Mary Rosalind Frances Felicia Pollock 1931-2022

 (Mary) Rosalind Frances Felicia Pollock , who died 28 March, 2020, aged 88, was a scion of the Pollock baronets and a goddaughter of Queen Mary.

She was born 24 April, 1931, daughter of the Rt Rev Bertram Pollock, KCVO (1863-1943), sometime Bishop of Borwich, by his wife the former Joan Florence Helen Ryder (1897-1986), scion of the Earls of Harrowby. She was unmarried.

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Jack Fellowes [born March 2020]

 __. The Hon Mrs Charles Fellowes [nee Victoria Mills, born 1987], wife of the Hon Charles Henry Fellowes (born 1986), scion of the Barons De Ramsey, gave birth to a son, Jack, in March, 2020.

Charles is the son of the 4th Baron De Ramsey (b 1942) of Abbots Ripton, Cambridgeshire, by his second wife, the former Alison Mary Birkmyre (b 1954), scion of the Birkmyre baronets.

Victoria Fellowes is a daughter of Mr Graham A. Mills, of Guildford, Surrey, by his wife the former Jean L. Spence.

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Sir Edmund Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy, 6th Baronet 1945-2020

_. Sir Edmund Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy, 6th Baronet, died from a heart attack, 30 March, 2020. He was 74.

Sir Edmund, of Charlecote Park, Warwick, was President of the Warwickshire Garden Trust.

Edmund John William Hugh Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy was born 4 May, 1945, son of Sir Brian Fulke Cameron Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy, 5th Baronet [1898-1974], by his wife the former Hon Alice Caroline Helen Buchan [died 1993], daughter of author of 'The 39 Steps' John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir [1875-1940].

Edmund succeeded to the baronetcy on his father's death, 21 January, 1974. He married firstly, 1974 [divorced] Sylvia, daughter of Graeme Ogden, of The Old Manor, Rudge, Somerset; married 2ndly, 1986 [divorced 1989], writer Lady Lucinda Lambton [born 10 May, 1943], daughter of Antony Lambton, Viscount Lambton [the disclaimed 6th Earl of Durham] [1922-2006]; married 3rdly, 1994, Erica Everina Penelope, daughter of Simon Folliott Warren Thomas Barton Loane, of Crocknacrieve, Co Fermanagh.

Sir Edmund leaves issue, two sons from his third marriage, Patrick and John.

The baronetcy is inherited by his elder son, Patrick Samuel Thomas Fulke Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy [born 1995].

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Francis Wyatt Gordon Clark 1935-2020

 _. Francis Wyatt Gordon Clark died 30 March, 2020. He was born in 1935, scion of that landed gentry family, a son of Nathaniel John Gordon Clark [1898-1985], by his wife the former Eveline Mary Symons [1906-1995]; married 1960, Nancy Whitaker Toyne [born 1937], daughter of J.L. Toyne, of Fowey, Cornwall, by whom he had issue, a son, John Lawrence [born 1962], and a daughter, Elizabeth [born 1964].

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Lady Blewitt 1939-2020

_. Lady Blewitt, who died 30 March, 2020, aged 81, was the wife of courtier Major Sir Shane Blewitt, GCVO.

Her husband served as Assistant Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to HM The Queen (1975–85), Deputy Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to HM The Queen (1985–87), Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to HM The Queen (1988–96), since when Extra Equerry to HM The Queen (1996–present).

The former [Monica] Juliet Calvert, was born 3 February, 1939, scion of a landed gentry family, the eldest of five daughters of Major Robert Henry Calvert, of Picts House, Horsham, Sussex, by his wife the former Monica Buxton, scion of the Buxton baronets.

Juliet Calvert was a kinswoman of HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, who is of Calvert descent. [The duchess's great grandmother, Lady Ashcombe, wife of of the 2nd Baron Ashcombe was nee Maud Calvert.]

She married 1stly, 23 June, 1964, Major John Morrogh Bernard, the Irish Guards, who died as the result of a skiing accident in Austria, 11 March, 1968; married 2ndly, 16 June, 1969, the then Shane Gabriel Basil Blewitt [born 25 March, 1935], son of Colonel Basil Blewitt, of Willaston, Cheshire.

Lady Blewitt leaves a son Alexander and a daughter Katherine from her first marriage, and a son, Piers, and daughter, Davina from her second marriage.

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Margaret Alison Lycett Green [nee Lock] [died 2020]

_. [Margaret] Alison Lycett Green, who died 30 March, 2020, was the wife of a scion of the Green baronets.

She was born Margaret Alison Lock, daughter of Major Geoffrey Denis Lock, MC, of Bath, and married firstly, Van Kai-Nelson; she married secondly, 1 March, 1958, as his second wife, Richard David Raft Lycett Green [1925-1969], son of Commander David Cecil Lycett Green [1892-1960], by his wife the former Angela Courage [1902-92], scion of that eponymous brewing family. [Angela Courage was from 1945 the wife of the 3rd Baron Grimthorpe].

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Hon Teresa Mary [Tessa] Haddon 1938-2020

_. The Hon Teresa Mary [Tessa] Head, who died 29 March, 2020, aged 81, was a scion of the Viscounts Head.

Born 20 June, 1938, as Teresa Mary Head, daughter of the then Antony Henry Head [1906-83], who was Conservative MP for Carshalton, 1945-60, and raised to the peerage as Viscount Head, of Throope, County Wilts, 1960, by his wife the former Lady Dorothea Louise Ashley-Cooper [1907-87]. daughter of the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury [1869-1961].

She married 29 July, 1972, Richard Deacon Haddon, Lt, RN [1938-2008], an assistant master at Eton College, son of Herbert Deacon Haddon [1909-2000], by his wife the former Phyllis Mary Pyke [1908-2003].

She leaves a son, Edward and a daughter Alice, and was predeceased by a son, Joseph.

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George Bernard Noel Maitland-Makgill-Crichton [born 2020]

_.  Alice Beatrice Noëlle Maitland-Makgill-Crichton [born 1985, nee Kelly], wife of Thomas James [Tom] Maitland-Makgill-Crichton [born 1986], scion of the Earls of Lauderdale, gave birth to a son, George Bernard Noel,  28 March, 2020, a brother for Hugo Charles Noel, who was born in 2018.

Tom, descended from the 6th Earl of Lauderdale, is a son of Lieutenant-Col Andrew James Maitland-Makgill-Crichton [born 1953], by his wife the former Karen Gail Smith.

Alice is a daughter of Dominic David Noel Miles Charles Kelly [born 1953], by his wife the former Miranda Macklin. Alice is a direct descendant of the Dukes of Norfolk, and is in remainder to the ancient Barony of Beaumont, currently in the possession of the 18th Duke of Norfolk.

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Rt Hon James Edward Ramsden, PC 1923-2020

_. The Rt Hon James Ramsden, PC, who died 29 March, 2020, aged 96, was a former Conservative MP for Harrogate. He held the distinction of being the last Secretary of State for War, and longest serving member of the Privy Council after the Duke of Edinburgh.

His home was at Old Sleningford Hall, near Ripon, North Yorkshire.

Mr Ramsden served as MP for Harrogate, 1954-74, and he served under Harold Macmillan as Under-Secretary of State and Financial Secretary for War from 1960 to 1963 and under Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Secretary of State for War from 1963 to 1964. At the April 1964 reshuffle, the former cabinet positions of First Lord of the Admiralty and Secretary of State for Air, along with Ramsden's post, were incorporated into an expanded Ministry of Defence, under the leadership of the new position of Secretary of State for Defence.

Ramsden was appointed Minister of State for the Army at the Ministry of Defence, a post he held until Sir Alec Douglas-Home's government fell in October 1964. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1963. His successor in the Harrogate constituency was Robert Banks.

He was born at Liverpool,  1 Nov, 1923, son of Capt Edward Ramsden, MC, of Breckamore Hall, near Ripon, by his wife the former Geraldine Wilson [1888-1976]; and married 25 June, 1949, Juliet Ponsonby [1923-2019], scion of the Ponsonby baronets, daughter of Colonel Sir Charles Ponsonby, 1st Baronet [1879-1976], by his wife the former Hon Winifred Marian Gibbs [died 1984], daughter of the 1st Baron Hunsdon [1854-1935].

Mrs Juliet Ramsden died 21 November, 2019, aged 96.

James Ramsden leaves issue, three sons Thomas, George and Richard, and a daughter, Emma. He was predeceased by his youner daughter, the artist Charlotte Cheverton, who died as the result of a motoring accident in 1991.

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Major-Gen The 2nd Baron Alvingham, CBE, DL 1926-2020

_. Major-General The Lord Alvingham, CBE, DL, 2nd Baron, died 29 March, 2020. He was 93.

Robert Guy Eardley Yerburgh was born 16 December, 1926, son of the then Robert Daniel Thwaites Yerburgh [1889-1955], Conservative MP for South Dorset, 1922-29, created a peer, in June, 1929, as Baron Alvingham, of Woodfold, in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

Robert's mother, Dorothea, died a few months after his birth, in February, 1927, aged 44.

He succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Alvingham, 27 November, 1955. He served in the Coldstream Guards retiring in 1981 as a Major-General, and Director of Army Quartering.

Lord Alvingham married 31 March, 1952, Beryl Elliott Williams, daughter of William David Williams, of Hindhead, Surrey, by whom he had issue, a son, Robert, and a daughter, Susannah. The son, Capt the Hon Robert Richard Guy Yerburgh, who was born 10 Dec, 1956, now succeeds as 3rd Baron Alvingham.

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Peter Vernon Dix 1932-2020

_. Peter Vernon Dix died 28 March, 2020, aged 87.

He was born 3 April, 1932, a son of Professor Victor Wilkinson Dix, FRCS [1899-1992], by his wife the former Nanny Uarda Elsie Vernon [1901-1998], scion of the Vernon baronets; and married 11 April, 1964, Kristina Mary Sidley, daughter of John Charles Sidley, OBE [1884-1946], by his wife the former Phyllis Mary Lewis [1900-79], by whom he had three daughters,  Caroline, Philippa and Rosemary.

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Cdr Robin Hutton, MBE, RN [died 2020]

_. Commander Robin Hutton, MBE, RN, died 28 March, 2020. He was a son of Rear-Admiral Reginald Maurice James Hutton, CB, CBE, DSO [1899-1973], by his wife the former [Leslie Dorothy] Lois Griffith-Jones [1908-1992]; married 1963, [Elizabeth] Judy Macmillan [born 1935], daughter of General Sir Gordon Holmes Alexander Macmillan of Macmillan, KCB, KCVO, CBE, DSO, MC [1897-1986], The Macmillan, Chief of the name and arms of Macmillan, by his wife the former Marion Blakiston-Houston [1905-1991], by whom he had a son, James, and a daughter, Alice.

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Brenda Brufal De Melgarejo, Marquesa de Lendinez [died 2020]

_. Brenda Helen Brufal de Melgarejo, Marquesa de Lendinez, who died at Fleet, 28 March, 2020, aged 80, was the widow of Michael Brufal, Marques de Lendinez, a Gibraltarian, the hereditary grand inquisitor of Cordoba.

Her husband was a proud Gibraltarian who opposed Spanish attempts to cajole Britain into handing over the colony. He died in 2018.

The Marquesa is survived by a son, Jonathan, and a daughter, Tabitha.

A private family cremation takes place in the UK on 16 April. A memorial service and burial in Gibraltar will take place later in the year.

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Patricia Egidia Hastings Floyer-Acland [died 2020]

_. Patricia Egidia Hastings Floyer-Acland, who died 28 March, 2020, aged 90, was a granddaughter maternally of the 3rd Baron Donington.

She was a daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard St Barbe Emmott [died in a hunting accident, 14 Aug, 1949], scion of that landed family, by his wife the former Hon Irene Mary Egidia Clifton-Hastings-Campbell [1898-1961], daughter of the 3rd and last Baron Donington [1859-1927].

She married 14 Apr, 1950, Brigadier Stafford Nugent Floyer-Acland [1916-1994], scion of the Acland baronets, son of Lieut-Gen Arthur Nugent Floyer-Acland [1885-1980], by his wife the former Evelyn Stafford Still [died 1973], by whom he had issue, 2 sons, Andrew and Richard, and a daughter, Victoria.

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Lady Sarah Louise Neill-Fraser 1931-2022

 The Lady Sarah Louise Neill-Fraser (nee Erskine), who died 25 March, 2020, aged 88, was a scion of the Earls of Buchan.

She was born Lady Sarah Louise Erskine, 14 July, 1931, the elder daughter of the 16th Earl of Buchan (1899-1984), and his wife the former Christina Baxendale (died 1994); and married 12 June, 1957 (div 1972), Maj Norman Neill-Fraser, son of Maj William Neill-Fraser, by whom she had issue, one son, (James Montagu) Nicholas Neill-Fraser (born 19 January, 1959),

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Alden Peter Theodore Mountbatten Hooper [born 2020]

_. _. The Lady Alexandra Victoria Edwina Diana Hooper (b 5 December, 1982) wife of Thomas Edward Huntly Hooper [born 1979], and scion of the Earls Mountbatten of Burma, gave birth to a son, Alden Peter Theodore Mountbatten, 27 March, 2020, a brother for Inigo Norton Sebastian Mountbatten, who was born 21 December, 2017.

Lady Alexandra is the elder but only surviving daughter of the 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma (b 1947) of Broadlands, Hampshire, by his wife the former Penelope Meredith Eastwood (b 1953).

Thomas Hooper is a son of Peter Huntly Hooper, by his wife the former Patricia Bucknill.

The Hoopers married at Romsey Abbey, 25 June, 2016. HRH The Prince of Wales gave the bride in marriage.

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The 13th Earl of Galloway 1928-2020

_. The 13th Earl of Galloway, Scottish peer, died 27 March, 2020. He was 91.

Randolph Keith Reginald Stewart was born 14 October, 1928, son of the 12th Earl of Galloway [1892-1978], landowner, by his wife the former Philippa Fendall Wendell [died 22 Feb, 1974], daughter of Jacob Wendell, of New York.

Randolph, known by the courtesy title of Lord Garlies from his birth, was dogged by mental issues throughout his life. He married, 17 October, 1975, Mrs May Lily Budge [who died 29 Oct, 1999], daughter of Andrew Miller, of Duns, Berwickshire. The marriage was seen by his family as an unsuitable match, and his father disinherited his son and heir.

Randolph, Lord Garlies, succeeded his father, 13 June, 1978, as 13th Earl of Galloway [Peerage of Scotland cr 1623], Lord Garlies [Peerage of Scotland, cr 1607], Baron Stewart of Garlies [Peerage of GB, cr 1796]; the 12th Baronet, of 'Corsewell' [cr 1627], and 10th Baronet, of 'Burray' [cr 1687].

Lord Galloway is succeeded in all his honours by his second cousin once removed, Andrew Clyde Stewart [born 13 March, 1949], son of Maj Alexander David Stewart, MBE [1914-85], by his wife the former Daphne Marion Bonsor, daughter of Sir Reginald Bonsor, 2nd Bt.

The new peer married 5 March, 1977 [div], Sara Pollock [now Sara Agnew], by whom he has issue, a son, Alexander Patrick Stewart [born 18 Nov, 1980], who now assumes the courtesy title Lord Garlies, and 2 daughters, Tania and Zoe. The younger daughter, now Lady Zoe, is the wife of Jakie James [Jake] Warren [born 1986], a godson of Diana, Princess of Wales,  son of the Queen's racehorse trainer, John Frederick Rufus Warren, by his wife the former Lady Carolyn Penelope Herbert [born 1962], daughter of the 7th Earl of Carnarvon, KBE, KCVO [1924-2011].

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Philippa Innes [nee Gordon-Cumming] 1933-2020

+. Philippa Innes [nee Gordon-Cumming], who died 27 March, 2020, aged 87, was a scion of the Gordon-Cumming baronets.

She was born 29 January, 1933, daughter of Major Sir Alexander Penrose Gordon-Cumming, 5th Baronet [1893-1939], by his wife the former Elizabeth Topham Richardson [died 1985]. Her mother was later Countess Cawdor, wife of the 5th Earl, the Thane of Cawdor.

Philippa's sister, Cecily [1925-2012], was the wife successively of three peers, the 2nd Earl of Woolton, the 3rd Baron Forres, and the 3rd Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor.

She married 10 June, 1955, David Archibald Innes [born 1931], son of Lieutenant-Col James Archibald Innes [1875-1948], by his 3rd wife, the former Evelyn Adelaide Dawnay, a great-granddaughter of the 7th Viscount Downe [1812-57], by whom she had issue, two sons Guy and John, and a daughter, Davina.

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Jacobi Michael Christopher Ennever [born 2020]

__. Olivia Rose Ennever (nee Wake-Walker, born 21 October, 1984), wife of Alistair James F. Ennever (b 1984), and scion of the Wake-Walker baronets, gave birth to a son, Jacobi Michael Christopher, 27 March, 2020, a brother for Oliver James Anthony, who was born 9 April, 2018.

Alistair Ennever is a son of Mr (Anthony) Michael Ennever, of Shaldon, Hampshire, by his wife the former Kirsty Fiona Jane Nicholson.

Olivia Ennever is a second cousin of the Duke of Cambridge & the Duke of Sussex, and is a daughter of Richard Anthony Wake-Walker (born 1951), of Wimbledon, by his wife the former Sharon Pamela Little (b 1952).

Olivia is a granddaughter of the late Lady Anne Wake-Walker, nee Spencer [1920-2020], and a great-granddaughter of the 7th Earl Spencer [1892-1975].

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Susan Elizabeth Lea [nee Dorrien-Smith] 1924-2020

_. Susan Elizabeth Lea, who died 27 March, 2020, aged 95, was a scion of the Dorrien-Smith landed family. She was born 27 July, 1924, daughter of Major Edward Pendarves Dorrien-Smith [1879-1937], of Weir Point, Restronguet, Cornwall, by his wife the former Frances Amy Salvin Bowlby [b 1890], scion of that landed gentry family. She married 29 May, 1952, Judge Christopher Gerald Lea [1917-2006], son of George Percy Lea, of Franche, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, by whom she had issue, 2 sons, Charles and Piers, and a daughter, Antonia.

Mrs Lea was a descendant of the 1st Earl Brownlow.

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