Susan, Lady Anstruther, who died 9 May, 2025, aged 94, was the widow of Sir Ian Anstruther of that Ilk, 8th/13th Baronet.
She was born in 1930, the former Susan Margaret Walker Paten, daughter of Henry St John Brading Paten (1901-1969), and his wife the former Margaret Helen Whittome (1902-1995); and married 1stly, 1954, John Maley Walker; she married 2ndly, 15 November, 1963, as his second wife, Ian Fife Campbell Anstruther (born 11 May, 1922), son of Douglas Tollemache Anstruther (1893-1956), and his wife Enid Campbell (1892-1964), scion of the Dukes of Argyll. Her husband succeeded to two baronetcies (of Wrae, NS 1694, & of Anstruther, Nova Scotia, 1700), 19 May, 2002, on the death of his kinsman Maj Sir Ralph Anstruther, Bt, GCVO (1921-2002), sometime assistant private secretary and Equerry to HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Sir Ian died 29 July, 2007.
Lady Anstruther had issue, two a sons, Sir Sebastian, the 9th/14th Baronet (born 13 Sept, 1962), who was born whilst his father was married to his first wife, but legitimated on marriage and under Scottish law was enabled to inherit the Scottish baronetcies, and Tobias (b 1968), and by 4 daughters, Lucy (b & d 1964), Rachel (b 1965), Harriet (b 1968), and Eleanor (b 1971).
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