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Sunday, December 31, 2023

Sebastian Bruce Dalrymple-Hamilton (born 2023)

 Lucinda Catherine Dalrymple-Hamilton (nee Goucher), wife of Hew North Robert Dalrymple-Hamilton [b 1981], scion of the Earls of Stair [Peerage of Scotland, cr 1703], gave birth to a son, Sebastian Bruce, in 2023, a brother for Tobias James, born 2018, and India Catherine, born in 2020.

Hew is the elder son of  Mr [North] John Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton, OBE, TD [b 1950], of Bargany, Ayrshire, by his wife the former Sally-Anne How, & Miss Lucinda Catherine Goucher [b 1987],  daughter of Mr James T. Goucher, of Baden Hall, Staffordshire, by his wife the former Deborah C. Chambers.

Hew's father is a member of the Queen's Body Guard for Scotland [Royal Company of Archers] and was a Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother 1964-66.

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Ramona Carmen Wyndham (born 2023)

 The Hon Mrs George Wyndham [nee Cruz Maria Vallespir], wife of the Hon George Ronan Valentine Wyndham (born 31 July, 1983), scion of the Barons Egremont, gave birth to a daughter, Ramona Carmen Wyndham Vallespir, born in 2023, a sister for Arthur Santiago Balthazar, born 18 July, 2021.

The Hon George Wyndham is the son and heir of the 2nd Baron Egremont (born 21 Apr, 1948), of Petworth House, West Sussex, by his wife the former (Audrey) Caroline Nelson.

Cruz Maria Wyndham is a daughter of Mr & Mrs Manuel Vallespir Machado, of Santiago, Chile.

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Lord Bruce marries Sheree McCrory (2023)

 The marriage has taken place between Charles Edward Bruce, styled Lord Bruce (born 19 Oct, 1961), son and heir of the 11th Earl of Elgin & Kincardine, KT, CD (born 17 February, 1924), and his wife the former Victoria Mary Usher, and Sheree Lee McCrory (born 1970).

It is Lord Bruce's third marriage. He married 1stly, 29 July, 1990 (div 2000), Amanda Leigh Movius; married 2ndly, 5 May, 2001 (div. 2021), Dr Alice Enders, and has issue from both previous marriages.

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Grigg/Karasinka-Stanley marriage

 The marriage took place in 2023, between the Hon Edward Laurence Dundas de Miramont Grigg (born 11 February, 1995), son and heir of the 4th Baron Altrincham (born 18 Dec, 1965), and his wife the former Rachel Sophia Kelly (born 19 Sept, 1965), & Izabela Jadwiga Lois Karasinka-Stanley (born 1995).

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Felix Morrison (born 2023)

 Julie Morrison (nee Van Hassel), wife of Charles Nicholas Morrison (born 1985), gave birth to a son, Felix, in December, 2023, a brother for Eloïse, who was born in 2021.

Charles Morrison is the son of William David Morrison (born 1940), and his wife the former Sandra Elizabeth Zia Butter (born 26 July, 1948). 

Charles Morrison is a grandson of Maj Sir David Henry Butter, KCVO, MC (1920-2010), and his wife Myra Alice Wernher (1925-2022), daughter of Maj-Gen Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, 3rd Baronet, GCVO (1893-1973), and his wife Countess Anastasia [Zia] de Torby (1892-1977), descended from the Royal House of Russia.

Julie is daughter of Gilbert O. Van Hassel and his wife Viviane Claeys.

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'Lord' Arlo Wulf Wellesley (born 2023)

 Hayley Elizabeth Wellesley, styled Countess of Mornington (nee Whitehead, born 1986), wife of Arthur Gerald Wellesley, styled Earl of Mornington (born 31 January, 1978), gave birth to a son, Arlo Wulf Wellesley, in 2023.

Lord Mornington is the elder son and heir of the 9th Duke of Wellington, OBE, DL (born 19 Aug, 1945), of Stratfield Saye, Hampshire, and Apsley House London, and his wife the Princess Antonia Elizabeth Brigid Luise von Preussen (born 28 Apr, 1955).

Arthur does not use the courtesy title Marquess of Douro, and retains the style Earl of Mornington that was his from his birth. He married firstly in Barbados, 4 June, 2005, Jemma Madeleine Kidd (born 20 Sept, 1974), elder daughter of John Edward Aitken Kidd (born 12 Dec, 1944), and his wife the former Wendy Madeleine Hodge (born 8 Nov, 1941), daughter of Sir John Rowland Hodge, 2nd Bt (1913-1995).

The Earl of Mornington and his first wife have issue:-

Arthur Darcy Wellesley, a future Duke of Wellington (born 4 Jan, 2010)

Lady Mae Madeleine Wellesley (twin with her brother)

Hon Alfred Wellesley (born Dec, 2014)

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Leo Edward Pellew (born 2023)

The Hon Catherine Pellew (nee Reed), wife of the Hon Edward Francis Pellew (born 20 October, 1978), gave birth to a son, Leo Edward, in 2023.

The Hon Edward Pellew is the elder twin son and heir of the 10th Viscount Exmouth (born 8 October, 1940), and his 2nd wife the former Rosemary Frances Scoones (born 1941) (now Baroness Coleridge, wife of the 5th Baron).

 Catherine M Pellew is a daughter of Mr & Mrs Simon Reed.

Edward's mother has made three marriages into the peerage. She married 1stly 31 Jan, 1963 (div 1974), Murray de Vere Beauclerk, styled Eal of Burford (now 14th Duke of St Albans, born 19 Jan, 1939); she married 2ndly, 15 Dec, 1975 (div 2000), the 10th Viscount Exmouth (abovementioned), and married 3rdly, 15 September, 2020, the 5th Baron Coleridge (born 18 June, 1937).

The Hon Edward Pellew has elder half siblings, Charles, styled Earl of Burford (born 22 Feb, 1965), heir to the dukedom of St Albans, and Lady Emma de Vere Beauclerk (later Smellie) (born 22 July, 1963). He has a younger twin brother, the Hon Alexander Pellew.

Edward is heir apparent to the titles Viscount Exmouth (Peerage of the UK, cr 1816), Baron Exmouth, of Canonteign in the County of Devon (Peerage of the UK cr 1814), a baronetcy (cr 1796), Marqués De Olías (a Spanish Marquesate created in 1652 by Philip IV, King of Spain).

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Hon Freya Tennant (born 2023)

The Baroness Glenconner, wife of Cody Charles Edward Tennant, 4th Baron Glenconner [born 2 February, 1994], gave birth to a daughter, the Hon Freya Tennant, in 2023.

Lord Glenconner is the son of the late Hon Charles Edward Pevensey Tennant [1957-1996], and his wife the former Sheilagh Scott [now the Hon Mrs Charles Tennant, of Edinburgh], daughter of Matthew Raymond Scott, of Peebles.

Lady Glenconner, the former Rebeka McDonald, is a daughter of Mr & Mrs Colin McDonald, of Archerfield.

Cody Tennant succeeded to the Glenconner peerage [created in 1911] on the death of his grandfather, the 3rd Baron, who died 27 Aug, 2010. The 3rd Baron was owner of Mustique, and a great friend of Princess Margaret. He married in 1956, Lady Anne Coke [born 1932], one of the Queen's trainbearers at the Coronation, 1953, a daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester, &c.

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Weller/Baillie-Hamilton marriage

 The marriage took place in 2023, in Scotland, between Oliver Philip Weller and the Lady Isobel Joan Baillie-Hamilton (born 16 June, 1990), second daughter of the 13th Earl of Haddington (born 21 December, 1941), of Mellerstain, Berwickshire, and the Countess of Haddington (nee Susan Jane Antonia Heyworth).

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Agass/Douglas wedding

 The marriage took place in Edinburgh, in 2023, between Samuel David Agass [born 1991], son of Robert A. Agass, of Clifton, Bedfordshire, and his late wife the former Jayne Elizabeth Ford [1956-2013], and the Lady Jennifer Mary Douglas [born 29 March, 1991], younger daughter of the 22nd Earl of Morton [born 17 January, 1952], of Dalmahoy, Edinburgh, and the Countess of Morton [nee Amanda Kirsten Mitchell].

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Hon Lysander Thomas Montagu Douglas Scott (born 2023)

 The Countess of Dalkeith [nee Elizabeth Honor Cobbe, born 1986], wife of Walter John Francis Scott, formerly Montagu Douglas Scott, styled Earl of Dalkeith (b 8 Aug, 1984), gave birth to a second son, Lysander Thomas, in 2023, a brother for Willoughby, Hester, and Dido.

Lord Dalkeith is the elder son and heir of the 10th Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry, KBE, DL (born 1954), by his wife the former Lady Elizabeth Marian Frances Kerr (b 1954), scion of the Marquesses of Lothian.

Lady Dalkeith is a scion of that Irish gentry family of Newbridge House, Dublinounger younger daughter of Mr Hugh Michael Thomas Cobbe (b 1942), of East Woodhay, Hampshire, by his wife the former Katherine Elizabeth Chichester, daughter of Charles Chichester. 

The Cobbe forebears include Frankland baronets, Arbuthnots and John Jay (1745-1829), one of the most important of the American Founding Fathers -- co-author of the "Federalist Papers" and first chief justice of the United States. 

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Theodore Brick Beau Baring (born 2023)

Annabel Mary J. Baring (nee Combe, born 18 July, 1990), wife of the Hon Frederick Charles Francis Baring [born 25 June, 1990], gave birth to a son, Theodore Brick Beau Baring, in 2023.

Frederick is the son and heir of the 8th Baron Ashburton [born 17 Aug, 1958], of Grange Park, Hampshire, and his former wife the former Miranda Caroline Moncrieff [born 24 February, 1961, descended from the Peto baronets] [now Mrs Miranda Greene, of Andover, Hampshire].

Annabel Baring is a scion of the Combe landed gentry family, of Strathconon, daughter of David Boyce Combe [born 9 January, 1952], of Brook Green, London, and his wife the former Fiona Helen Thomson [now Mrs Fiona Combe, of Richmond, Surrey].

Annabel is a granddaughter paternally of Lady Mary Esther Constance Needham, sister of the late 5th Earl of Kilmorey.

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Lady Caragh Seymour Le Poer-Trench 1933-2023

The Lady Caragh Seymour Le Poer-Trench, who died in 2023, was a scion of the Earls of Clancarty.

She was born 20 February, 1933, third daughter of the 6th Earl of Clancarty (1891-1971), of Upper Hare Park, Bottisham, by his 2nd wife the former Cora Maria Edith Spooner (1892-1993). She had numerous marriages, and leaves issue by her first two marriages.

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Finneas Fritz Santo Domingo Wellesley (born 2023)

The Lady Charlotte Santo Domingo (nee Wellesley, born 8 Oct, 1990), wife of Alejandro Santo Domingo, gave birth to a son, Finneas Fritz, in 2023.

Alejandro is a son of the late Julio Mario Santo Domingo & of Beatrice Santo Domingo.

Lady Charlotte is the youngest daughter of Arthur Charles Valerian Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington (b 19 Aug 1945), of Stratfield Saye, Berkshire, and Apsley House, London, by his wife the former Princess Antonia Brigid Elizabeth Louise von Preussen (born 28 Apr, 1955), descended from the Royal House of Prussia, &. 

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Emily Catherine L. Bathurst (born 2023)

 Anna Louise Bathurst (born 1980, nee Calvert), wife of William Malcolm Bathurst (born 1978), scion of the Earls Bathurst, gave birth to a second daughter, Emily Catherine L. Bathurst, in 2023, a sister for Sophie Mary E. Bathurst, who was born in 2019.

Anna Bathurst is a daughter of David S. Calvert and his wife the former Catherine M. Thompson.

William Bathurst is a son of the Hon George Bertram Bathurst (1929-2010), and his wife the former Susan Mary Messer (born 1945), and is a great-grandson of the 7th Earl Bathurst:-

Seymour, 7th Earl Bathurst (1864-1943) > Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley (1895-k/a 1942) > Hon George Bathurst (1929-2010) > William Malcolm Bathurst (b 1978) > Emily Bathurst (b 2023)

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Billy John Martineau (born 2023)

 Eliza Kate Martineau (nee Garber, born 1987), wife of Robert William Martineau (born 18 September, 1985), scion of that landed gentry family, gave birth to a son, Billy John, in 2023.

Eliza Martineau is a daughter of Andrew Lewis Garber (born 1955), and his wife the Hon Fiona Spring Rice (born 10 April, 1957), daughter of the 6th Baron Monteagle of Brandon (1926-2013), and his wife the former Anne Brownlow (born 1928), scion of that Irish landed gentry family.

Robert Martineau is a son of John Dennis Martineau (1950-1990), scion of that landed gentry, by his wife the former (Elizabeth) Jane Hammond (born 1951).

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Lily Frances Campbell-Preston (born 2023)

Alice Mary Campbell-Preston (nee Carson, born 1989), wife of Edward Campbell-Preston, scion of that landed gentry family, gave birth to a daughter, Lily Frances, in 2023.

son of Colin Arthur Campbell-Preston [born 1958], of Oban, Argyll, and his wife the former Rosemary Swift [born 1958], and Alice Mary Carson [born 1989], descended from the Earls of Elgin & Kincardine,  eldest triplet daughter of John Seton Burrell Carson, of North Berwick, East Lothian, and his wife the former Janet Clare Bruce [born 15 Dec, 1954].

The infant is descended from the Barons Lyttelton, and the Earls Spencer:-

2nd Earl Spencer [1758-1834] > Lady Sarah Spencer [1787-1870] >4h Baron Lyttelton [1817-76] >Sir Neville Lyttelton [1845-1931] > Hilda Lyttelton [1886-1972] > Dame Frances Grenfell, DCVO [b 1918] > Colin Campbell-Preston [b 1958] > Edward Campbell-Preston > Lily Frances Campbell-Preston

Lily is descended from the Earls of Elgin:- 

Edward Bruce, Earl of Elgin [1881-1968] >Hon James Bruce [1927-2013] > Janet Bruce [b 1954] > Alice Carson [b 1989] > Lily Frances Campbell-Preston (b 2023)

Isabel Grace Fetherstonhaugh (born 2023)

Susan Fetherstonhaugh (nee Smith), wife of Fergus Hugh Fetherstonhaugh [born 1990], scion of that landed family, and descended from the Viscounts Galway, gave birth to a daughter, Isabel Grace, 2023.

Fergus is the son of Hugh Simon Fetherstonhaugh [born 25 January, 1949], of Corwen, Denbighshire, by his wife the late former Louise Philipps [1946-2013].

Susan Fetherstonhaugh is the elder daughter of Mr & Mrs Stuart Smith, of Higher Kinnerton, Flintshire,

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Ivo Bear L. Foale (born 2023)

 Sarah Foale (nee Clark), wife of Archie Alexander Foale (b 17 Sept, 1984), gave birth to a son, Ivo Bear L. Foale, in 2023, a brother for Rafe Ashley A. Foale, born in 2020.

Archie is the eldest son of Dr Rodney Alan Foale, of London, by his former wife the former Lady Emma Cecile Gordon (b 26 May, 1953, now Lady Emma Dewe Mathews, of London).

Sarah Foale is the only daughter of the late Roger Clark and of Mrs Clark, of Culverthorpe, Lincolnshire.

Archie Foale is a grandson, maternally, of the late 6th Marquess of Aberdeen & Temair.

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The Hon Aster Windsor-Clive (born 2023)

 _. Alice Rose Windsor-Clive, styled Viscountess Windsor [nee Llewellyn, born 1980], wife of Robert Other Ivor Windsor-Clive, styled Viscount Windsor [born 1981], son and heir of the 4th Earl of Plymouth [born 1951], gave birth to a third daughter, the Hon Aster Rose C, in 2023, a sister for Grace (born 2016), and Olive (born 2017), and for the Hon Edward Other Ivor Llewellyn [Ned] Windsor-Clive, who was born 26 April, 2019.

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