Harry Meade to wed Rosie Bradford

The engagement has been announced between Harry Meade, 27, chum of Princes William & Harry, & son of showjumper Richard Meade, OBE, of West Littleton, Wilts, by his wife the former Angela Dorothy Farquhar, scion of the Farquhar Baronets, & Rosie Bradford, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs Richard Bradford, of Yanworth, Glos.

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7th Marquess Townshend (1916-2010)

_The 7th Marquess Townshend, who died on St George's Day 2010, aged 93, had been a peer for 88 years, having inherited the peerage in 1921.

George John Patrick Dominic [Townshend], 7th Marquess Townshend, was born 13 May, 1916, son of the 6th Marquess (1866-1921), by his wife, the former Gwladys Ethel Gwendolen Eugénie Sutherst, d. 10 Oct 1959), 1st dau. of Thomas Sutherst, of Fountains Court, Temple, London.

Succeeded his father, 17 Nov 1921, aged 5.

He married firstly, 2 Sep 1939 (div. 1960) Elizabeth Pamela Audrey Luby (mar. (2) 1960 Brig Sir James Gault KCMG; d. 1989), only dau. of Lt Col Thomas Luby, Judicial Commissioner, ICS, by whom he had issue; married 2ndly, 22 Dec 1960, Ann Frances Darlow (d. 1988), only dau. of Arthur Pellew Darlow, of Portugal, by whom he had further issue, and married 3rdly, 7 May 2004 Philippa Sophia Swire (b. 28 Apr 1935; widow of Humphrey Roger Swire, of Dean Manor, Charlbury, co. Oxford, only son of Lt Col Cyril George William Swire, of Coldicote Farm, Moreton-in-Marsh, co. Gloucester), only dau. of Lt Col George Jardine Kidston later Kidston-Montgomerie of Southannan DSO MC, of Longbottom, Biddesden, co. Hampshire, and Fairlie, co. Ayr (by his wife Lydia Cecilia Mason, dau. of Maj Peter George Mason DSO), 1st son and heir of Richard Logan Kidston by his wife Sophia Egidia Guendolen Allenby-Montgomerie, 1st dau. of Capt Samuel Hynman Allenby later Allenby-Montgomerie, of Southannan House, co. Ayr, and Garnsgate Hall, co. Lincoln, by his wife Lady Sophia Constance Montgomerie, 1st dau. and cohrss. of Archibald William [Montgomerie], 14th Earl of Eglinton.

Lord Townshend is succeeded by his son from his 1st marriage, Charles George Townshend, styled Viscount Raynham (b. 26 Sep 1945), mar. (1) 8 Oct 1975 Hermione Evans (former wife of Anthony J C Evans; d. 1985), only child of Lt Cdr Robert Martin Dominic Ponsonby RN (by his first wife Dorothy Edith Jane Lane, yst. dau. of Henry Hervey Vincent Lane, of King's Bromley Manor, co. Stafford), 1st son of Sir George Arthur Ponsonby KCVO, Comptroller and Private Secretary to HM Queen Maud of Norway 1919-38 (by his first wife Julia Winifred Maitland OIdfield, dau. of Phineas A R Oldfield), 1st son of Robert Charles Ponsonby (by his wife Mary Machlachlan, 1st dau. of George Machlachlan of Machlachlan), 3rd son of Rt Hon Sir Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby later Ponsonby-Fane GCB ISO, of Brympton, Yeovil, co. Somerset (by his wife Hon Louisa Anne Rose Lee Dillon, 3rd dau. of Henry Augustus [Dillon], 13th Viscount Dillon), 6th son of John William [Ponsonby], 4th Earl of Bessborough, &c.

A service of Thanksgiving is to be held at Nnorwich Cathedral.

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Jardine-Paterson/d'Erlanger marriage

_.The marriage took place 17 April, 2010, between David H. Jardine-Paterson, elder son of Mr and Mrs Michael Jardine-Paterson, of Balgray, Dumfriesshire, and Emilia Mary Florence d'Erlanger (b 1982), youngest daughter of Mr Robin Gerard d'Erlanger, of Hensleigh, Devon, by his wife the former Hon Mary Elizabeth Josephine Pellew (b 1947), dau of the 9th Viscount Exmouth (1908-70). David Jardine-Paterson is scion of a Scots landed family (and kin of the Earl of Annandale & Hartfell. Miss d'Erlanger is a friend of Prince William of Wales and mooted as a possible bride for HRH by the tabloid press from circa 1999... --==--

Duke of Grafton's heir to wed

_The engagement was announced 15 Apr 2010, between Henry Oliver Charles (Harry) FitzRoy, styled Viscount Ipswich (b 6 Apr 1978), only son of the late James Oliver Charles FitzRoy, styled Earl of Euston (1947-2009), of Euston Hall, Thetford, by his wife the former Lady Clare Amabel Margaret Kerr (b 1951), scion of the Marquesses of Lothian, & Olivia Margaret M. Sladen (b 1978), dau of Mr Simon Sladen, of Snowshill, Gloucestershire, by his wife, nee ____Delaney. Harry Ipswich, who has yet to adopt the more senior courtesy title of Earl of Euston, is heir app to his grandfather, the 11th Duke of Grafton, KG


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Bonas/Evans engagement

_The engagement was announced 9 Apr 2010, between Henry Alexander Bonas (b 1976), son of Jeffrey H. Bonas (b 1944), of Burnham Norton, Norfolk, by his 1st wife, the former Elspeth J. Mccagie (now Mrs Elspeth Bonas, of Aldsworth, Glos), & Katie Helen Evans, yr dau of Mr & Mrs Nigel Evans, of Littleton, Wilts. Henry's father married married 2ndly, 1988 (div 1994), as her 3rd husband, Lady Mary-Gaye Georgiana Lorna Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe (nee Curzon) (b 21 Feb 1947), former wife of Esmond Peter Cooper-Key 1943-85, and John Austen Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe (b 1947), of the
Baronets of that name, & daughter of the late 6th Earl Howe, CBE (1908-84).


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Genevieve Juniper Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes

__.Georgia Harriet Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (b 1979, nee Verey),
wife of Felix George Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (b 1978), scion of the
Barons Saye & Sele, gave birth to a daughter, Genevieve Juniper, 29
March, 2010.

Felix is a son of (Richard) George Twisleton- Wykeham-Fiennes (b
1950), and Mrs Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, and Georgia H. Verey,
daughter of the late (Henry) Nicholas Verey (b 1943, d?) and of Mrs
Nicholas Verey (nee Dinah V. Nicolson, b 1947).


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Sir Michael Aykroyd, 4th Baronet, dies

Sir Michael Aykroyd, 4th Baronet, died suddenly, 21 March 2010. Family Funeral has taken place on 30th March. Sir Michael was the eldest son of Col George Hammond AYKROYD TD (1900-72, yst son of the 1st Bt) and his 1st cousin and wife Margaret Roberts (d 1981) dau of Sir Frederic Alfred AYKROYD 1st Bt, of Birstwith Hall (cr
UK 1929) He succ his cousin the 3rd Bt in 2007. He m 1952 Oenone Gillian Diana dau of Donald George COWLING MBE, of Leeds and had a son and two daus. His son succeeds him.

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Twins for Grey of Codnor heir

_Annie Helen Cornwall-Legh (nee Riches), wife of the Hon. Richard
Stephen Cayley Cornwall-Legh (b. 24 March, 1976), gave birth to twins,
a son, Arthur Henry, and a daughter, Helena Savannah, 15 March, 2010.

Richard is the eldest son of the 6th Baron Grey of Codnor and Baroness
Grey of Codnor, of High Legh, Cheshire, and Annie is the third
daughter of Mr and Mrs Frederick Riches, of Banbury, Oxfordshire.
Richard's father is only the 6th Baron Grey of Codnor even though the
peerage of England was created in 1397. The title was abeyant between
1496 and 1989.


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Death of baronet Sir John Barran

Sir John Napoleon Ruthven Barran, 4th Baronet, died 25 March 2010, according to a notice in 'The Times.'

Lucy Heber-Percy to wed Rupert Kenyon

__The engagement was announced 1 Apr 2010, between J. Rupert Kenyon,
son of Mr & Mrs Donald Kenyon, of Goostrey, Cheshire, & Lucy Heber-
Percy (b 1971), scion of the Dukes of Northumberland, dau of Algernon
Heber-Percy, of Hodnet, Shropshire, by his wife the former Hon
Margaret Lever, scion of the extinct Viscounts Leverhulme.

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Earl Spencer to marry Bianca, Lady Eliot

_.The engagement was announced (Daily Mail 26/3/2010) between Charles Edward Maurice [Spencer], 9th Earl Spencer (b 20 May 1964), only surv son of the late 8th Earl Spencer, MVO (1924-92), by his 1st wife, the Hon Frances Ruth Burke Roche (1936-2004), scion of the Barons Fermoy, & Bianca Jane, Lady Eliot (nee Ciambriello b 1976), dau of Joseph Cambriello, of Plymouth, by his wife Lesley K. Price, and widow of Jago Nicholas Aldo Eliot, styled Lord Eliot (1966-2006) son and heir of the 10th Earl of St.Germans, by his 1st wife, the Hon.
Jacquetta Jean Frederika Lampson, daughter of the 1st Baron Killearn.

Earl Spencer, brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales has been wed twice before, 1stly 1989 (div 1997), (Catherine) Victoria Lockwood, by whom he has issue, (i) Hon Louis Frederick Spencer, styled Viscount Althorp (b. 14 Mar 1994), (i) Lady Kitty Eleanor Spencer (b. 28 Dec 1990), (ii) Lady Eliza Victoria Spencer (b. 10 Jul 1992)
(iii) Lady Katya Amelia Spencer (b. 10 Jul 1992); he married 2ndly, 2001 Caroline Victoria Freud (former wife of Matthew Rupert Freud, 2nd son of Sir Clement Raphael Freud, of 14 York House, Upper Montagu Street, London W1, and Westons, Walberswick, co. Suffolk, by his wife June Beatrice Flewett, dau. of H W Flewett), dau. of Rupert Hutton by his wife Mrs Malcolm Barr, and has issue by her, (ii) the Hon Edmund Charles Spencer (b. 6 Oct 2003), and (iv) Lady Lara Spencer (b. Apr 2006).

Lady Eliot has a son (heir to his grandfather's earldom) the the Hon. Albert Clarence Eliot, born shortly before 4 November, 2004, and twin daughters, the Hon. Ruby Eliot and the Hon. Violet Eliot, b. 7 April, 2003.

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Heir to the Duke of Hamilton & Brandon is engaged

_.The engagement was announced 20 March 2010, between Alexander Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, styled Marquis of Clydesdale (b 31 Mar 1978), elder son of Angus Alan Douglas [Douglas-Hamilton], 15th Duke of Hamilton (b 13 September 1938), by his late former wife Sarah Jane Scott (b. 28 Oct 1945; d. 17 Feb 1994), eldest dau. of Sir Walter Scott, 4th Bt., of Beauclerc, Bywell St Andrews, co. Northumberland, & Sophie Ann Rrutherford,, dau of Mr Hubert Rutherford, of Roxburghshire and Mrs Isabel Rutherford, of Edinburgh.

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Lord Ashtown, 7th baron, dies at 93

The 7th Baron Ashtown (Peerage of Ireland), KCMG, died at the Chelsea
and Westminster Hospital, 6 March, 2010. He was 93.Funeral at Mortlake
Crematorium on Friday 19 March. He was b 27 Oct 1916, son of Clive
Newcome Trench, of Roadwater, Watchet, co.Somerset (by his wife
Kathleen Maud Marion MacIvor, 2nd dau. of Maj Ivan MacIvor CSI), 3rd
son of Capt Hon Cosby Godolphin Trench, of Sopwell Hall, Cloughjordan,
co. Tipperary (by his wife Maria Musgrave, 1st dau. of Sir Richard
Musgrave, 4th Bt.), 2nd son of Frederick Mason [Trench], 2nd Baron
Ashtown; succeeded to the peerage 19 Aug 1979 on the demise of his
cousin once removed; married (1) 1 Dec 1939 Marcelle Cathrine van
Kloetinge (d. 1994), yst. dau. of Johan Jacob Clotterbooke Patyn van
Kloetinge, of Zeist, The Netherlands; married (2) 17 Dec 1997
(Dorothea) Mary Elizabeth von Pless (former wife of HSH Hans Heinrich
XVII Wilhelm Albert Eduard, 4th Prince of Pless), dau. of Lt Col
Richard George Edward Minchin; and is succeeded by the son of his 1st
spouse, the Hon Roderick Nigel Godolphin Trench, of Bassetts,
Mayfield, co. Sussex (b. 17 Nov 1944).

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Lady Mary Rose Williams, scion of the Dukes of Grafton, dies at 91

__The Lady Mary Rose (Emma) Williams (nee FitzRoy) who died at the Old Prebenal House, 8 March, 2010, aged 91, was a scion of the Dukes of Grafton, born posthumously, 7 September, 1918, dau of William Henry Alfred,Viscount Ipswich (1884-1918), by his wife Auriol Brougham (d 1938), scion of the Barons Brougham & Vaux. Her father was killed in a plane crash, and her brother, the 9th Duke of Grafton (1914-36), died in a motor racing accident. Lady Mary Rose was a co-heir, with her
elder sister, Lady Margaret Jane FitzRoy (later Nelson) to the barony of Arlington, which peerage was called out of abeyance in 1999, in favour of her niece Jennifer Jane Nelson (Mrs Forwood). Lady Mary Rose married 1945 (div 1952) Francis Trelawny Williams (d 1977), and leaves a dau, Linda Jane Auriol (b 1 Feb 1947). ____ Funeral on Thursday, March 25th at The Holy Ascension Church, Oddington. Glos.

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Shirley/Lutyens engagement

_.The engagement was announced 17 March 2010, between the Hon William Robert Charles Shirley (b 10 Dec, 1984), scion of the Earls Ferrers, elder son and heir of Robert William Saswalo Shirley, styled Viscount Tamworth (b 29 Dec 1952), of Ditchingham Hall, Norfolk, by his wife the former Susannah Mary Sheepshanks; & Camilla Lutyens (b 1985), yst dau of the late Richard David Lutyens (b 1 Jul 1948- d. 1994), and Mrs
Richard Lutyens (nee Mary A.J.P. Drabble), of Kensington, London.

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Ellis/Strang Steel engagement

_The engagement was announced 17 March, 2010, between Edward J Ellis,
son of Dr and Mrs Brian Ellis, of Steep, Hampshire, and Tara D. Strang
Steel, scion of the Steel Baronets, dau of Sir Michael Strang Steel,
Bt, & Lady Strang Steel, of Philiphaugh, Selkirk.

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Sibell Dawnay, sometime great-aunt of the Duchess of Cornwall, dies at 102

_.Sibell Margaret Dawnay (nee Norman), of The Glen, Ballingarry, Co Limerick, died at her home, 8 March, 2010, at the age of 102. She was born 2 March, 1908, dau of Ronald Collet Norman (1873-1963), scion of that landed family, by his wife the former Lady Florence Sibell Bridgeman (1877-1936), dau of the 4th Earl of Bradford; & married (i) 25 Sept, 1934 (div 1949), as his 2nd wife, Major the Hon. Archibald Edward Cubitt (1901-72), son of the 2nd Baron Ashcombe (1867-1947); married (ii) 23 June 1949, Lt.-Col. Ronald Dawnay (1908-90), scion of the Viscounts Downe, son of Major the Hon. Hugh Dawnay by his wife the former Lady Susan de la Poer Beresford; from her 1st marriage she had issue, (i) Mark Robin Cubitt (1936-91), (i) Mary Sibell Cubitt (1938-40), & (ii) Priscilla Margaret Cubitt (b 1941), who married the 11th Earl of Harrington, &. Mrs Dawnay's grandson, Mark Cubitt (b 1964) is heir pres to the Ashcombe peerage. __Funeral Service on Saturday, 13 March 2010 at Kilpeacon Church.

Grandson for the Duchess of Cornwall

Sara Parker Bowles (nee Buys), wife of Thomas Henry Parker Bowles, son of HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, was delivered of a son, Freddy, 28 February, 2010.

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Lord Lauderdale's grandson Fergus Hay to wed Geraldine Van Der Mast

_.The engagement was announced 22 Feb 2010 between Fergus William Hamilton Hay (b 22 Apr 1981), younger son of Mr Robin William Patrick Hamilton Hay, by his wife the former Lady (Helen) Olga Maitland (b 23 May 1944), of Islington, London, scion of the Earls of Lauderdale, and Geraldine Van Der Mast, only daughter of.—Dr Robert Van Der Mast, of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Mrs Narda Van Der Mast, of Chelsea,
London. Fergus Hay is a grandson maternally of the 17th Earl of Lauderdale.


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Sir William Proby's daughter, Alice, to wed Fergus Eckersley

_.The engagement was announced 23 Feb 2010, between Fergus Eckersley, younger son of Mr Roger Eckersley, of Chelsea, London, and Mrs Caroline Eckersley, of Burford, Oxfordshire, and Alice Proby, scion of the Proby Baronets, and descendant of the Dukes of Abercorn, daughter of Sir William Proby, 3rd Baronet, and Lady Proby, of Elton Hall, Cambridgeshire.

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