The marriage took place in September, 2026, between Ash Kingston (born circa 1995), and Fernanda Elizabeth Grace Dugdale (born 15 April, 1994), second daughter of Sir William Matthew Stratford Dugdale, 3rd Baronet (born 22 February, 1959), of Merevale Hall, Warwickshire, and his wife the former Paige Sullivan Perkins.
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James Christopher Stevenson-Hamilton, who died 23 September, 2026, aged 93, was head of that Scots landed gentry family, the 17th of Fairholm (Feudal Baron of Kirkton & of the Burgh of Barony of Kirkstyle).
He was born at Pretoria, South Africa, 21 May, 1933 son of James Stevenson-Hamilton (1867-1957), and his wife the former Hilda Cholmondeley (1901-1979), scion of that landed gentry family; and married 9 July, 1960, Jennifer Mary Habershon (1933-2025), daughter of the Rev Edward Francis Habershon (1886-1968), and his wife the former Norah May Fairlie Dobbs (1900-1992), scion of that Irish landed gentey family, by whom he had issue, three sons, James of Fairholm & Kirton Yr (born 26 April, 1962), who succeeds as 18th of Fairholm, Andrew (born 23 Feb, 1965), and John (born 31 May, 1969).
His wife died 8 April, 2025, aged 91.
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The Hon Harriet Cotterell, who died 19 September, 2026, aged 83, was a scion of the Barons Camoys.
Harriet Pauline Sophia Stonor was born 6 January, 1943, the third daughter of Major the 6th Baron Camoys (1913-1976), and his wife the former Mary Jeanne Stourton (1913-1987), scion of the Barons Mowbray, Segrave & Stourton; and married 24 July, 1965, (Jonathan) Julian Cotterell (1940-2017), son of Maj Leonard Evelyn Cotterell (1893-1968), and his wife the former Nancy Ellinor Kidston (1901-1991), scion of that landed family of Redenham Park.
She leaves two sons, Edmund (born 29 Oct, 1967), and Rupert (born 18 June, 1969), and a daughter, Alice (born 23 May, 1966).
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Lucinda Charlotte Anne Wingfield Digby (nee Sewell, born 30 September, 1993), wife of Richard Francis Wingfield Digby (born 1989), scion of that landed gentry family, gave birth to a son, Jamie Frank, 17 September, 2026.
Richard Wingfield Digby is a son of George Richard Wingfield Digby (born18 August, 1955), of Oxfordshire, and his wife the former Frances Jane Henn (born 2 February, 1959), scion of that Irish landed family.
Lucinda Wingfield Digby is a scion of the Sewell landed gentry family, third daughter of Mark Geoffrey Sewell (born 27 May, 1955), of Idlicote, Warwickshire, and his wife the former Elizabeth Mary Alexandra Fraser (born 1957), descended from the Seymour Dukes of Somerset.
Lucinda's descent from the 5th Baron Methuen:-
5th Baron Methuen (1891-1975) > Hon Elizabeth Methuen (1928-2017) > Elizabeth Fraser (b 1957) > Lucinda Sewell (b 1993)
Lucinda's Somerset lineage:-
8th Duke of Somerset (1695-1757) > Rev Lord Francis Seymour (1726-99) > Francis Compton Seymour (d 1822) > Henry John Hyde Seymour (1795-1860) > Rev Henry Seymour (1825-1911) > Madeleine St Maur Seymour (1862-1951) > Violet Abel Smith (1896-1972) > Malcolm Fraser (1924-2019) > Elizabeth Fraser (b 1957) > Lucinda Sewell (b 1993) > Jamie Wingfield Digby (b 2026)
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Charles Fleetwood Churchill died 24 September, 2026. He was 89.
He was born in 1937, the second son of of Brigadier Alec Palmer ffleetwood Churchill (1896-1947), of Byne House, Warminster, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Helen Mary Zwilchenbart (1901-2000), descended from the Earls of Mar & Kellie.
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The engagement was announced 26 September, 2026, between William J. Peake, son of Mr and Mrs Edward Peake, of Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, and Alice Charlotte Strang Steel (born 1993), scion of the Steel baronets, eldest daughter of David William Strang Steel (born 24 October, 1961), of Banchory, Kincardineshire, and his wife the former Fiona Louise Legge.
Alice is a great-granddaughter of Sir Samuel Strang Steel, 1st Baronet (1882-1961)
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The engagement was announced 26 September, 2026, between George Frederic Kemp Trotter (born 1998), scion of that landed gentry family of Byers Green Hall, the only son of James William Dale Trotter (born 18 January, 1964), of Staindrop, County Durham, and his wife the former Nicola Mahaffy, and Tsering Yangzom Lock (born 1996), daughter of Ms Sarah Lock, of Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
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John Anthony Kenworthy-Browne died 18 September, 2026. He was 94. He was a scion of that landed gentry family.
He was educated at Ampleforth College then Wadham College, Oxford matriculated 1950. Writer and Art Historian.
He was born in 1931, the second son of Bernard Evelyn Kenworthy Kenworthy-Browne (1889-1979), head of that landed gentry family, and his wife Margaret Sybilla Hadcock (1892-1985), and was unmarried.
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The engagement was announced 26 September, 2026, between James Rupert Edward Scott Coles (born 1989), son of the late Bruce Gordon Scott Coles [1946-2020], of East Sussex, and his former wife the former Geraldine Anne Louise [Lulu] Carter (born 20 May, 1956) now Mrs Lulu Lorimer, of Docking, Norfolk, and Kimberley-Anne Maclean, daughter of Mr and Mrs Alan Maclean, of Gladstone, Queensland.
James Coles's mother is descended from the Cradock-Hartopp baronets.
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The engagement was announced 26 September, 2026, between George William Kidman Bourne-Arton (born 22 April, 1999), son of Richard William Bourne-Arton (born 13 March, 1966), of West Tanfield, North Yorkshire, and his wife the former Daphne Elizabeth Benson (born 1964), & Alice Caroline Natasha Gorst (born 27 May, 1999), daughter of Julian Eldon Gorst (born 1959), of Eastington, Gloucestershire, and Mrs Susan Philippa Helen Gorst (nee Newman, born 9 January, 1962), of Oxcombe, Lincolnshire, scion of the Newman baronets, daughter of Sir Gerard Robert Henry Sigismund Newman, 3rd Baronet (1927-1987).
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Charles Nigel Villiers, who died 19 September, 2026, aged 85, was a scion of the Earls of Clarendon.
He was born 25 January, 1941, the second son of Capt Robert Alexander Villiers (1908-1990), and his second wife the former Elizabeth Mary Friend (died 1985); and he married in 1970, Sally Priscilla Magnay (1945-2024), by whom he had issue, a son, Christopher Frederick Pelham Villiers (born 1976), and a daughter, Caroline Harriet Villiers (born 1974).
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The engagement was announced 26 September, 2026, between Patrick William George (born 28 August, 1996), youngest son of Paul George (born 1960), of Herne Hil, London, and his wife the former Phillipa Jane Brown (born 1960), and Laura Edwina Batt (born 1997), eldest daughter of Robert Einar Windham Batt (born 1967), of that landed gentry family of Gresham Hall, of East Beckham, Norfolk, and his wife Rosabelle Patricia Brand (born 28 September, 1965), scionof the Viscounts Hampden.
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The engagement was announced 26 September, 2026, between Frederick George Louis Stork (born 1996), son of Peter David Stork (born 1946), of Peasmarsh, East Sussex, and his wife the former Sophie Rose Macarthur-Onslow (born 24 November, 1957) scion of the Onslow baronets, & Florence Olivia Dove (born 1994), daughter of Peter Stephen Dove (born 1962), of Glavilles Wootton, Dorset, and his ate wife the former (Katharine) Anne (Annie) Blackmore (1964-2023), descended from the Eastwood landed gentry family.
Stork marries Dove, delightfully ornithological.
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The Baroness Dixon-Smith, died 16 August, 2026, aged 89.
She was the wife of Robert William Dixon-Smith, Baron Dixon-Smith, DL (born 30 September 1934), a farmer and Conservative Party politician, created a life Baron in 1993. Lord Dixon-Smith is a former Shadow Minister at the Department for Communities and Local Government.
She was the former Georgina Janet Cook, daughter of George Cook, of Halstead, Essex, and his wife the former Kathleen Smith, and married 1960, Bill Dixon-Smith, by whom she had issue, a son, Adam and a daughter, Sarah.
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Jennifer Lisabeth Gwynllyn Holland died 13 September, 2026. She was 85.
She was born 22 October, 1940, the elder daughter of Sir Jim Holland, 2nd Baronet (1911-1981), and his wife the former Elisabeth Hilda Margaret Prickard (1910-2009), scion of that landed gentry family.
Her grandfather, Alfred Holland (1876-1948) was created a baronet in 1917.
She was unmarried.
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The Baroness West of Spithead died 23 September, 2026.
She was the wife of Alan West, Baron West of Spithead, GCB, DSC, PC (born 21 April, 1948), a retired admiral of the Royal Navy and formerly, from June 2007 to May 2010, a Labour Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the British Home Office with responsibility for security and a security advisor to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Prior to his ministerial appointment, he was First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from 2002 to 2006.
The former Rosemary Anne Linington Childs, was born in 1949, daughter of Philip David Childs (1906-1995), and his wife the former Blanche Apperley Gillam (1910-1990); & she married in 1973, Alan West, by whom she had issue, two sons William and Alexander, and a daughter, Polly.
Her husband was raised to the peerage for life, 9 July, 2007, as Baron West of Spithead, of Seaview in the County of Isle of Wight.
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The engagement was announced 25 September, 2026, between Charles Edward Savory (born 1981), eldest son of Nigel Rudolph Savory (born 1953), of Thorpland, Norfolk, and his wife the former Annabel Clare Leslie Melville (born 18 July, 1956), scion of the Earls of Leven &Melville, and Emily R. Lewis (born 1984), eldest daughter of James Lewis, of Eye, Suffolk, and his wife the Hon Felicity Nickson, daughter of the Baron Nickson, KBE (born 27 November, 1929), life peer.
It is Charles Lewis's second marriage. In 2010 he married Lucy Edwina Regan, by whom he has issue.
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The engagement was announced 25 September, 2026, between Lieutenant George Nicholas Alfred Lechmere (born 22 April, 1998), middle son of Sir Nicholas Anthony Hungerford Lechmere, 8th Baronet (born 24 April, 1960), of Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, and his wife the former Caroline Jane Gahan (born 1960), & India Tallulah Humphries (born 1998), twin daughter of Jonathan Richard Mungo Humphries (born 1970), of Woking, Surrey, and his wife the former Bernice Annette Russell (born 1966).
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Elisabeth Joy Fausitt Thompson died 16 September, 2026, aged 94.
She was born 19 January, 1932, the third daughter of Geoffrey Fausitt Taylor, MBE (1902-1982), and his wife the former Frances Margaret Kenyon (1894-1979), scion of the Barons Kenyon; and married 29 September, 1954, the Rt Rev Geoffrey Hewlett Thompson (1929-2025), Bishop of Exeter, 1985-1999, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Thompson, MC, by whom she had two sons, Andrew and Benjamin, and two daughters, Mary and Louise.
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Timothy John Trusted died 1st September, 2026, aged 82. He was descended from the Warmingtson baronets.
He was born in 1944, son of John Marshall Trusted (1914-1979), by his first wife Eileen Muriel Hopton (1913-1996), daughter of Ulric Hopton (1875-1962), and his wife the former Marguerite Place (1891-1979).
His grandfather, Sir Harry Herbert Trusted, QC (1888-1985), sometime Chief Justice of Palestine and later of the Federated Malay States, married Mary Agnes Marshall Warmington (1889-1983), daughter of Sir Cornelius Marshall Warmington, 1st Baronet, QC (1842-1908).
He married in April, 1968, Jean Helen Illingworth (born 1946), daughter of Henry George Coats Illingworth, and his wife the former Violet Dawn Gold, by whom he had issue, two sons, Jocelyn Timothy (born 1971), and Dominic Mark (born 1973), husband of the Hon Camilla Astor [born 1974), daughter of the 3rd Baron Astor of Hever.
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