of Salisbury, DL (1916-2003).

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John Adam Gyde (Johnnie) Heaven (born 2025)

 Alice Charlotte Rose Heaven (née Macmillan, born 1987), wife of Thomas Richard Gyde Heaven [born 1983], gave birth to a son, John Adam Gyde (Johnnie), 6 April, 2025.

Thomas Heaven is the eldest son of Nicholas R.G. Heaven, of Bude, Cornwall, and his wife the former Elizabeth R. Clancy [born 1958].

Alice Heaven is a scion of the Earls of Stockton, younger daughter of the Hon Adam Julian Robert Macmillan [1948-2016], and his wife the former Sarah Anne Mhuire MacGreevy.

The infant is a great-great grandson of Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, Prime Minister 1957-63. The great 'Super Mac'.

9th Duke of Devonshire > Lady Dorothy Macmillan = Harold Macmillan (Prime Minister) > Maurice Macmillan MP > Adam Macmillan > Alice Macmillan > Johnnie Heaven

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Claudia Anna Codrington (born 2025)

 Louisa Alice Clare Codrington (nee Dalrymple, born 1990), wife of Major Hugo C. Codrington, of the Coldstream Guards, gave birth to a daughter, Claudia Anna, 2 April, 2025, a sister for Serena Emily, who was born 22 July, 2023.

Maj Codrington is a scion of that landed gentry family, son of Stephen Mark Codrington [born 1957], of Brightwalton, co Berkshire, by his wife the former Ursula J. Dawson.

Louisa Codrington, a scion of the Earls of Stair, is daughter of Andrew David Dalrymple [born 1959], of Gifford, East Lothian, by his wife the former Bryony Winterton Major.

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Falconer/McGillycuddy engagement

 The engagement was announced 12 April, 2025, between Nick M Falconer, son of Ian and Gillian Falconer of Hampshire, and Aoife Elizabeth Brennan McGillycuddy (born 1997), scion of the ancient Irish landed family whose head enjoys the splendid handle - the McGillycuddy of the Reeks, daughter of Conor Charles McGillycuddy (born 4 Aug, 1959), of London, and his former wife the former Roisin Brennan (now Roisin Croker, of Kent).

The wedding will take place later in 2025 in Ireland.

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Hon Melissa Llewelyn-Davies 1945-2025

 The Hon Melissa Llewelyn-Davies, who died 24 March, 2025, aged 79, a documentary film maker, was the daughter of two life peers, the Baron Llewelyn-Davies and the Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe.

She was born 1 June, 1945, the eldest daughter of Richard Llewelyn-Davies (1912-1981), created a life peer in 1964, by his wife the former Annie Patricia Parry (1915-1997), created a life peer in 1967, as Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe.

She married in 1974 (div) as his first wife, Christopher Desmond Curling (born 1947), scion of that landed gentry family, son of Lt-Cdr Bryan William Richard Curling, VRD, RNVR (1911-2008), and his wife the former Elizabeth Mary Bonham (1914-1992), daughter of Sir Eric Henry Bonham, 3rd Baronet (1875-1937).

She leaves a son, Richard William Samuel (b 1983), and a daughter, Allegra Rose Elizabeth (b 1979).

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Paul Mostyn 1945-2025

 Paul Mostyn, who died 29 March, 2025, aged 79,  was descended from the Mostyn baronets.

He was born 8 October, 1945, as Paul Tuzinkiewicz, son of the then Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Tuzinkiewicz (1896-1969), who in 1949 assumed the surname of Mostyn in lieu of his patronymic, by his wife Hermione Mary Josephine Mostyn (1906-1999), scion of the Mostyn baronets; and married in 1971, Elizabeth Catherine Bernadette Lunn, daughter of Peter Northcote Lunn, CMG, OBE (1914-2011), and his wife the former Hon Eileen Antoinette Mary Preston (1912-1976), daughter of the 15th Viscount Gormanston (1879-1925), &c.

He leaves issue, two daughters, Theresa Antoinette (b 1973), and Olivia Mary (b 1977).

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Rishi Sunak's resignation honours list announced

 Veteran cabinet minister Michael Gove has been awarded a peerage in Rishi Sunak's resignation honours list.

Mr Gove - now editor of The Spectator magazine - was first elected to parliament in 2005 and immediately joined then-Conservative leader David Cameron's shadow cabinet.

He was appointed education secretary when the party entered government in 2010 and held multiple cabinet posts until the 2024 general election, when he stood down from parliament.

Mr Sunak elevated seven allies to the House of Lords, including former cabinet ministers Mark Harper, Victoria Prentis, Alister Jack, and Simon Hart. Former chief executive of the Conservative Party, Stephen Massey, also becomes a peer, as well as Eleanor Shawcross, former head of the No10 policy unit. He also awarded a number of honours.

Eleanor Shawcross is wife of the life peer the Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise, and is a granddaughter of the late Baron Shawcross. 

It is traditional for prime ministers to award peerages and other awards upon their resignation from office - with key political allies, donors and staff often rewarded.

An outgoing prime minister can request that the reigning monarch grants peerages, knighthoods, damehoods or other awards in the British honours system to any number of people.

In the case of peerages, the House of Lords Appointments Commission vets the list, and for other honours, the Cabinet Office conducts checks.

Resignation honours are separate from dissolution honours, which are awarded by the incumbent prime minister and opposition leaders after the dissolution of parliament preceding a general election.

Barratt/Hall engagement

The engagement was announced 10 April, 2025, between Frederick David Nicholas Barratt (born 1987), younger son of David John Barratt (born 18 July, 1947), of Great Witchingham, Norfolk, and his wife the former Penelope Constance Isabel Lloyd (born 1954), & Dr Zinnia Elizabeth Dalton Hall (born 1993), elder daughter of Timothy Julian Dalton Hall (born 1961), of Dunfermline, Fife, and his wife the former Elizabeth Caroline Macleod (born 1965).

Frederick Barratt descends from the Lords Ruthven of Freeland and is in remainder to that Scottish peerage. The bride-to-be descends from the Persse landed gentry family.

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Jane, Lady Portal 1924-2025

 Jane, Lady Portal, who died 1 April, 2025, aged 100, was the widow of Sir Francis Portal, 5th Baronet (1903-1984).

She was born 13 September, 1924, a daughter of Capt Albert Henry Williams, OBE (1863-1941), of Langstone, Hampshire, and his wife the former Edith Barbara Crow (1892-1930); and married, 7 Oct, 1950, as his 2nd wife, Francis Spencer Portal (born 27 June, 1903), son of Sir Spencer John Portal, 4th Baronet (1864-1955), and his wife the former Mary Laura Florence Mure (who died 4 Apr, 1932). Her husband succeeded his father in the baronetcy, 25 Nov, 1955, and died 11 Nov, 1984.

She leaves two children,  sons, Sir Jonathan Portal, 6th Baronet (born 13 Jan, 1953), and Philip Francis Portal (born 6 July, 1957), and was predeceased by a daughter, Mary Jane (1955-2012).

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Lady Pamela Blackmore (née Maxwell-Fyfe) 1928-2025

The Lady Pamela Blackmore, who died 25 March, 2025, aged 96, was a scion of the Earls of Kilmuir (ext).

She was born Pamela Maxwell-Fyfe, 14 October, 1928, the second of the three daughters of the then David Maxwell Fyfe (born 29 May 1900), and his wife the former Sylvia Margaret Harrison, DBE (later Countess De La Warr), sister of the English actor, Sir Rex Harrison.

Her father, a lawyer, was MP for West Derby, deputy chief prosecutor at Nuremberg, Attorney-General and Lord Chancellor for a decade from 1952. He was created Viscount Kilmuir in 1954, and Earl of Kilmuir in 1962. He was GCVO (1953), PC (1945), and died 27 January, 1967 when his honours became extinct.

She married 1stly, 24 May, 1950, Clive Wigram, barrister-at-law (who died 17 Aug, 1956), son of Nathan Graham Wigram (1899-1944), of Sloane Street, SW3, by his wife the former Dorothy Lilian Woolfe (1892-1982); and married 2ndly, 1957, Courtenay Thomas Gardner Blackmore (1922-1992), son of William Blackmore, by his wife the former Isabella Armstrong.

She leaves a daughter from her first marriage, Caroline (b 20 Feb, 1952), and a son and two daughters from her second marriage, Thomas David Maxwell Fyfe Blackmore (b 1960), and two daughters, Katharine Fanny (b 1958), and Victoria Jane (b 1965).

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Prince Andreas Michael Arnim Siegfried Friedrich Hans Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha, Duke of Saxony 1943-2025

Prince Andreas Michael Arnim Siegfried Friedrich Hans Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha, Duke of Saxony, a descendant of Queen Victoria, has died aged 82.

He was head of the Ducal House of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha.

He was born 21 March, 1943, the eldest son of Prince Friedrich Josias Carl Eduard Kyrill Harald of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1918-1998), and his 1st wife the former Viktoria Luise Gfn zu Solms-Baruth (1921-2003), and was a grandson of Leopold Charles Edward George Albert, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, 2nd Duke of Albany, &c (1884-1954), and a great-grandson of Leopold George Duncan Albert, Prince of Gt Britain & Ireland, 1st Duke of Albany, KG KT GCSI GCMG PC (1853-1884), fourth son of HM Queen Victoria (1819-1901).

 He married 31 Jul 1971, (with the pemission of his father as Head of the Ducal House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) Carin Dabelstein (born 16 Jul 1946), daughter of Adolf Wilhelm Martin Dabelstein by his wife Irma Maria Margarete Callsen, and by her had issue,two sons, Prince Hubertus Michael (born 16 Sept, 1975), and Prince Alexander Philip (born 4 May, 1977), and a daughter, Princess Stephanie Sibylla (born 31 Jan, 1972). His elder son succeeds as head of the Ducal House of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha.

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Lord Vivian has married Saweda Kamara

The marriage took place at the weekend between Charles Crespigny Hussey Vivian, 7th Baron Vivian (born 20 December, 1966), son of the late 6th Baron Vivian (1935-2004), of Glynn and Truro, and his former wife Catherine (née Hope) now Countess of Mexborough, of Helmsley, North Yorkshire, and Saweda K. Kamara, the only daughter of the late Mr Alex Kamara and Mrs Jeanette Eccles-James (née Smythe-Macaulay), of Freetown, Sierra Leone.

It is Lord Vivian's second marriage. His first, in 2011, to Mrs Mary Elizabeth Wimpress, daughter of Gregory Vatterott of St Louis, Missouri, USA, ended in divorce, and without issue.

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Countess Sophie Vladimirovna Kleinmichel (Mrs Philip Goodman) 1930-2025

 Countess Sophie Vladimirovna Kleinmichel (Mrs Philip Goodman), died 5 April, 2025. She was 95.

She was descended from the Royal House of Mecklenberg-Strelitz and was a direct descendant of George II, King of Gt Britain & Ireland.

She was born 27 March, 1930, daughter of Count Vladimir Petrovich Kleinmichel, CVO (1901-1982), the courtier who King George V despatched to Denmark to negotiate the purchase of the Romanov jewels from the King's aunt, the Empress Marie of Russia. Count Vladmir's wife was Countess Marie Catherine Sophie von Carlow (1893-1979), daughter of Georg, Duke of Mecklenberg-Strelitz (1859-1909), and descended from King George II.

Her father had arrived in England as a penniless exile in the 1920s, became a merchant banker in the City of London, and also was appointed by the Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, the sister of the murdered Tsar Nicholas II, to be the Comptroller of her household. Her parents were veritable pillars of the parish of the London Russian Orthodox Church in Exile. Countess Marie was the Patron of the parish Sisterhood of Saint Xenia for the last 20 years of her life; and the Count was both Treasurer and Starosta of the parish for more than 40 years, and it was his prudent care of the meagre resources of the parish that paved the way for building the London Russian Orthodox Cathedral (ROCOR). Following the death of Count Kleinmichel, his daughter became Starosta. It was while Mrs Goodman was Starosta that the ROCOR London parish found the courage (and the resources) to buy a plot of land in west London, on which today stands the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God and the Holy Royal Martyrs, an everlasting testimony to the faithful devotion of the Kleinmichel family to the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad.

Sophia married 17 May, 1957, Philip Henry Russell Goodman (born 17 June, 1931), son of Sir Victor Goodman, KCB, OBE, MC (1899-1967), a public servant and sometime Clerk of the Parliaments, and his wife Julian Ottoline Morrell (1906-1989), scion of that landed gentry family.

Her husband's grandmother was Lady Ottoline Violet Ann Cavendish-Bentinck (1873-1938), scion of the Dukes of Portland, and a kinswoman of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, whose mother was a Cavendish-Bentinck.

Philip Goodman died 29 March, 2025, aged 93. 

She leaves issue, five daughters, Mary, Catherine, Elizabeth, Sophia and Xenia.

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Wilbur Hubert Piers Pratt (born 2025)

Constance Elizabeth Pratt [born 1989, neé Mainwaring-Burton], wife of [Edward Roger] George Pratt [born 1989], gave birth to a son, Wilbur Hubert Piers, 9 March, 2025, a brother for Romy and Ned.

George Pratt is a scion of the landed gentry family of that name, son of [Edward Roger] Piers Pratt [1956-2014], and his wife the former Sarah Tilley.

Constance Pratt is a daughter of Guy Anthony Mainwaring-Burton [born 1956], scion of that landed gentry family, and his wife the former Bridget Mary Riley [born 1958].

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Philip Henry Russell Goodman 1931-2025

Philip Henry Russell Goodman, who died 29 March, 2025, aged 93, was a grandson maternally of the Lady Ottoline Morrell, the society hostess, influential in artistic circles.

He was born 17 June, 1931, son of Sir Victor Goodman, KCB, OBE, MC (1899-1967), a public servant and sometime Clerk of the Parliaments, and his wife Julian Ottoline Morrell (1906-1989), scion of that landed gentry family.

His grandmother was Lady Ottoline Violet Ann Cavendish-Bentinck (1873-1938), scion of the Dukes of Portland, and a kinswoman of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, whose mother was a Cavendish-Bentinck.

He married 17 May, 1957, Countess Sophie Vladimirovna Kleinmichel (born 27 March, 1930), daughter of Count Vladimir Petrovich Kleinmichel, CVO (1901-1982), the courtier who King George V despatched to Denmark to negotiate the purchase of the Romanov jewels from the King's aunt, the Empress Marie of Russia. Count Vladmir's wife was Countess Marie Catherine Sophie von Carlow (1893-1979), daughter of Georg, Duke of Mecklenberg-Strelitz (1859-1909), and descended from King George II.

Philip Goodman leaves issue, five daughters, Mary, Catherine, Elizabeth, Sophia and Xenia.

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Mariella Davies (born 2025)

 The Lady Jemima Juliet Davies (nee Herbert, born 4 October, 1989), wife of Hugo Patrick Trehearne Davies [born 1989], & scion of the Earls of Pembroke & Montgomery, gave birth to a daughter, Mariella, in March, 2025, a sister for Delfina (Delfi), who was born 12 December, 2022.

Lady Jemima is the fourth daughter of the late 17th Earl of Pembroke [1939-2003], of Wilton House, Salisbury, by his second wife the former Miranda Juliet Oram [born 1962] (now Miranda, Countess of Pembroke), and is a half-sister of the 18th Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery.

Hugo Davies is the eldest son of Mr Mark Edward Trehearne Davies, CVO [born 20 May, 1948], of Admington, Warwickshire, by his wife the former Antonia Catharine Chittenden [born 1960], 

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The 4th Baron O'Hagan 1945-2025

 The 4th Baron O'Hagan, Member of the European Parliament (Independent) 1973-75 and for Devon (Conservative) 1979-94; Junior Opposition Whip, House of Lords 1977-79, has died aged 79.

The peer died after suffering a severe head injury. An inquest opening in Exeter revealed that the former Conservative peer died 23 March, 2025, at the North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple. 

Lord O'Hagan, Charles Towneley Strachey, was a godson of the late Queen Elizabeth II, and was a Page of Honour to the Queen 1959-1962.

He was born 6 September, 1945, son of Maj the Hon (Thomas) Anthony Edward Towneley-O'Hagan later Strachey (1917-1955), and his wife Lady Mary Sophia Palmer (1920-2001), a close friend of the late monarch, Lady-in-Waiting to HRH The Princess Elizabeth 1944-47, and an Extra Lady-in-Waiting to HRH until 1949, third daughter of the 3rd Earl of Selborne, CH, PC (1887-1971), and his wife the former Hon Grace Ridley (died 22 September, 1959), daughter of the 1st Viscount Ridley, PC (1842-1904).

He succeeded as 4th Baron O'Hagan (Peerage of the UK, cr 1870), on the death of his paternal grandfather, the 3rd Baron, 18 December, 1961.

He married 1stly, 13 Jul 1967 (div. 1984) HSH Princess Tamara Imeretinsky (former wife of Lt Cmdr Thomas Mervyn Smith-Dorrien-Smith RN, of Tresco Abbey, Isles of Scilly), 1st daughter of S/Ldr HSH Prince Michael Imeretinsky, of La Colle, Route de Castellar, Menton, France, by his wife Margaret Stella Kinnaird, former wife of Hon Patrick Charles Kinnaird MC (5th son of Arthur Fitzgerald [Kinnaird], 11th Lord Kinnaird, by his wife and cousin Mary Alma Victoria Agnew, 5th daughter of Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw, 8th Bt.) and 2nd daughter of Henry FitzHerbert Wright, of Yeldersley Hall, co. Derby; and married 2ndly, March 1985 (div. 1995) Mrs Mary Claire Parsons, only dau. of Rev Leslie Roose-Francis, of Trencoth, Blisland, Bodmin, co. Cornwall; and married 3rdy, Dec 1995, Elizabeth Lesley Eve Smith, daughter of Hubert Smith, of Exeter. co. Devon.

Lord O'Hagan leaves issue, a daughter from his first marriage, the Hon Nina Natalia, and a daughter from his second marriage, the Hon Antonia Philippa Mary.

The peerage now passes to his younger brother, the Hon Richard Towneley Strachey (born 29 Dec, 1950).

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The 3rd Viscount Craigavon 1944-2025

 The Viscount Craigavon, third holder of the peerage, has died at the aged of 80.

Janric Fraser was born 9 June, 1944, son of the 2nd Viscount Craigavon (1906-1974), and his wife the former (Angela) Fiona Tatchell (died 6 Nov, 2007), daughter of Dr Percy Tatchell; and succeeded to the peerage (cr 1927) and baronetcy (cr 1918), on the demise of his father, 18 May, 1974.

The 3rd Viscount was one of the hereditary peers elected to the House of Lords in 1999.

The family honours, which now become extinct, were created for his grandfather, James Craig (1871-1940), the first prime minister of Northern Ireland.

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The 24th Lord Borthwick 1940-2025

Lord Borthwick, 24th holder of the Scottish lordship, died 26 March, 2025. He was 84.

Lord Borthwick, of Crookston, Heriot, Midlothian, was the Hereditary Royal Falconer of Scotland, and Chief of the Name and Arms of Borthwick.

John Hugh Borthwick of that Ilk, was born 14 November, 1940, the elder twin son of Henry Borthwick of Crookston (1905-96), who was recognised by Lyon Court 26 Jul 1944 as Borthwick of Borthwick;  and his claim to the Lordship of Borthwick was admitted by Lord Court in 1986, by his wife the former Margaret Frances Cormack (1911-1976). He succeeded to the Lordship on the death of his father, 30 Dec, 1996.

He married 9 Feb 1974, Adelaide Birkmyre (born 1945), daughter of Archy Birkmyre (1904-1992), of Overdale, Crieff, co. Perth (by his wife Doreen Barclay (1913-2005), daughter of Robert Barclay (1882-1949), of Glenpressen, Kilbirnie, co. Ayr), 2nd son of Sir Archibald Birkmyre, 1st Bt., CBE (1875-1935), of Dalmunzie, co. Perth, by whom he had two daughters, the Hon Georgina (born 18 Dec, 1975), and the Hon Alexandra (born 25 Aug 1977).

Lord Borthwick is succeeded by his younger twin brother, the Hon James Henry Alexander Borthwick of Glengelt.

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The Baron Kalms 1931-2025

 The Baron Kalms, who died 30 March, 2025, aged 93, was a Conservative life peer, businessman who was the life president and chairman of Currys plc. In 1948 he joined Dixons, which was founded by his father Charles Kalms in 1937. He spent his whole career with the company, through its various mergers and acquisitions into Currys. He was chairman of Volvere plc, a British turnaround group, from 2002 to 2011. Stanley Kalms had close connections to the University of Buckingham. He received an honorary degree from Buckingham, and Chris Woodhead was the Sir Stanley Kalms Professor of Education. He received his knighthood in the 1996 New Years Honours for his services to the electrical retailing industry and made a life peer as Baron Kalms, of Edgware in the London Borough of Barnet in 2004. Kalms ceased to be a member of the House of Lords on 9 July 2024 under the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 because of non-attendance in the preceding session of Parliament.

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Richard Anthony Henry Pelham 1952-2025

 Richard Anthony Henry Pelham died 7 March, 2025, aged 72. He was a scion of the Earls of Chichester, and heir presumptive to the peerage.

He was born 1 August, 1952, the son of Major Anthony George Pelham (1911-1969), and his wife the former Ann Margaret Bergengren (1912-1990)[; and married in 1987, Georgina Levinge (Gina) Gilmour, daughter of David Gilmour, of Ringshall Grange, Suffolk, by whom he had issue, two sons, Duncan James Bergengren Pelham (born 24 Nov, 1987), and Christopher Douglas Gilmour Pelham (born 28 July, 1990).

The 5th Earl of Chichester > Hon Henry Pelham > Maj Anthony Pelham > Richard Pelham

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