Harrington/Pearson engagement

The engagement was announced 2 May, 2026, between Nicholas Richard John Harrington (born 1997), daughter of David William Ronald Harrington (born 1960), if Weeley, Essex, and his wife Isabella Anne Palmer (born 27 August, 1962), scion of the Palmer baronets, & Dulcie Rose Pearson (born 1996), daughter of John M. Pearson, of Tunbridge Wells, and his former wife Janet Sylvia Davey (born 1955, now Mrs David Austin, of St Just-in-Roseland, Cornwall).

Nicholas Harrington is a grandson of Sir Geoffrey Christopher John Palmer, 12th Baronet (born 30 June, 1936).

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John Malcolm Agnew Wallace 1928-2026

 John Malcolm Agnew Wallace, of Lochryan House, Stranraer, died 26 April, 2926. He was 98.

He was born in 1928, son of Major John Alexander Agnew Wallace, MC, of Lochryan House, and married 26 February, 1955, Louise Arden Haworth-Booth (1933-2021), scion of that landed gentry family, a daughter (twin) of Michael Haworth-Booth (1896-1986), head of that landed family, and his wife the former Mabel Arden Bagot (1896-1965), scion of the Barons Bagot, by whom he had issue, a son, John Benjamin Agnew Wallace (born 24 May, 1958), and two daughters, Nicola (b 22 July, 1956), and Jonica (b 10 June, 1963).

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(Sara) Norina Marie Bowlby (nee Stewart Clark) 1932-2026

 (Sara) Norina Marie Bowlby (nee Stewart Clark) who died 29 April, 2026, aged 94, was a scion of the Stewart Clark baronets.

She was born 25 April, 1932, daughter of Sir Stewart Stewart-Clark, 2nd Baronet (1904-1971), and his wife Jane Pamela Clarke (died 1993): and married 23 September, 1961, Colonel Thomas Patrick Salvin Bowlby (1931-2020), scion of that landed gentry family, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Edward Salvin Bowlby, MC (1904-1983), and his wife Joan Catherine Trotter (1903-1958), scion of the Trotters of Mortonhall, and a granddaughter of the 15th Earl of Eglinton (1848-1919),  by whom she had issue, two sons, Anthony and Michael, and a daughter, Karina-Jane.

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Lane Fox/St John engagement

 The engagement was announced 2 May, 2026, between Lt Harry Patrick Lane Fox (born 1998),  scion of that landed gentry family, of Bramham Park, fourth son of Capt (George Charles) Nicholas Lane Fox (born 25 December, 1963), of Bramham Park, Wetherby, and his wife the Hon Rachel  Monica Baring (born 29 June, 1967), eldest daughter of the 2nd Baron Howick of Glendale (born 30 Dec, 1937), &  Dr Lily Joy E. St. John (born 1998), daughter of John St. John, of Hildenborough, Kent, and his wife the former Melanie Mary Ramsay, daughter of Major Neil Ramsay, of St Anns, Alyth, Perthshire.

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Hugh Robert Myddelton 1938-2026

 Hugh Robert Myddelton, who died 13 April, 2026, aged 87, was a scion of that landed gentry family, of Chirk Castle.

He was born 17 October, 1938, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Ririd Myddelton, LVO, DL (1902-1988), of Chirk Castle, Denbighshire, and his wife the Lady Mary Margaret Elizabeth Petty-Fitzmaurice (1910-2003), sister of the 8th Marquess of Lansdowne (1912-1999).

He was twice married, firstly, 27 July, 1967 (div), the Hon Sarah Cecily Allsopp (1944-2009), daughter of the 5th Baron Hindlip (1912-1993), and his wife Cecily Valentine Jane Borwick (1910-2000), and married 2ndly, in 1994, Mrs Gaia Servadio Mostyn-Owen, former wife of William Mostyn-Owen (1929-2011), and daughter of Luxardo Servadio (1938-2021), and his wife Bianca Prinzi.

In 2001 he is reported to have assmed the surname of Myddelton Biddulph in lieu of his patronymic.

Gaia Myddelton, a writer, was sometime mother-in-law of the Rt Hon Boris Johnson, PC, Prime Minister, 2019-2022, who married her daughter Allegra Mostyn-Owen.

Hugh Myddelton leaves issue from his first marriage,  a son, Alexander (born 7 March, 1969), and a daughter, Claerwen (born 1972).

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Paul Everard Justus Focke, KC 1937-2026

His Honour Judge Paul Everard Justus Focke, KC, died 22 April, 2026, aged 88.

He was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn , 1964 (Bencher 1992); appointed QC (1982), and was a Circuit Judge from 1997. Also Called to the Bar, NSW and to the New Zealand, 1982; QC, NSW, 1984, &c.

He was born 14 May, 1937, son of Frederick Justus Focke (1898-1959), and his wife Muriel Fisher (1904-1995); and married in 1973, the Lady Tana Marie Alexander (born 2 May, 1945), daughter of the late 6th Earl of Caledon (1920-1980), and his first wife Ghislaine Dresselhuys (1922-2000), by whom he had two daughters, Diana (born 1974), and Victoria (born 1976).

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