James John Malise Hore-Ruthven (1935-2011)

__.James John Malise Hore-Ruthven, scion of the Scots Lordship of Ruthven of Freeland (cr 1651), died 24 May, 2011, at Barnstaple. He was 75.

12th Baron Middleton, MC, DL (1921-2011)

_.The 12th Baron Middleton, MC, DL, North Yorkshire landowner, died 27 May, 2011. He was 90.

Digby Godfrey Michael John Willoughby was born 1 May, 1921, son of the 11th peer, by his wife the former Angela Florence Alfreda Hall; succeeded to the barony (cr GB 1711/12) and baronetcy (cr 1677), on the demise of his father, 16 Nov 1970. He married, 14 Oct 1947, Janet Marshall-Cornwall, only surv. dau. of Gen Sir James Handyside Marshall-Cornwall KCB CBE DSO MC, of Cadogan Place, London, by his wife Marjorie Caralie Owen, 2nd dau. of William Scott Owen OBE, of Cefngwifed, Newtown, co. Montgomery, &c; by whom he had issue.

The peerage devolves upon his Lordship's son, the Hon Michael Charles James Willoughby, born 14 Jul 1948.

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Billy More Nisbett weds Charlotte Davison

___.The marriage took place, 28 May 2011, between William D.H. (Billy) More Nisbett, scion of that LG family, and descended from the Earls of Stair, son of George Alan More Nisbett, of The Drum, Edinburgh, by his wife the former Patrea MacDonald, & Charlotte F.D. Davison, daughter of the late Mr David Davison and of Mrs Davison, of North Canterbury, New Zealand. Billy's great-great-grandmother was Lady Agnes Dalrymple, dau of the 9th Earl of Stair.

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Marriage of Duke of Buccleuch's daughter

_.The marriage took place 28 May, 2011, at Holy Trinity Church, Melrose, between Rupert T. Trotter, scion of that landed family, youngest son of Maj and Mrs Alexander Trotter, of Charterhall, Duns, and the Lady Louisa Jane Therese Montagu Douglas Scott (b 1982), eldest daughter of the 10th Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry (b 14 Feb 1954), by his wife the former Lady Elizabeth Frances Marian Kerr, sister of the Marquess of Lothian, &c.

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Iona Victoria Tara Gilroy

__Georgina Victoria Gilroy (nee Orr-Ewing, b 1974), wife of Caspar A.E.P. Gilroy, gave birth to a daughter, Iona Victoria Tara, 23 May, 2011, a sister for Orlando. Caspar is the son of Mr Desmond Gilroy and Mrs Tara Williams, of London, and Georgina is the daughter of the Hon Sir (Alistair) Simon Orr-Ewing, 2nd Baronet (b. 10 June, 1940) and Lady Orr-Ewing, of Fifield, Oxfordshire.

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Viscount Allendale's heir weds

_.The marriage took place 6 May, 2011, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm St, between the Hon Wenworth Ambrose Ismay BEAUMONT (b 1979) the only son and heir apparent of (4th) Viscount ALLENDALE (b 1948) by his wife the former Theresa (Tessa) Mary Magdalene More O'Ferrall (b 1950), & Vanessa Webb, daughter of Mr and Mrs Peter Webb, of Kensington, London. Viscountess Allendale is a dau of Francis Ambrose MORE O'FERRALL, scion of that Irish gentry family, and Angela Mary (b 1925)
dau of Sir Anthony Henry Mather MATHER-JACKSON 6th Bt (1899-1983) and Evelyn Mary (dau of Lt-Col Sir Henry Kenyon STEPHENSON 1st Bt).

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Sir Edmund George Felix Paston-Bedingfield, 9th Baronet (1915-2011)

_.Sir Edmund George Felix Paston-Bedingfield, 9th Baronet, died at Bury St Edunds, 24 May, 2011. He was 95. Born 2 Jun 1915, succeeded his father, Sir Henry, in 1941. He was four times wed, and is succeeded in the baronetcy (cr E, 1661), by the son of his first union, Henry, born 7 Dec, 1943.

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Norah, Lady Tennyson-d'Eyncourt dies

__The death has been reported of Norah, Lady Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, third wife & widow of Sir Jeremy Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, 3rd Baronet. She was Norah Gill, daughter of Thomas Gill, of Sheffield, and married Sir Jeremy in 1977. She was widowed in 1988.

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Phyllida Rosemary Gordon-Duff-Pennington (1929-2011)

_.Phyllida Rosemary Gordon-Duff-Pennington, chatelaine of Muncaster Castle, Ravenglass, Cumbria, died at her home, 10 May, 2011. She was born in 1929, a scion of the Ramsden Baronets (cr 1689), daughter of Sir (Geoffrey) William Pennington-Ramsden, 7th Baronet, by his wife the former Veronica Prudence Betty Morley; married 1955, Patrick Thomas Gordon-Duff, scion of that landed family (who assumed the additional surname of Pennington, 1955), by whom she had issue.

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Earl & Countess of Lichfield: a son and heir

_The Countess of Lichfield, wife of the Queen's cousin the 6th Earl of Lichfield (b 19 Jul 1978), gave birth to a son, Thomas Ossian Patrick Wolfe Anson, styled Viscount Anson, 20 May, 2011. Lord Lichfield, son of the photographer 5th Earl, married in 2009, Lady Henrietta Conyngham (b 1976), daughter of the 8th Marquess Conyngham and the Marchioness Conyngham, &c.

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The 8th Viscount Bolingbroke & St John 1957-2011

 The 8th Viscount Bolingbroke & St John, died 21 May, 2011. He was 54.

Henry FitzRoy St John was born in New Zealand, 18 May, 1957, the son and heir of the 7th Viscount Bolingbroke & St John (1927-2010), and his first wife the former Patricia Mary McKenna, daughter of B.J. McKenna, of Christchurch, New Zealand.

He succeeded his father, 5 July, 2010, as the 12th Baronet St. John, of Lidiard Tregoze, co. Wilts [E., 1611], and as the 8th Baron St. John of Lydiard Tregoze, co. Wilts [G.B., 1712], & as the 8th Viscount Bolingbroke, co. Lincoln [G.B., 1712], and as the 9th Viscount St. John, of Battersea, co. Surrey [G.B., 1716]. 

Viscount Bolingbroke is succeeded in the family honours by his younger half-brother, the Hon Nicholas Alexander Mowbray St John, who was born in New Zealand, 20 June, 1974.

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Sir Roger Parker (1923-2011)

_.Sir Roger Jocelyn Parker, who died 21 May, 2011, aged 88, was a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1983 to 1992 and Chairman of the Bar in the early 1970s. His mother was a Kleinwort, of the baronets of that name, &c.

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Arabella Iona Rose Acland

-_.Susannah K.J. Acland (née Bell) wife of Alexander John Dyke Acland (b. 29 May, 1973), scion of the Acland Baronets, gave birth to a daughter, Arabella Iona Rose, 10 May, 2011, a sister for Olivia Charlotte Iris, who was b 22 July, 2009. Alexander is the son and heir of Sir (Christopher) Guy (Dyke) Acland, 6th Baronet (b. 1946), and Lady Acland, of Totland, Isle of Wight, & Susannah is a daughter of Mr & Mrs Charles Bell, of Evanton, Ross-shire.


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Flora Jane Hebe Watt

Sophie Daphne Watt (b 1980, nee Heber Percy), wife of Henry H.W. Watt, gave birth to a dau, Flora Jane Hebe, 19 May 2011. Henry is the elder son of Mr and Mrs Charles Watt, of Upper Stoke Holy Cross, Norfolk, and Sophie, a scion of the Dukes of Northumberland, youngest daughter of Algernon Eustace Heber Percy (b 1944), of Hodnet Hall, Shropshire, by his wife the former Hon Margaret Jane Lever (b 1947), dau of the 3rd (and last) Viscount Leverhulme, KG (b 1 July 1915; d 4 Jul 2000).

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Death of Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson, KCVO

__Sir Blair Aubyn Stewart-Wilson, KCVO, courtier, Deputy Master of the Royal Household, 1976-94, died 24 May, 2011. He was 81.

Death of Simon Anthony Helyar Heneage

___Simon Anthony Helyar Heneage, who died 14 May, 2011, aged 80, married 1955, Elizabeth Mary Wardlaw Ramsay (b 1934) a lady in remainder to the Lordship of Saltoun (Scotland 1445), & descended from the Hogg Barons Magheramorne, &c. He leaves issue.

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Death of Sir Kenelm Guinness, Bt

__.Sir Kenelm Ernest Lee (Tim) Guinness, 4th Baronet, died suddenly at Rich Neck, Maine, USA, aged 82. He was born 13 Dec, 1928, son of Kenelm Edward Lee Guinness, MBE, and succeeded to the baronetcy (cr UK, 1867) on the demise of his uncle, 1954. Married 1961, Mrs Jane Nevin Dickson, by whom he had issue. The baronetcy devolves upon his elder son, Kenelm Edward Lee Guinness, born 30 Jan, 1962.

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Baroness Moore of Wolvercote dies at 86

_Baroness Moore of Wolvercote, who died 16 May, 2011, aged 86, was the widow of Philip Moore, Baron Moore of Wolvercote, private secretary to HM The Queen from 1977 to 1986. She was also sometime the mother-in-law of rock star Peter Gabriel. Funeral Service at Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace 27th May at 11 a.m. Enquiries to Fredk W. Paine, 71 Walton Road, East Molesey 0208 979 5343.

Lowther/Henshaw marriage

Viscount Ullswater's son, the Hon Edward Lowther, has married Katherine Henshaw.
The nuptials took place in London on 7 May, 2011.

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Guinness/Pownall engagement

___The engagement was announced 20 May, 2011, between Rory Guinness, scion of the Barons Moyne, son of the Hon Finn and Mrs Guinness, of Chute, Wilts, & Georgina E.S. Pownall, eldest daughter of Mr & Mrs Nicholas Pownall, of Great Durnford, Wilts.