Rosemary Dorothea Wynne Finch, died 10 April, 2025, aged 85. Descended from the Lumley Earls of Scarbrough, she was a niece of the 11th Earl, KG GCSI GCIE GCVO PC.
She was the former Rosemary Dorothea Austin, born in 1940, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Clive Grantham Austin, DL (1901-1974), Royal Horse Artillery, of Roundwood, Micheldever, Hampshire, and his wife the Lady Lilian Mary Theodora Lumley (1900-1981), (who was raised to the rank of an earl's daughter in 1945 following her brother's succession to the Earldom of Scarbrough).
She married 28 January, 1967, Charles Edward Ifan Wynne Finch (1929-2008), late the Coldstream Guards, (who died 18 April, 2008, aged 79), a scion of the Earls of Aylesford. He was a former High Sheriff of Denbighshire, son of Colonel John Charles Wynne Finch, CBE, MC (1891-1982), by his wife the former Alice Mary Sybil (d 1970), daughter of Charles Edward Ifan, by whom she had issue, a son David Wynne Finch (born 19 Apr, 1970), and two daughters, Mary Davina (b 1 Mar, 1968), and Harriet Jane (b 24 May, 1971).
NOTE: some works of reference place her date of birth as 22 May, 1940. Her birth was registered in Winchester Jan-March 1940.
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