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Saturday, September 20, 2025

The Baroness Cunliffe 1933-2025

 The Baroness Cunliffe, who died 2 September, 2025, aged 92, was the wife of the 3rd Baron Cunliffe.

The former Clemency Ann Hoare was born in 1933, scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Maj. Geoffrey Benyon Hoare (1902-1978), of Meadham, Harlow, Essex, and his wife the former Phyllis Mary Jones (1909-2001); and married 27 April, 1957, the then Hon Roger Cunliffe (born 12 January, 1932), son and heir of the 2nd Baron Cunliffe (1899-1963), and his wife the former Joan Catherine Lubbock (1903-1980), scion of the Lubbock baronets (later Barons Avebury). Her husband succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Cunliffe, 24 November, 1963.

Lord Cunliffe is a retired architect and consulting project manager. He specialised in project strategy, particularly for office buildings, museums and exhibition complexes, and for city planning, both in the UK and overseas. He designed various museums and office buildings, and was the job architect of the listed Commonwealth Institute in Holland Park, London. He and his wife now have a small farm and woodlands in Suffolk.

The title of baron was granted to his grandfather, who was Governor of the Bank of England from 1914 to 1918, on 14 December 1914.

Lady Cunliffe is survived by her husband and two sons and a daughter.

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