Death of Angela Jane de Havilland

Angela Jane de Havilland (née Franklin) who died 24 April, 2009, was the 2nd wife, and widow, of Major-General Peter Hugh de Havilland, CBE (b 29 July 1904), Royal Artillery, scion of that LG family, of Havilland Hall, and cousin of the actresses Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine. She was the former Angela Jane Franklin, dau of R. Franklin, and married the Maj-Gen as his 2nd spouse in 1981. (He had married 1stly, 1930, Helen Elizabeth Wrey (d 1976), dau of William Whitmore Otter-Barry (scion of that LG family see 1952 edition). Funeral at Little Horkesley Church, 12th May 2009.

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Lieutenant-Colonel William Forbes of Rothiemay, DSO, dies aged 96

Lieutenant-Colonel William John Herbert Forbes of Rothiemay, DSO (1945), 3rd of Rothiemay, of Dunira, by Comrie, Perthshire, late the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Representor of the House of Forbes of Rothiemay, died at Amesbury Abbey, 26 April, 2009, aged 96. He was b 25 Sept, 1912, son of Cdr William Stronach Forbes, OBE, RN (d 1949), by his wife Helen, scion of the LG family of Strutt of Belper, dau of George Herbert Strutt.

He was a descendant of John Forbes, of Newe (and he was descended from Sir Wm Forbes, of Kynaldy and Pitsligo 1419-46, whose brother Sir Alexander Forbes was cr 1st Lord Forbes - a peerage now extinct).

He married 9 Jul 1941, Diana Burrell de Ker Knox, only child of William Barr Knox, of Ryefield House, Daldry, Ayrshire, by whom he had issue:- (1) Iain William Stronach Forbes, b 1 May, 1942, deceased before 1989 (2) Maj. Anthony David Knox Forbes, Yr of Rothiemay, b 20 March, 1944, d. 9 Sept 2003; married Ryden__,and left issue, a son Iain and a dau, Anneli (3) David Lachlan Forbes, b 20 Oct, 1950 (1) Flavia Margaret Forbes, b 17 Jul 1954

Who succeeds as head of the family? Grandson Iain?

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Lieutenant-Colonel William Forbes of Rothiemay, DSO, dies aged 96

Lieutenant-Colonel William John Herbert Forbes of Rothiemay, DSO (1945), 3rd of Rothiemay, of Dunira, by Comrie, Perthshire, late the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Representor of the House of Forbes of Rothiemay, died at Amesbury Abbey, 26 April, 2009, aged 96. He was b 25 Sept, 1912, son of Cdr William Stronach Forbes, OBE, RN (d 1949), by his wife Helen, scion of the LG family of Strutt of Belper, dau of George Herbert Strutt.

He was a descendant of John Forbes, of Newe (and he was descended from Sir Wm Forbes, of Kynaldy and Pitsligo 1419-46, whose brother Sir Alexander Forbes was cr 1st Lord Forbes - a peerage now extinct).

He married 9 Jul 1941, Diana Burrell de Ker Knox, only child of William Barr Knox, of Ryefield House, Daldry, Ayrshire, by whom he had issue:- (1) Iain William Stronach Forbes, b 1 May, 1942, deceased before 1989 (2) Maj. Anthony David Knox Forbes, Yr of Rothiemay, b 20 March, 1944, d. 9 Sept 2003; married Ryden__,and left issue, a son Iain and a dau, Anneli (3) David Lachlan Forbes, b 20 Oct, 1950 (1) Flavia Margaret Forbes, b 17 Jul 1954

Who succeeds as head of the family? Grandson Iain?

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Colonel Tony King-Harman dies aged 91

Colonel Anthony Lawrence (Tony) King-Harman, OBE, DL, of Ouse Manor, Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, scion of the Earls of Kingston, died 25 Apr, 2009, aged 91. He was b 28 Feb 1918, son of Capt Robert Douglas King- Harman, DSO, DSC, RN (b 1891; d 1978) by his wife the former Lily Moffatt; married 21 Dec 1944, Jeanette Stella, nee Dunkerley, by whom he had issue, sons, William and Michael. He was father-in-law of Judy and Barbara and grandfather of Alizé, Bibette, Charles and Jasper.

Tony King-Harman was a grandson of Sir Charles Anthony King-Harman, KCMG (1851-1939), by his wife the former Constance Biddulph (d 1961).

Funeral at St Peter's Church, Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, Friday 15th May.

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Colonel John Evelyn Baring Hills, DL, TD, dies at 69

Col. John Evelyn Baring Hills, DL, TD, late the 17/21st Lancers and Royal Wessex Yeomanry, died suddenly 26 April, 2009, at the age of 69. He was b 16 May 1939, son of Lt.-Col. John David Hills (d Jul 1975), by his wife the former Lady Rosemary Ethel Baring (b 17 December 1908; d 14 Apr 2004), dau of the 2nd Earl of Cromer (1877-1953), by his wife the former Lady Ruby Florence Mary Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (b 26 September 1886; d 5 Nov 1961), dau of the 4th Earl of Minto (1845-1914). Colonel John Hills was educated at Eton College; Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.), 1989.He served as High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1990. Major, 17th/21st Lancers. He was Honorary Aide-de-Camp to HM Queen Elizabeth II between 1990 and 2003.Colonel, Royal Wessex Yeomanry (Territorial Army). He married 6 Mar 1964, Katherine Adrian Alderson-Smith, daughter of G. F. Alderson-Smith, by whom he had a son (John) George Baring Hills b on 24 March 1966, and a dau, Veronica Adrian Harriet (Wonkie)Hills, who was b 23 August 1968. He also leaves grandchildren, Rosie and Jack.

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Burne/Trenchard wedding

The marriage took place 25 April 2009, at St Mary's Church, Standon, between Captain Thomas Burne, The Blues and Royals, son of Mr Simon Burne, of Woodcock Farmhouse, Charlton, Wiltshire, and the late Mrs Eugénie Burne, and the Hon Katherine (Katie) Clare Trenchard (b 1980), elder daughter of the 3rd Viscount Trenchard, of Standon Lordship, Hertfordshire, and Viscountess Trenchard.

Thomas Edward Francis BURNE was b 1980. His mother, Eugénie Nancy b 1947 was the dau of Lt-Cdr Hon Douglas David Edward VIVIAN DSC RN (1915-73) & Mary Alice dau of Francis John Gordon BORTHWICK (scion of L Borthwick) and she married Simon Burne in 1966 (divorced 1988) he was son of Brig John Richard Burne, of Grove Cottage, Chiddingfold, Surrey. Eugénie's father was the second son of the 4th Baron Vivian of Glyn and of Truro (UK cr 1841) (the first son by) and his 2nd wife Nancy Lycett (dau of Sir Edward Lycett Green, 2nd Bt).

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Grandson for Viscount Ullswater

The Hon Emma Stewart-Smith (née Lowther), daughter of the 2nd Viscount Ullswater, and wife since 2000 of Mr Christian (Christy) Stewart- Smith, gave birth to a son, 23 April, 2009.

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Ogilvy/March Phillipps de Lisle engagement

The engagement was announced 28 April 2009, between Shamus Diarmid Ogilvy (b 24 Jan 1966), scion of the Earls of Airlie, elder son of of the Hon James Donald Diarmid Ogilvy (b 28 Jan 1934), of Sedgebrook, Lincolnshire, by his late wife the former Magdalen Jane Ruth (June) Ducas (b 2 June 1938, d 3 Nov 2001), descended from the Barons Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton; and Alexandra Elizabeth Hope March Phillipps de Lisle (b 12 Jul 1972), scion of that LG family, elder daughter of the late Julian Peter Alexander March Phillipps de Lisle (b 2 Feb 1936; d 19 Dec 1993) of Lisle, of Medbourne, Leicestershire, by his 2nd wife the former Diana Barbara Welchman.

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Death of Richard Hambro, of the banking dynasty, aged 62

Richard Alexander Hambro, who died 25 April, 2009, aged 62, was a scion of the LG family of that name.

He was b 1 Oct, 1946, second son of Jocelyn Olaf Hambro (1919-94), by his 1st wife the former Ann Silvia Muir (d 1972), and was educated at Eton & München Universität, Munich, Bavaria.

He married 1stly, 1973 (div 1982), the Hon Charlotte Clementine Soames (b 17 Jul 1954, who married 2nd 15 Apr 1989, the 3rd Earl Peel), dau of the Baron Soames (life peer) (1920-87), by his wife the former Mary Spencer-Churchill (b 15 Sept 1922), dau of the Rt Hon Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965); married 2ndly, 1984 (div 1992), Juliet Mary Elizabeth Harvey, daughter of Major Thomas Cockayne Harvey by his wife the former Lady Katharine Mary Coke, dau of the Earl of Leicester; married 3rdly, 1993, Mary Briggs.

He is survived by his third wife and an only child of the 1st marriage, Clementine Silvia Hambro (b 1976), who married 3 Nov, 2006, Orlando Gregory Fraser (b. 1967), scion of the Lords Lovat. He also leaves a granddaughter, Ruby Elizabeth Mary Fraser, b 19 March, 2007.


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Isma Lutyens (1931-2009)

Isma Rosemary Lutyens (née Crompton-Inglefield), who died 24 April, 2009, aged 77, was born 18 May, 1931, 2nd dau of Colonel Sir John Frederick Crompton-Inglefield, by his wife the former Rosemary Scott (1903-78), daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir Percy Moreton Scott, 1st Baronet (1853-1924), by his wife Teresa Roma Dixon-Hartland. Isma married (i) 21 Dec, 1953, Lt.-Cdr. John Anthony Stuart Crawford (d as the result of an accident, 29 Jan 1967), son of Captain John Stuart Crawford; married (ii) Charles Lutyens.She leaves issue, Alison Jane Crawford, b 9 Nov, 1957, and Alistair John Stuart Crawford, b 16 Jan 1959. Funeral at Church of St Peter & St Paul, Hambledon, 1st May, 2009.

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Joan Margaret Morgan-Grenville (1936-2009)

Joan Margaret Morgan-Grenville (nee Freeman), who died 23 April, 2009, aged 72, was the wife of a scion of the Lords Kinloss (Lordship, S, 1602), and was a scion of the Freeman Baronets (cr 1945). She was b 1936 as Joan Margaret Freeman, dau of Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, GCB, DSO, MC, 1st Baronet; married 1955, John Richard Bine Morgan-Grenville (b 1927), son of Capt the Hon Robert Wm Morgan- Grenville (1892-1988), by his 2nd wife the former Elizabeth Hope Bine Renshaw, dau of Sir Chas. Renshaw, 1st Baronet. She leaves issue. Funeral at All Hallows, Tillington at.— 1st May, 2009.

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Chittenden/Crofton-Atkins engagement

The engagement was announced 25 Apr 2009, between Oliver H. Chittenden, son of Mr Hilary Chittenden by his former wife the former Sylvie Marie-Therese Wichard (now wife of the 3rd Baron Rathcavan) of Cleggan Lodge, Ballymena, Co Antrim, and Emily C. Crofton-Atkins, scion of that LG family, middle daughter of Mr and Mrs Peter Crofton- Atkins, of Milton Lilbourne, Wiltshire..—

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Thomas James Lane Fox

Hatty Lane Fox (née Madden) wife of Oliver Lane Fox, scion of that LG family, of Bramham Park, gave birth to a son, Thomas James, 14 Apr, 2009, a brother for Esme, Georgia, and for Molly (b 2003, d 2008)

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Isabel Sarah Susanna Russell

Georgina N. Russell (née Dancy), wife of Capt. James Peter Faber Russell (b. 1980), of the Coldstream Guards, scion of the Barons Ampthill (descended from the Dukes of Bedford), gave birth to a daughter, Isabel Sarah Susanna, 15th April, 2009.

Jamie Russell is the 2nd son of the Hon. John Hugo Trenchard Russell (b. 1950), and Mrs Russell, of Ringstead, Dorset, & Georgina N. Dancy, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs Jonathan Dancy, of Newick, Sussex.

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Harry Walter Blaise Byng

Annabel Byng (nee Hardman), b. 1971, wife of Thomas Francis Edmund Wentworth Byng (b. 1970), gave birth to a son, Harry Walter Blaise,17 April, 2009, a brother for Rose Florence Eve, who was b. 31 December, 2004, and for John Edmund Julian, b 26 October, 2006.

Tom Byng is a son of Mr Julian Michael Edmund Byng, (b. 1928), & Mrs Byng (nee Wellesley-Wesley). His father was born Julian Michael Edmund Lafone, son of Michael Wm. M. Lafone, who m. 1928, Lady (Florence) Elizabeth Alice Byng, daughter of the 6th Earl of Strafford, of Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire. Julian Lafone assumed the surname of Byng in lieu of his patronymic, by deed poll, (enrolled at the College of Arms) 1952.

Annabel Byng is a daughter of Blaise Noel Anthony Hardman by his wife Caroline Marion Cameron (b. 1943), daughter of the late Colonel Sir Donald Cameron of Lochiel, KT, CVO, TD, Chief of the Clan Cameron, by his wife, Margaret Doris Gathorne-Hardy (scion of the Earls of Cranbrook).

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Tom Walford

Lara Katherine (Lally) Walford (née Chetwynd-Talbot, b. 1973), scion of the Earls of Shrewsbury, wife of Nicholas Walford, gave birth to a son, Tom, 19 April, 2009, a brother Ella and for Sam.

Nick Walford is the son of Mr Robert Walford, of Upavon, Wiltshire, and Mrs Richard Besley, of Suffolk, and Lally is a daughter of Major Mark Patrick Chetwynd-Talbot (b. 1941), late the Coldstream Guards, of Coxwold, North Yorkshire, by his wife, the former Elizabeth Anne Bateman.

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Ken Annakin, film director, dies aged 94

Ken Annakin, OBE, the film director (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines/Battle of the Bulge), who died 22 April, 2009, aged 94, was b 10 Aug 1914.

He was a nephew of the 1st (and last) Viscount Snowden (cr 1931, ext. 15 May 1937). Annakin's father was a brother of Ethel Annakin, who, in 1905, married the Labour politician, and future viscount, Philip Snowden.

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Davina Alice Louisa Dalrymple

Emma R. Dalrymple (née Woods), wife of the Hon. David Hew Dalrymple (b. 1963) scion of the Earls of Stair & kinsman of HM The Queen, gave birth to a daughter, Davina Alice Louisa, 19 April, 2009, a sister for Alexander John Peter, who was b 29 April, 2007.

David Dalrymple is the 2nd son of the 13th Earl of Stair, KCVO, MBE (1906-96), by his wife the former Davina Katharine Bowes Lyon (b 1930); & David's maternal grandfather was the Hon. Sir David Bowes Lyon, KCVO (1902-61), younger brother of Queen Elizabeth, consort of HM King George VI.

Mrs Dalrymple is a daughter of Mr & Mrs Peter Woods, of Betchworth, Surrey.

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Arbuthnott/Hilton engagement

The engagement was anounced 24 Apr, 2009, between Lieut. Hugh Frederick Archbibald (Hughie) Arbuthnott (b 1982), scion of the Viscounts of Arbuthnott (cr S, 1641), son of Hugh Andrew Arbuthnott (b 1948), of La Almuña, Spain, by his wife, the former Elizabeth Jane Showers, and Clare B. Hilton, daughter of Mr and Mrs Geoffrey Hilton, of Keyworth, Nottinghamshire.

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Benjamin Daniel Clark

The Hon Emma Clark (née Tufton, b 1976), wife of Martin G.M. Clark, & scion of the Barons Hothfield, gave birth to a son, Benjamin Daniel, 18 April, 2009.

Martin Clark is the only son of Dr Paul Clark and Mrs Pené Clark, both of Milton Keynes, and Emma is the only daughter of the 6th Baron Hothfield, of Drybeck Hall, Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria, by his wife Lucinda Marjorie Gurney (descended from the extinct de Bathe Baronets).

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