The Rev Peter Charles Yerburgh, died 24 October, 2022, aged 91.
He was born 14 September, 1931, son of the Rev Oswald Rochfort Yerburgh (1900-66), and his wife the former Cicely Joan Savile (1901-1981), scion of that landed family, who descended from the Wrey baronets; and was sometime chaplain of Wells Cathedral School.
Sir Bourchier Wrey, 7th Bt > Eleanor Elizabeth Wrey > Henry Bourchier Osborne Savile > Charles Cornelius Savile > Cicely Joan Savile > Peter Charles Yerburgh
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Eleanor Charlotte Herschel Bolitho (born 1991, nee Harbage), wife of Capt Thomas Alverne Bolitho, of the Grenadier Guards [born 1991], scion of that landed family, gave birth to a daughter, Clementine Elizabeth Herschel, 24 September, 2022.
Capt Bolitho is the elder son of Alverne Robert Bolitho [born 1961], of Petersfield, Hampshire, by his wife the former Annabel Louise Shaw-Baker [born 1962].
Eleanor Bolitho is a daughter of William John Hirons Harbage, QC [born 1960], of Bulwick, co Northampton, by his wife the former Julia Mary Herschel Dunkerley [born 1960].
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Henrietta Perpetua Agnes (Hetty) Cumming-Bruce (nee Scrope, born 1991), wife of the Hon George Patrick Roualeyn Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce [born 19 March, 1990], scion of the Barons Thurlow, gave birth to a son, Kester Francis, 3 November, 2022.
Hetty Cumming-Bruce is a scion of the ancient landed family og Scrope of Danby, youngest daughter of Maj. Peter Geoffrey Scrope [born 3 January, 1955], of Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, and his wife the former Penelope Eldrydd Davies [born 31 March, 1955], scion of the Barons Davies.
The Hon George Cumming-Bruce is the younger son of the 9th Baron Thurlow [born 13 April, 1952], of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, and his wife the former Bridget Anne Julia Cheape.
John Savile, 6th Earl of Mexborough [1868-1945] > Lady Beatrice Savile [1910-73] > Peter Scrope [b 1955] > Hetty Scrope [b 1991] > Kester Cumming-Bruce (b 2022)
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Sir Simon Peter Edmund Cosmo William Towneley, KCVO, KCSG, JP, who died 11 November, 2022, aged 100, was an author who served as Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, 1976–1997. He was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1971.
He was born 14 December, 1921, as Simon Peter Edmund Cosmo William Koch de Gooreynd, son of Colonel Alexander Louis Wynand Koch de Gooreynd (1899-1985), and his wife the former Priscilla Cecilia Maria Worsthorne Reyntiens (1899-1991), a granddaughter of the 7th Earl of Abingdon.
At a young age he assumed the surname of Worsthorne in lieu of his patronymic. A younger brother, Sir Peregrine Worsthorne (1923-1920), was the writer, journalist and sometime editor of the Sunday Telegraph.
During the Second World War, Worsthorne served in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, receiving a commission as a second lieutenant in December 1942. In 1954 (under the name Simon Towneley Worsthorne) he published Venetian Opera in the 17th Century, a seminal study of the field, which played a significant role in the remarkable revival of the Venetian opera repertory in the latter 20th century.
On 18 January, 1955, he changed his surname again, and assumed the name of Towneley in lieu of Worsthorne. In the same year he married Mary Fitzherbert (1935-2001), scion of the Fitzherbert-Brockholes landed gentry family, daughter of Cuthbert Fitzherbert-Brockholes (1899-1975), and his wife the former Barbara Maria Manuela Scrope (1903-1975), scion of that ancient landed family, by whom he had issue, a son, Peregrine Henry (born 1962), and five daughters, Alice, Katharine, Victoria, Cosima and Frances.
He was appointed KCVO in the 1994 New Years Honours list.
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Capt Alastair Lorne Campbell of Airds, who died 10 November, 2022, aged 85, was a former Scottish officer of arms and author.
He was appointed Unicorn Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary in 1987. In 2008 he was appointed Islay Herald Extraordinary. He was a member of the Highland Society of London, and he published a short history of the Society in 1978. He has also written several books on the history of Clan Campbell.
Alastair Lorne Campbell was born in London, 11 July, 1937, son of Brigadier Lorne Maclaine Campbell of Airds, VC, DSO (1902-1991), of Airds, Argyll, and his wife the former Amy Muriel Jordan Campbell (1905-50), scion of the Campbells of Auchendarroch.
He married 18 April, 1960, Mary Ann Campbell-Preston (born 1940), scion of that landed family, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel George Patrick Campbell-Preston (1911-1960), and his wife the former Frances Olivia Grenfell, DCVO, scion of that landed family, who was Woman of the Bedchamber to HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother 1965-2002.
He leaves issue, three sons and a daughter.
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Alice Charlotte Adelaide Seifert [née Murray, born 1981], wife of Benjamin William D. Seifert [born 1978], and scion of the Dukes of Atholl, gave birth to a son, Victor Morris Martin Atholl, 29 September, 2022, a brother for Louis Wolf Martin Stewart, who was born 2 September, 2020.
Alice Seifert is a daughter of Peter Gerald Stewart Murray [born 1944], descended from the 3rd Duke of Atholl, by his wife the former Jane Rosetta Wood [born 1943].
Benjamin Seifert is a son of Mr Martin H. Seifert by his wife the former Jacqueline E. Morris.
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Commander William John Macnamara Faulkner, RN, died 3 November, 2022, aged 94.
He was a son of Rear-Admiral Hugh Webb Faulkner, CB, CBE, DSO (1900-1969), and his wife the former Olave Mary Younger; and married 1stly, 23 April, 1952, Margaret Annette De Trafford (1928-1997), scion of the De Trafford baronets, daughter of Hubert Edmund Francis De Trafford (1893-1974), and his wife the Hon Cecilia Victoria Strickland (1897-1982), daughter of the 1st (and last) Baron Strickland (1861-1940); and married 2ndly, 18 April, 1998, Mrs Jacqueline Wolfe-Murray (1931-2014), former wife of Christopher Michael Wolfe-Murray (1929-2010), scion of the Murray baronets, and 2nd daughter of Sir John Turnbull Usher, 3rd Baronet (1891-1951), by his wife Jean Elpseth (who died 1950).
Cdr Faulkner leaves issue from his first marriage, two sons, Hugh (born 27 Aug, 1953), and Mark (born 13 Apr 1955), and two daughters, Rosalinda (born 30 March, 1958), and Catharine (born 6 Apr, 1961).
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The Countess of Annandale and Hartfell, wife of the 11th Earl, died 4 November, 2022.
She was the former Susan Josephine Ross, daughter of Colonel Walter John Macdonald Ross, OBE, DL, JP, of Netherhall, Castle Douglas, Dumfriesshire; and married 23 August, 1969, the then Patrick Andrew Wentworth Hope Johnstone (born 19 April, 1941), son of Maj Percy Wentworth Hope Johnstone (1909-1983), and his wife the former Margaret Jane Hunter-Arundell (1910-1998).
Lady Annandale & Hartfell was a sister of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Malcolm Ross, GCVO, OBE, GCStJ, DL (1943 – 2019), courtier, who was a member of the Royal Household and from 2006 to 2008, Master of the Household to to then Prince of Wales.
In 1995 he husband succeeded as 11th Earl of Annadale and Hartfell when his claim to the peerages, and that of the Lordship of Johnstone, was allowed by the House of Lords Committee of Privileges. Her husband has also been 26th Chief of the Clan Johnstone since 5 Apr, 1983.
The Countess, who lived near Lockerbie, in Dumfries, is survived by the Earl, and by a son, David, styled Lord Johnstone (born 13 Oct, 1971), and a daughter Lady Julia (who was born in 1974).
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The marriage took place on 10 November, 2022, at Chelsea Old Town Hall, between Edward William Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk, GCVO, DL, Earl Marshal and Premier Duke in the Peerage of England (born 2 Dec, 1956), son of the late 17th Duke of Norfolk, KG, GCVO, CB, CBE, MC, DL (1915-2002), and his wife the former Ann Mary Teresa Constable-Maxwell (1927-2013), & the Hon Mrs Francesca Vaughan Herbert (born 1963), former wife of the Hon Henry Malcolm (Harry) Herbert (born 2 March, 1959), scion of the Earls of Carnarvon, and second daughter of Jonathan Stuart Vaughan Bevan (1940-2007), and his wife the former Victoria Leycester (born 1940).
It is the Duke of Norfolk's second marriage. He married 1stly, 27 June, 1987 (div 2022), Georgina Susan Gore (born 30 January, 1962), scion of the Earls Temple of Stowe, by whom he has issue:-
Henry, styled Earl of Arundel & Surrey (born 3 Dec 1987), Lady Rachel Fitzalan Howard (b 10 June, 1989), Lord Thomas Fitzalan Howard (born 14 March, 1992), Lady Isabel Fitzalan Howard (born 7 Feb, 1994), and Lord Philip Fitzalan Howard (born 14 July, 1996),
The new Duchess of Norfolk has issue from her marriage to the Hon Harry Herbert:-
Chloe Victoria Herbert (born 1994); Francesca Jeanie Herbert (born 21 Nov, 1995), and William Henry Herbert (born 14 Nov, 1999).
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The life peerage recently conferred upon Dame Arlene Foster, PC, has been gazetted in the name, style and title of Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee, of Aghadrumsee in the County of Fermanagh.
Dame Arlene Isobel Foster, DBE, PC (née Kelly; born 17 July 1970) is a broadcaster and politician from Northern Ireland who served as First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2016 to 2017 and from 2020 to 2021 and as Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 2015 to 2021. She was the first woman to hold either position. Baroness Foster was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Fermanagh and South Tyrone from 2003 to 2021.
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The life peerage recently conferred upon Mr Graham Evans has been gazetted in the name, style and title of Baron Evans of Rainow, of Macclesfield in the County of Cheshire.
Graham Thomas Evans (born 10 November 1963) is a Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Weaver Vale in Cheshire from 2010 until 2017.
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The engagement was announced 12 November, 2022, between Thomas James St Quintin Legard (born 13 November, 1971), scion of the Legard baronets, son of the late James Digby Legard (1946-2021), of Lowthorpe, East Riding of Yorkshire, and his wife the former Daphne Jane West, & Camilla Emma V. Byrte (born 1979), daughter of Jonathan Gordon Peregrine Byrte (born 1949), of Streatley, Berkshire, and his wife the former Phillippa A.M. Mossop.
It is Thomas Legard's second marriage. He married firstly, Elizabeth Aubrey-Fletcher, scion of the baronets of that name, by whom he has issue, two sons, John and Christopher, and a daughter Imogen.
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Sir Christopher Guise, 8th Baronet, died 8 November, 2022, aged 92.
Christopher James Guise was the eighth baronet, of Elmore Court Gloucester (GB, 1783).
He was born 10 July, 1930, second son of Sir Anselm William Edward Guise, 6th Baronet (1888-1970), and his wife the former Nina Margaret Sophie Grant (died 1991), and succeeded to the baronetcy, 15 May, 2007, on the death of his elder brother, Sir John Grant Guise, 7th Baronet (1927-2007).
He married 7 November, 1969, Carole Hoskins Master, former wife of Charles Edward Riou Benson (1935-2002), scion of that landed gentry family, and daughter of Jack Hoskins Master, by whom he had issue, a daughter Ruth Victoria Margaret, and a son, Anselm Mark Guise (born 7 February, 1971), who now succeeds to the baronetcy.
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Major Christopher Nicolas Haworth-Booth, the Life Guards, who died 30 October, 2022, aged 82, was a scion of that landed gentry family, of Hullbank House, and later of Haworth Hall.
He was born 2 January, 1940, son of Nicolas Leonard Haworth-Booth (1913-1993), and his wife the former Margaret Honor Hamilton (died 2003); and married 12 December, 1973, Rosemary Celia Stewart Anderson, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Anderson, by whom he had issue, two sons, Rupert (born 26 Jan, 1977), and James (born 15 June, 1978).
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Lisa Sinclair (nee Tihhonova), wife of the Hon George Henry MacDonald Sinclair [born 1989], scion of the Viscounts Thurso, gave birth to a son, Jasper Theodore Archibald, 26 October, 2022.
The Hon George Sinclair is the younger son of the 3rd Viscount Thurso [born 10 September, 1953], and Viscountess Thurso [nee Marion Ticknor Sage].
The Hon Mrs George Sinclair is the former Miss E. 'Lisa' Tihhonova, daughter of Mrs Svetlana Tihhonova, of Estonia.
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The life peerage recently conferred upon Dambisa Felicia Moyo, has been gazetted in the name style and title of Baroness Moyo, of Knightsbridge, in the City of Westminster.
Baroness Moyo (born 2 February 1969), is a Zambian-born economist and author, known for her analysis of macroeconomics and global affairs. She has written five books, including four New York Times bestsellers: Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (2009), How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly – And the Stark Choices that Lie Ahead (2011), Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World (2012), Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and How to Fix It (2018), and How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World (2021).
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The life peerage recently conferred upon Angela Bray has been gazetted in the name, style and title of Baroness Bray of Coln, of Coln Saint Aldwyns in the County of Gloucestershire.
Angela Lavinia Bray (born 13 October 1953) is a Conservative Party politician who was the Member of the London Assembly for West Central from 2000 to 2008, and Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing Central and Acton from 2010 to 2015.
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Madam O'Donovan, who died 7 November, 2022, aged 88, was the widow of The O'Donovan, Chief of the Clan Cathal, of Skibbereen, Co Cork.
The former Frances Jane Templer was born in 1934, daughter of Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, KG, GCB, GCMG, KBE, DSO (1898-1979), and his wife the former Ethel Margery Davie (1904-1997); and married 19 September, 1959, (Morgan Gerald) Daniel O'Donovan, The O'Donovan (1931-2016), son of Brigadier Morgan John Winthrop O'Donovan, The O'Donovan (1893-1969), and his wife the former Cornelia Bagnell (1894-1974), by whom she had issue, a son (Morgan) Tiege Gerald O'Donovan, The O'Donovan (born 7 Jan, 1961), who succeeded his father, 25 Jan, 2016, and two daughters, Katharine (b 22 Nov, 1962), and Cecilia Mary Cornelia (born 20 Feb, 1966), who married in 1996, Neville George Francis Chamberlain, grandson of the Rt Hon Neville Chamberlain, PC, MP (1868-1940), Prime Minister 1937-40, &c.
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The Baron Jones of Cheltenham, who died 7 November, 2022, aged, 74, was a Liberal Democrat life peer and former MP for Cheltenham.
Nigel David Jones was born 30 March, 1948. He served as Lib Dem MP for Cheltenham 1992-2005, after which he was raised to the peerage as Baron Jones of Cheltenham, of Cheltenham in the County of Gloucestershire.
Jones was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cheltenham at the 1992 general election, winning the seat from the Conservative Party. Jones was a member of the public accounts committee from 2002-05. He was also the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for a number of topics, including local government (1992–93), sport science and technology (1993), consumer affairs (1995-97), sport and culture (1997–99), trade and industry (1997–99) and international development (1999). Jones retained the seat until standing down at the 2005 general election.
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The life peerage recently conferred upon Fiona Ruth Twycross, has been gazetted in the name, style and title of Baroness Twycross, of Headington in the City of Oxford.
Baroness Twycross (born 29 May 1969), is a Labour Party politician. She was born in South London before moving to Oxford. She studied at Cheney School in Oxford before going on to study Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh and has a PhD in contemporary Scandinavian literature. She subsequently studied Public Policy and Management at Birkbeck, University of London. She has lived and worked in the East Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber and the North East.
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