King/Cowie engagement

The engagement was announced 16 December, 2005, between Capt. Oliver G.H. King, The Light Dragoons, son of Mr David King and the late Mrs King, of Shaw, Wiltshire, & Rosalind Mary Cowie (b. 1977), daughter of the late Maj. Nigel Cowie (who died in 1991), by his wife, the former Hon. (Rosalind) Juliana Brooke (b. 1950) (now the Hon. Mrs Christopher Grose, of Aldsworth, Gloucestershire).
Rosalind Cowie is a granddaughter maternally of the 2nd Viscount Brookeborough, by his wife Rosemary Chichester, scion of the Marquesses of Donegall.

Source: Daily Telegraph 16 December, 2005

Cropper/Grimston engagement

The engagement was announced 16 December, 2005, between Thomas P. Cropper, elder son of Mr and Mrs Philip Cropper, of Dunchurch, Warwickshire, and Lucy Katherine Elgiva Grimston (b. 1982), scion of the Barons Grimston of Westbury, only daughter of the Hon. (Gerald) Charles Walter Grimston (b. 1953), of Finmere, Oxfordshire, by his wife, the former Katherine Evelyn Kettle.
Lucy Grimston is a granddaughter of the late 2nd Baron Grimston of Westbury (1925-2003).

Source: The Times 16 December, 2005
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Hannah Sylvia Carys Hurd

Sian Hurd (nee Aubrey), wife of the Hon. Thomas Robert Benedict Hurd, (b. 1964), a son of the Baron Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC, gave birth to a daughter, Hannah Sylvia Carys, 12 November, 2005, a sister for Oliver Henry Douglas, who was b. in Jordan, 3 June, 2002.

Source: Daily Telegraph 16 Dec, 2005

Teacher/Vela Lopez engagement

The engagement was announced 14 December, 2005, between James Henry MacDonald Teacher (b. 1979) scion of the eponymous whisky distilling family, son of Hugh Macdonald Teacher (b. 1943), of Kelso, Roxburghshire, by his wife, the former Rosemary Page Wood (b. 1948), of Gifford, East Lothian, daughter of Sir David Page Wood, 7th Baronet, & Claudia G. Vela The engagement was announced 14 December, 2005, between James Henry MacDonald Teacher (b. 1979) scion of the eponymous whisky distilling family, son of Hugh Macdonald Teacher (b. 1943), of Kelso, Roxburghshire, by his wife, the former Rosemary Page Wood (b. 1948), of Gifford, East Lothian, daughter of Sir David Page Wood, 7th Baronet, & Claudia G. Vela López, only daughter of Mr José Vela Ortega, of Chorrillos, Lima, Peru, & Mrs Maria López Revolo, of Cieneguilla, Lima, Peru.
James Teacher's paternal grandfather, Brig. Anthony Teacher married in 1936, Awdry Clarisse Macnaghten of the Macnaghten Baronets.

Source: Daily Telegraph 14 Dec, 2005

Greta Florence Hazeland Gibson

Tanya Louise Gibson, (nee Beckett), wife of the Hon. Edward Charles D'Olier Gibson, (b.31 December, 1967), son and heir of the 4th Baron Ashbourne, gave birth to a daughter, Greta Florence Hazeland, at New York, United States, 5 December, 2005, a sister for Edward Alexander, who was b. 2002.
Mrs Gibson is a daughter of Mr & Mrs Brian Beckett.

Source: Daily Telegraph 14 December, 2005

Thomas Andrew Ludovic Lindsay

Catherine Lindsay (nee Bright) wife of David Lindsay, of the Earls of Crawford & Balcarres, gave birth to a son, Thomas Andrew Ludovic, at Dorchester, 9 December, 2005.

Source: Daily Telegraph 15 Dec, 2005

Maj. John Edward Richard Bowlby

Major John Edward Richard Bowlby, late the 1st Royal Dragoons, scion of the BLG family of Bowlby of Culverthorpe Hall, formerly of Gilston Park, and grandson maternally of the 11th Viscount Valentia, died at his home, 28 November, 2005. He was aged 91.
He was born 8 May, 1914, the only son of Capt. Geoffrey Vaux Salvin Bowlby (b. 1 Dec, 1883; killed in action 13 May, 1915), Royal Horse Guards, by his wife, the former Hon. Lettice Annesley, CVO (1885-1988), Lady-in-Waiting to HRH The Duchess of York, 1932-36, Woman of the Bedchamber to HM The Queen, 1936-45, Extra Woman of the Bedchamber, 1945-88, daughter of the 11th Viscount Valentia.
He was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Career: ->commissioned 2nd lieutenant The Royal Dratgoons, 1936; served in WW2 1939-45, in the Middle East, Sicily and NW Europe; Major, 1943, &c.
He married 23 September, 1950, the Hon. Dorothy Anne, former wife (between 1937 and 1950) of Maj. Robert Alexander Clive Graham (of Graham BLG), and elder daughter of the Hon. Dudley William John North, MC, JP (d. 1936).
His wife was (or is??) co-heiress with her sister, to the abeyant Barony of North, and was granted the title, rank and precedence of a baron's daughter.
There was one daughter of the marriage, Gina Anne (b. 1954). He also leaves a step-daughter, Penelope Virginia (b. 1940); and two granddaughters, Alana and Auriel.
The funeral was held at Mortlake Crematorium, 6 December, 2005.

Source: Daily Telegraph 1 Dec, 2005

Simpson/Clive-Ponsonby-Fane engagement

The engagement was announced 14 December, 2005, between Gordon James Moncrieff Simpson, son of Mr Walter Simpson, of Glendevon, Perthshire, and Mrs Susan Simpson, of Inverleith, Edinburgh, and Lisa Charlotte Clive-Ponsonby-Fane, (b. 1978), scion of the Earls of Bessborough, elder daughter of Charles Edward Brabazon Clive-Ponsonby-Fane (b. 1941), of Little Brympton, Somerset, and Mrs Clive-Ponsonby-Fane.

Source: The Times 14 Dec, 2005

Robert Daniel Weir

Lesley-Anne Weir (nee Purdie) wife of Robert Bruce Weir, gave birth to a son, Robert Daniel, 1 December, 2005, at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.
Robert Weir is the younger son of the Hon Lord Weir and Lady Weir, and Lesley-Anne Weir is the daughter of Mr & Mrs David Purdie.
Mr Weir's father was Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, and his maternal grandfather was the Hon Lord Cameron, KT.

Source: Daily Telegraph 13 Dec, 2005

Mary Elizabeth Inglis

Harriet Inglis (nee Sinclair), wife of Robert Inglis, gave birth to a daughter, Mary (Molly) Elizabeth, 7 December, 2005, a sister for Martha Daisy, who was b. 8 August, 2003.
Mrs Inglis is a daughter of the late Mr Duncan Sinclair and the late Hon Mrs Angela Sinclair.

Source: Daily Telegraph 12 Dec, 2005

Crackanthorpe/Chanter engagement

The engagement was announced 12 December, 2005, between David Crackanthorpe, & the Hon. Laura Mary Clare Chanter (b. 1953, nee Buchan), former wife of Robin Chanter, and daughter of the 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir (b. 1916), by his 2nd wife, the former Barbara Howard Ensor.

Source:Daily Telegraph 12 December, 2005

Sheepshanks/Greenhalgh engagement

The engagement was announced 9 Dec, 2005, between Christopher J. Sheepshanks, scion of the Sheepshanks BLG family, son of Mr & Mrs Robin Sheepshanks, of The Rookery, Suffolk, and Nicola Greenhalgh, daughter of Mr & Mrs Malcolm Greenhalgh, of High Royd, West Yorkshire.

Source: Daily Telegraph 9 Dec, 2005
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Rose/Conyngham engagement

The engagement was announced 8 December, 2005, between Christopher G. Rose, son of Mr Michael Rose, of Poole, and Mrs Marilyn Rose, of Edinburgh, & Chloe Wren Conyngham (b. 1980), daughter of Lord Simon Charles Eveleigh Wren Conyngham (b. 1953), of Edinburgh, by his 1st wife, the former Emma S. Breeze (now Mrs Emma Finn, of Adelaide).
The bride-to-be is a granddaughter paternally of the 7th Marquess Conyngham.

Source: Daily Telegraph 8 Dec, 2005

Crichton-Stuart/Collett engagement

The engagement was announced 9 December, 2005, between Alexander Blane Crichton-Stuart (b. 1982), youngest son of the late Lord James Charles Crichton-Stuart (1935-82), by his 2nd wife Anna-Rose Bramwell (now Mrs Peter Knatchbull-Hugessen, of Ropley, Hants, wife of a scion of the Barons Brabourne); & Susannah E. Collett, daughter of Mr & Mrs Alan Collett, of East Meon, Hampshire.
Alexander Crichton-Stuart is a grandson paternally of the 5th Marquis of Bute.

Source: Daily Telegraph 9 Dec, 2005

Diana Cary Elwes

Diana Theodora Sofia Cary Elwes, scion of the BLG family of Elwes of Roxby, and descended from 1st Baron Yarborough, died at Blunham, Bedfordshire, 3 December, 2005. She was 59.
She was born 18 Sept, 1946, daughter of Dudley Mangles Cary Elwes by his wife Angela Valeria Fernanda Ianois. She never married.
The funeral takes place at Douai Abbey, Berkshire, Tuesday 13 December, 2005.

Source: Daily Telegraph 10 Dec, 2005


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Maj-Gen. Sir Brian Wyldbore-Smith

Major-General Sir Brian Wyldbore-Smith, Kt, CB, DSO, OBE, General Officer Commanding, 4th Division (Territorial Army) and Home Counties District, 1965-68; of Grantham, died in hospital, 6 December, 2005. He was aged 92.
Sir Brian was a long serving Conservative party worker and friend of Baroness Thatcher. He served as Director of the Conservative Board of Finance, 1970-92.
He was born 10 July, 1913, son of the Rev. W.R. Wyldbore-Smith, and was educated at Wellington College, and the Royal Military Academy Woolwich.
Career:-->served in the Middle East, Italy, France and Germany, 1941-45; Military Adviser to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1947-49; GSO1 7th Armoured Division, 1951-53; commanded the 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars, 1954-56; Imperial Defence College, 1959; BGS Combat Development, 1959-62; Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Far East Command, 1962-64; Colonel 15/19 Hussars, 1970-77; &c.
Wyldbore-Smith, of Grantham House, Grantham, Lincolnshire, was awarded the DSO in 1943; OBE 1944; CB 1965; knighted 1980.
He married in 1944, the Hon. Molly Angela Cayzer, daughter of the shipping magnate, the 1st Baron Rotherwick, by whom he had a son and four daughters (however, only three daughters survive him. The son, Robin, died 16 Aug, 2001, aged 43). The Hon. Lady Wyldbore-Smith died 16 September, 2001.
The funeral is at St Wulframs Church, Grantham, Lincs, 16 December, 2005.


Source: Daily Telegraph 9 Dec, 2005

Guy Oliver Paton-Smith

Victoria Rose Paton-Smith (b. 1975, nee Buxton), scion of the Buxton Baronets, and wife of Thomas Paton-Smith, gave birth to a son, Guy Oliver, 1 December, 2005, a brother for Max.
Mrs Paton-Smith is the daughter of one of the Prince of Wales's first so-called girlfriends. She is the daughter of Jonathan James Buxton, (b. 1943), descended from Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet, and her mother is the former Rosaleen Pleasance Bagge, (b. 1947),whose Norfolk family, the Bagge Baronets, are neighbours of the Queen at Sandringham.
Thomas Paton-Smith is the son of Mr & Mrs Jonthan Paton-Smith.


Source: Daily Telegraph 9 December, 2005
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Ingestre/Blackie engagement

The engagement was announced 12 December, 2005, between James Richard Charles John Chetwynd-Talbot, styled Viscount Ingestre (b. 11 January, 1978), son and heir of the 22nd Earl of Shrewsbury & Waterford & Talbot (b. 1952), Premier Earl (on the Roll) in the Peerages both of England and Ireland, of Wanfield Hall, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, and the Countess of Shrewsbury & Waterford & Talbot, & Polly E. Blackie, younger daughter of Mr & Mrs Henry Blackie, of Saffron Walden, Essex.


Source: Daily Telegraph 12 December, 2005
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Denise Lady Ebury

Denise Baroness Ebury, who died 1 December, 2005, aged 89, was the second wife of the 5th Baron Ebury, DSO (1914-57).
She was born 24 October, 1916, as the Hon. Denise Margaret Yarde-Buller, second daughter of the 3rd Baron Churston, MVO, OBE (1873-1930), by his wife, the actress Denise Orme (whose rel name was Jessie Smither). Her mother was later wife of the 7th Duke of Leinster.
Denise's siblings were:-
(1) Hon Joan Yarde-Buller, b. 1908, wife of (i) Loel Guinness, (ii) Aly Khan, son of HH The Aga Khan, (iii) 2nd Viscount Camrose
(2) John Francis Roger, 4th Baron Churston (1910-91)
(3) Hon John Reginald Henry Yarde-Buller, b. 1915
(4) Hon Lydia Yarde-Buller, b. 1917, married (i) Capt Ian Lyle, of the Lyle Baronets. (ii) the 13th Duke of Bedford
(5) Hon Primrose Yarde-Buller, b. 1918, married the 7th Earl Cadogan
She married Lord Ebury in 1941, as his 2nd spouse. They divorced in 1954, and he died in 1957. She had 2 sons, the Hon William and the Hon Richard Grosvenor, and 2 daughters, the Hon Kiloran Grosvenor and the Hon Linda Grosvenor.
The funeral is at the Church of St John the Baptist, Eversholt, Bedfordshire, 16 December, 2005.



Source: Daily Telegraph 9 Dec, 2005
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Elizabeth Pery-Knox-Gore

Elizabeth Pery-Knox-Gore, who died 2 December, 2005, was the wife of Simon Pery-Knox-Gore (b. 1927), scion of the Earls of Limerick. She was the former Elizabeth Moira Egan, daughter of Thomas Jaraith Egan, of Sevenoaks, Kent, and married Mr Pery-Kox-Gore in 1961. She is survived by her husband, and by her children Caroline, Lucy, Siobhan and Myles; and grandchildren Cara, Seain, Theo, Alice and George.
Private family funeral on Friday, 16 December 2005. A Memorial Service will be held in Blackheath in January.
Source: Daily Telegraph 8 Dec, 2005

Marie Lady Loder

Marie Lady Loder, OStJ, who died 6 December, 2005, aged 91, was the widow of Sir Giles Rolls Loder, 3rd Baronet (1914-99).
She was the former Marie Violet Pamela Symons-Jeune, only daughter of Bertram Hanmer Bunbury Symons-Jeune, of Runnymede House, Old Windsor, and married Giles Loder in 1939. He was High Sheriff of Sussex in 1948, and a Deputy Lieutenant for West Sussex. She was widowed 24 February, 1999.
Lady Loder leaves 2 sons, (i) Sir Edmund, the 4th Baronet (b. 1941), and Robert (b. 1943).
Funeral at Worth Crematorium on Wednesday, 14 December, 2005.



Source: Daily Telegraph 8 Dec, 2005
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Elmore/Thynne engagement

The engagement was announced 7 December, 2005, between Jeremy J. Elmore, son of Mr Barry Elmore, of Molesey, Surrey, and Mrs Diana Purcell, of Petworth, Sussex, & Tamara Jane Thynne (b. 1974), scion of the Marquesses of Bath, youngest daughter of Sheridan Ulrich Thynne (b. 1939), of South Stoke, Oxfordshire, by his wife the former Eve Clare Cardew.


Source: Daily Telegraph 7 December, 2005


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Haitham Taylor/Willoughby engagement

The engagement was announced 7 December, 2005, between Mr P. Martin Haitham Taylor, younger son of Mr and Mrs James Taylor, of Crowthorne, Berkshire, & Charlotte Jacqueline Louise Willoughby (b. 1978), scion of the Barons Middleton, eldest daughter of the Hon. Michael Charles James Willoughby (b. 1948) by his wife the former Hon Lucy Corinna Agneta Sidney, youngest daughter of the 1st Viscount De L'Isle, VC, KG.
Charlotte Willoughby is a granddaughter paternally of the 12th Baron Middleton. Her father is heir to the peerage.


Source: The Times 7 Dec, 2005

Dilwyn-VenablesLlewelyn/I'anson

The marriage took place at All Saints' Church, Newbridge-on-Wye, Powys, 26 November, 2005, between Sir John Michael Dillwyn-Venables-Llewellyn, 4th Baronet (b. 12 Aug, 1938), son of Brig. Sir Charles Michael Dillwyn-Venables-Llewellyn, MVO, 3rd Bt (d. 1976), by his wife the former Lady Delia Hicks-Beach, scion of the Earls St. Aldwyn, & Mrs Carolyn S. I'Anson.

Source: Daily Telegraph 6 Dec, 2005



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Hand/Bowes-Lyon engagement

The engagement was announced 6 December, 2005, between Roger Hand, son of Mrs Anthony Hand and the late Mr Anthony Hand, & Georgina Alice Bowes-Lyon (b. 1977), scion of the Earls of Strathmore & Kinghorne, daughter of David James Bowes-Lyon (b. 1947), by his wife, the former (Elizabeth) Harriet Colville (b. 1952), a goddaughter of HM Queen Elizabeth II, and a Lady-in-Waiting to HRH The Princess Royal since 1990, scion of the Viscounts Colville of Culross.
Source: Daily Telegraph 6 Dec, 2005
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Lesser/Hotham engagement

The engagement was announced 6 December, 2005, between Hugo J. Lesser, younger son of Mr Alan Lesser, of Tarn, France, and Mrs S.M. Lesser, of Kintbury, Berkshire, & the Hon. Elizabeth Henrietta Alexandra Hotham (b. 1976) only daughter of the 8th Baron Hotham (b. 1940), of Dalton Hall, and Scorborough Hall, both in Yorkshire, by his wife, the former Alexandra Mary Home Drummond Moray, scion of that BLG family.

Source: Daily Telegraph 6 December, 2005
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Younger/Burridge engagement

The engagement was announced 30 Nov, 2005, between William G.R. Younger, scion of the eponymous brewing family and kin of the Viscounts Younger of Leckie, the extinct Barons Blanesburgh, and the Younger Baronets, eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel David Younger, of Melrose, Roxburghshire, and Mrs Jane Younger, of Gilling, East Yorkshire, & Frances J. Burridge, only daughter of the late Mr James Burridge, and of Mrs Midge Burridge, of Taston, Oxfordshire.


Source: Daily Telegraph 30 Nov, 2005

Pamela Lady Brocklebank

Pamela Lady Brocklebank, who died 26 November, 2005, at the age of 85, was the widow of Major Sir John Montague Brocklebank, TD, 5th Baronet.
She was Pamela Sue Pierce, daughter of William Harold Pierce, OBE, of Bidston, Cheshire, and married firstly, Major Leslie Forshaw-Wilson; married 2ndly, 1950, Maj. Sir John Brocklebank, TD, 5th Baronet, who died in 1974.
She leaves a son, Sir Aubrey Thomas Brocklebank, 6th Baronet (b. 1952), and a daughter (of the first marriage?), Fiona.

Source: Daily Telegraph 1 Dec, 2005.

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Lady Rosula Glyn

The Lady Rosula Glyn, OStJ, who died 1 December, 2005, was the widow of Sir Alan Glyn, Kt, formerly MP for the Clapham Division of Wandsworth 1959-64 and for the Berkshire Division of Windsor and Windsor and Maidenhead 1970-92.
She was born in 1935 as Lady Rosula Caroline Windsor-Clive, a daughter of the 2nd Earl of Plymouth, PC (1889-1943), by his wife the former Lady Irene Corona Charteris (d. 1989), daughter of the 7th Earl of Wemyss; married 1962, the then Alan Glyn, MP, late the Royal Horse Guards, son of John Paul Glyn. Her husband died 5 May, 1998, aged 79.
Lady Rosula leaves issue, 2 daughters, viz, Mary Caroline (b. 1963), and Anne Serena (b. 1964).
The funeral takes place at St Mary the Virgin, Bromfield, Ludlow, Shropshire, 12 Dec, 2005.

Source: Daily Telegraph 6 Dec, 2005

Emily India Suzanna Windsor-Clive

Elizabeth S. (Liz) Windsor-Clive (nee Wallis), wife of Maj. Other John Windsor-Clive (b. 1958), of the Coldstream Guards, scion of the Earls of Plymouth, gave birth to a daughter, Emily India Suzanna, 21 November, 2005.
Major Windsor-Clive is the son of Capt. Francis Archer Windsor-Clive (b. 1922), of the Coldstream Guards, of Bromesberrow, Gloucestershire, by his wife the former Anne Gertrude Longueville (deceased), & Elizabeth Windsor-Clive is the eldest daughter of the late Mr J.A. Wallis and of Mrs Wallis, of Fownhope, Herefordshire.

Source: Daily Telegraph 6 Dec, 2005
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Walter Frederick Montagu

The Lady Honor Victoria Montagu (nee Wellesley, b. 1979) wife of the Hon. Orlando William Montagu (b. 1971), scion of the Earls of Sandwich, gave birth to a son, Walter Frederick, 3 December, 2005.
The Hon. Orlando Montagu is the younger son of the 11th Earl of Sandwich and the Countess of Sandwich, and Lady Honor is the eldest daughter of the Marquess of Douro, by his wife the former Antonia Brigid Elizabeth Luise von Preussen, yr daughter of the late HRH Prince Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Christoph of Prussia, and a descendant of Wilhlem II, German Emperor, and Queen Victoria &c.
Lady Honor's paternal grandfather is the 8th Duke of Wellington, KG.

Source: Daily Telegraph 6 December, 2005

Juliet Dacres Dixon

Juliet Dacres Dixon, who died 28 November, 2005, was the former Juliet Carmichael, daughter of Graham Carmichael. She married in 1950 (divorced 1964) Major Anthony John Dacres Dixon, 17th/21st Lancers, (b. 1924), son of Henry George Dacres Dixon by his wife the former Marjorie Edith Pelham (b. 1897), daughter of the Hon. Henry Cornwallis Pelham (1868-1924), son of the 3rd Earl of Yarborough (1835-75).

Source: Daily Telegraph 02 Dec 2005


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Leigh/Lowther engagement

The engagement was announced in December, 2005, between Charles D.G. Leigh, eldest son of Mr Robert Leigh, of London, and Mrs Dermot Blundell, of Wichenford, Worcestershire, & Alice Rose Lowther (b. 1979), daughter of Colonel Sir Charles Douglas Lowther, 6th Baronet (b. 1946), of Erbistock Hall, Wrexham, by his 2nd wife, the former Florence Rose Cramsie.
The 1st Baronet was a brother of the 1st Earl of Lonsdale.

Source: The Times

Sonsino/Heriot Maitland

The engagement has been announced between William Sonsino, younger son of Mr and Mrs Victor Sonsino, of Ravenstone, Buckinghamshire, and Lucia Jane Heriot Maitland (b. 1981), scion of the Earls of Lauderdale, eldest daughter of Lewis Dalgleish Heriot Maitland, TD (b. 1943), of Errol Park, Perthshire, by his wife, the former Prudence Jane Norris.

Source: The Times 3 Dec, 2005

Viscountess Carlow's daughter...

Clare L. Dawson-Damer, styled Viscountess Carlow (nee Garside), wife since 2002, of Charles George Yuill Seymour Dawson-Damer, styled Viscount Carlow (b. 1965), son and heir of the 7th Earl of Portarlington, gave birth to a daughter, 2 December, 2005, at Sydney, Australia, a sister for the Hon. Alice Dawson-Damer.

Source: The Times 5 December, 2005

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2nd and last Baron Belstead

The 2nd (and last) Baron Belstead, PC, who died 3 December, 2005, was a
former Leader of the House of Lords. He was aged 73.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1904515,00.html
John Julian Ganzoni was born 30 September, 1932, the only son of the 1st Baron Belstead (1882-1958), by his wife Gwendolen Gertrude Turner, and was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.
Career:-->a JP of Ipswich, and Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk from 1994; a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Education & Science, 1970-73; a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Northern
Ireland, 1973-74; Chairman of the Governing Bodies Association from 1974; Under Secretary of State, Home Office, 1979-82; Minister of State, Foreign Office, 1982-83; Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1983-87; Minister of State, Department of the Environment, 1987-88; Deputy Leader of the House of Lords, 1984-88; Leader of the House of Lords and Privy Seal, 1988-90; Minister of State for Northern Ireland and Paymaster-General 1990-92; lately Chairman of the Parole Board, &c.
Lord Belstead was sworn of the Privy Council in 1981.
He never married, and the peerage (UK 1938) and baronetcy (1929) now become extinct.

Source: The Times 5 Dec, 2005

Hogg/Heneage engagement

The engagement has been announced between the Hon. Quintin John Neil Martin Hogg (b. 1973), son of the Rt Hon Douglas Hogg, MP, 3rd Viscount Hailsham and of the Baroness Hogg (nee Boyd-Carpenter, scion of the Barons Boyd-Carpenter), and Elizabeth Anne Sophia Heneage (b. 1981), daughter of Thomas Peter William Heneage (b. 1950), by his former wife, the former Shaunagh Anne Henrietta Colthurst (b. 1961, she is now the Baroness Latymer, wife of the 9th Baron), scion of the Colthurst Baronets, daughter of George Silver Oliver Annesley Colthurst (b. 1931), by his first wife the former Hon. Elizabeth Sophia Sidney (b, 1941), daughter of the 1st Viscount De L'Isle, VC, KG.
Elizabeth Heneage's paternal grandfather, Maj. Peter Edward Findlay Heneage married in 1949, Jean Douglas (b. 1922), daughter of the Hon. William Sholto Douglas (1886-1932) (4th son of the 19th Earl of Morton) by his wife the Hon. Ethel Georgiana Frances Somerset, daughter of the 3rd Baron Raglan.

Source: The Times

Maj. David Alwyne Carne Rasch

Major David Alwyne Carne Rasch, late the Grenadier Guards, who died at his home 27 November, 2005, aged 83, was a scion of the Rasch Baronets (created 1903)
He was born in 1922, a son of Brigadier Guy Elland Carne Rasch, CVO, DSO, and was a grandson of the 1st Baronet, Sir Frederick, a Conservative MP. David's elder brother was Sir Richard Rasch, 3rd Baronet (1918-96).
Maj. Rascjh married in 1953 Lady (Elizabeth) Anne Somerset, daughter of Henry Somerset, scion of the Dukes of Beaufort, and sister of David Somerset, who succeeded his kinsman in 1984 as 11th Duke of Beaufort. His wife, now deceased, was raised to the rank of a duke's daughter.
He is survived by three children, Guy (b. 1959); Jane (b. 1955) and Emma (b. 1962).
Service at All Saints, Middle Woodford, near Salisbury, 9 December, 2005.

Source: Daily Telegraph 1 December, 2005

Arlo Charles Savile

Rosie Savile (nee Daniels) wife of Henry Charles Savile (b. 1970), grandson of the late 7th Earl of Mexborough, gave birth to a son, Arlo Charles, 24 October, 2005, a brother for Louis Raphael, who was b. 14 October, 2003.

Source: The Times 30 November, 2005

Goldsmith baby...

Kate Emma Goldsmith (nee Rothschild, b. 1982), wife of Benjamin James Goldsmith, (b. 1980), gave birth to a son, at the weekend 26/27 November, 2005, a brother for Iris, who was born in 2004.
Ben Goldsmith is the youngest son of the late Sir James Goldsmith and of the Lady Annabel Goldsmith, (nee Vane-Tempest-Stewart, sister of the 9th Marquess of Londonderry) & Kate is the eldest daughter of the late the Hon. Amschel Mayor James Rothschild by his wife, the former Anita Patience Guinness (now Mrs James Wigan). Kate Goldsmith is a granddaughter paternally of the 3rd Baron Rothschild.

Source: Daily Telegraph 30 Nov, 2005

von Westenholz/Hayes engagement

The engagement was announced 30 November, 2005, between Nicholas Anthony Philip von Westenholz (b. 1975),3rd son of Charles von Westenholz, of Widford, Hertfordshire, by his wife the former Lady Mary Marianella Kerr (b. 1944), & Nicole A. Hayes, daughter of Mr & Mrs John Hayes, of Datchet, Berkshire.
Nicholas von Westenholz is a grandson maternally of the 12th Marquess of Lothian, KCVO (1922-2004).

Source: Daily Telegraph 30 November, 2005

Hon. Toby Peter Fergus Bowes Lyon

The 18th Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne, of Glamis Castle, Forfar, and his partner Dr Damaris E. Stuart-William, had their first child together, a son, Toby Peter Fergus, born in March, 2005, at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee.
The Earl, a 1st cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II, is the only son of the 17th Earl (who died in 1987), by his wife Mary McCorquodale, of that BLG family. Dr Damaris Stuart-William, 39 at the time of the birth, is a daughter of Peter G. Stuart-William, by his wife Marilyn. Dr Stuart-William was married previously, at Gateshead, in 2000 (divorced 2005), to Mr Stuart Parker. The infant was registered at Forfar by Lord Strathmore and Dr Stuart-William with the surname "Bowes Lyon".
On the marriage of the Earl and Dr Stuart-William, in November 2005, the child was legitimated and can bear the courtesy title of "Honourable".

Isla Selina Edwina Knatchbull

Isabella Julia Knatchbull (nee Norman, b. 1971), wife of the Hon. Timothy Nicholas Sean Knatchbull (b. 18 Nov, 1964), son of the late 7th Baron Brabourne and of the (2nd) Countess Mountbatten of Burma, gave birth to a fourth child, Isla Selina Edwina, 23 November, 2005, a sister for Amber, b. 3 January, 2000, and for Milo, b. 26 February, 2001, and for Ludo, b. 15 September, 2003.

Source: The Times.

Strathmore & Kinghorne/Stuart-William marriage

The marriage took place 24 November, 2005, in the Chapel of St Michael & All Angels, Glamis Castle, between Michael Fergus Bowes Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne (b. 7 June, 1957), only son of the 17th Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne (1928-87), by his wife the former Mary Pamela McCorquodale, scion of that BLG family, & Dr Damaris E. Stuart-William, only daughter of Mr & Mrs Peter Stuart-William.
The Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne is a first cousin once removed of HM Queen Elizabeth II.

Source: Daily Telegraph 26 November, 2005

Angus Ross Alexander Geddes

Alice A. Geddes (nee Alexander) wife of the Hon. James George Neil Geddes (b. 10 September, 1969), gave birth to a son, Angus Ross Alexander, 22 November, 2005.
James Geddes is the son and heir of the 3rd Baron Geddes and the late Baroness Geddes, of Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, & Alice is the youngest daughter of Mr & Mrs Robert Alexander, of Burghclere, Hampshire.

Source: Daily Telegraph 26 Nov 2005

James Andrew Steuart Fothringham

Dr Anna Catherine (Kate) Steuart Fothringham (nee Macdonald), wife since 1999 of Thomas Steuart Fothringham, Younger of Pourie, gave birth to a son, James Andrew, 17 November, 2005, a brother for Sandy.

Source: Daily Telegraph 26 Nov, 2005

Clementine Rose Crosthwaite Eyre

Alexandra H. Crosthwaite Eyre (nee Mays-Smith), wife of Philip Anthony
John Crosthwaite Eyre (b. 8 July, 1962), gave birth to a daughter,
Clementine Rose, 14 November, 2005.

Philip Crosthwaite Eyre is a son of Mr Antony Crosthwaite Eyre (b. 25
Apl, 1940), of Little Tew, Oxford, and Mrs David Dixon (nee Countess
Macha de Robiano), of Salisbury, Hampshire, & Alexandra Mays-Smith is a
daughter of Mr and Mrs Alan Mays-Smith, of Waldron, East Sussex.

Source: Daily Telegraph 25 Nov, 2005

Venerable Edwin Ward, LVO

The Venerable Edwin Ward, LVO, Archdeacon of Sherborne, 1968-84; Archdeacon Emeritus and Canon Emeritus of Salisbury Cathedral since 1985, died at his home 22 November, 2005. He was aged 86.
Edwin James Greenfield Ward was born 26 October, 1919, the elder son of Canon Frederick Greenfield Ward, MC, latterly of Canberra, Australia, and was educated at St John's, Leatherhead; Christ's College, Cambridge (MA).
Career: ->served in the King's Dragoon Guards, 1940; Reserve 1946; Ordained a priest, 1948; Vicar of North Elmham, Norfolk, 1950-55; Chaplain, Royal Chapel, Windsor Great Park, 1955-67; Rector of West Stafford 1967-84; Member of the Council of Marlborough College, 1969-88; Visitor, Milton Abbey School, 1991-94 (Member of the Board of Governors, 1983-91), &c. He was Chaplain to the Queen, 1955-89 (since when Extra Chaplain to HM) and he was appointed LVO in 1963.
He lived in retirement at Alresford, Hampshire. He married 4 Sept, 1946, Grizell Evelyn (b. 18 July, 1919; d. 1985), scion of the Buxton Baronets, daughter of Capt. Harry Gurney Buxton (1871-1936), by his wife Evelyn Musgrave Harvey, by whom he had a son, Simon Andrew Buxton Ward, born in 1952, and 2 daughters, Joanna Grizelda, b. 1947, and Alison Bridget, MBE, b. 1950. The younger daughter is Baroness Wakeham, second wife since 1985 of Baron Wakeham, former Tory Cabinet Minister and Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission (who lost his first wife in the Brighton Bomb 1984).
A Service of Thanksgiving will be held at St John's, New Alresford, Hants, Saturday 10 December, 2005.

Source: Daily Telegraph 24 November, 2005

Carey/Prittie engagement

The engagement was announced 24 November, 2005, between Joseph G. de M. Carey, youngest son of Mr & Mrs George Carey, of Hammersmith, London, & Kinvara Louise Prittie (b. 1978), scion of the Barons Dunalley, younger daughter of Oliver Alan Graham Prittie (b. 1948), of Kensington, by his 1st wife, the former Alison Victoria Tillie (now Mrs William Boone), of Hellingly, East Sussex.

Source: The Times 24 November, 2005

Smith/Fuller engagement

The engagement was announced 24 November, 2005, between Thomas William Smith (b. 1976), scion of the Viscounts Hambleden, son of the Maj. The Hon. Philip Reginald Smith (b. 1945), of Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, by his wife the former Mary Roberts, & Suzanne V. Fuller, younger daughter of Commander and Mrs Malcolm Fuller, of Petersfield, Hampshire.
Thomas Smith is a grandson paternally of the 3rd Viscount Hambleden (1903-48), Chairman of W.H. Smith & Co., by his wife, the Lady Patricia Herbert, DCVO (d. 1994), daughter of the 15th Earl of Pembroke.

Source: Daily Telegraph 24 November, 2005

Keswick/Ballantyne engagement

The engagement was announced 23 November, 2005, between Tobias (Toby) Keswick (b. 1968), second son of Sir (John) Chippendale Lindley (known as "Chips") Keswick, Kt, of London, descended from the extinct Barons Lindley, by his wife, the former Lady Sarah Ramsay (b. 1945), & Fiona Ballantyne, daughter of Mr & Mrs Duncan Ballantyne, of Nelspruit, South Africa.
Toby Keswick is a grandson maternally of the 16th Earl of Dalhousie, KT, GCVO, GBE (1914-1999).

Source: Daily Telegraph 23 November, 2005

Caithness/Jenkins marriage

The marriage took place, at the Rosslyn Chapel, 15th century Scottish church, November, 2004, between Malcolm Ian Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness, PC (b. 3 Nov, 1948) & Leila Cassel Jenkins, daughter of the late Mr Theodore Locke Jenkins and of Mrs Jenkins. The bride, brought up in Darien, Connecticut, USA, and was previously married to a corporate lawyer in New York.

Source: Mail on Sunday 20 Nov, 2005

Otis Irwin

Alice Rosalind Irwin (nee Elliot, b. 1977), wife of Luke W.A. Irwin, (b. 18 September, 1967), gave birth to a son, Otis, in October, 2005.
Luke is the eldest son of Mr Jonathan Irwin, of Ballitore, Co Kildare, and the Hon. Mrs Mikaela Irwin, (nee Rawlinson, b. 1941), of Stourton Caundle, Dorset, & Alice Irwin is the elder daughter of Mr Simon John Elliot, of Stourpaine, Dorset, and Mrs Elliot (nee Sonia Annabel Shand, b. 1949).
Luke Irwin is a grandson maternally of Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, QC, PC
(b. 1919), by his 1st wife Haidee, daughter of Gerald Kavanagh, and Alice Elliot is a granddaughter maternally of Maj Bruce Middleton Hope Shand, MC, by his wife the Hon. Rosalind Maud Cubitt, daughter of the 3rd Baron Ashcombe, and is a niece of HRH The Duchess of Cornwall &c.

Source: Daily Mail 14 Oct, 2005

Baroness Fulton

Baroness Fulton, widow of the life peer Baron Fulton died in December, 2004. She was the former Jacqueline Wilkinson, daughter of Kenneth Edward Towler Wilkinson, of York, and married Lord Fulton in 1939. He died in 1986. She leaves issue.

Source: Recent Wills, Daily Telegraph 21 November, 2005


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Daisy Conolly-Carew

Jane Anne Conolly-Carew, [nee Cunningham] wife since 2000, of the Hon. William Conolly-Carew, heir to the 7th Baron Carew, gave birth to a daughter, Daisy Celia, 8 November, 2005, a sister for Poppy, who was b. 3 April, 2001, and for Patrick, b. 12 November, 2002, and for Georgina Daisy, who was b. 9 December, 2003.

Source: Daily Telegraph 22 November, 2005

Anne Baroness Hollenden

Anne Baroness Hollenden, died shortly before 17 November, 2005. She was the 3rd wife and widow of the 2nd Baron Hollenden, who died in 1977.
She was Violet Norris (known as Anne) Leverton, daughter of Alfred Leverton. She married firstly, Dr Frank Dutch Howitt, CVO, MD, FRCP; and married the 2nd Baron Hollenden in 1963.
Her home was at Valley Farm, Edgeworth, Cirencester, Gloucestershire. The cremation took place 17 November, 2005.

Source: The Times 19 November, 2005

Montagu Douglas Scott/Bernard wedding

The marriage took place 20 October, 2005, between, Douglas Andrew Montagu-Douglas-Scott, OBE (b. 21 June, 1930), scion of the Dukes of Buccleuch, son of the late Brigadier (Claud) Andrew Montagu Douglas Scott DSO (1906-71), by his 1st wife, Lady Victoria Doris Rachel Haig, of the Earls Haig & Monica, Lady Bernard, former wife of (i) Mr Montford, and (ii) Sir Dallas Edmund Bernard, 2nd Baronet, and daughter of James Edward Hudson.
It's Mr Montagu-Douglas-Scott's third marriage. He married firstly, at Adelaide, Australia 12 Oct 1954 (div 1977) Bridget Elizabeth George (b. 5 Feb 1931); m. secondly, 1977 Daphne Maureen Short.
A reception was held at Bemersyde, home of Mr M D S's cousin, Earl Haig.

Source: The Times 19 November, 2005

Hersey Constance Russell (nee Grenfell)

Hersey Constance Russell (nee Grenfell), who died 19 November, 2005, aged 91, was scion of the Barons Grenfell. She was born 2 December, 1913, the second daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Jhn Pascoe Grenfell (1869-1948), by his wife the former Adeline Octavia Lambart, scion of the Lambart Baronets. She married 2 August, 1947, John Eaton Nevill Russell, by whom she had issue.
Thanksgiving Service at Church of the Good Shepherd, Coldharbour Rd, Pyrford, Surrey on Monday 19 December 2005.

Source: Daily Telegraph 23 Nov 2005

Count Christopher Rietberg

Count Christopher Rietberg, late the 15/19th Hussars, scion of the Royal House of Liechtenstein, died 15 November, 2005. He was 79.
He was born 8 May, 1926 son of Prince Ferdinand Andreas Joseph Maria of Liechtenstein (b. 1901). The Prince married 1stly (in a marriage not conforming to the laws of the Princely House) at London 14 January, 1925 (divorced 1934; marriage annulled 1939), Shelagh Salome Houston, who was granted the name and title of Countess von Rietberg, daughter of Harold Roscoe Brunner, DL, scion of the Brunner Baronets, and kinsman of HRH The Duchess of Kent. Count Christopher was a son of this marriage.
He married 17 September, 1955, Kathleen Hamilton, daughter of Alfred Thayer Mahan, of Odl Greenbush Road, Orangeburg, New York, USA, by whom he had issue:-
(i) Gabrielle Catherine, b. 13 Jan, 1957 (ii) Mark Andreas, b. 30 June, 1959

Source: Daily Telegraph 21 November, 2005

Louis Benyon

Zoe L.B. Benyon (nee Robinson) wife of Richard Henry Ronald Benyon (b. 1960), gave birth to a son, Louis, 19 November, 2005, a half brother for Harry, Thomas and Freddie.
Richard Benyon is the eldest son of Sir William Richard Benyon, Kt, former Conservative MP (b. 1930), by his wife, the former Elizabeth Anne Hallifax, & Zoe is the younger daughter of Mr & Mrs Alastair Robinson.
Richard Benyon has issue from his first marriage. In 1988 he married Emma Helen Villiers, scion of the Earls of Clarendon, by whom he has issue. Richard is a grandson paternally of Vice-Admiral Richard Benyon, CB, CBE (1892-1968) formerly SHELLEY, who assumed by deed poll and later by Royal Licence the surname of BENYON in lieu of his patronymic. The Admiral (yr son of the 9th Shelley Baronet) married in 1929, Eve Alice, dau of the Rt Rev Lord William Cecil, 65th Bishop of Exeter, scion of the Marquesses of Salisbury.

Source: Daily Telegraph 23 Nov 2005

Marina Rose Tomacelli-Filomarino

Sophie Tomacelli Filomarino (nee Butler-Adams) wife of Eduardo Tomacelli Filmarino, gave birth to a daughter, Marina Rose, 6 November, 2005, a sister for Livia & Alice.
Eduardo Tomacelli is the only son of Riccardo and Irene Tomacelli Filomarino, Duca and Duchessa di Monasterace, of London SW1 and Naples, and Sophie is the elder daughter of Mr & Mrs David Butler-Adams, of Holtby, Yorkshire.

Source: The Times

Camilla Susan Beckwith-Smith

Olivia Beckwith-Smith (nee Slocum), wife of John Beckwith-Smith (of that BLG family), gave birth to a daughter, Camilla Susan, 10 November, 2005, a sister for Rosemary Genevieve, who was b. 11 March, 2002, and twins Eleanor & Philippa, who were b. 4 December, 2003.
The infant is a great-great granddaughter of John Blundell Leigh (1858-1931) by his wife Lady Rose Nevill (1866-1913).




Source: The Times

Wingfield Digby/Pope

The engagement was announced 18 November, 2005, between Stephen Hatton Wingfield Digby (b. 17 November, 1944), scion of the BLG family of Sherborne Castle & Coleshill, & descended from Sir James Graham, 1st Baronet, of Netherby, son of the late Archdeacon (Stephen) Basil Wingfield Digby, MBE (b. 1910), by his wife, the former Elinor Escreet Lewin Richardson, & Mrs Sylvia Pope, daughter of the late Mr Paget Bowyer, and of Mrs Bowyer, of Corfe Castle, Dorset, & formerly married (widow?) of C.J.R. Pope.

Source: The Times 18 November, 2005



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Colman/Chancellor

The engagement has been announced between John Powlett (Jo) Colman (b. 1962), second son of Sir Michael Jeremiah Colman, 3rd Baronet (b. 1928), by his wife the former Judith Jean Wallop William-Powlett, scion of the Earls of Portsmouth, & Cecilia Mary Chancellor (b. 1966), the mannequin daughter of the journalist Alexander Surtees Chancellor (b. 1940), by his wife the former Susanna Elizabeth Debenham, scion of the Debenham Baronets.
Cecilia Chancellor's paternal grandfather, Sir Christopher John Chancellor, CMG, married in 1926, Sylvia Mary (nee Paget) scion of the Paget Baronets, of Cranmore Hall (created in 1886). Cecilia's sister, Elizabeth (b. 1964) married 1990, Alexander Waugh, grandson of the author Evelyn Waugh and a descendant of the Earls of Onslow. Cecilia's cousin is the actress Anna Chancellor, aka "Duck Face" in "Four Weddings and a Funeral".

Source: Daily Mail 18 November, 2005

Hay/Hanbury engagement

The engagement was announced 20 October, 2005, between Alexander W.R. Hay, elder son of Mr & Mrs Peter Hay, of Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Middx, & Susannah Hanbury, scion of that BLG family, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs David Hanbury, of Ruckinge, Kent.

Source: The Times 20 October, 2005

Belinda Anne Moffat

Belinda Anne (Lindy) Moffat (nee Combe), b. 11 Oct, 1938; died at Hadlow Down, 31 Oct, 2005. She was a scion of the BLG family of Combe of Cobham Park;daughter of Patrick Haddon Harvey Combe, OBE, MC (b. 1912), by his wife the former Kathleen Hermione Fleetwood Rudkin, and married 2 Dec, 1961, Lionel John Moffat, by whom she had 1 son, Jonathan, and 1 daughter, Wendy.
The funeral took place at St Mark's, Hadlow Down, 11 Nov, 2005.

Source: The Times 4 November, 2005

Maj. Michael Gurney Leatham

Major Michael Gurney Leatham, late the Royal Indian Artillery, who died 9 November, 2005, aged 82, was scion of the BLG family of Leatham, formerly of Hemsworth Hall; born 23 Dec, 1922, and educated at Ampleforth, he was the son of Nigel Clere Leatham, OBE (1883-1939), by his wife, the former Eileen Edith Riley; married (1) 16 Feb, 1952, Frida Monica, daughter of C.R. Roughton, of Worcestershire; married (2), Sally. The funeral took place at the Church of Our Lady & St Michael, Llanarth Court, Abergavenny.

Source: Daily Telegraph 16 Nov, 2005

Ronald Crichton

Ronald Crichton, eminent music critic, scion of the Earls of Erne, born at Scarborough, North Yorkshire 29 Dec, 1913; died unmarried 15 November, 2005.
He was a son of Colonel Charles William Harry Crichton, DSO (1872-1958), by his wife Dorothy Maud (who d. 1959), daughter of the Hon. Eustace Henry Dawnay, scion of the Viscounts Downe.
Crichton shared the latter years of his life with Juan Soriano, initially in Eastbourne, more recently in Barcelona, Soriano's home city.

Source: The Times 18 November, 2005

Arabella Charlotte Bowater

Arabella Charlotte Bowater, who died suddenly at Boston, Mass., United States, 14 October, 2005; was born in 1961,scion of the Bowater Baronets, of Friston (created 1939), the eldest daughter of Michael Ian Vansittart Bowater (b. 1934), by his wife Camilla Caroline, daughter of Air Commodore Whitney Willard Straight, CBE, MC, DFC, by his wife the former Lady Daphne Margarita Finch Hatton, daughter of the 14th Earl of Winchilsea & Nottingham. Arabella married in 1990, Carl W. Wend, Jr, son of Carl Wend, of White Plains, New York. Her funeral took place in Vermont.

Source: The Times 21 October, 2005

Molly Cordelia Goldsmid Teacher

Kate Teacher (nee Whitehead) wife of Harry Teacher, gave birth to a daughter, Molly Cordelia Goldsmid, 17 October, 2005, a sister for Alice Flora Macnaghten, who was b. 26 November, 2003. Harry is a son of (Anthony) James Moreton Teacher (1937-2003), a member of the eponymous whisky family.
Harry Teacher is a great-great-great-grandson of William Teacher, who founded the world famous Teacher's whisky brand, & is a grandson of Brigadier Anthony Donald Macdonald Teacher, CBE, DL, who died in 1969, by his wife, the former Awdry Clarise Macnaghten, of the Macnaghten Baronets.
Harry's mother is the former (Rosemary) Chloe, daughter of Major Sir Henry Joseph d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 2nd Baronet, DSO, MC, TD, & he has three siblings, Poppy, Petra and Sarah.

Source: Daily Telegraph 18 November, 2005

Cosmo William Nevile

Annabelle Nevile (nee Oldfield), wife of Christopher James Nevile (b. 16 April, 1954), gave birth to a son, Cosmo William, 1 November, 2005, a half-brother for Zita, Nyasa and Charlie.
Christopher Nevile is the elder son of the late Sir Henry Nevile, former Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, of Aubourn Hall, Lincoln, (head of that landed gentry family of Wellingore & Aubourn)by his wife, the former Jean Rosita Mary Torr, & Annabelle is the younger daughter of the late Mr Christopher Oldfield and of Mrs Oldfield, of Lyme Regis, Dorset.

Source: The Times

Cecil/Stephens engagement

The engagement was announced 17 November, 2005, between Henry Edward Amherst Cecil (b. 1976), son of the Hon. Anthony Henry Amherst Cecil (b. 1947), of Compton Abbas, Dorset, by his second wife, the former Jane Elizabeth Holbrook, & Clare D. Stephens, younger daughter of Mr & Mrs Nicholas Stephens, of Montford Bridge, Shropshire.
Henry Cecil is a grandson of the 3rd Baron Amherst of Hackney.

Source: Daily Telegraph 17 November, 2005

Nutting/von Boch engagement

The engagement was announced 17 November, 2005, between James Edward Sebastian Nutting (b. 1977) son and heir of Sir John Grenfell Nutting, 4th Baronet (b. 1942), of Chicheley Hall,Buckinghamshire, by his wife Diane, daughter of John Rutherford Blundell (and adopted daughter of Capt. Duncan Kirk), and widow of the 2nd Earl Beatty, & Fraulein Antonia von Boch, eldest daughter of Herr and Frau Eugen von Boch, of Fremersdorf, Germany.

Source: The Times 17 November, 2005

Bonsor/Troughton engagement

The engagement was announced 15 November, 2005, between Alexander Cosmo Bonsor (b. 8 Sept, 1976), son and heir of Sir Nicholas Cosmo Bonsor, 4th Baronet (b. 1942), by his wife the former Hon. Nadine Marisa Lampson, & Miss Jane Troughton, daughter of Mr & Mrs James Troughton.
Alexander Bonsor is a grandson maternally of the 2nd Baron Killearn. Is the bride-to-be perhaps daughter of James Troughton (b. 1950), and niece of Peter Troughton (who married a Colman cousin of Queen Elizabeth II), and a granddaughter of Sir Charles Hugh Willis Troughton, CBE, MC, by his wife Constance, daughter of Colonel Philip Mitford (of that BLG family, from whom descends the Barons Redesdale)????

Source: The Times 15 November, 2005

Sinclair/Coode marriage

The marriage took place 5 November, 2005, at St Meubred's, Cardinham, between the 18th Lord Sinclair (b. 9 Dec, 1968), son of the late Major the 17th Lord Sinclair, CVO (1914-2004) and Lady Sinclair (nee Cotterell, of the Cotterell Baronets), and Laura C. Coode, scion of the Coode BLG family, younger daughter of Jonathan Arundell Coode (b. 1938), descended from the Neave Baronets, and Mrs Coode, of Lanhydrock, Cornwall. Laura is a sister of the Gold Medal winning Olympic oarsman, Ed Coode.

Source: The Times 15 November, 2005

Hector & Mimi Digby

Sophie Digby [nee Malim], wife of the Hon. Henry Noel Kenelm Digby, ACA, (b. 6 January, 1954), eldest son & heir of the 12th Baron Digby, JP, DL, former Lord Lieutenant of Dorset, and of Baroness Digby, gave birth to twins, a son and a daughter, Hector & Mimi, 24 October, 2005, a brother and sister for Perdita, who was born at the Portland Hospital, London, 23 December, 2002.
Henry Digby has issue, Edward St Vincent Kenelm, b. 5 September, 1985, & Alexandra Jane Kira, b. 1987., from a former marriage.

Source: Daily Telegraph 17 November, 2005

Johnson/Bolton engagement

The engagement was announced 12 November, 2005, between Simon R. Johnson, son of Mr & Mrs Michael Johnson, of Frampton, Dorset, & Louise M. Bolton, younger daughter of the late Sir Frederic Bernard (Tim) Bolton, Kt (1921-2005), by his second wife, the former Vanessa Mary Anne Robarts.

Source: Daily Telegraph 12 November, 2005

Oliver Peter Cartwright

Georgina Cartwright (nee Petre), wife of Tom Cartwright, and scion of the Barons Petre, gave birth to a son, Oliver Peter, 30 October, 2005, a brother for Hugo.

Source: The Times 4 November, 2005

Nairn/Hay engagement

The engagement was announced 10 November, 2005, between Alexander Gordon Nairn (b. 1975) second son of Sir Michael Nairn, 4th Baronet, of Pitcarmick, Perthshire, by his 1st wife, the late Diana Gordon Bligh, and Tara C. Hay, daughter of Mr & Mrs Ben Hay, of Tenterden, Kent.

Source: Daily Telegraph 10 November, 2005

Hugi/Dawnay engagement

The engagement was announced between Dr Johannes Hugi, son of Professor Dr and Frau Hugi, of Neschwil, Switzerland, & Dr Emma Jane Clarissa Dawnay (b. 1964), scion of the Viscounts Downe, daughter of the late Capt. Oliver Payan Dawnay, CVO (1920-88), Private Secretary and Equerry to HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, 1950-56, by his second wife, the former Hon. Iris Irene Adele Peake, LVO, Lady-in-Waiting to HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, 1952-62, daughter of the 1st Viscount Ingleby.

Source: Daily Telegraph 10 November, 2005

Stuart/Hewitt engagement

The engagement was announced 10 November, 2005, between Andrew Richard Charles Stuart, styled Viscount Stuart (b. 7 Oct, 1953), son and heir of the 8th Earl Castle Stewart (b. 18 Aug 1928), of Stuart Hall, County Tyrone, by his first wife, Edna (d. 2003), and Mrs Marianne Hewitt, of East Pennard, Somerset.

Source: Daily Telegraph 10 Nov, 2005

Alfred James Shaughnessy

Alfred James (Freddie) Shaughnessy, who died shortly before 16 Nov 2005, aged 89, late Captain, The Grenadier Guards, was the chief writer and script editor of "Upstairs, Downstairs", the popular television drama series which was broadcast, to great acclaim, between 1972 and 1975. Mr Shaughnessy was heir presumptive to his cousin, the 4th Baron Shaughnessy.
He was born posthumously 19 May, 1916, son of Capt. the Hon. Alfred Thomas Shaughnessy (1887-killed in action, 1916), by his wife, the former Sarah Polk (who d. 1955, having married 2ndly, in 1920, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Sir Piers Legh, GCVO, CMG, CIE, OBE, scion of the Barons Newton), daughter of Judge James C. Bradford, of Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
His paternal grandfather was the 1st Baron Shaughnessy (created in 1919).
He married in 1948, the actress Jean (Margaret) Lodge, daughter of George Lodge, of Kirkella, Yorkshire, and had issue, (i) Charles George Patrick (b. 1955), married with issue; and (ii) David James Bradford (b. 1957), who is married with issue.
Who's Who 2004 incorrectly states that the abovementioned Charles (b. 1955) has been h.p. to the Shaughnessy peerages since the demise of the 3rd Baron, 22 May, 2003.

Source: Daily Telegraph 14 Nov, 2005

Christian Bentinck

Hazel Bentinck (nee Imbesi) wife of Caspar Bentinck (b. 1971?), son of Baron Guy Bentinck, of Saltash, Cornwall, gave birth to a son, Christian, 11 November, 2005.
Source: Daily Telegraph 16 November, 2005

Elizabeth Anne Seymour

Elizabeth Anne Seymour, who died 9 November, 2005, was the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Adrian John Conway Seymour (b. 1918), late the Scots Guards, scion of the Marquesses of Hertford. She was a daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edwin Otway Herbert, KBE, CB, DSO, and married Col. Seymour in 1953; 2 daughters, Virginia, (b. 1955) & Angela (deceased); and 2 grandchildren, William & Charlotte. The funeral takes place at Broadwindsor, 16 November, 2005.

Hon Heather Doreen Bell

The Hon. Heather Doreen Bell (nee Parnell) who died at Winchester, Hampshire, 7 November, 2005, was a daughter of the 6th Baron Congleton (1892-1967), by his wife the former Hon Edith Mary Palmer Howard, daughter of the Baroness Strathcona & Mount Royal (in her own right). She was born Heather Parnell in 1929, and married 1960, Robert Peter Mangin Bell, by whom she had issue, Simon (b. 1961), Aidan (b. 1967) and Penelope (b. 1963). A Thanksgiving service takes place at St Cross Church, Winchester, 16 Nov, 2005.


Source: The Times

Maximillian Robin Glencairn-Campbell

Tanya A.N. Glencairn-Campbell (nee Thompson), wife of Carlos D. Glencairn Campbell Younger of Shawfield & Skipness, gave birth to a son, Maximillian Robin, 29 October, 2005.
Carlos is the son of Diarmid Glencairn Campbell of Shawfield and Skipness, Worcestershire, & Mrs Rosita Glencairn Campbell, of London, and Tanya is the daughter of the late Mr Robin Thompson, of Cubley, Derbyshire, and of Mrs Charles Minoprio, of Great Staughton, Cambridgeshire.

Source: Daily Telegraph 11 Nov, 2005

Emilia Rachel Methven

Charlotte Methven (nee Pearson, b. 1974), wife of Charles Methven, gave birth to a daughter, Emilia Rachel, 7 November, 2005, at The Portland Hospital, London.
Charles is the son of Mr & Mrs Colin Methven, of Evenlode, Gloucestershire, & Charlotte is the daughter of Luis Hector Juan Sosa Basualdo, of New York, formerly of Buenos Aires, and the Hon. Mrs Charles Fraser, (nee the Hon. Lucy Pearson).
Charlotte is a maternal granddaughter of the late 3rd Viscount Cowdray. Charlotte's mother, the Hon Lucy Pearson, (b. 1954), married (i), 1972, [div.1978] Luis Basualdo, but the issue of the short-lived union, Rupert and Charlotte took the name Pearson and not the patronymic.
Lucy Pearson married (ii) 1988, Charles Torquil de Montalt Fraser, The Life Guards, son of Maj Michael Fraser, and descended from the Viscounts Molesworth.

Source: The Times 15 Nov 2005

Tabitha Poppy Bingham Whitehead

Sarah Whitehead (nee Finn-Kelcey) wife of Robert William Bovill (Bertie) Whitehead (b. 1977), gave birth to a daughter, Tabitha Poppy Bingham, 9 November, 2005.
Bertie Whitehead, is the only son of Mr Christopher James Bovill Whitehead, of Wiltshire, and the Hon Mrs Whitehead, LVO, & Sarah is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Andrew Finn-Kelcey, of Buckinghamshire.
Bertie Whitehead's mother, the former Hon Annabel Alice Hoyer Millar, is the younger daughter of the late 1st Baron Inchyra, GCMG, CVO, and was Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon,1992-2002, (Extra lady-in-waiting 1975-92). Bertie's late aunt, Elizabeth Hoyer Millar was married to Princess Margaret's one-time escort Billie Wallace.

Source: Daily Telegraph 15 Nov 2005

5th Earl of Lichfield

The 5th Earl of Lichfield (created 1831), Viscount Anson and Baron Soberton (1806), a cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II, and son of the late Princess Georg of Denmark died 11 November, 2005.He was aged 66.
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Thomas Patrick John Anson was born 25 April, 1939, the only son of Thomas Anson, styled Viscount Anson, by his wife the former Anne Fenella Ferelith Bowes Lyon, niece of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
His parents marriage hardly survived World War II. They had married only a year before the war started, and when his father, an officer in the Grenadier Guards, returned in 1945 they were, in Lichfield's words "different people." His mother was only 19 when she gave birth to her only son, and another sibling, Lady Elizabeth, soon followed.
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Patrick and his sister were brought up in a succession of stately homes, accompanied everywhere by his nanny, Agnes Maxim. All through the war she went to bed with her boots on so that ifb there was an air raid she could quickly whistle her aristocratic charges down to the air
raid shelter. He was tossed from one set of great-grandparents to the another. There was the Earl of Strathmore, at Glamis Castle, Lord and Lady Clinton in Devon at a house callled Heanton and another in Scotland called Fettercairn, and Lord & Lady Lichfield who owned Shugborough and other erections. For a time his home was in Windsor Great Park because his father was based at Victoria Barracks. He would go up to the Castle for
dancing-classes and home-made pantomime. Young Patrick recalled that life in Windsor Park was never dull. He saw
men pushed to their limits on route marches up and down the Long Walk, and watching them as they collapsed. And then waking up one morning and
finding thatb all the trees had been covered in silver foil from the enemy aeroplanes. A method to jam the radar. If home was anywhere it was at his maternal grandmother's house in Mayfair and increasingly, Shugborough, where his father's family had lived for centuries, and where his grandfather was head of the Home Guard. There, on a thousand acre estate, he grew up sheltered from the world outside and had little conception of how other people lived other than what he could see from a railway carriage window. He was sent to Wellesley House prep school at Broadstairs, Kent, where he was very unhappy, not least because of the behaviour of some of the male staff towards each other in the presence of the boys. Back at Shugborough for the holidays he would borrow his grandfather's box Brownie camera, take a couple of photographs and then replace it, with the result that there would always be two or three shots his grandfather could not remember taking. When the film came back from the developer's one day with a picture taken through a window from a fire escape into the house-maid's bathroom, the game was up. "That was my first nude", said the man who in later years persuaded Russian girls to take off their clothes in Red Square and New Yorkers in Manhattan for the Unipart calendars. When he wasn't mucking about with the camera or cycling on the estate ("I wasn't allowed off it", he recalled), his grandfather was giving him lessons in life and man-management. After 7 years in the nursery, the following seven years were spent acting as understudy for the senior servants in the servants' hall at Shugborough. He was a pantry boy, boot-boy, fourth footman, third footman, and second footman, first footman, valet and butler. His sister Lady Elizabeth acted as laundry maid, housemaid, scullery-maid, pantry-maid,
and so on. The fourth Earl of Lichfield's ruling was "never ask anyone to do something you can't do yourself." In the evening when houseguests were down in the dining room Patrick and his sister woulod be in their bedrooms polishing the pennies with Brasso and ironing any pound notes they found. His first camera ("a horrid little Russian thing, I don't know why it was Russian") had been given to him at prep school. Before he went to Harrow at 13, he received a more ambitious Kodak Retinette, which he used to undercut the school shop by charging ninepence for pictures of his friends, as opposed to the official two shillings and sixpence. He was no happier at Harrow than he had been at prep school. He was the
smallest boy in the school (even so he reached 6ft in manhood) and was bullied. He was also homesick, not for a place but for his nanny and mother. Eventually, after having run away to London once, he grew and became good at boxing and, particularly, swimming. Academically he just about got by. Socially, he later claimed he was shy, but in his teens he began to meet the girlf friends of his sister, one of whom was treated to a date
at the Essoldo cinema in Stafford. "They had a commissionaire there with a peaked cap and a long coat so that he looked like a Russian general and he would prowl up and down the aisle with a Flit anti-mosquito gun", recalled the earl, "So just when you were about to have a crack at the girl he'd come barging down the aisle and Flit you with insecticide." It had always been assumed that he would follow the family army career and so, having quite enjoyed the school corps, he took the Civil Service examinations for Sandhurst. "I realised that I was going to have to kill some time before I inherited, it could have 30 or 40 years, and I was going to have to do National Service anyway I thought I might as well become a regular army man." While at Sandhurst there were lots of debutante dances, during which time he was considered to be not entirely safe in taxis. Much of his army career was spent either on Salisbury Plain or in Chelsea, but also in west Africa and on Horseguards Parade, where he marched in the Birthday Parade (Trooping the Colour). Looking back decades later he admitted he loved the army, and never enjoyed such camaraderie thereafter. He succeeded to the peerages of his grandfather in 1960, his father having died from an allergy resulting from a bee sting 2 years earlier,
and he resigned his commission in 1962. Throughout his career in the army he had been taking photographs and, at the suggestion of the father of a girlfriend (there were always lots
and lots of girlfriends), he decided to become a professional photographer, working as an assistant with Dmitri Kasterine and Michael
Wallis. Over the years he lured a lot of girls who few men would turn away. There was the actess Alexandra Bastedo, the American socialite Susan Young (rather rich, that one), Britt Ekland (who actually said of him: "He wasn't all that well-known until he was seen with me"), Lady Jane Wellesley, Gayle Hunnicutt, the delicate actress Jane Seymour. Oh, and there was Miss Iceland of 1974. He recalled: "I left the army at 2.30pm on October 14, 1962, took off my uniform and put on a pair of jeans, and within the hour was earning my living as a photographer's assistant for £3 a week." On the same day he paid a visit to a tattooist in London's Waterloo Road. "Antony Armstrong-Jones (who later married his cousin Princess Margaret) had taken a picture of him and I wanted to see if I could take one as good." "I'll let you photograph me if you let me tattoo you, guv," was, he says, the tattooists reply. "Because I was leaving the army I'd got so drunk so I agreed". The result was a tattoo on his arm, much regretted afterwards. Lichfield's socialite name and rank didn't always ease his route to a girl's affections. Dewi Sukarno, widow the Indonesian tyrant and herself a tough, selective girl, responded with some coolness to his ardent pursuit. She observed tartly" "Patrick was very special. But the
prospect of riding pillion on his motor bike somehow didn't appeal to me." The woman whom he eventually married - he was 35 - was the small, tough, determined Lady Leonora Grosvenor, daughter of the late Duke of Westminster. He married her in a blaze of bliss at Chester Cathedral, 8
March, 1975. 1,600 guests attended, plus the Queen, Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and Prince Michael of Kent. The Archbishop of Dublin performed the ceremony, assisted by the Bishop of Chester. How did he and his bride meet? "Well, I had become, quite frankly, rather pissed off with flying round the world - and my reputation as being one of lifes diletttantes. So, I rang my sister, Lady Elizabeth Anson, and said 'look, just ask me down for the weekend and find me some nice English girl. Someone English. Very English. And above all, quiet.'" Sister Liz came up with Leonora. The marriage produced a son, Tommy, born in 1978, and two daughters, Rose (a goddaughter of Princess Margaret) and Eloise, now a model and "It Girl". The Countess of Lichfield was granted a divorce after 11 years of marriage in 1986 on the grounds of her husband's behaviour. Stories abound (always denied) about his relationship with glamorous models on shoots all over the world.Neither remarried, though Patrick has had a very long relationship with a society lady since. Parting with Leonora was so ghastly that he shed several stone in weight Lichfield almost died in February 1992 when he fell off a wall beside his swimming pool in Mustique. "I was horsing about with a friend, trying to push him into the pool" he said. But as he tugged at his friend's cowboy boots, he lost his balance and fell 22 feet, fracturing his skull and breaking half a dozen ribs and injuring his back. "I think I was the only person
who didn't think I would die", he said airily. Throughout his life he played the jester. When a schoolboy at Harrow, he set fire to the officers' latrines while attending a cadet camp. Most famous of all is the apocryphal story which dates back to his stint in the Grenadier Guards: he placed an alarm clock in an officer's bearskin - just before
he went out on parade. Lichfield was Roy Plumley's penultimate guest on
Desert Island Discs, and having discovered that it was traditional to submit his list of records just before transmission, he deliberately set out to choose a really obscure recording. To his astonishment, the tune was found in the BBC archives, last transmitted in the 1930s. Like
all practical jokers, he was rather cross to have been beaten. But being an irrepressibly boyish enthusiast, he was also massively impressed. Patrick Lichfield took the official wedding photographs at the wedding of the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981. He also photographed the Queen for her Golden Jubilee in 2002. Other "royal sitters" included Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother, the Princess Royal, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. His publications include: "The Most Beautiful Women" (1981); "Lichfield on Photography" (1981); "A Royal Album" (1982); "Patrick Lichfield's Unipart Calendar Book" (1982); "Patrick Lichfield Creating the Unipart Calendar" (1983);
"Hot Foot to Zabriskie Point" (1985); "Lichfield on Travel Photography"
(1986); "Not the Whole Truth" (autobiography, 1986); "Lichfield in Retrospect" (1978); "Queen Mother: The Lichfield Selection" (1990); "Elizabeth R: a photographic celebration of 40 years" (1991). He is succeeded in his peerages by his only son, Thomas William Robert Hugh Anson, styled Viscount Anson, born 19 July, 1978.


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Lefebvre/Ramsay engagement

The engagement has been announced between Fergus Lefebvre, youngest son of Mr and Mrs Paul Lefebvre, of Coonamble, New South Wales, and the Lady Lorna Theresa Ramsay (b. 1975), elder daughter of the 17th Earl of Dalhousie (b. 1948), of Brechin, Angus, by his wife, Marilyn, daughter of Maj Sir David Butter, KCVO, by his wife Myra, CVO, daughter of Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, GCVO, TD 3rd Baronet [1893-1973], of Luton Hoo, by his wife, the Lady Anastasia [Zia] Wernher, CBE, [nee de Torby], elder daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail of Russia [1861-1929], by his morganatic wife, Sophia Nikolaievna, Countess de Torby, elder dau of Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau, by his morganatic wife Countess Natalia von Merenberg [nee Pushkin).

Source: The Times

Caspar Jack Baker

Lady Portia Baker (nee Agar, b. 1976) wife of Harry Baker, and elder daughter of the 6th Earl of Normanton, of Somerley, Ringwood, Hampshire, and Victoria Countess of Normanton, gave birth to a son, Caspar Jack, 4 November, 2005.
Harry Baker is the elder son of Mr and Mrs Charles Baker, of Chiddingfold, Surrey

Source: Daily Telegraph 11 Nov, 2005

Viscount of Strabane

The Marchioness of Hamilton (nee Tanya Nation), wife since May 2004 of James Harold Charles Hamilton, styled Marquess of Hamilton (b. 19 Aug, 1969), gave birth to a son and heir, James Alfred Nicholas, styled Viscount of Strabane, 30 October, 2005.
The Marquess is the elder son and heir of the 5th Duke of Abercorn, KG, (b. 1934), by his wife the former Alexandra Phillips, daughter of the late Lt-Col Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips, FRGS, by his wife, Georgina Wernher [b. 1919], daughter of Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, GCVO, TD [1893-1973], of Luton Hoo, by his wife, the Lady Anastasia [Zia] Wernher, CBE, [nee de Torby], elder daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail of Russia [1861-1929], by his morganatic wife, Sophia Nikolaievna, Countess de Torby, elder dau of Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau, by his morganatic wife Countess Natalia von Merenberg [nee Pushkin.

Source: The Times 11 Nov, 2005

Hugh Lawrence Buxton

Hugh Lawrence Buxton, who died 31 October, 2005, aged 69, was a scion of the Buxton Baronets (cr. 1840). He was b. 1936, son of Philip Olaf Buxton, JP (1906-78), by his wife the former Ruth Christian Lawrence (descended from the Lawrence Baronets, cr. 1867); married 1965, Elizabeth Caroline Tilden Whitelocke Abernethy, daughter of D.A. Abernethy, MA, BM, BCh, FRCS, MRCOG, and is survived by her and by a son Guy (b. 1969), and two daughters, Belinda (b. 1967) and Anne (b. 1975).

Source: The Times

Joanna Moncrieff (nee Peto)

Joanna Moncrieff (nee Peto), who died suddenly in South Africa, 2 November, 2005, was a scion of the Peto Baronets (created 1927). She was born in 1938, as Joanna Dava Peto, daughter of Maj. Basil Arthur John Peto (1900-54), King's Dragoon Guards, 3rd son of the 1st Baronet, by his wife Patricia Geraldine Browne; and married 1957, Capt. Charles St. John Graham Moncrieff, Scots Guards, a descendant of the Viscounts Bolingbrooke. She had issue, a son, Alexander (b. 1967), & daughters, Charlotte (b. 1959), Miranda, b. 1961 (wife of the Hon. Mark Baring son and heir of the 7th Baron Ashburton), and Rosanna, b. 1965.

Source: The Times 7 Nov, 2005

Stella Mary Hervey-Bathurst

Lucy Rachel Hervey-Bathurst (nee Manners, b. 1961) scion of the Dukes of Rutland, and wife of James Felton Somers Hervey-Bathurst (b. 1949), scion of the Hervey-Bathurst Baronets (cr. 1818), and a grandson maternally of the late 6th Baron Somers, KCMG (1887-1944), gave birth to a daughter, Stella Mary, 2 November, 2005.
Mrs Hervey-Bathurst is a former Lady-in-Waiting to the Duchess of York, she is a daughter of the late Lord John Manners and is a first cousin of the 11th Duke of Rutland.
Mr Hervery-Bathurst, of Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire has issue from his 1982 marriage to the Hon. Sarah Rachel Peake, daughter of the 2nd Viscount Ingleby.

Source: The Times 7 Nov, 2005

Lord Alexander of Weedon, QC

The Lord Alexander of Weedon, QC, a life baron, barrister and Conservative politician, chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Company, died 6 November, 2005.
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Alexander was Chairman of the Bar Council 1985-86. He served as Chairman of the NatWest bank 1989-99 and was a Director of other companies. He was a member of the Government's Panel on Sustainable Development and Chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Companyfrom 2000.
Alexander was created a life peer as Baron Alexander of Weedon, of Newcastle-under-Lyme in the County of Staffordshire, in 1988. He sat on the Conservative Party benches.
Robert Scott Alexander was born 5 September, 1936, and educated at Brighton College, and at King's College, Cambridge.
He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, 1961; QC 1973; Bencher 1979; &c.

Source: The Times 8 Nov, 2005

Pope/Biddulph engagement

The engagement was announced 8 Nov, 2005, between William, son of Mr and Mrs James Pope, of Didmarton, Gloucestershire, and Sarah Rose Biddulph (b. 1980), scion of the Barons Biddulph, daughter of Mr Simon Biddulph, TD (b. 1942), of Rodmarton Manor, Gloucestershire, by his wife Christina McCorquodale (decscended from the Barons Luke).

Source: The Times 8 Nov, 2005

Beatrice Rose Pardoe

David Hugh Charles Pardoe (b. 1974) and his wife the former Countess Anya Gurowska (b. 1970), have had a daughter, Beatrice Rose, who was born 26 October, 2005.
Anya is a daughter of Count and Countess Gurowski, of Damerham, Hampshire, and David Pardoe is the only son of Anthony Robert Pardoe, of Sharow, Ripon, North Yorkshire, by his wife the former Hon. Anna Josephine Bridget Darling (b. 1946), daughter of the late 2nd Baron Darling (1919-2003).

Source: Daily Telegraph 4 Nov, 2005

Barnaby Charles Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe

Lady Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe (nee Anna Joan Wright), wife since 2002, of Sir Euan Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, 3rd Baronet (b. 22 June 1966), gave birth to a son, Barnaby Charles, 28 October, 2005.

Source: Daily Telegraph 4 November, 2005
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Lawson-Johnston/Brudenell Bruce engagement

The engagement was announced 2 November, 2005, between Edward P. Lawson Johnston (b. 1979), scion of the Barons Luke (created 1929), twin son of the Hon. Philip Richard Lawson Johnston (b. 1950), by his wife the former Saskia Moyne Andrews, & Christabel Marie-Jeanne Brudenell-Bruce (b. 1981) scion of the Marquesses of Ailesbury, daughter of Andrew Robert Joel Brudenell-Bruce (b. 1951), by his wife, the former Sophie Inch.
Edward Lawson Johnston is a grandson of the late 2nd Baron Luke, KCVO.

Source: Daily Telegraph 2 November, 2005