The engagement was announced 26 April, 2025, between the Hon Toby Henry Storr Hodgson (born 1988), of son of life peer the Baron Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, CBE (born 25 April, 1942), and his wife the life peer Baroness Hodgson of Abinger, CBE (born 7 Nov, 1954), & Sarah C. Newton, daughter of Mr and Mrs Michael Newton of Melbourne, Australia.
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The engagement was announced 26 April, 2025, between Lachlan James Simon Molesworth (born 1984), scion of the Viscounts Molesworth, eldest son of Simon Richard Molesworth (born 2 April, 1954), of Melbourne, Australia, and his wife the former Rosalind Marie Cochrane (born 1954), & Diana H.R. Dunlop, daughter of the late Dr Alexander Boyd Dunlop, and Mrs Aurelia Dunlop, of Melbourne, Australia.
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The engagement was announced 26 April, 2025, between Jack Edmund Brooke Fairbairn (born 22 March, 1995), elder son and heir of Sir Robert William Fairbairn, 7th Baronet (born 10 April, 1965), of New York and Salcombe, and his wife the former Sarah Frances Colleypriest Griffin (born 1965), & Sarah V. Berg, daughter of Andrew and Catherine Berg of Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States.
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Eleanor Cubitt (nee Milligan-Manby), wife of James William Cubitt [born 25 July, 1992], scion of that landed family, gave birth to a daughter, Connie Jeanne, 11 April, 2025, a sister for Wilbur Thomas Owbridge, who was born 10 April, 2023.
James Cubitt is the elder son of Major General Sir William George Cubitt, KCVO [born 1959], of Honing, Norfolk, by his wife the former Lucy Jane Pym [born 24 Sept, 1961], scion of that landed gentry family.
Eleanor Cubitt, scion of the Milligan-Manby landed gentry family, is the elder daughter of James Milligan-Manby, of Thorganby, Lincolnshire, by his wife Emma.
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The engagement was announced 26 April, 2025, between Edward Jasper G. (Ned) Humphreys (born 18 Oct, 1994), son of Toby J. Humphreys (born 1963), of Berwick St James, co Wilts, and his wife the former Sarah L. Hicks, & Sophie Elizabeth Bunting (born 25 March, 1995), scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Mark Charles Bunting (born 27 February, 1959), of Pen Selwood, Somerset, and his wife the former Jill E.G. (Jilly) Carey (born 1959), scion of that landed gentry family.
Sophie Bunting is a niece of the Marchioness of Downshire (born 12 Sept, 1962), wife of the 9th Marquess of Downshire (born 4 Feb, 1959).
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Caroline Mary Steele [née McCorquodale, born 1987], wife of Thomas A.L. Steele, gave birth to a son, James Peter George, 9 April, 2025, a brother for William Hamish Lindsay, who was born 24 June, 2022.
Tom Steele is the son of Julian Steele, of Pitroddie, Perthshire. Caroline Steele is a scion of the McCorquodale landed family, daughter of Hamish Norman McCorquodale [born 1945], and his wife the former Mary Anne Cookson [born 1952], descended from the Brassey family, &c.
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(Leonora) Brilliana Kerr-Smiley (nee Harley, born 1992), wife of Frederick Hugh Kerr-Smiley [born 25 March, 1992], descended from the Smiley baronets, gave birth to a daughter, Dido Selina, 13 April, 2025.
Frederick is a son of Mark Alexander Kerr-Smiley [born 30 March, 1961], of Kensington, London, and his wife the former Manuela Marie Raquez.
Brilliana, a scion of the Harley landed gentry family, is the eldest daughter of Edward Mortimer Harley, OBE [born 1960], of Brampton Bryan Hall, Herefordshire, and his wife the former [Alice] Victoria Mather [born 1960], daughter of Lieutenant-Col Sir [David] Carol Macdonnell Mather, MC, MP [1919-2006], and his wife the former Hon Philippa Selina Bewicke-Copley [born 5 Dec. 1925], daughter of the 5th Baron Cromwell [1893-1966].
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The engagement was announced 26 April 2025, between the Hon (Gustavus) Archie Edward Hamilton-Russell (born 13 June, 1999), son and heir of the 11th Viscount Boyne (born 27 May, 1965), of Burwarton Shropshire and Lucy, Viscountess Boyne (born 1965), 2nd daughter of George J S Potter, of Foxdale, Bunbury, co. Chester, by his wife Leila O McConomy, & Ottilie Rose Mitchell (born 1997), daughter of William Jonathan Edward (Jol) Mitchell (born 1958), of Benacre, Suffolk, and his wife the former Sarah Streeter.
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The engagement was announced 25 April, 2025, between Capt. Stuart Alexander Fairlie Kaye, MVO, The Life Guards (born 1993), younger son of (Richard Wilfrid) Mark Kaye (born 1951), of East Woodlands, Somerset, and his late wife the former Philippa S. (Pippy) Checketts (1959-2024), & Rose Edith Lygon Scrope (born 7 November, 1994), scion of the ancient house of Scrope of Danby, daughter of Adrian Richard Scrope (born 8 August, 1949), of New Hayward, Berkshire and Mrs Sarah Patricia Scrope (nee Ward, born 3 February, 1968), of Chilton Foliat, Berkshire, scion of the Earls of Dudley.
Capt. Kaye, who has been Equerry to the Princess Royal since 2022, was appointed to the Royal Victorian Order, in the personal gift of the King, in the New Years Honours 2025. He is a grandson maternally of Squadron Leader Sir David Checketts, KCVO, RAF (born 23 Aug, 1930), former Private Secretary to HM The King (when Prince of Wales) and an Equerry to the late Duke of Edinburgh and to the King (when P of W).
Rose Scrope is a granddaughter maternally of Gerald John Ward, CBE, DL (1938-2008), Berkshire landowner, a great friend of HM The King, Old Etonian, Royal Horse Guards officer, godfather of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, & a scion of the Earls of Dudley, by his 1st wife the former Rosalind Elizabeth Lygon (1946-2020), scion of the extinct Earls Beauchamp.
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Alice Daisy Brooke (née Jack, born 1991), wife of John Weston (Jock) Brooke (born 23 February, 1992), scion of the Brooke baronets, gave birth to a son, Bertie Charles Alister Weston, 19 April, 2025, a brother for Amelia Ann Rosemary, who was born 28 October, 2023.
Jock Brooke, heir presumptive to the Brooke baronetcy, is the son of the late Charles Weston Brooke (1951-2024) , by his wife the former Tanya Elizabeth Maurice.
Alice Brooke is a daughter of the Rt Hon Sir Alister William Jack, KBE, DL (born 7 July, 1963), a former Conservative MP for Dumfries and Galloway and Secretary of State for Scotland 2019-2024, by his wife the former Elisabeth Ann Hodgson (b 1965). Sir Alister has been nominated for a life barony in Rishi Sunak's Resignation Honours List 2025.
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The engagement was announced 25 April, 2025, between Julian Roger G. Hill (born 1997), second son of Guy Henry Charles Hill (born 1958), of Awbridge, Hampshire, and his wife the former Hon Emma Louisa Angela McGowan (born 13 June, 1963), & Saskia Catherine Tricker (born 1998), younger daughter of Graham John Tricker (born 1962), of Manea, Cambridgeshire, and his wife the former Lisa Victoria Fitzhugh (born 1966).
Julian Hill is a grandson maternally of the 3rd Baron McGowan (1938-2003).
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The engagement has been announced between the Hon Vere Richard Jonathan Harold Harmsworth (born 20 October, 1994), son and heir of the 4th Viscount Rothermere (born 3 December, 1967), and his wife the former Claudia Caroline Clemence (born 1967), & Alexandra (Mwana) Wood (born circa 1999), daughter of Duncan Wood, of Zimbabwe, and Hilary Campbell.
Vere Harmsworth, whose father Viscount Rothermere is chairman of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc, publishers of the Daily Mail, MailOnline and The Mail on Sunday, was educated at Eton and St Peter's College, Oxford, where he read history. After working for BCG, the global management consulting group, he joined the family firm, learning all aspects of the publishing business. He has held a string of senior roles and is currently chief commercial officer for DMG Media.
Vere's mother Claudia is one of three sisters to marry into the peerage. Sister Katya was married to Richard Milborne-Swinnerton-Pilkington , of the baronets of that name, and sister Sarah-Jane was wife of Lord Francis Russell, son of the late Duke of Bedford and is now Lady Thatcher, wife of Sir Mark Thatcher, 2nd Baronet.
Vere is heir to the titles Viscount Rothermere, of Hemsted in the County of Kent (United Kingdom, let. pat. 17 May 1919), the Barony of Rothermere, of Hemsted in the County of Kent (United Kingdom, let. pat. 17 Jan 1914), and the Baronetcy styled "of Horsey" (United Kingdom, let. pat. 14 Jul 1910).
Alexandra Wood, the daughter of tobacco farmers, was educated at Peterhouse Girls, one of the top independent schools in southern Africa. She is a project manager in the construction industry and currently completing a master's in construction economics at University College London.
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The engagement was announced 24 April, 2025, between Joseph Philip Sebastian Yorke, 10th Earl of Hardwicke (born 3 February, 1971), and Nicola Antonia Osmond-Evans (born 1973).
Nicola is the eldest daughter of Mr Anthony William David Osmond-Evans (born 1943), writer, publisher, of Suffolk, and his former wife Mrs Yvonne Christiane Timberlake (nee Schwencke), of Haslemere, Surrey.
Lord Hardwicke is the son of Philip Simon Prospero Lindley Rupert Yorke, styled Viscount Royston (born 20 Apr 1938; dvp. 1 Jan 1973), by his wife the former Virginia Anne Lyon (died 1988), daughter of Geoffrey Lyon, of Hambledon, Godalming, co. Surrey.
The 10th Earl succeeded to the family honours on the death of his grandfather, the 9th Earl, 31 December, 1974. He took his seat in the House of Lords at the age of twenty two, making him the youngest member then sitting; he was a member from 1993 to 1999, since he was not elected as a representative Peer under the House of Lords Act 1999.
In 1999, Lord Hardwicke received a suspended two-year prison sentence for supplying cocaine following a sting operation by the News of the World newspaper at the House of Lords. Journalists had posed as Arab sheiks, with the jury noting the "extreme provocation" used in the incident. Lord Hardwicke was suspended by the Conservative Party following the revelations.
Lord Hardwicke married firstly, in 2008, Siobhan Sheryl Loftus (born 1961), daughter of Kevin Loftus. They have one child, Philip Alexander Joseph Yorke, Viscount Royston (born 3 December, 2009), who is the heir apparent to the peerages.
The peer is the 10th Earl of Hardwicke (Great Britain, let. pat. 2 Apr 1754); 10th Viscount Royston (Great Britain, let. pat. 2 Apr 1754); 10th Baron Hardwicke, of Hardwicke in the County of Gloucester (Great Britain, let. pat. 23 Nov 1733)
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Zoë, Baroness Monk Bretton, who died at her home near Montreux, Switzerland, 19 April, 2025, was the widow of the 3rd Baron Monk Bretton.
She was the former Zoë Diana Mary Alicia Scott, born in 1938, the daughter of Ian Douglas Murray Scott, and his wife the former Marjorie Mead, and married 29 January, 1958, Charles John Dodson, 3rd Baron Monk Bretton, DL, born 17 July, 1924, son of the 2nd Baron Monk Bretton, CB [1869-1933], and his wife the former Ruth Brand [who died 5 Aug, 1967], scion of the Viscounts Hampden.
Her husband succeeded to the peerage at the age of 9. The barony of Monk Bretton was created in 1884 for his grandfather, John Dodson, who was Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons 1865-72; Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1873-74; President of the Local Government Board 1880-82, 1874-80; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1882-84, &c.
Lord Monk Bretton died 26 May, 2022, aged 97, was a peer for almost 89 years, having succeeded to the title, 29 July, 1933. He was the longest ever holder of a peerage, and sat in the Lords from 1948 to 1999.
Lady Monk Bretton leaves two sons, Christopher, the 4th Baron, and the Hon Henry Dodson.
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Robert Heydon Gayner died 10 April, 2025, aged 77.
He was born in April, 1947, son of Wing Commander John Richard Hensman Gayner, DFC, RAF (1918-1987), and his wife the former Pamela Rolt (1913-1985), scion of that landed gentry family; and married in 1972, Virginia Eilun Hamilton Borthwick (born Dec. 1948), daughter of Commander David Aubrey Hamilton Borthwick, RN (1921-2010), and his wife the former Pamela Walker (1921-2019), by whom he had issue, three sons, James Richard Heydon (born 1976), Oliver Stuart Heydon (born 1977), and Henry Charles Heydon (born 1983).
He was descended from the Walker baronets:-
Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, 1st Baronet > Mary Carlaw Walker > Evelyn Roylance Court > Pamela Rolt > Robert Gayner (d 2025)
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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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Rosemarie Hume Gray, who died 5 April, 2025, aged 97, was the mother of Sir William Gray, 3rd Baronet.
She was the former Rosemarie Hume Elliot-Smith, daughter of Air Commodore Charles Hume Elliot-Smith, AFC; and married 22 April, 1954, William Talbot Gray (born 4 July, 1931), of the 9th Lancers, of Eggleston, near Barnard Castle, son and heir of Sir William Gray, 2nd Baronet (1895-1978), and his wife the former Josephine Eveleigh (who died 19 March, 1943). Her husband, heir to the baronetcy, died as the result of a motor accident, 9 July, 1971.
Mrs Gray leaves issue, a son, Sir William Hume Gray, 3rd Baronet (born 26 July, 1955), of Eggleston Hall, Barnard Castle, who succeeded his grandfather in the baronetcy, 1978; and two daughters, Victoria (born 15 July, 1958), and Emma (born 9 Oct, 1962).
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Sir Roger Joseph Clifford, 7th Baronet, of Christchurch, New Zealand, died 31 March, 2025. He was 88.
He was born 5 June, 1936, son of Sir Roger Charles Joseph Gerrard Clifford, 6th Baronet (1910-1982), and his wife the former Henrietta Millicent Elizabeth Kiver (who died in 1971); and succeeded to the baronetcy (cr UK, 1887), upon his father's death, 5 July, 1982.
He married 12 April, 1968, Joanna Theresa Ward (born 20 January, 1940), daughter of Cyril James Ward (1913-1984), of Christchurch, New Zealand, by his wife the former Janet Graham Stevenson, by whom he had two daughters, Angela Mary Jane (born 24 Mar 1971), and Annabel Mary Louise (born 16 June, 1973).
The baronetcy now becomes extinct.
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David Michael Ralph Nevill, who died at Tunbridge Wells, on 20 March, 2025, aged 83, was a descendant of the noble house of Nevill, and heir presumptive to the earldom of Abergavenny, held by his cousin, the 6th Marquess of Abergavenny.
He was born 20 June, 1941, the elder son of Michael George Ralph Nevill (1917-1943), who was killed in action in North Africa, by his wife the former Maureen Ethné David Rhodes (1920-2002), daughter of Maj (Arthur) Tahu Gravenor Rhodes, MVO (c1894-1947) and his wife the former Hon Helen Cecil Olive Plunket (1895-1968), daughter of the 5th Baron Plunket (1864-1920) and Lady Victoria Alexandrina Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (1873-1968), scion of the Marquesses of Dufferin & Ava.
Mr Nevill, of Birling Place, Kent, married 16 March, 1972, Katherine Mary Westenra, daughter of Rossmore Derrick Westenra, of Christchurch, New Zealand, by whom he had issue, a son, Guy Michael Rossmore Nevill (born 12 November, 1973), who is now heir pres to the Abergavenny earldom, and two daughters, Anna Louise (b 16 Feb, 1976), and Georgina Rose (b 16 May, 1981).
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The engagement was announced 19 April, 2025, between William Frederick M. Motion (born 1998), son of Andrew Barrie Motion, of Sandwich, Kent, and his wife the former Celestine Maria del Pilar Atkins, & Matilda Clarinda Cottrell (born 1998), daughter of Edward A.C. Cottrell (born 1959), of East Marden, West Sussex, and his wife the former Camilla J. Neal (born 1960).
William Motion is a brother of Davina Rose Cadogan, styled Viscountess Chelsea (born 1996), wife of George Cadogan, styled Viscount Chelsea, son and heir of the 9th Earl Cadogan.
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The engagement was announced 19 April, 2025, between Jack E. Moreton, son of Mr & Mrs Nigel Moreton, of Lower Stonnall, Staffordshire, & Marina Louise Jodrell (born 13 April, 1997), daughter of Henry Francis Mostyn-Owen Jodrell (born 28 Apr, 1967), of Easton Grey, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Christina Roselle Phillips.
Marina is descended from the Mostyn-Owen landed family and the Ramsden and Boord baronets.
Sir John Ramsden, 4th Bt > Capt Henry James Ramsden > John Charles Francis Ramsden > Lt-Col Henry Ramsden-Jodrell > Susan Dorothy Mostyn-Owen-Jodrell > Henry Francis Mostyn-Owen-Jodrell > Henry Francis Mostyn-Owen-Jodrell > Marina Jodrell
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The engagement was announced 18 April, 2025, between Charles Francis Hallaran (born 27 January, 1990), son of the late Michael William Hallaran (1938-2022), and his wife the former Olivia de Tessier (born circa 1950), now of Mere, Wilshire, & Lucinda Katherine Norton (born 1994), daughter of Richard W. Norton, of Rendcomb, Gloucestershire, and his wife the former Caroline Taylor.
Charles is descended from the Ballantine-Dykes landed gentry family, and from the Howard Earls of Carlisle (who themselves descend from the Howard Dukes of Norfolk)
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Charlotte Anne Gerard Sethi, who died 18 March, 2025, aged 69, was a scion of the Buxton baronets.
She was born 25 September, 1955, the elder daughter of Lieutenant Commander Gerard St John Roden Buxton, RN (1927-2008), and his wife the former Judith Averil Campbell (1927-2021), a granddaughter of the 1st Baron Colgrain, JP (1866-1954). Charlotte was a sister of Sir Crispin Buxton, 8th Baronet.
She married in 1981, (Sardar) Mandhir Singh Sethi (who died a week after his wife), by whom she had issue, two daughters, Selina (born 1984), and Hermione (born 1988).
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India More Nisbett (née Williamson), wife of Charles Nielson George More Nisbett (born 1984), scion of that Scottish landed gentry family, gave birth to a daughter, Victoria Alexandra Elise, 11 April, 2025, a sister for Elizabeth Sarah Rose, who was born 20 May, 2023.
India, from Houston, Texas, married circa 2021, Charles More Nisbett, younger son of (George) Alan More Nisbett (born 1940), of The Drum, Edinburgh, and his wife the former Patrea Evelyn MacDonald.
Charles More Nisbett is a great-great grandson of Lady Agnes Dalrymple, daughter of the 9th Earl of Stair.
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The engagement was announced 17 Apr, 2025, between George Snowden Hanbury (born 18 August, 1989), scion of the LG family of that name of Drumstinchall, Kirkcudbrightshire formerly of Poles, the only son of Nigel John Hanbury (born 4 March, 1957), of West Harting, Sussex, and his wife the former Daphne E. Boyle, and Ela Lucinda Stopford Sackville (born 8 April, 1995), scion of the Earls of Courtown, the eldest daughter of Charles Lionel Stopford Sackville (born 14 February, 1961), of Lowick, Northamptonshire, and his former wife the former Shona McKinney (born 6 April, 1960) (now Mrs Shona Wilkinson, of Battersea).
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Stephanie Loyd (née Kwan), wife of James Canning (Jamie) Loyd (born 1 September, 1988), scion of the Loyd landed gentry family formerly of Monk's Orchard, gave birth to a son, Evander Canning Jin Zhou Kwan, 11 April, 2025.
Stephanie Rachael May Wah Loyd is a daughter of Mr and Mrs Steve Kwan of Whitebridge, New South Wales.
Jamie Loyd is the elder son of David William Arnold Loyd (born 4 January, 1949), of Mildenhall, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Anabel Laura Dorothy Morrison (born 31 Dec, 1955), scion of the Barons Margadale.
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The engagement was announced 16 April, 2025, between Joshua B. Wade, son of Mr & Mrs Chris Wade, of Towersey, Oxfordshire, and Marina Catherine E. Monteith (born 1996), daughter of Desmond Monteith, of Oxhill, Warwickshire, and his wife the former Emma Jenefer Seyfried (born 1964), daughter of Capt John Beeton Seyfried, Royal Horse Guards (who died 28 March, 2008, aged 84), and his 2nd wife the former Anne Daphne Holbech, scion of that landed gentry family.
Marina Monteith is a niece of David John Seyfried Herbert, 19th Baron Herbert (born 2 March, 1952).
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Lord Forres the fourth Baron, died in Orange, New South Wales, 12 April, 2025. He was 78.
Alastair Stephen Grant Williamson was born 16 May, 1946, son of John, 3rd Baron Forres (1922-1978), and his first wife the former Gillian Ann MacLean Grant, 1st daughter of Maj John MacLean Grant, of The Cavalry Club, Piccadilly, London, and succeeded to the peerage (cr UK, 1922), and the family baronetcy (Cr UK, 1909), on his father's death, 22 September, 1978.
He took his seat as a Crossbencher in the House of Lords on his father's death in 1978, but lost his seat with the eviction of the hereditary peers in Blair's reform of the upper house in Nov 1999.
He married 2 May, 1969, Margaret Ann Mallam, daughter of George John Mallam, of Mullumbimby, New South Wales, Australia, by whom he had issue, two sons, the Hon George Archibald Mallam Williamson (born 16 Aug, 1972), and the Hon Guthrie John Williamson (born 14 Apr, 1975). The elder son succeeds as 5th Baron Forres.
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Sarah Tate, died 6 April, 2025, aged 88. She was a daughter of Lieut-Col. Angus John Campbell Rose (1909-1981), of Comrie, Perthshire, by his first wife the former Alison Margaret Logan Beveridge (1908-60) ; and married 7 December, 1960, William Nicolas Tate (born 19 Nov, 1934), scion of the Tate Bts, second son of Sir Henry Tate, 4th Baronet (1902-1994), and his wife the former Lilian Nairne Gregson-Ellis (1901-1984), by whom she had issue, 4 children. She is survived by two, a son, Rupert (born 13 Nov, 1962), and a daughter, Georgina (born 8 March, 1969). She had a daughter, Melissa (1964-69), and a son who lived for 2 days in 1966.
Her husband predeceased her, 24 September, 2022.
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Jennifer Mary Stevenson-Hamilton (née Habershon), died 8 April, 2025. She was 91.
She was born 10 May, 1933, the second daughter of the Rev Francis Edward Habershon (1886-1968), and his wife the former Norah May Fairlie Dobbs (1900-1992), scion of that landed gentry family; and married 9 June, 1960, James Christopher Stevenson-Hamilton, 17th of Fairholm (born 21 May, 1933), head of that landed family, son of James Stevenson-Hamilton (1867-1957), by his wife the former Hilda Cholmondeley (1901-1979), scion of that landed family, by whom she had issue, three sons, James (born 26 Apr, 1962), Andrew (born 23 Feb, 1965), and John (born 31 May, 1969).
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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Andrew Ogilvy-Wedderburn, 7th Baronet, died 9 April, 2025. He was 72.
Sir Andrew was a bobsledder. He competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics and the 1980 Winter Olympics.
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, 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, 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 Jerôme Buet, Esmond was the father of two children, Alfred and Liliane.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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, 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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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.
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, 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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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, 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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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), 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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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, 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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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, 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 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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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, 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 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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Victoria Armstrong (nee Richardson), wife of Thomas Bernard Martin Armstrong (born 9 October, 1983), gave birth to a daughter, Elizabeth Rose Monamy, 3 February, 2025.
Victoria is a daughter of Adrian Richardson. Her husband, Thomas, is descended from the Barons Camoys, the third son of Nicholas Armstrong, and his wife the former Sally Ann Monamy Harrison (born 28 July, 1951), daughter of Brigadier Ernest James Cholmeley Harrison, OBE (1910-2001), & his wife the former Sheila Mary Stonor (1916-1994), scion of the Barons Camoys.
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Eloise Violet Boyd-Bowman (née Nelson, born 2 Aug, 1988), wife of George Boyd-Bowman (born 1988), and scion of the Barons Nelson of Stafford, gave birth to a daughter, Alexa Romilly Cosima, 22 March, 2025, a sister for Alfred Quentin James, who was born 22 March, 2023.
George is the son of Robert Boyd-Bowman (born 1944), of Norfolk. Eloise is a daughter of the Hon James Jonathan Nelson (born 17 June, 1947), of Penselwood, Somerset, and his wife the former Lucy Mary Brown, and a grandson of the late 2nd Baron Nelson of Stafford (1917-1995).
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The engagement was announced 29 March, 2025, between Charles Hugo Gifford Lywood (born 1994), scion of that landed gentry family, son of Rupert Charles Gifford Lywood (born 1958), of Hopton Heath, Shropshire, and his wife the former Elizabeth Celia Barratt (born 1959), & Isobel Rosemary (Rosie) Blackett (born 23 May, 1997), scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Major James William Beauchamp (Jamie) Blackett, (born 17 Oct, 1964), of Arbigland, Dumfriesshire, and his wife the former Sheralyn Isobel (Sheri) Fuller.
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Madalena Bracher (née de Andrade e Silva Gomes de Abreu), wife of Barnaby Alexander Patrick Bracher [born 1993], gave birth to a son, Patrick George, in Lisbon, 13 March, 2025.
Barnaby Bracher is a son of Mr Garnet Piers Bracher [born 1963], of Putney, London, and his wife the former Candida Dorothy Drury-Lowe [born 1963], scion of that landed gentry family.
Madalena Bracher is a daughter of Mr and Mrs Jorge de Abreu, of Estoril, Portugal.
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Katherine Withers, wife (?) of Andrew Wolfe Murray, scion of the baronets of that name, gave birth to a son, George Edward Dudley, 20 March, 2025, a brother for James Alexander Malcolm, who was born 24 February, 2019.
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Jonathan Trelawny Morshead, who died 3 March, 2025, aged 82, was a blues guitarist, scion of the Morshead landed gentry family, descended from the Salusbury-Trelawny baronets.
He was born 17 November, 1942, son of John Morshead (1899-1970), and his wife the former Pearl Seed; and married in 1974 (div 1984), Diana Clark. No issue of the marriage.
Sir William Salusbury-Trelawny, 8th Baronet (1781-1856) > Elizabeth Salusbury-Trelawny (1809-88) > Frederick Morshead (1836-1914) > John Morshead (1899-1970) > Jonathan Morshead (1942-2025)
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Capt Ian Cameron Sales La Terrière, who died 13 March, 2025, aged 94, was head of that Scots landed gentry family, of Dunalastair.
He was born 15 September, 1930, son of Maj. James Fenwick De Sales La Terrière (1901-1968), and his wife the former Frances Natalie Barker-Hahlo (later Baroness Ashtown, wife of the 5th Baron); and married 1stly, 5 April, 1957, Sarah Elizabeth Speed (who died August, 1976), daughter of Sir Robert William Arney Speed, CB, QC (1905-1999), and his wife the former Phyllis Armitage (1903-1991), scion of that landed family; married 2ndly, 8 September, 1979, Helen Rose Sanford Hodgson (born 2 May, 1947), scion of that landed gentry family, elder daughter of Lieutenant-Commander Archibald Richard Sanford Hodgson, RN (1908-1990), and his wife the former Helen Mary Ursula Pomeroy (1909-2000), scion of the Viscount Harberton.
He leaves three sons and a daughter from his 1st marriage, James, Michael, Peter and Fiona, and a further 2 sons from his 2nd marriage, Hugh and Robert. He was also predeceased by a son from the second marriage, Rory.
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Monica Juanita de Salis (née Bower), died 18 February, 2025, aged 80. She was a scion of the Bower landed family.
She was born 27 December, 1944, daughter of Commander Robert Tatton Bower, RN (1894-1975), and his wife the former Hon Henrietta May Caribbea Strickland (1903-1975), daughter of the 1st and last Baron Strickland (who was also 6th Count Della Catena) (1861-1940).
She married 5 August, 1967, Bernard Peter De Salis (born 15 December, 1936), scion of that landed gentry family, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Count Peter Francis de Salis (1902-1982), and his wife the former Winifred Alice d'Anyers Willis (1910-1977), scion of that landed family, by whom she had two sons, Piers Robert (b 17 Dec, 1969), and Hugo John (b 6 May, 1971).
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Lucy Annora Murphy, CVO, who died 13 March, 2025, aged 87, was sometime information officer to the household of the late Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother at Clarence House.
She was a scion of the Russell Barons Ampthill, who descend from the Dukes of Bedford.
She was born 4 March, 1938, the second daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel William Douglas Gosling, MBE, DL, TD (1904-1994), and his wife the former Rosemary Russell (1907-1986), scion of the Barons Ampthill.
She married in 1981 (Donald) Royston (Roy) Murphy (1932-2007), a Metropolitan police officer, who predeceased her, son of Henry Oswald Murphy (1897-1965), and his wife the former Maria Jane Davies (1896-1979).
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Richard William Alan Reardon Smith, who died 4 March, 2025, aged 78, was a scion of the baronets of that name.
He was born 8 December, 1946, the second son of Alan John Reardon Smith (1914-1970), and his wife the former Winifred Maud Williams (died 2025), and was a grandson of Sir Willie Reardon Smith, 2nd Baronet (1887-1950), shipowner, & High Sheriff of Glamorgan.
He married 1stly, in 1970 (div. 1990), Suzanne Ward Jones, daughter of Jonathan Preece Jones, of Coychurch, Glamorgan; married 2ndly, 1990, (Nicola) Jane Yapp, daughter of Christopher Denis Yapp, of St Mellons, Galmorgan.
He leaves issue from both marriages, from his 1st union he leaves a son, Dylan (born 1972), and a daughter, Zahra (born 1973), and from his second marriage, a son, Samuel (born 1990)
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Jennifer Isobel Chevallier Guild (nee Gooch), who died 14 March, 2024, aged 82, was a scion of the Gooch baronets.
She was born 7 May, 1942, the second daughter of Colonel Brian Sherlock Gooch, DSO, TD (1904-1968), and his wife the former Monica Mary Heywood (1909-1975), scion of that landed gentry family, and was a granddaughter of Sir Thomas Vere Sherock Gooch, 10th Baronet (1881-1946).
Her brother Arthur (born 1 June, 1937), succeeded as 14th baronet, 9 Apr, 2008.
She married 18 December, 1965, Lieutenant-Commander John Marjoribanks Chevallier Guild (1933-2020), scion of that landed gentry family, son of Cyril Harrower Guild (1906-1978), and his wife the former Perronelle Mary Chevallier (1902-2004), of that landed family, by whom she had two sons, John (b 2 May, 1967), and Henry (b 20 Dec, 1968).
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Clare Rosemary Hohler, died 22 March, 2025, aged 86. She was a descendant of the Dukes of Marlborough.
She was born Clare Rosemary Spencer Bernard, 1 November, 1938, the second daughter of John Gray Churchill Spencer Bernard (1907-1977), descended from the 3rd Duke of Marlborough, of Winchenden House, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, and his wife the former Elsie Phyllis Corley (1907-2001); and married 10 August, 1963, (Rio Tyrell) Arthur Hohler (born 15 February, 1934), head of that landed gentry family of Long Crendon, the elder son of Henry Arthur Frederick Hohler, CMG (1911-2001), of Long Crendon Manor, Aylesbury, and his 1st wife the former Mona Valentine Pirie (1909-1944), scion of that landed gentry family.
Mrs Hohler was also a Charles II descendant, having Beauclerk ancestry.
She leaves a son, Rupert (born 15 Nov, 1972), and three daughters, Harriet (b 1 Feb, 1967), Camilla (b 9 Nov, 1968), and Amanda (b 19 Nov, 1970)
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Sir Julian Seymour, CBE, who died 23 March, 2025, aged 80, organised a rudderless Margaret Thatcher after her ejection from Downing Street, running her private office from 1991 until he retired in 2001; a director of her Foundation from 1992 to 2011, he was later her trustee and executor. He was a scion of the Marquesses of Hertford.
He was born 19 March, 1945, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Evelyn Roger Seymour (1908-87), and his wife the former Rosemary Evelyn Flower; and married in 1984, Diana Elizabeth Griffith, by whom he had a son, Archie (born 1989), and a daughter, Rose (born 1987).
He was descended from the 1st Marquess of Hertford.
He was appointed CBE in 2001, and knighted in 2014.
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The engagement was announced 26 March, 2025, between Fergus Ruscombe Sandford (born 4 July, 1995), scion of that landed gentry family, son of Philip Roland Thomas Sandford (born 1961), of Strangford, County Down, and his wife the former Anna Rosamund Tindall (born 1962), & Harriet Hester K. Middleton-Frith (born 2004), daughter of Captain George R.G. Middleton, by his wife the former Susan F.C. Frith (born cira 1955).
The Sandfords descend from the Earls of Dalhousie:-
The 8th Earl of Dalhousie (1730-87) > Lt-Gen Hon John Ramsay (1775-1842) > Gen Sir Henry Ramsay (1816-93) > Mary Louisa Ramsay (1852-1918) > Mary Ellen Birney (1875-1972) > Joan Davies (1913-1993) > Susan Rosamund Streatfeild (b 1941) > Anna Rosamund Tindall (b 1962) > Fergus Sandford (b 1995)
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The Baroness Howarth of Breckland, OBE, who died 23 March, 2025, aged 84, was a crossbench member of the House of Lords, a life peer.
Valerie Georgina Howarth was born 5 September, 1940.
She was appointed OBE in 1999 for her services to Childline, and raised to the peerage for life in 2001, as Baroness Howarth of Breckland, of Parsons Cross in the County of South Yorkshire,
She was one of the board members of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service.
Baroness Howarth became the Chair of Cafcass (Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service) in 2008.
She was the former Chief Executive of ChildLine and also worked for many years at Chief Officer and Assistant Chief Officer level in social services departments. She served on the board of the Food Standards Agency, was a trustee for a number of Children's charities, and was a patron of the National Youth Advocacy Scheme.
She was vice-chair of the National Care Standards Commission and was secretary to the All Parliamentary Children's Group.
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Robert Stuart Innes-Smith, of that landed gentry family, died 20 January, 2025. He was 96.
He was born in 1928, son of Capt Stuart William Innes-Smith, MM, RAF (1897-1953), and his wife the former Florence Constance Green (1899-1977); and married 1954, Elizabeth Greta (Betsy) Lamb (1927-2009), daughter of Bertram John Lamb (1887-1938), of Chestfield Manor, Whitstable, Kent, and his wife the former Greta Reeves (1905-1984), by whom he had issue, a son, James Stuart Tenison Innes-Smith (b 4 Oct, 1966), and two daughters, Victoria (b 1957), and Augusta (b 1961).
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Nicola Penn Coverdale (nee Symons), who died 16 March, 2025, aged 82, was a descendant of the Earls of Mar.
She was born 4 April, 1942, the eldest daughter of Peter Nicholas Symons (1917-1951), and his wife the former Suzanne Penzer Haynes (1919-2004); and married 14 September, 1963, John Philip A. Coverdale (1934-2018), son of Philip Frederick Coverdale (1906-1999), and his wife the former Elizabeth Mary Murray-Davey (1907-1996), and had issue, two sons, Peter (b 1970), Philip (b 1978), and two daughters, Anna (b 1966), and Sarah (b 1968).
John Erskine, Earl of Mar (1772-1828) > Lady Frances Erskine (d 1842) > Lady Eliza Erskine Goodeve (1834-1917) > Beatrice Cole (1863-1936) > Mary Ferguson (1888-1970) > Peter Symons (1917-51) > Nicola Symons (1942-2025)
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The engagement was announced 24 March, 2025, between between Rory Douglas Rooke Hopkinson (born 1995), son of Charles J.D. Rooke Hopkinson, of Bigsweir, Gloucestershire, and his wife, the former Caroline M. Francis, and Franziska Susanna M. (Pumbaa) Goëss -Saurau (born 10 May, 1997), daughter of Count (Johann) Konrad Zeno Julian Goëss-Saurau (born 9 January, 1952), of Frohnleiten, Austria, and his 2nd wife, Countess Susi-Goëss-Saurau (nee Williams), of Bassett Down, Wiltshire.
Countess Susan Jane Goëss-Saurau (nee Williams), is the daughter of Michael Williams, of Fairfield House, Pedmore, Worcestershire, and she married 1stly, 1986 (div) Peter Christopher Edward Farquhar (born 3 Aug, 1959), scion of the Farquhar baronets. She married 2ndly, 1996, Johann Konrad Zeno Julian, Graf von Goess-Saurau.
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The engagement was announced 22 March, 2025, between Peter L. Slade and Rosanna Josephine Major Henniker (born 1989), scion of the Barons Henniker, daughter of Christopher Anthony Major Henniker (born 20 October, 1952), of Chiswick, London, and his wife the former Bernadette Ball.
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Ronald James Bremner Hoare has died aged 85.
He was born in 1939 a son of Wilfred James Hoare (who died in 2003), of Orwell House, Milnathort, Kinross, by his wife the former Grace Margaret Bremner (who died 2009); & married 11 September, 1971, Elizabeth Albinia Bacon (born 15 January, 1944), daughter of Sir Edmund Castell Bacon, Bt, KG, KBE, TD (1903-1982), and his wife the former Priscilla Dora Ponsonby (1913-2000), scion of the Ponsonby Barons De Mauley, by whom he had issue, a son, Jocelyn Charles Stewart Hoare (born 1974), and a daughter, Nicola Clare (born 1977).
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Charlotte Mary Charlesworth [nee Cubitt, born 28 January, 1991], wife of Edward Charlesworth, and scion of the Cubitt landed gentry family, gave birth to a daughter, Poppy Jane, 14 March, 2025, a sister for Harry George, who was born 23 April, 2021, and for Flora Lucy, born 29 September, 2022.
Edward Charlesworth is a son of Mr & Mrs Rodney Charlesworth, of St Albans, Hertfordshire, and Charlotte Charlesworth is a daughter of Major-Gen Sir William George Cubitt, KCVO, CBE, DL [born 1959], of Honing, Norfolk, and his wife the former Lucy Jane Pym [born 24 Sept, 1961], scion of that landed gentry family.
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Sophie L. Henniker-Major [nee Short], wife of George Richard Henniker-Major [born 1985], scion of the Barons Henniker, gave birth to a son, Rory Charles Andrew, 15 March, 2025, a brother for Eliza Beatrice Mary, who was born 18 September, 2019, and for Arthur Henry Rupert, who was born 23 November, 2021.
George is a son of John Alexander Henniker-Major [born 1952], of Great Easton, Leicestershire, by his wife the former Mary Mathiesen.
Sophie Henniker-Major is the elder daughter of Mr & Mrs Andrew Short, of Woking.
7th Baron Henniker > Hon Richard Henniker-Major > John Henniker-Major > George Henniker-Major > Rory Henniker-Major [b 2025]
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Duncan Cameron Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy, who died 8 March, 2025, aged 92, was a scion of the baronets of that name, and was for many years heir presumptive to the title.
His home was the Malt House, Charlecote, Warwickshire, near the family seat at Charlecote Park.
He was born 18 September, 1932, son of Capt Ewen Aymer Robert Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy (1899-1969), and his wife the former Margaret Westall King (1902-1994), daughter of Sir John Westall King, 2nd Baronet (1863-1940); and was a grandson paternally of Sir Henry William Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy, 3rd Baronet (1870-1944).
Duncan was heir presumptive to the baronetcy (cr 1836) of his cousin, Sir Edmund, 6th Baronet, from 1974 until the birth of Edmund's son and heir in 1995.
He married 26 September, 1964, Janet Barclay Niven, (died 11 January, 2017), daughter of Patrick Angus Barclay Niven, of Malt Cottage, Charlecote, by whom he had issue, a son, Spencer Angus James (born 9 May, 1966), and a daughter, Anna Margaret Barclay (born 1 Feb, 1969).
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Sir Torquil Norman, CBE, died 19 March, 2025, aged 91. He was a scion of the Norman baronets.
He was a businessman, aircraft enthusiast and arts philanthropist.
He was born 11 April, 1933, the third son of Air Commodore Sir (Henry) Nigel St Valery Norman, 2nd Baronet, CBE (1897-1943), and his wife the former Patricia Moyra Annesley (1904-1986). His mother married 2ndly, 6 Oct, 1944, Sir Walter Perkins, MP (1903-1988), Conservative MP for Stroud.
He married 8 July, 1961, the Lady Elizabeth Anne Montagu (born 8 February, 1937), second daughter of the 10th Earl of Sandwich (Victor Montagu, MP who disclaimed his peerages for life) (b 1906- d 1995), and his wife the former Maud Rosemary Peto (1916-1998), scion of the Peto baronets, by whom he had three sons, the Rt Hon (Alexander) Jesse Norman, MP (born 23 June, 1962), Casey William (b 1 Oct, 1963), Casper Joe (b 11 Aug, 1967), and two daughters, Lucy Patricia (b 28 Feb, 1965), and Amy Jean Mary (b 13 Oct, 1969).
Norman was appointed CBE in 2002, and knighted in 2007.
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Lady Jane Annabelle Howard, who died 1 March, 2025, aged 78, was a scion of the Earls of Carlisle.
She was born 28 February, 1947, the elder daughter of the 12th Earl of Carlisle (1923-1994), of Naworth Castle. Cumbria, and his wife the former Hon Ela Hilda Aline Beaumont (1925-2002), daughter of the 2nd Viscount Allendale, KG, CB, OBE, MC, DL, JP (1890-1956).
She married 1stly, 8 June, 1968 (div. 1977), as his 1st wife, John David Vaughan Seth-Smith (born 7 Oct, 1946, died 1 July, 2020), scion of that landed family, son of Lt-Cdr David Keith Seth-Smith (1914-1976), by his wife the former Pamela Hilda Stokes (1918-2009); ; she married 2ndly, 1983 (div. 1999), Rodney Spencer Ledward (1938-died 25 Oct, 2000).
Lady Jane, who resumed her maiden name, leaves issue from both marriages.
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The engagement was announced 19 March, 2025, between Lord Thomas Jack Fitzalan Howard (born 14 March, 1992), second of the three sons of the 18th Duke of Norfolk, KCVO (born 2 December, 1956), of Arundel Castle, Sussex, by his former wife Georgina, Duchess of Norfolk, nee Georgina Susan Gore (born 30 January, 1962), scion of the Earls Temple of Stowe, & Helen Anna Bowen Wright (born 1992), daughter of the late Dr Martin Bowen Wright (1946-1994), and his wife the former Annie Richmond (now Mrs Annie Bowen Wright, of Stowupland, Suffolk.)
The bride-to-be has siblings, brothers Matthew (b 1977), Thomas (b 1978), and sister, Philippa (b 1985).
Lord Thomas has an older brother, Henry, Earl of Arundel (born 1987), and a younger brother, Lord Philip (born 1996), and two sisters, Lady Rachel (born 1989), and Lady Isobelle (born 1994).
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Frances Elspeth Luise Manson, who died 21 February, 2025, aged 90, was descended from the Grant of Monymusk baronets.
She was born 12 October, 1934, daughter of Richard Luis Owen Waddington, and his wife the former Elpseth Grant (1913-1978), daughter of Colonel Sir Arthur Grant of Monymusk, 10th Baronet (1879-1931).
She married 16 May, 1961, William Alastair Leslie Manson (1929-2020), son of James Milne Manson, by whom she had a son, William Giles Manson (b 1965), and two daughters, Lucy Elspeth (born 1962), and Alice Jane (born 1967).
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Madeleine Brittain Sangster (born 1988, née Crewe-Read), wife of Sam Edmund Sangster (born May, 1987), gave birth to a second son, Xan Christopher Robert, 28 February, 2025, a brother for Leo (born 2020), and for Sailor Henrietta (born 2022).
Sam Sangster is a son of the late Robert Edmund Sangster (1936-2004), and his 3rd wife the former Susan Lilley.
Madeleine is a scion of the Crewe-Read landed gentry family, daughter of Christopher Thomas Malcolm Crewe-Read (born 1951), and his 1st wife the former Belinda Bennett (born 1957), a Grenfell descendant.
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Sir Anthony John Page Wood, 8th Baronet, died 3 March, 2025, aged 74.
He was born 6 February, 1951, son of Sir John Hatherley David Page Wood, 7th Baronet (1921-1955), and his wife the former Evelyn Hazel Rosemary Bellville (who died 5 June, 2009). He succeeded to the baronetcy at the aged of 4 on his father's death, 28 November, 1955. He married 2 September, 1997, Kristine Louise Scott, daughter of John Ernest Scott. No issue of the marriage. He is succeeded in the baronetcy (cr 1837), by a kinsman, Mark William Evelyn Wood (who was born 1 Aug, 1940).
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David Peter Mason, DL, who died 15 March, 2025, aged 73, was seated at Eynsham Park, Oxfordshire, home of the Mason family for five generations since 1866. He was a former High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, and a deputy lieutenant of the county.
He was descended from the Lindsay Earls of Crawford & Balcarres.
David Mason was born in 1951, the elder son of Michael Henry Mason (1900-1982), and his second wife the former Dorothy Margaret Sturdee (1915-2006). His father's first wife, who died in 1950, was the Hon Annette Baird (1905-500, daughter of Viscount Stonehaven and the Countess of Kintore.
He was a grandson of James Francis Mason (1861-1929), and his wife Lady Evelyn Margaret Lindsay (1870-1944), daughter of the 26th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres (1847-1913).
He married in 1980, Monique Juranville, by whom he had issue, a son, Michael James (born 1991), and three daughters, Natalie Elizabeth (born 1981), Catherine Evelyn (born 1984), and Chantal Louise (born 1989).
He took over the running of the family estate when his father died in 1982. And until 2020 was responsible for the running of Eynsham Park. He had a career in the Army, and he served 3 tours of duty in Northern Ireland; then in 1974 he volunteered for secondment to the Sultan of Oman’s Armed Forces.
He distinguished himself on active service in the Dhofar War in 1975 by personally saving 12 men’s lives in battle and then later rescuing others from a minefield. He was awarded the Sultan’s Bravery Medal. After leaving the Army in 1979 Mason joined Sir Ranulph Fiennes on the Transglobe Expedition, travelling to both the South and North Poles.
He published his first novel in 1992, Shadow over Babylon, which was an immediate International No.1 bestseller. He was later (1994-5) appointed High Sheriff of Oxfordshire. He was made a Deputy Lieutenant for the county in 2004. He handed over the running of Eynsham Park to his son Michael in 2020.
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Capt Robin Somervell Salvesen, late Capt. 8th/9th Royal Scots (TA), of Eaglescairnie House, Gifford, East Lothian, died 10 March, 2025. He was 89, a scion of the Salvesen landed family of Teaninich.
He was born 4 May, 1935, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Iver Ronald Stuart Salvesen (1901-1957), and his wife the former Marion Hamilton McClure (1911-1997); and married 6 August, 1960, Sari Frances Judith Clarke (born 1937), eldest daughter of Charles Clarke (1904-1960), and his wife the former Audrey Frances Bettison (1915-2006); by whom he had issue, three sons, and four daughters.
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Lord St Helens, the 2nd Baron, died 1 March, 2025. He was 79.
Richard Francis Hughes-Young, was born 4 November, 1945, the second son of the then Lt-Col. Michael Hughes-Young, MC (born 28 Oct, 1912), later Conservative MP for Wandsworth Central 1955-64, and a junior minister in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home administrations, who was raised to the peerage, 30 Dec, 1964, one of the last hereditary peers to be so created. His wife, and Richard's mother, was the former Elizabeth Agnes Blakiston-Houston (1911-1956), scion of the Blakiston baronets.
He succeeded his father in the peerage 27 December, 1980. (His elder brother Patrick having died in 1970 aged 27). He took his seat in the House of Lords in 1982, and sat as a Conservative peer until he was ousted in Blair's shake-up of the upper chamber in 1999.
Lord St Helens married in 1983, Mrs Emma Rosemary Talbot-Smith (1952-2018, nee Lyle), former wife of Nicholas Talbot-Smith, and third daughter of Thomas Keith Lyle, CBE, FRCP (1903-1987), and his wife the former Jane Bouverie Maxwell (1914-2009), descended from the Barnard-Hankey landed family. Lady St Helens died 26 Dec, 2018.
The peer leaves issue, a son the Hon Henry Thomas Hughes-Young (born 7 March, 1986), who now succeeds as 3rd Baron, and a daughter the Hon Lara Elizabeth (born 1987).
Prince Henry and the then Meghan Markle attended the wedding in 2017 of Lara Hughes-Young and Tom Inskip (descended from the Noel-Buxton barons).
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Isobel Victoria Parkes, who died 10 March, 2025, aged 80, was a scion of the Clive landed gentry family.
Isobel Victoria Clive-Ponsonby-Fane was born in 1944, third daughter of Nicholas Brabazon Clive-Ponsonby-Fane (1913-1963), and his wife the former Petronilla Dunsterville (1913-1984); and married in 1976, Simon J. Parkes, by whom she had issue, a son, Roderick, and a daughter, Caroline.
Isobel's descent from the Earls of Bessborough:-
The 4th Earl of Bessborough > Hon Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane > John Henry Ponsonby > Violet Ponsonby > Nicholas Clive-Ponsonby-Fane > Isobel Clive-Ponsonby-Fane
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The engagement was announced 18 March, 2025, between W. George Clark, son of the late Matthew Clark and Jane Clark, of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and Arabella Kate Ryland (born 1994), second daughter of Charles John Ryland (born 1962), of Tidebrook, East Sussex, and his wife the former Jane M. Cullis.
Arabella's paternal grandmother, Anne Innes (1929-2019), was a scion of the Irish gentry family of that name of Dromantine and descended from the Wolseley baronets (cr 1628), and the Earls of Meath.
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Hugh Simon Fetherstonhaugh died 13 March, 2025. He was 76.
He was a farmer, a scion of the Fetherstonhaugh landed gentry family and a maternal grandson of the 8th Viscount Galway.
He was born 25 January, 1949, the elder son of David Henry Fetherstonhaugh (1924-1994), head of the landed family, and his wife the former Hon Mary Victoria Monckton-Arundell (1924-2010), elder daughter of the 8th Viscount Galway (1882-1943).
He married 1stly 27 March, 1971 (div. 2005), Louise Philipps (1946-2013), the adopted daughter of Major the Hon Richard Hanning Philipps (1904-1998), scion of the Barons Milford, and his wife the former Lady Marion Violet Dalrymple (1908-1995), daughter of the 12th Earl of Stair, KT, DSO, DL (1879-1961).
He married 2ndly, 2005, Mrs Caroline (Mouse) Springham (nee Robertson).
Hugh Fetherstonhaugh leaves issue from his 1st union, two sons, (Edward) Dickon Hanning (born 1981), and Fergus Hugh (born 1990), and two daughters, Sophie Lucia (born 1973), and Alice Maria (born 1975).
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Julian Alexander Ludovic James died 6 March, 2025. He was 85.
He was descended paternally from the Dunbar of Hempriggs baronets (and was in remainder to that baronetcy), and maternally from the Boyle Earls of Glasgow.
Julian James was a page at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, being one of the two pages of Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Lord High Steward, who bore St Edward’s Crown.
He was born 31 October, 1939, the eldest son of Capt Christopher Alexander James, RN, DL, JP (1916-1969), and his wife the former Cynthia Swire (who died 9 April, 1971), descended from the Earls of Glasgow; & married 18 December, 1965, Hilary Jane Browne (born 25 October, 1945), daughter of Capt Thomas Gillespie Browne, JP, Royal Engineers (1913-1997), descended from the Earls of Kintore, by whom he had three sons, Christopher Mark William (born 18 Feb, 1967), David Hugh Geoffrey (born 31 May, 1969), and Andrew Michael Richard (born 2 May, 1976).
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The Rev. (Richard Robert) Bindon Plowman died 26 February, 2025, aged 86.
He was born in 1938, son of Robert Gillbee Plowman (1911-1995), and his wife the former Ruth Wynn Dutton (1913-2014): and married 25 June, 1977, Robina Ann Wyldbore-Smith (born 3 October, 1943), scion of the Smith-Marriott baronets, elder daughter of John Henry Wyldbore-Smith (1916-1982), and his wife the former Robina Ward (1917-1993); by whom he had issue, a son, Andrew John Napier Plowman (b 11 Jan, 1979, d. 8 July, 1989), and a daughter, Felicity Frances Robina (b 1980).
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Jade Naomi Charlotte Yates (nee Letts), wife of Ivo James Michael Yates (born 24 August, 1993), gave birth to a daughter, Beatrice Catherine, 21 February, 2025.
Ivo Yates is the eldest son of Christian A. Yates, of Bedchester, Dorset, and his wife the former Rosemary Anne (Rosie) Cookson (born 1963).
Jade Yates (born 1993), is the youngest daughter of Daniel Letts, of Boys Hill, Dorset, and his wife the former Jean Catherine Fraser (born 16 April, 1954), descended from the Dukes of Atholl.
John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl > Rt Rev Lord George Murray > Rt Rev George Murray > Rev George Murray > Rev Douglas Murray > Lt-Col Walter Murray > Jean Pamela Murray > Jean Fraser > Jade Letts > Beatrice Yates
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Ann Elizabeth Heber-Percy (née Rowley) died 6 March, 2025. She was 83.
She was a daughter of John Douglas Rowley, of Bristol, Avon, and married 1stly ______ Francis, by whom she had issue. She married 2ndly, 1988, as his second wife, Cyril Raymond (Riff) Heber-Percy (born 23 May, 1945), of Folly Farmhouse, Farmington, Gloucestershire, scion of the Dukes of Northumberland, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril Hugh Reginald Heber-Percy, DSO, MC (1905-1989), and his second wife, the former Diana Radclyffe (1917-2006), scion of that landed gentry family.
She leaves two grandsons from her first marriage, George & Hugo.
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The engagement was announced 15 March, 2025, between Ben H. Newton, eldest son Mr Keith Newton and the late Mrs Leyanne Provera, of Sydney, Australia, and Alice Mary Ella Pickthorn (born 22 February, 1996), scion of the Pickthorn baronets, eldest daughter of Thomas David Alexander Pickthorn (born 16 July, 1967), of Cambridge, and his wife the former Nicola Sheerin.
Sir Kenneth Pickthorn, 1st Baronet (1892-1975) > Henry Pickthorn (b 1928) > Thomas Pickthorn (b 1967) > Alice Pickthorn (b 1996)
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The engagement was announced 15 March, 2025, between Angus J.M. Robb, elder son of Gavin John McLean Robb (born 1962), of Humbie, East Lothian, by his wife the former Fiona Margaret Ledingham (born 1965), and Georgina Ann Monro Vestey (born 1994), scion of the Vestey baronets, elder daughter of Robin John Henry Vestey (born 14 April, 1968), of Little Thurlow, Suffolk, and Mrs Victoria Eileen Herbert Vestey (nee Waddell), of Newmarket, Suffolk.
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Bridget Wentworth-Stanley, who died 7 March, 2025, aged 98, was the widow of David Wentworth-Stanley, scion of that landed gentry family.
She was the former Bridget Pease (born 1926), eldest daughter of the late Maj. Philip Ivan Pease (d. 1964, of that BLG family), by his wife Doris Madeline Crichton (1904-1993), scion of the Earls of Erne, and married 1 March, 1951,(Geoffrey) David Wentworth-Stanley, a member of the Burke's Landed Gentry family of Wentworth-Stanley of High Wych. He was born 28 May, 1924, 3rd son of Charles Sidney Bowen Wentworth-Stanley, CBE (1892-1960), of High Wych Grange (head of the family), by his first wife, Edith Katharine Brocklebank (scion of the Brocklebank Baronets), and he died 18 Aug, 2005
She leaves issue:-
(i) [David] Michael, b. 1952, married to Jane Hall (descended from the Marquesses of Dufferin & Ava)
(ii) Nicholas Philip, b. 1954 (his 1st wife, Clare Steel, is now wife of the 4th Marquess of Milford Haven)
(iii) Christopher James, b. 1962.
(iv) Adrian, b. 1965
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Megan MacDonald Johnston (née Steele-Knowles), wife of Archie James MacDonald Johnston (born 15 July, 1991), gave birth to a daughter, Daphne, Jessica, 3 March, 2025, a sister for Hector Robin Steele, who was born 27 February, 2023.
Archie is a son of Iain MacDonald Johnston, and his wife the former Jessica Marion Hoskyns (1967-2017), scion of the baronets of that name, descended from the ninth baronet.
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Iona Katherine Rizzo (nee Dent, born 1991), wife of Dominic G. Rizzo, and scion of the Dent landed gentry family, gave birth to a daughter, Florence Rosanagh, 7 March, 2025, a sister for Joseph Michael, who was born 22 June, 2023.
Dominic is a son of Mr & Mrs Joseph Rizzo, of New Jersey, United States.
Iona is a daughter of Andrew Congreve Dent, of Oxfordshire, by his wife the Lady Rosanagh Elizabeth Angela Mary Taylour [born 20 January, 1961], daughter of the late 6th Marquis of Headfort [1932-2005], by his wife the Hon Elizabeth Angela Veronica Nall-Cain [1938-2017], daughter of the 2nd Baron Brocket [1904-67].
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Amber Genevieve Armytage died 1 March, 2025, aged 53.
The former Amber Genevieve Renwick was born at Hastings in 1971, a daughter of Matthew Renwick, of Hawkhurst, Kent, and his wife nee Colley; and married in 2003, Marcus David Armytage (born 17 July, 1964), scion of the Armytage baronets, son of Roderick Charles Armytage (1934-2014), and his wife the former Susan Whitehead (who died 23 July, 1996), by whom she had issue, a son Arthur (born 28 September, 2004), and two daughters, Molly (born 14 February, 2006), and Arabella (born 26 April, 2011).
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The engagement was announced 14 March, 2025, between George Repard (born 2 August, 1994), son of James Philip Repard (born 1956), and Jennie Spencer-Churchill (born 25 September, 1966), scion of the Dukes of Marlborough, and Alice E. Newman, daughter of Mr Jeremy Newman and Mrs Elaine Burrows.
George Repard is a great-great grandson of the Rt Hon Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA (1874-1965)
Sir Winston Churchill > Randolph Churchill (1911-68) > Winston Churchill (1940-2010) > Jennie Spencer-Churchill (b 1966) > George Repard (b 1994)
Valerie Lois Brodrick died 27 February, 2025, aged 77.
She was the former Valerie Lois Stroud, daughter of Gerald Max Stroud, JP (1910-2004), by his wife the former Madeleine Louise Katherine Sussmann (1915-2004), and married 27 September, 1969, Michael John Lee Brodrick (born 12 October, 1941), scion of the Viscounts (later Earls) of Midleton, son of Norman John Lee Brodrick (1912-1992), and his wife the former Ruth Severn Unwin (1920-1998), daughter of Sir Stanley Unwin, KCMG (1884-1968), by whom she had a son, Robert John Lee Brodrick (born 9 May, 1972), and a daughter, Tessa Elizabeth Camilla Brodrick (born 14 Nov, 1975).
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Patricia Ruck Keene, who died 7 March, 2025, aged 103, was the widow of Capt John Ruck Keene, OBE, DSC, RN.
She was born Patricia Gibbons, daughter of James Henry Gibbons, of Castlebar, Co Mayo, and married firstly, 1939, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Leslie Fasson (1904-1944); married 2ndly, 27 September, 1948, Capt John Henry Ruck Keene (born 5 May, 1902), Naval ADC to Queen Elizabeth II, 1953-67, scion of that landed gentry family, fifth son of the Rev Edmund Ralph Ruck Keene (1857-1932), and his wife the former Emma Corrie (who died 1935). Capt Ruck Keeene died 17 October, 1967.
Mrs Ruck Keene had issue, one son, Benjamin Charles (1949-2011).
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Major Philip Andrew Janson Wright, OBE, late the Grenadier Guards, sometime Deputy Assistant Serjeant-at-Arms, House of Commons, died 4 March, 2025, aged 83.
He was a son of Sir Andrew Barkworth Wright KCMG CBE MC with Bar (1895 – 1971) a colonial administrator and army officer. He served as the Governor of British Cyprus from 1949 to 1954 and as Governor of the Gambia from 1947 to 1949, by his wife Rosemary Barrett, CStJ.
In a Daily Telegraph interview Wright told of a time in 1950 when he was 10 years old and Prince Philip lent him a pair of flippers in a swimming pool in Cyprus. As Philip recalls, Prince Philip ‘... was commanding HMS Magpie ….. and the ship called in on Cyprus as part of the Mediterranean fleet. My father, Sir Andrew Wright, was Governor and Prince Philip visited us in Government House. My father said “any time you want to use the swimming pool, do come and use it”. One night Prince Philip’s evening swim coincided with mine. He had “frog feet” and I’d never seen them before. He said they belonged to his uncle, Lord Mountbatten’. Philip Wright, wearing Prince Philip’s flippers ‘flip flopped up and down the pool’ until a governess appeared and shouted ‘It’s time to get out now, Philip!’ The Prince looked up sharply. ‘I think he thought she was talking to him’.
Philip Wright married 17 June, 1967, Henrietta Elizabeth Hotham (born 3 May, 1944), scion of the Barons Hotham, daughter of Lieutenant-Commander the Hon John David Hotham, RN (1911-1962), and his wife the former Aileen Coates (who died 1 Nov, 2009), and a niece of the 7th Baron Hotham (1899-1967), by whom he had two daughters, Romayne Louise (born 1972), and Melanie Clare (born 1974).
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The engagement was announced 13 March, 2025, between Patrick William Edmund Massey (born 1983), son of William Grevile Sale Massey (born 31 Aug, 1953), of Beanacre, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Cecilia D'Oyly Awdry (born 4 Aug, 1954), scion of that landed gentry family, and Rosie May Brunel-Cohen (born 1991), fifth daughter of Mark Patrick Brunel-Cohen (born 8 August, 1949), of Sherborne, Dorset, and his wife the former Sally Joan Culham.
Rosie Brunel-Cohen is descended from the Samuel baronets:-
Sir Stuart Montagu Samuel, 1st Baronet, MP (1856-1926) > Vera Evelyn Samuel > George Stuart Brunel-Cohen (1918-80) > Mark Brunel-Cohen (b 1949) > Rosie Brunel-Cohen
The Samuel family founded the merchant bank Samuel Montagu & Co. Sir Stuart, the 1st Bt, was a nephew of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling (1832-1911).
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The Duchess of Westminster, wife of the 7th Duke of Westminster, one of Britain's wealthiest men, is expecting a baby in the summer.
A spokesman for the couple, said on Wednesday: "The duchess is expecting a baby in the summer.
"The couple are delighted with the news and are very much looking forward to starting a family."
The Duke of Westminster married Olivia Henson at Chester Cathedral on 7 June, 2024. The Prince of Wales stood as one of the duke’s ushers.
Crowds lined the streets of Chester to cheer the arrival of the duke, his bride with her father, and the Prince of Wales. Princess Eugenie, Mrs Jack Brooksbank was one of the 400 guests.
The Duke's calculated wealth of just over £9.7 billion puts him 13th on the 2022 Sunday Times Rich List. He was until 2024 perhaps one of the country's most eligible bachelors.
The young duke is a fourth cousin once removed of the King. They both have Romanov blood, the duke via his mother Natalia, and the King via the late Prince Philip's Romanov descent.
The duke's parents, the 6th Duke and Natalia Phillips married at Chester Cathedral, 7 October, 1978, and the Royal Family were there to celebrate the union of one of Britain's wealthiest men and Natalia, daughter of one of Queen Elizabeth II's great friends, the former Georgina Wernher. The duke's aunt, Lady Leonora Grosvenor, married the late 5th Earl of Lichfield at the cathedral, 8 March, 1975, and another aunt, Lady Jane Grosvenor married the 10th Duke of Roxburghe there, 10 September, 1977.
"The Duke and Miss Henson became engaged at Eaton Hall in April 2023, and have been incredibly grateful for the warm messages of congratulations they have received since then."
Hugh Westminster, 34, is godfather to Prince George of Wales, and a close confidante of the Prince and Princess of Wales. He was born 29 January, 1991, the only son of the 6th duke (1951-2016).
Hugh Richard Louis Grosvenor, the 7th duke, inherited the Eaton Hall estate near Chester, and large land holdings in London, Lancashire, Scotland, and in Canada, on the death of his late father, who died suddenly on his Abbeystead estate in Lancashire, 9 August 2016. The Westminster fortune is estimated to stand at 9.7 billion.
The duke’s mother, the former Natalia Ayesha Phillips (born 8 May 1959), descended from the Russia tsars and from Pushkin, is a granddaughter of Lady Zia Wernher, of Luton Hoo, a great friend of the late Queen Elizabeth II. It was at Luton Hoo where the late Queen and her consort spent many wedding anniversaries in the lifetime of Lady Zia, who died in 1977, and her husband Harold, who died in 1973.
The Duke was present at the Coronation of the King and Queen in May 2023, and he carried a standard in the procession into Westminster Abbey.
The duke has three sisters, Lady Tamara van Cutsem (born 20 Dec 1979), wife of another of the King’s godsons, Edward van Cutsem, and Lady Edwina Snow (born 4 Nov, 1981), a criminologist, wife of historian and broadcaster Dan Snow, and Lady Viola Roberts (born 9 Oct, 1992), wife of Dragoon Guards officer, Angus Roberts.
Their is no heir to the dukedom, and a son and heir would secure the peerage and the vast Grosvenor inheritance. The peerage can only be inherited by male heirs. A son will take the courtesy title Earl Grosvenor and a daughter will be Lady (Christian name) Grosvenor. The current heir presumptive to the Marquessate of Westminster, but not the dukedom, is a Grosvenor cousin, Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton (born 8 Feb, 1934).
A son will be heir apparent to the titles Duke of Westminster (United Kingdom, let. pat. 27 Feb 1874), Marquess of Westminster (United Kingdom, let. pat. 13 Sep 1831), Earl Grosvenor (Great Britain, let. pat. 5 Jul 1784), Viscount Belgrave (Great Britain, let. pat. 5 Jul 1784), Baron Grosvenor, of Eaton in the County of Chester (Great Britain, let. pat. 8 Apr 1761), and a Baronet, styled "of Eaton" (England, let. pat. 23 Feb 1621/22).
Some ducal statistics: The 1st Duke, and most prolific of the Westminsters, was the father of seven sons and five daughters; the 2nd Duke (Bendor), four times wed, died leaving two daughters. A son died in childhood; the 3rd and fourth dukes were childless; the 5th Duke fathered one son and two daughters; the 6th Duke, who died in 2016, left a son, the current peer, and three daughters.
The dukedom of Westminster was the last dukedom to be given outside the confines of the royal family, and was created by Queen Victoria in 1874.
The Duchess of Westminster (born 1 Sept, 1992), is a senior account manager with Belazu, an ethical food company, in London. She is extremely well connected, with lines of descent from the Hoare banking dynasty, the Marquesses of Britsol, of Ickworth, Suffolk, and the Dukes of Rutland, of Belvoir Castle. She is the elder daughter of Mr Rupert Cornelius Brooke Henson (born 7 September, 1962), of Longworth, Oxfordshire, and his wife the former Caroline Belinda Frisby (born 17 August, 1963), scion of that landed gentry family, descended from the Hoare banking family and the Marquesses of Bristol. Olivia’s uncle, Charles Wolrige Gordon, is the Grand Master of Scottish freemasons, Scotland’s senior freemason. Olivia’s mother is the twin sister of Charles’s wife, Angela Clare Wolrige Gordon.
Olivia has a brother Jasper (born 1994), who announced his engagement last year to the Spanish aristocrat Isabel Rodriguez-Legorburu Cabrera Kabana, and a sister, Emilia (born 1997).
Olivia is a granddaughter paternally of Thomas John Brooke Henson, MC (1931-2024), and his first wife the former Jennifer Caswell Cornelius (born 1938), daughter of Leonard Raymond Cornelius (1907-88), and his wife the former Betty Kathleen Caswell (1916-2010). Her grandparents divorced and in 1983 Mrs Jennifer Henson married Robert Christopher Thoroton Hildyard (1912-86), scion of a Yorkshire landed gentry family, descended from the Foljambe Earls of Liverpool.
The Romanov link:-
Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia (1796-1855) > Grand Duke Michael of Russia (1832-1909) > Grand Duke Michael of Russia (1861-1929) > Lady Zia Wernher (1892-1977) > Georgina Wernher (1919-2011) > Natalia Ayesha Phillips (b 1959) > The 7th Duke of Westminster (b 1991)> Baby Grosvenor
Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia (1796-1855) > Grand Duke Constantine of Russia (1827-1892) > Grand Duchess Olga of Russia (1851-1926) > Prince Andrew of Greece (1882-1944) > Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021) > King Charles III (b 1948)
Olivia is also descended from the Dukes of Rutland :-
The 5th Duke of Rutland > Lady Katherine Manners > Lord Augustus Henry Charles Hervey > Lady Geraldine Mariana Hervey > Angela Beryl Hoare > Simon Rollo Frisby > Caroline Belinda Frisby > Olivia Grace Henson
Olivia's descent from the Marquesses of Bristol-
Frederick, 2nd Marquess of Bristol > Lord Augustus Henry Charles Hervey >Lady Geraldine Hervey > Angela Beryl Hoare > Simon Frisby . Caroline Frisby > Olivia Grace Henson
The Duke and Olivia are both 6x great grandchildren of the 5th Earl of Carlisle (making them 7th cousins) and 7x great grandchildren of the 4th Duke of Beaufort (making them 8th cousins).
Olivia is a great-great granddaughter of Henry Hoare (1866-1956), partner in the eponymous family concern - Hoare's Bank, of Ellisfield Manor, Basingstoke, White Wings, Angmering, Sussex, and La Lucretola, Lago di Como, Italy. The Old Etonian died 29 July, 1956.
Olivia's descent from the Arbuthnot baronets:--
Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet (1766-1829) > John Alves Arbuthnot (1802-75) > William Arbuthnot (1833-96) > Alice Arbuthnot (b 1869) > Capt William Herbert Fox (1901-40) > Sara Fox (d 2018) > Caroline Frisby (b 1963) > Olivia Henson (b 1992)
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