Sir Gerald Percy Robert Walsham, 6th and last Baronet 1939-2019

 Sir Gerald Percy Robert Walsham, 6th Baronet, died 29 September, 2019. 

He was born in 1939, son of Percy Robert Stewart Walsham (1904-1988), and his wife the former Tamara Ellis (died 1981); and succeeded to the baronetcy (cr UK, 1831), on 14 July, 2011, on the death of his cousin, Sir Timothy Walsham, 5th Baronet (1939-2011); and was unmarried, and the baronetcy becomes extinct.

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Sybil Jane Velvet Baird-Smith [born 2019]

_. Dorelia Baird-Smith [nee Adeane], wife of Max Baird-Smith, and scion of the Adeane landed family, gave birth to a daughter Sybil Jane Velvet, 29 September, 2019, a sister for Frank and Cecily.

Mrs Baird-Smith is a daughter of Mr & Mrs James Adeane, of Ramsholt, Suffolk, and Max is the elder son of Mr Robin Baird-Smith and the late Sarah Baird-Smith, of Belsize Park, London.

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Sandys/Warhurst engagement

_.The engagement was announced 28 September, 2019 between Edward M Sandys, scion of that landed family, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Myles Sandys, of Graythwaite Hall, Cumbria, and Lucy A. Warhurst, daughter of Mr and Mrs Jeffrey Warhurst, of Green Farm, Sutton-under-Brailes, Warwickshire.

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Turner/Jessel engagement

The engagement was announced 28 September, 2019, between Oliver Turner, youngest son of Mr and Mrs Turner, of Bushey Heath, Herts, and Camilla Alice Louise Jessel [born 1991], scion of the Jessel baronets, daughter of Mr Alastair John Jessel [born 1959], of Pembury, Kent, by his former wife the former Gail Alexandra Partridge [now Mrs Peter Hall, of Marden, Kent].

Camilla Jessel is a granddaughter of Sir Charles Jessel, 3rd Baronet.

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The 3rd Viscount Davidson 1934-2019

_. The 3rd Viscount Davidson died 27 September, 2019. He was 85.

Malcolm William Mackenzie Davidson was born 28 August, 1934, the second son of the 1st Viscount Davidson, GCVO, CH, CB, PC [1889-1970], by his wife the former Hon Frances Joan Dickinson, DBE [who was given a life peerage as Baroness Northchurch].

He married in 1970, Mrs [Evelyn[ Anne Carew Perfect, the second daughter of William Blackmore Storey, by whom he had issue, a son, Nicholas, and a daughter, Sophie.

Malcolm Davidson succeeded his elder brother as 3rd Viscount Davidson, 20 July, 2012.

His only son, the Hon [John] Nicholas Alexander Davidson, who was born in 1971, succeeds as 4th Viscount.

A Service of Thanksgiving takes place at All Saints' Church, Terling, Essex, 23 October, 2019.

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Ian Malcolm Grant MacIntyre, 17th Chieftain of Camus-na-h-Erie [1940-2019]

Ian Malcolm Grant MacIntyre, 17th Chieftain of Camus-na-h-Erie on 26th September in his 80th year. Beloved long-term companion of Anne, Countess of Dunmore, loving and adored father of Duncan, Annabelle and Abby, sorely missed by Katie, Rebecca and their families and by his grandchildren; Skye, Rosie, Zara, Poppy, Lily, Jack, Kitty, Lulu and Florrie.

Thanksgiving Service to be held at the Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh on Wednesday 16th October at 2 p.m. All welcome, family flowers only.

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Colonel Sir Robert Christie Stewart, KCVO [died 2019]

_. Colonel Sir Robert Christie Stewart, KCVO, who died 26 September, 2019, aged 93, was Her Majesty's Lord Lieutenant for Kinross-shire, 1966-74; son of Maj Alexander Caldwell Stewart, by his wife the former Florence Hamilton Lighton, scion of the Lighton baronets; married 21 May, 1953, Ann Grizel Cochrane [born 26 June, 1932], scion of the Barons Cochrane of Cults, daughter of Air Chief Marshal the Hon Sir Ralph Cochrane [1895-1977], by his wife the former Hilda Frances Holme Wiggin [died 1982]; by whom he had issue, five children.

A funeral service will be held at Dollar Parish Church, 8 Oct, 2019.

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HRH Princess Beatrice of York engaged to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi

_. The engagement was announced 26 September, 2019, between Mr Edoardo Alessandro M. Mapelli Mozzi [born London 1 November, 1983], son of Count Alessandro [Alex] Mapelli Mozzi [born 1951], by his former wife the former Nicola Diana Burrows [born Feb 1956] [now Mrs Nikki Williams-Ellis, MBE], & HRH Princess Beatrice Elizabeth Mary of York [born London, 8 August, 1988], elder daughter of HRH The Prince Andrew, Duke of York [born 19 February, 1960], by his former wife the former Sarah Margaret Ferguson [born 15 October, 1959].

The marriage will be solemnized 29 May, 2020, at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, followed by a reception given by HM The Queen at Buckingham Palace. The Duke of York will give his daughter in marriage.

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Baron Nicholls of Birkenhead, QC, PC 1933-2019

_. The Baron Nicholls of Birkenhead, QC, PC, a former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, died 25 September, 2019. He was 86.

Donald James Nicholls was born 25 January, 1933, the son of William Greenhow Nicholls [1902-93], by his wife the former Eleanor Jane Looney [1895-1939]; married 1960, Jennifer Mary Thomas [born 1935], daughter of William Ewart Chambers Thomas [1899-1973], by his wife the former Enid M. Jones, by whom he had issue, two sons and a daughter.

He was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 1994 and created a life peer as Baron Nicholls of Birkenhead, of Stoke d'Abernon in the County of Surrey.

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Nathalie Brooke (née Benckendorff) [1923- 2019]

_. Nathalie Brooke (née Benckendorff) who died 16 September, 2019, aged 97, was the widow of art historian Humphrey Brooke, CVO [1914-1988], and was a granddaughter of Alexander Konstantinovich Benckendorff [1849-1917], the Russian Empire's last ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Nathalie's mother was the harpist Maria Korchinska. Her father was Count Constantine Benckendorff.

She leaves grandchildren Alexander and Nicholas Dale, Beatrice O'Connell and Leo Dugdale.

The funeral will be held at St Peter's Church, Clapham Manor Street, SW4 6BX, on 7 Oct.. Interment in Claydon, Suffolk at a later date.

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Charteris/Russell engagement

The engagement is announced between Michael J. Samuel Charteris [born 1991], scion of the Earls of Wemyss and March, son of Mr Martin Ian Charteris [born 1960], of Harare, Zimbabwe, by his wife the former Dr Helen Heath, and Rose Susanna Russell [born 1992], scion of the Barons Ampthill, daughter of the Hon John Hugo Trenchard Russell [born 1950] , of Dorset, and Mrs Susanna Russell [nee Merriam], of London.

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Bridgeman/Straker engagement

The engagement was announced 25 September, 2019, between the Hon Orlando Henry Geoffrey Bridgeman [born 11 April, 1983], fourth and youngest son of the 3rd Viscount Bridgeman [born 5 December, 1930], by his wife the former [Victoria] Harriet Lucy Turton, scion of that landed family, & Jacquetta Lucy Eyre Straker [born 1984], scion of that landed gentry family, eldest daughter of Nicholas David Barclay Straker [born 6 May, 1952], by his wife the former Victoria Eyre Gray [born 15 July, 1958].

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Romanov [Russia]/Georganta engagement

The engagement was announced 25 September, 2019, between Prince Rostislav Romanov [born 1985], scion of the Royal House of Russia, elder son of the late Prince Rostislav Rostislavavitch Romanov [1938-1999] by his wife the former Christia Ipsen [born 3 April, 1949 - now the Baroness Ampthill], and Foteini Maria Christina Georganta, daughter of the late Mr Philippos S. Georgantas and of Mrs Philippos Georganta, of Athens, Greece.

Prince Rostislav is a grandson of Prince Rostislav [1902-78], a great-grandson of Xenia, Grand Duchess of Russia [1875-1960], and a great-great-grandson of Alexander III, Tsar of Russia [1845-94] &c.

Prince Rostislav is the father of a son, Rostislav Georgante.

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7th Viscount Southwell 1930-2019

_. The 7th Viscount Southwell, a peer in the Peerage of Ireland, died 23 September, 2019, aged 89.

[Pyers] Anthony Joseph Southwell was born 14 September, 1930, son of the Hon Francis Joseph Southwell [1900-1953] by his wife the former Agnes Mary Annette Clifford, 
and succeeded to the family honours on the death of his uncle, the 6th Viscount, 18 November, 1960.

He married 3 Dec, 1955, Barbara Jacqueline Raynes, daughter of Andrew Raynes, of Harpenden, Co Hertford, by whom he had issue, two sons.

The peerages now devolve on the elder son, the Hon Richard Andrew Pyers Southwell, who was born 15 June, 1956.

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Daisy Juliet Doyne Vigors [born 2019]

_. Flora Vigors (born 1983, nee Gordon Lennox) wife of Nicholas Desmond D. Vigors (born 1983), and scion of the Dukes of Richmond & Gordon, gave birth to a daughter, Daisy Juliet Doyne, in Baden, 23 September, 2019, a sister for Oscar George Doyne, who was born in Baden, 26 January, 2018.

Nick Vigors, scion of the Irish landed family of that name, is the eldest son of Mr Patrick Mervyn Doyne Vigors, of London, and Mrs Patrick Vigors (nee Dinah F. Burrows), of Stapleford, Wiltshire.
Flora Vigors  is a daughter of David Henry Charles Gordon Lennox (b 1935), of Saxham Hall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, by his wife the former Elizabeth Stirling, daughter of Sir William Gurdon Stirling, GCB, CBE, DSO.

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Anna Gascoyne-Cecil [died 2019]

_, Anna Gascoyne-Cecil, who died 30 August, 2019, was the actress Anna Sharkey, who appeared in The Avengers [1961], Rumpole of the Bailey [1978], &c. She was the second wife, and widow of actor Jonathan Cecil [1939-2011], a scion of the Marquesses of Salisbury, son of Lord David Cecil [1902-86], by his wife the former Rachel McCarthy.

She married Jonathan Cecil in 1976. There were no children of the marriage.

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Russell/Yoon engagement

_. The engagement was announced 23 September, 2019, between the Hon Edward Charles Stanley Russell [born 2 September, 1985], scion of the Barons Russell of Liverpool [cr 1919], elder son and heir of the 3rd Baron Russell of Liverpool [born 30 Aug, 1952], of Fulham, London, by his wife the former Dr Gilda F. Albano, & Dr Bella H. Yoon, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs Stefano Yoon, of Seoul, South Korea.

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Sir Peter Forwood, 4th Baronet 1925-2019

_, Sir Peter Forwood, 4th and last Baronet, late the Welsh Guards, died 12 September, 2019. He was 93.

He was born 15 October, 1925, son of Arthur Noel Forwood [1881-1960] [3rd son of the 1st Baronet], by his second wife the former Hyacinth Pollard.

The baronetcy was created in 1895 for Sir Arthur Forwood, Conservative MP for Lancashire [SW] Ormskirk, who was secretary to the Admiralty 1886-92.

He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his cousin, Maj Sir Dudley Forwood, 3rd Baronet, in January, 2001. Sir Dudley was the sole Equerry to HRH The Duke of Windsor after his abdication in 1936 until the outbreak of the Second World War, and was present at the duke's marriage to Mrs Wallis Simpson, in France, in June, 1937.

He married in 1950, Helen Roy Murphy, daughter of James Murphy, MBE, FRCS, of Horsham Sussex, by whom he had six daughters.

The baronetcy now becomes extinct.

The funeral takes place at the Church of St Anthony & St George, Duncton, West Sussex, 4 October, 2019.

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Burton/Elkington engagement

 _. The engagement was announced 21 September, 2019, between Jonathan D.C. Burton, son of Mr & Mrs David Burton, of Seaton, co Devon, & Louise Alice Rosemary Elkington [born 1986], daughter of Robert John Elkington, of Sutton Scotney, co Hampshire, by his wife the former Mary Patricia Ashley Cooper [born 1953], scion of the Earls of Shaftesbury.

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David Rudyerd Wynn-Williams 1934-2019

_. David Rudyerd Wynn-Williams, who died 12 September, 2019, aged 85, was the father of Virginia, Duchess of Roxburghe, who lost her husband the 10th Duke, on 29 August.

He was born in 1934, son of Derwas Douglas W. Wynn-Williams [1907-98], by his wife the former Marjorie B. Cox; and married firstly, Shirley P. Maltwood [later wife of Christopher Edwards], daughter of Ryder Gardyne Maltwood, by his wife the former Nancy Kathleen Lewis; married secondly, Susie ______. He leaves two daughters from his first marriage, Virginia [born 1963, who married, as his second wife, the 10th Duke of Roxburghe [[1954-2019]] ], and Alison [born 1965].

 Private cremation followed by a Service of Thanksgiving and Celebration of his life at the Church of St Martin's of Tours, Martinstown, Dorset on 1 October, 2019.

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