The engagement was announced 26 July, 2024, between Jack P. Mitchell, son of Mr and Mrs John Mitchell, of Lincolnshire, & Amanda Belinda (Amber) Morrison (born 1993), scion of the Barons Margadale, daughter of the Hon Hugh (Hughie) Morrison (born 7 November, 1960), and his first wife the former Cecilia Jane Jenks (now Mrs Paul Hearn).
Amber Morrison is a granddaughter paternally of the 2nd Baron Margadale (1930-2003), and niece of the 3rd Baron (born 4 Apr, 1958).
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The engagement was announced 26 July, 2024, between James Jonathan (Jake) Allright (born 1992), son of Jonathan Edward Allright (born 1965) and Mrs Laura Lawrence (nee Laura-Jo Newton), & Joanna Julia Leslie Melville (born 6 July, 1994), scion of the Earls of Leven & Melville, third daughter of the Hon Archibald Ronald (Archie) Leslie Melville (born 15 September, 1957), & his wife the former Julia Mary Greville Fox.
Joanna's father is heir presumptive to his nephew the 17th Earl of Leven & Melville (born 29 Nov, 1984).
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The Hon Harriet Horatia Waldegrave, scion of the Earls Waldegrave, and her husband David Ring have had a son, Cormac Dáithí Ring, 18 July, 2024, a brother for Saoirse Cara, who was born 29 September, 2021.
Harriet Waldegrave (born 1988), is a daughter of the Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, PC (life peer - born 15 Aug 1946), of Chewton Mendip, Somerset, by his wife the former Caroline Linda Margaret Burrows (born 14 Aug 1952). Her father, Lord Waldegrave of North Hill, as William Waldegrave MP, was a Cabinet minister in the Thatcher and Major administrations between 1990 and 1997.
Harriet Waldegrave is a granddaughter of the 12th Earl Waldegrave, KG, GCVO (1905-95).
David W.R. Ring is a son of Mr and Mrs Dave Ring, of Dublin.
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Daphne Astor, who died 14 July, 2024, aged 74, the artist & poetry editor, was a scion of the Croesus-rich Warburg banking dynasty, and wife of Micky Astor, scion of the English branch of the Astor family.
The American-born British conservationist and farmer worked with literary and visual arts organisations in the UK from 1977. In 2016 she founded and curated Poetry in Aldeburgh, and was the chairperson of C4RD and was a long-term trustee of the Poetry School. Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies and magazines including Magma, Finished Creatures and Coast to Coast to Coast. She was also publisher and editor of Hazel Press.
She was born Daphne Warburg in New York, 22 December, 1949, the only daughter of Edward Mortimer Morris 'Eddie' Warburg (1908-1992), of Westport, Conn, USA, a prominent philanthropist, collector and patron of the arts who co-founded the American Ballet and the School of American Ballet, and donated many works to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her paternal grandmother was a Schiff — probably an even wealthier family than the Warburgs. Her mother was Mary Whelan Prue (1908-2009).
She married in 1979, Michael Ramon Langhorne Astor (born 29 September, 1946), son of Major the Hon Sir Jacob Astor, MBE (1918-2000) a grandson of the Virginian-born society hostess Nancy Viscountess Astor (1879-1964), who became the first female MP to take her seat in parliament, and her husband, the 2nd Viscount (1879-1952).
Daphne and Micky adopted three children, Jessica, Luke and Eloise, and settled at Hatley Park, in Cambridgeshire, a Georgian mansion with 1,800 acres of land.
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Alexander Waugh, the writer, critic and journalist, who has died aged 60, was the son of Auberon Waugh and a grandson of the great Evelyn Waugh.
Alexander Evelyn Michael Waugh was born 30 December, 1963, the elder son of Auberon Alexander Waugh (1939-2001), and his wife the former Lady Teresa Lorraine Onslow (born 26 February, 1940), daughter of the 6th Earl of Onslow (1913-1971).
Among other books, he has written Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family (2004), about five generations of his own family, and The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War (2008) about the Wittgenstein family. He is an advocate of the Oxfordian theory, which holds that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was the real author of the works of William Shakespeare.
Alexander was the brother of Daisy Waugh and the grandson of Evelyn Waugh. He was educated at Taunton School, the University of Manchester and the University of Surrey, where he gained degrees in Music. Alexander Waugh was the chief opera critic of The Mail on Sunday (1990–1991) and of the Evening Standard (1991–1996). His books on music include Classical Music: A New Way of Listening (1995) and Opera: A New Way of Listening (1996).
Waugh's biography Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family (2004), written at the suggestion of Sir Vidia Naipaul after his father died, is a portrait of the male relations across five generations in his own family. Described as "breezily irreverent" by John Banville in The New York Review of Books, it formed the basis of a BBC Four television documentary, presented by the author, which was broadcast in 2006. He was the general editor of The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh (43 volumes planned), a project which began in 2009 with the first four volumes appearing in 2017 published by the Oxford University Press.
Waugh's biography of the Wittgenstein family (The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War) was published in 2008. Terry Eagleton in a review for The Guardian found it an "eminently readable, meticulously researched account of the Wittgenstein madhouse". Although he thought Waugh wrote less about Ludwig Wittgenstein than he would desire, he "certainly casts some light" on the philosopher's "extraordinary contradictions." Philosopher Ray Monk in his review for Standpoint magazine commented that Waugh, in his account of a substantial portion of the Wittgenstein family fortune ending up with the Nazis, uses "much hitherto unknown documentation" and "Waugh's version is more authoritative and fuller than previous accounts." Monk writes that concert pianist Paul Wittgenstein gains the largest share of the text and much of the book is written from his viewpoint.
His other books include Time: From Microseconds to Millennia; A Search for the Right Time (1999) and God (2002). In Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith and Family, Michael G. Brennan described Time as being "one of the most intriguing books produced by" any of his later family. "Ranging through religious, classical and renaissance scholarship, it blends past beliefs and theories, often in gently subversive ways, with more recent scientific thought."
Waugh was an advocate of the Oxfordian theory, which contends that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote the works of William Shakespeare. He discovered what he claims to be surreptitious allusions embedded in 16th- and 17th-century works revealing that the name William Shakespeare was a pseudonym used by Oxford to write the Shakespeare oeuvre. Of one example which gained coverage in October 2013, Shakespearean scholar Professor Stanley Wells told The Sunday Times: "I’m mystified that an intelligent person like Alexander Waugh can see any significance in this kind of juggling with letters."
Waugh's book, Shakespeare in Court (2014) takes the form of a fictional trial which draws the conclusion that Shakespeare was a front for others but, on this occasion, does not propose another candidate. He was elected chairman of the De Vere Society in spring 2016 for a three-year term.
In late October 2017, The Guardian reported that Waugh believed the title and dedication of the William Aspley edition of Shakespeare's sonnets of 1609 hold encrypted evidence of the final resting place of the author: de Vere's grave in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner.
Waugh married 3 November, 1990, Elizabeth Beatrice 'Eliza' Chancellor (born 1964), scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of the journalist Alexander Surtees Chancellor (1940-2017), and his wife the former Susanna Elizabeth Debenham (born 20 September, 1943), scion of the Debenham baronets, by whom he had issue, three children, a son, Auberon (born 21 April, 1998), and two daughters, Mary (born 1993), and Sally (born 1995).
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The Hon Christopher Melville McLaren, who died 11 July, 2024, aged 90, was a scion of the Barons Aberconway.
He was born 15 April, 1934, the 3rd son of Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway, CBE (1879-1953), a barrister 1903; Member of Parliament (Liberal) for West Staffordshire 1906-10 and for Bosworth 1910-22; Parliamentary Private Secretary to the President of the Board of Trade 1906-08 and to the Chancellor of the Exchequer 1908-10; and his wife the former Christabel Mary Melville Macnaghten (died 7 Aug 1974), 2nd dau. of Sir Melville Leslie Macnaghten CB, by his wife Dora Emily Sanderson, 1st dau. of Rev Canon Robert Edward Sanderson DD, &c; and married 31 Oct 1973, Mrs Jane Elizabeth Field (nee Barrie, born 1939), daughter of James Matthew Barrie (1913-2000), of Highgate Village, London, and his wife the former Nesta Reid (1915-1981), by whom he had issue, a son, Robert Melville (born 1974), and a daughter, Lara Jane Christabel (born 1976).
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Lady Greenaway [born 1986], wife of Sir Thomas Edward Burdick Greenaway, 4th Baronet [born 3 April, 1985], gave birth to a daughter, Charlotte Susan Caroline, 2 July, 2024, a sister for Oliver Burdick Cecil, who was born 28 June, 2022.
Lady Greenaway is the former Claire Gillian Anne Floyd [born 1986], scion of the Floyd baronets, daughter of David Henry Cecil Floyd [born 2 Apr, 1956], of Bowerchalke, co Wiltshire, by his wife the former Caroline Anne Beckly.
Sir Thomas Greenaway, Bt, who succeeded to the baronetcy, 16 March, 2015, is the son of the late Sir John Michael Burdick Greenaway, 3rd Baronet [1944-2015], by his wife the former Susan Margaret Birch.
The 6th Marquess of Exeter > Lady Gillian Cecil > David Floyd > Claire Floyd > Charlotte Greenaway
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Alice Sophie Crawley (nee Rugge-Price, born 22 May, 1985), wife of Aidan Harold Winston Crawley [born 22 October, 1983], gave birth to a son, Alexander Randall (Sasha), 12 July, 2024, a brother for Athena Lyra, who was born 8 October, 2022.
Aidan Crawley is a son of the late Randall Stafford Crawley [1950-88], and his wife the former Marita Georgina Phillips [born 28 May, 1954] [now Mrs Marita Knight].
Alice Crawley, former wife of Archibald David Keswick [born 1980], scion of that landed family, is a daughter of James Keith Alan [Jamie] Rugge-Price [born 10 Oct, 1944], scion of the Rugge-Price baronets, and his former wife Alexa Crookshank [now Mrs Alexa Vere Nicoll].
The infant is descended from the Royal House of Russia, via the Wernher baronets.
Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia > Grand Duke Michael of Russia [d 1909] > Grand Duke Michael of Russia [d 1929] > Anastasia [Zia] de Torby > Georgina Wernher > Marita Phillips > Aidan Crawley > Alexander Crawley
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The engagement was announced 22 July, 2024, between Lieutenant James Robert Close-Smith, RN (born 26 July, 1996), scion of the Lords Kinloss, son (twin with sister Isobel) of Christopher Paul Close-Smith (born 6 December, 1962), of Stowe, Buckinghamshire, and his wife the former Charlotte Nina Brace (born 1964), & Xenia Isobel Gravell (born 21 November, 1995), eldest daughter of Humphrey William Gravell (born 1965), of Great Somerford, Wiltshire, & Alexandra Joan (Alicky) Llewellen Palmer (born 1964), scion of that landed gentry family, descended from the extinct Marquesses of Lincolnshire.
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The 15th Baron Dudley died 20 June, 2024, aged 93.
The peer, of Little Grange, Napleton, Kempsey, Worcestershire, was fifteenth holder of the barony in the peerage of England created by writ, 15 Feb 1439/40.
The first baron, Sir John Sutton, KG, carried the Standard at the funeral of King Henry V 1422; WAS Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1428-30; Constable of Clun Castle 1435; in the wars with France; taken prisoner with King Henry VI at the Battle of St Albans 1455; Knight of the Garter 1459; Steward of the Lordship of Montgomery 1459/60; Constable of Wigmore Castle 1460; Constable of the Tower of London 1470-83; & Joint Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth Wydville, consort of King Edward IV.
The 15th Baron was born Jim Anthony Hill Wallace, 9 November, 1930, the eldest son of Guy Raymond Hill Wallace (who died 16 March, 1967), by his wife Barbara Amy Felicity Smith, suo jure the (14th) Baroness Dudley (1907-2002). He succeeded to the barony on his mother's decease, 27 May, 2002.
Lord Dudley married 16 Jun 1962, Nicola Jane Dunsterville, daughter of Lt Col Philip William Edward Leslie Dunsterville, by whom he had issue, two sons, Jeremy and Nicholas. The elder son, the Hon Jeremy William Guilford Wallace (born 12 Sept, 1964), succeeds as 16th Baron Dudley.
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Imogene, Lady Wolseley, who died 11 July, 2024, aged 80, was the widow of Sir Charles Wolseley, 11th Baronet.
She was the former Imogene (Jeannie) May, of Dayton, Ohio, USA, and married in 1984, as Mrs Imogene E. Brown, Sir Charles Garnet Richard Mark Wolseley, 11th Baronet (born 16 June, 1944), son of Stephen Garnet Hubert Francis Wolseley (1918- killed in action 31 Aug, 1944), by his wife the former Pamela Barry (who died 16 Nov, 2002), and was a grandson of Sir Edric Wolseley, 10th Baronet (1886-1954). Sir Charles Wolseley, Bt, who succeeded his grandfather, 17 September, 1954, died 5 March, 2018.
Jeannie, Lady Wolseley, leaves a daughter, Janet, from her first marriage to ____Brown.
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The Hon Mrs Nigel Parker, who died 4 July, 2024, aged 86, was widow of the Hon Nigel Parker, scion of the Earls of Morley, and a scion of the Devitt baronets.
Georgina Jane Devitt was born 6 October, 1937, the eldest daughter of Lieutenant-Col Sir Thomas Gordon Devitt, 2nd Baronet (1902-1995), and his second wife the former Lydia Mary Beloe (1909-1995); and married 23 April, 1965, the Hon Nigel Geoffrey Parker (1931-2019), third son of the Hon John Holford Parker (1886-1955), and his wife the former Hon Marjory Katharine Elizabeth Alexandra St Aubyn (1893-1987), scion of the Barons St Levan, and was a younger brother of the 6th Earl of Morley (1923-2015). She leaves issue, a son, Edward (born 15 Oct, 1967), and a daughter, Theresa (born 5 March, 1966).
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Rupert Ivo Charles Gladitz, who died 10 July, 2024, at his home in Brazil, aged 54, was descended from the Bellville landed gentry family; born 10 December, 1969, son of Alfred Charles Gladitz (1922-2014), and his wife the former Patricia Barbara Bellville (1931-2015). He leaves a husband, Israel.
Mr Gladitz was descended from the 19th Baron Stourton :-
19th Baron Stourton (1802-72) > Hon Albert Stourton (1835-1902) > Maj Herbert Stourton (1873-1932) > Barbara Stourton (1900-80) > Patricia Bellville (1931-2015) > Rupert Gladitz (1969-2024)
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The engagement was announced 20 July, 2024, between Nicholas J. Wilson, elder son of Mr Michael Wilson of Brisbane, Queensland and Mrs Sally Wilson of The Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, and Rosie Charlotte May Vavasour (born 5 August, 1993), scion of the Vavasour baronets, elder daughter of Dr Simon Mark Andrew Vavasour (born 12 May, 1966), of Norwich, and Mrs Sarah Lucy Vavasour (nee Jacques), of Kensington.
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The engagement was announced 20 July, 2024, between Archibald William Boverton Thomson (born 1995), eldest son of Capt Patrick MacDonald Thomson (born 1967), of Brewham, Somerset, and his wife the former Anna Kathryn Redwood (born 6 January, 1967), and Emma Grace H. Irving (born 1995), daughter of David Irving, of the Isle of Bute, and his wife the former Karen Hollingsworth.
Archibald Thomson is descended from the Redwood baronets:-
Sir Peter Redwood, 3rd Baronet (born 1937) > Anna Redwood (b 1967) > Archibald Thomson (b 1995)
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The engagement was announced 20 July, 2024, between Mr E.J.Ralph Melhuish, son of the late Jeremy Melhuish and Mrs Melhuish, of Winterslow, Wiltshire, and Fenella Kate Moore (born 14 May, 1993), third daughter of Sir Richard William Moore, 4th Baronet (born 8 May, 1955), of Barton St David, Somerset, and his wife the former Karyn L. Furness (born 1959).
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The marriage has taken place between the Hon Valentine Guy Bryan Guinness (born 9 March, 1959), second son of the 3rd Baron Moyne (born 16 March, 1930), and his first wife the former Ingrid Olivia Georgia Wyndham (later Baroness Kelvedon) (1931-2009), scion of the Barons Leconfield, & Vanya Eadie, an actress (born circa 1966).
Valentine Guiness is heir to his father's peerage (Peerage of the UK, cr 1932), and married firstly, in 1986 (div 2013), Lucinda Jane Rivett-Carnac (born 29 May, 1960 (the handbag designer 'Lulu Guinness') by whom he has issue, two daughters, Tara Victoria (born 29 Nov, 1991), and Madeleine Rose (born 16 January, 1997).
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The engagement was announced 20 July, 2024, between Trevor S. Guile, elder son of Eric and Sheila Guile, of Halifax, Canada, & Lucy Arabella Frances Tress Barry (born 1987), scion of the Barry baronets, elder daughter of Nicholas Mark Francis Tress Barry (born 22 October, 1957), of Hothfield, Kent, and his wife the former Fiona Mary Rankin (born 1957).
Lucy Barry is a granddaughter of Maj Sir Rupert Rodney Francis Tress Barry, 4th Baronet (1910-1977).
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