Barnaby William Soames [born 2020]

 _. Georgina Caroline Angela Soames [nee Reeves, born 1984], wife of Christopher Michael Soames [born 1983], scion of that gentry family of Hamsell Manor formerly of Sheffield Park, gave birth to a son, Barnaby William, 25 September, 2020.

Christopher Soames is a son of Michael Sidney Soames [1950-2013], and his wife the former David John Capron [1931-2003].

Georgina is a descendant of the Dukes of Devonshire, daughter of Frederick John Reeves [born 1947], and his wife the former Diana Grace Angela Cavendish [born 1954].

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Sir Sean Connery, Kt 1930-2020

  Sir Sean Connery, the actor, has died aged 90.

He was born 25 Aug, 1930, the son of Joseph and Euphamia Connery; named Thomas. adopted the stage name of Sean in 1953; married 1st 1962, Diane Cilento [marriage dissolved, 1974]; one son; married 2ndly, 1975, Micheline Roquebrune; two step sons, 1 step daughter.

He served in the Royal Navy. Has appeared in films: No Road Back [1956]; Action of the Tiger [1957]; Another Time, Another Place [1957]; Hell Drivers [1958]; Tarzan's Greatest Adventure [1959]; Darby O'Gill and the Little People [1959]; On the Fiddle [1961]; The Longest Day [1962]; The Frightened City [1962]; Woman of Straw [1964]; Marnie [1964]; The Hill [1965]; A Fine Madness [1966]; Shalako [1968]; The Molly Maguires [1968]; The Red Tent [1st Russian co production] 1969; The Anderson Tapes [1970]; The Offence [1973]; Zardoz [1973]; Ransom [1974]; Murder on the Orient Express [1974]; The Wind and the Lion [1975]; The Man Who Would be King [1975]; Robin & Marian [1976]; The First Great Train Robbery [1978]; Cuba [1978]; Meteor [1979]; Outland [1981]; The Man with the Deadly Lens [1982]; Wrong Is Right [1982]; Five Days One Summer [1982]; Highlander [1986]; The Name of the Rose [1987] [BAFTA Award for Best Actor 1988]; The Untouchables [1987] [Best Supporting Actor, Academy Awards, 1988; Golden Globe Award]; The Presido [1989]; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [1989]; Family Business [1990]; The Hunt for Red October [1990]; The Russian House [1991]; Highlander II - the Quickening [1991]; Medicine Man [1992]; Rising Sun [1993]; A Good Man in Africa [1994]; First Knight [1995]; Just Cause [1995]; The Rock [1996]; Dragonheart [1996]; The Avengers [1998]; Entrapment [1999]; Playing by Heart [1999]; Finding Forrester [2001]; as James Bond: Dr No [1963]; From Russia With Love [1964]; Goldfinger [1965]; Thunderball [1965]; You Only Live Twice [1967]; Diamonds Are Forever [1971]; Never Say Never Again [1983].

knighted in 2000; Fellow, BAFTA [1998]; Freedom of the City of Edinburgh [1991]; American Cinematique Award [1992]; BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award, [1990]; Man of Culture Award [1990]; Scot of the Year Award, BBC Scotland [1991]; Rudolph Valentino Award [1992]; Golden Globe Cecil B. De Mille Award [1996]; Commander, Order of Arts and Literature [France] [1987]; Legion d'Honneur, &c. Recreations: golf, tennis, reading.

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Timothy David Cole 1985-2020

 _. Timothy David Cole, who died suddenly at his home, 18 October, 2020, aged 35, was descended from the Earls of Onslow.

He was born in 1985, son of David Cole, and his wife the former Henrietta Hughes-Onslow [born 5 Aug 1951], and was a grandson of Timothy Neil Hughes-Onslow [1924-1995], and his wife the former Susan Dugdale [1925-2016], daughter of Sir William Francis Stratford Dugdale, 1st Baronet [1872-1965].

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Alistair John Evelyn Boscawen 1963-2020

 _. Alistair John Evelyn Boscawen, who died 24 October, 2020, aged 57, was a scion of the Viscounts Falmouth.

He was born 24 May, 1963, son of Simon John Evelyn Boscawen [1936-2004], and his wife the former Judith Perdita Rosemary Marshall, daughter of Sir Arthur Marshall [1903-2007], sometime High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire.

Alistair's grandfather, Maj John Perceval Townshend Boscawen [1906-72], married in 1931, Lady Mary Helen Alma Graham [1909-1999], daughter of the 6th Duke of Montrose [1878-1954].

He was a descendant of the 3rd Viscount Falmouth [1758-1808].

Alistair Boscawen was twice married, firstly,in 1990, to Victoria Porter, and secondly in 1998, to Katherine [Lulu] Witherington [born 1963].

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Hay/Langley engagement

 _. The engagement was announced 31 October, 2020, between James Malcolm Douglas Hay [born 30 May, 1985], scion of the Marquesses of Tweeddale, the eldest son of Malcolm Charles Hay of Seaton [born 4 March, 1956], of Edinglassie, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, by his wife the former Deborah Louise Rouse, & Edwina Chantal Elizabeth Langley [born 1985], daughter of Christopher J.M. Langley, of Alderton, Woodbridge, Suffolk, by his wife the former Diana Constance Mary Crewdson [born 11 June, 1959].

James Hay is descended from George Hay, 7th Marquis of Tweeddale [1753-1804].

Edwina Langley is a great-granddaughter of the 3rd Baron Grimthorpe [1891-1963].

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Alun-Jones/Fleming engagement

 _. The engagement was announced 31 October, 2020, between Ben Alun-Jones, son of Jeremy Alun-Jones [born 1961[, by his wife the former Deborah Harrison, of Fishbourne, West Sussex, & Hannah Elizabeth Fleming [born 9 Oct, 1992], scion of the Flemings of Nettlebed, daughter of Matthew Valentine Fleming [born 12 Dec, 1964], of Horstead, Norfolk, by his wife the former Caroline Mary Buxton [born 15 March, 1965], scion of the Buxton baronets.

Hannah Fleming is a kinswoman of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond.

Ben Alun-Jones is a grandson of Sir Derek Alun-Jones [1933-2008], the insdustrialist.

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Dalrymple/Goodman engagement

 _. The engagement was announced 31 October, 2020, between Hew William James [Hewie] Dalrymple [born 1993], scion of the Earls of Stair, son of Andrew David Dalrymple [born 10 Oct, 1959], of Gifford, East Lothian, by his wife the former Bryony Major, & Amy I. Goodman, daughter of Guy Goodman, of Emsworth, Hampshire, and Mrs Louise Balfour Goodman, of Broad Oak, Dorset.

Hewie Dalrymple is a grandson of Maj the Hon Colin Dalrymple [1920-2017], and a great-grandson of the 12th Earl of Stair [1879-1961].

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Ruaridh Pierre Berger [born 2020]

  _. Marie-Emily Rose Mackenzie Berger [nee Graham-Watson, born 1991], wife of Edward Bertram [Bertie] Berger [born 1991], gave birth to a son, Ruaridh Pierre, 25 October, 2020.

Mrs Berger is a scion of the Graham-Watson landed gentry family, daughter of Andrew FitzJames Graham-Watson [born 1957], of Longworth, co Oxford, by his wife the former Brigitte Claude Marie Jeanson.

Bertie Berger is a son of Antony Berger, of Egerton, Kent, by his wife the former Nicola Anne Dawson.

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Lord Coleridge, 83, marries Rosemary, Viscountess Exmouth, 78

 _. The marriage took place 15 September, 2020, in Exeter, between William Duke Coleridge, 5th Baron Coleridge [born 18 June, 1937], son of the 4th Baron Coleridge, KBE, DL [1905-84], by his wife the former Cecilia Rosamund Fisher [died 1991], & Rosemary Frances, Viscountess Exmouth [born 10 Dec, 1941], daughter of Dr Francis Harold Scoones [1915-2004], of Greenford, co Middlesex, by his wife the former Rose Frances Callis [died 2014].

Lord Coleridge is Viscountess Exmouth's third husband. Her previous two husbands were peers. Her first marriage in 1963 was to Murray de Vere Beauclerk, styled Earl of Burford [born 19 Jan 1939] [now the 14th Duke of St Albans]. The marriage ended in divorce in 1974. She married 2ndly, in 1975 [divorced 2000], Paul Edward Pellew, the 10th Viscount Exmouth. 

Lady Exmouth has two children, a son and a daughter, from her marriage to the Duke of St Albans, and two sons from her marriage to Lord Exmouth.

Viscountess Exmouth is Lord Coleridge's third wife. He married firstly, 17 Feb, 1962 [div 1977], Everild Tania Judy Hamborough. He married 2ndly, in 1977, Pamela Baker [who died 12 Aug 2018].

Lord Coleridge has a son and two daughters from his first marriage, and two daughters from his second marriage.

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Lady Loyd, widow of Sir Julian Loyd, has died aged 87

 _. Lady Lloyd, who died 27 October, 2020, aged 87, was the widow of Sir Julian Loyd [1926-2018], for many years the land agent to Her Majesty the Queen at Sandringham.

She was the former [Philippa] Mary Emma Steel, daughter of diplomat Sir Christopher Eden Steel, GCMG, MVO [1903-1973]. Sir Christopher was sometime an assistant private secretary to HRH The Prince of Wales [afterwards King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor], and later the British permanent representative to NATO and ambassador to West Germany.

She married 20 October, 1960, Julian St John Loyd, scion of that landed gentry family, and a grandson maternally of the 1st Earl of Midleton [1856-1942]. Her husband, a chartered surveyor, was a partner in the Norwich branch of Savills, and served as land agent to the Queen at her Sandringham estate, 1964-91. Julian Loyd was appointed KCVO on his retirement in 1991, and died 7 Feb, 2018, aged 91. She leaves a son, Charles, and two daughters Alexandra and Mary-Rose The elder daughter, Alexandra Byatt, was sometime a lady in waiting to Diana, Princess of Wales.

Lady Loyd's funeral will take place at the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Sandringham, Norfolk, 5 Dec, 2020.

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Eileen Diana Young [nee Shirley] 1922-2020

 _. Eileen Young [nee Shirley], who died 25 October, 2020, aged 98, was a scion of the Earls Ferrers.

Eileen Diana Shirley was born 11 September, 1922, daughter of Brigadier Sewallis Robert Shirley [1885-1969], by his wife the former Hilda Grace Young.

Mrs Young was a 4xgreat granddaughter of the 1st Earl Ferrers [1650-1717].  A forebear, the 4th Earl Ferrers shot and killed his land steward in January 1760, was tried by his peers in April 1760, unanimously found guilty of murder and was hanged at Tyburn gallows with a silken cord.

She married 27 April, 1946, Malcolm Rhondda Young [who died 17 March, 2010], by whom she had issue, two sons, Peter [born 1947], and Richard [1949-2016].

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Prudence Elizabeth Coats [nee Strettel] 1925-2020

 _. Prudence Elizabeth Coats [nee Strettel], died 26 October, 2020, aged 95. She was born in 1925, a daughter of Colonel Eric Francis Dashwood Strettel, OBE [1894-1970], by his wife the former Margaret Scrimgeour [1901-81]; married in London, 18 Apr, 1952, Major Archibald James Coats [1916-1989], scion of the Coats baronets, son of Ernest Symington Coats [1873-1938], by his wife the former Nora Pountney, & leaves a daughter, Lucy Margaret [born 1961].

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Christopher Henry Emerson [Kit] Haughton [born 2020]

_. The Hon Catherine Ellen-Jane [Kitty] Haughton [nee Flight, born 1975], wife of Giles Henry E. Flight [born 1973], gave birth to a son, Christopher Henry Emerson [Kit], 14 October, 2020, a brother for Mathilda Anna Beatrice, who was born 1 Aug, 2014.

The Hon Kitty Flight is a daughter of Howard Emerson Flight, the Baron Flight, Conservative peer [born 16 June, 1948], who served as Conservative MP for Arundel and South Downs, 1997-2005, by his wife the former Christabel Diana Beatrice Norbury [born 1946].

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Cecilia Mary Veronica Beddows [née Vardon] 1931-2020

 _. Cecilia Mary Veronica Beddows, who died 9 October, 2020, was a scion of the Vardon landed gentry family. Born in 1931, daughter of Henry George Evelyn Vardon [1888-1951], by his wife Cecilia Laura Lenox-Conyngham [1899-1991], scion of that landed gentry family; married 1959, Maj. Ian Alexander Beddows, TD [1920-2005], son of Col. William John Beddows, MC, TD, by his wife the former Esme Lesa McBean [1887-1961], by whom she had issue, two sons, Patrick and Philip, and a daughter, Diana.

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Blanshard/Bowring engagement

 _. The engagement was announced 17 October, 2020, between James William R. Blanshard [born 1992], son of Nigel Grove Blanshard [born 1958], of Walchwil, Zug, Switzerland, by his wife the former Christine Hilda Oliver [born 1959], & Flora Katharine Louise Bowring [born 1994], younger daughter of Thomas Geoffrey Bowring [born 1949], of Halton Park, Lancaster, by his wife the former Amanda Jane Graham Moon [born 1958], scion of the Moon baronets, daughter of Major John Cecil Graham Moon [1916-2006], &c.

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[Francis] Conor ffrench-Davis 1941-2020

 _.[Francis] Conor ffrench-Davis died 18 October, 2020, aged 79. 

Mr ffrench-Davis was descended from the ancient Barons Stourton. His ancestor was Charles Philip Stourton, 17th Baron Stourton [1752-1816], seated at Allerton Park, co York. His peerage was created in 1448.

He was born 30 June, 1941, son of Capt. Francis Holdsworth ffrench-Davis [1908-44], by his wife the former Ingrid Margaret Mary MacDermot [1914-2003]; married 21 July, 1962, Prudence Mary Fiona [Prue] Smith-Wright [born 1944], daughter of John Evelyn Smith-Wright, by his wife the former Cicely Nolan,  by whom he had four sons and two daughters.

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North/Jevons engagement

_.The engagement was announced 24 October, 2020, between Francis Augustus Roderick North [born 9 June, 1990], scion of the North baronets, the younger son of Sir Jeremy William Francis North, 3rd Baronet [born 5 May, 1960], of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, and Mrs Lucy North [nee van der Meulen], of Wilsford, Wiltshire, and Courtney E Jevons, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Mark Jevons, of Clapham, London.

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Viscountess Hall, widow of the 2nd Viscount, has died aged 78

 _. Viscountess Hall, third wife, and widow, of the 2nd Viscount Hall, has died aged 78.

She was the former Marie-Colette Bache, and married William George Leonard Hall, 2nd Viscount [who was born 1913], in 1975. He died 24 July, 1985, when his peerage became extinct.

The funeral takes place at the church of Saint-Viâtre [Loir-et-Cher, France], 30 Oct, 2020.

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The Marchioness of Dufferin & Ava 1941-2020

 -. The Marchioness of Dufferin & Ava, the artist and conservationist, chatelaine of the Clandeboye estate in Northern Ireland, died 26 October, 2020, aged 79.

She was a member of the Guinness dynasty, born Serena Belinda Rosemary Guinness [always known as 'Lindy'] 25 March, 1941, daughter of Group Capt Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness [1906-88], by his wife the Lady Isabel Violet Kathleen Manners [1918-2008], daughter of the 9th Duke of Rutland [1886-1940].

She married 21 Oct, 1964, Sheridan Frederick Terence Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th and last Marquess of Dufferin & Ava [1938-1988], a Trustee of the Wallace Collection, who had succeeded his father, killed in action in Burma, 25 March, 1945. The marriage was childless, and Lord Dufferin & Ava died 29 May, 1988.

Lindy Dufferin was a friend of David Hockney and Truman Capote. She poured her energy into the upkeep and preservation of Clandeboye, Co Down, one of the few great private estates in Northern Ireland that remained in the ownership of the original family.

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Colonel Rodney Francis Maurice Windsor, CBE, DL 1925-2020

 _. Colonel Rodney Windsor, CBE, DL, died 21 October, 2020. He was 95.

Col Windsor, late The Queen's Bays and the North Irish Horse regiments, was born in 1925, son of Maurice Windsor by his wife the former Elsie Meredith. He married 1stly, 26 April, 1951, Deirdre Willa Chichester, scion of the Marquesses of Donegall, daughter of Lt-Col Arthur O'Neill Cubitt Chichester, OBE, MC [1889-1972]; married 2ndly, 6 April, 1994, as her third husband, Mrs Margery Angela Hamilton Stainton [nee Wills] [1922-2012], a member of the Wills tobacco family, scion of the Wills baronets and Barons Dulverton, former wife of [1] Capt Anthony Tabor, and widow of [2] Thomas Stainton. 

Colonel Windsor leaves two sons and a daughter from his first union.

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