Commander Dermot Chenevix Coote

Dermot Chenevix Coote, OBE, who died 20 December, 2005, aged 90, was a scion of the Coote Baronets (created 1621). He was born in 1915, son of Charles Chenevix Coote, OBE (1884-1944) by his wife Alice Maud, only daughter of the Most Rev. John Baptist Crozier, Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of All Ireland; career:-->Commander, Royal Navy, War Operations in Madagascar (was mentioned in despatches; appointed OBE (Military), 1967; married 1945, Dorothy Oliver, who died in 1999, and has issue, Christopher and Richard.

The funeral took place at Bath Crematorium 30 Dec, 2005.

Source: Daily Telegraph 24 Dec, 2005

Duncan Hatterley Smith

Duncan Hattersley Smith, who died at Aspen House, Killiecrankie, Perthshire, 6 January, 2006, was husband of Jennifer, and father of Emma, wife since 13 October, 2001,of the 4th Baron McGowan, (b.1971). He also leaves step-children, Sammy, Mandy and John.
The funeral is to be held at Blair Atholl Church, Friday 13 January, 2006.
Source: Daily Telegraph 10 January, 2006
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Sanne/Metternich engagement

The engagement was announced 11 January, 2006, between Jörgen (George) Sanne, third and youngest son of Mr & Mrs Karl Ulrick Sanne, of Middle Chinnock, Somerset, and Gräfin Caroline Wolff Metternich zur Gracht, only daughter of Michael Gräf Wolff Metternich zur Gracht, of Fenouillet, France, and Ileana Freifrau von Kripp zu Prunberg und Krippach, of Absam, Austria.

Source: Daily Telegraph 11 January, 2006
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Villiers/Norman-Butler engagement

The engagement was announced 11 January, 2006, between Christopher Frederick Pelham Villiers (b. 1976), scion of the Earls of Clarendon, son of Charles Nigel Villiers (b. 1941), of Kent, by his wife the former Sally Priscilla Magnay, & Katherine M. Norman-Butler, daughter of Mr & Mrs Andrew Norman-Butler, of Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk.

Source: Daily Telegraph 11 January, 2006
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Alec Martin Philip Gurdon

Susannah Gurdon (nee Bates) wife of the Hon. (Sacha William) Robin Gurdon, (b. 12 August, 1970), son and heir of the 3rd Baron Cranworth, of Grundisburgh, Suffolk, gave birth to a son, Alec Martin Philip, 8 January, 2006.
Robin Gurdon's late mother, Baroness Cranworth was a Montagu Douglas Scott, of the Dukes of Buccleuch; and Susannah Gurdon is a daughter of Mr & Mrs Martin Bates, of Belchester, Berwickshire.

Source: Daily Telegraph 11 January 2006
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William Cameron Weir

Elizabeth A. (Liz) Weir (nee Finn) wife of John D. Weir, younger son of the Hon Lord Weir, a former Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, and the Hon Lady Weir, of Lochhead, Argyll, gave birth to a son, William Cameron, at Kingston Hospital, 4 January, 2006.
Elizabeth Weir is a daughter of Mr & Mrs Malcolm Finn, of Kingston-upon-Thames. John Weir is a maternal grandson of the Hon. Lord Cameron, KT, DSC [a Scottish Lord of Sessions who was made a Knight of the Thistle] and is a nephew of the life peer Baron Cameron of Lochbroom, PC.
Source: Daily Telegraph 10 Jan 2006
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Alethea Catherine Hayter

Alethea Catharine Hayter, OBE, the writer, died 10 January, 2006, aged 94. She was born 7 November, 1911, the daughter of Sir William Goodenough Hayter, KBE (b. 23 Jan 1869; d. 5 Aug 1924), by his wife Alethea, daughter of the Rev. J.H. Slessor; and was granddaughter of Henry Goodenough Hayter, of Winterbourne, Sidmouth, Devon.
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Her father was Consul to the Sultan of Egypt, 1915; Legal Adviser to HM British Residency at Cairo, 1918; &c.
Her siblings:-
Sir William Goodenough Hayter, KCMG (b. 1 Aug 1906; d. 1995) British Ambassador to Moscow, 1953-57, and Warden of New College, Oxford, 1958-76, who died 28 March, 1995, aged 88.
Priscilla Hayter, writer, later Mrs Napier, wife of Trevelyan Michael Napier, son of Vice-Admiral Sir Trevelyan Dacres Willes Napier.

Source: Daily Telegraph 11 January, 2006
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Harding Newman/Pope engagement

The engagement was announced 11 January, 2006, between Rupert Alexander Harding-Newman (b. 1976), son of Major (Rupert) Edward Harding-Newman, late 4th/7th Dragoon Guards, of Arabella, Easter Ross, Scotland, by his wife the former Susan Katharine Maud Carnegie (b. 1946), scion of the Earls of Southesk (now Dukes of Fife), and Georgina S.C. Pope, daughter of the late Lieutenant Colonel Julian Pope and of Mrs Julian Pope, of Upton Grove, Tetbury, Gloucestershire.

Source: The Times 11 January, 2005

Hon Elizabeth Valeria Coke

Viscountess Coke, wife since 21 Dec, 1996, of Thomas Edward Coke, styled Viscount Coke, son and heir of the 7th Earl of Leicester, gave birth to a daughter, the Hon. Elizabeth Coke, 7 January, 2006, a sister for the Hon. Juno Carey Coke, who was b. 21 October, 2000, and the Hon. Edward Horatio, who was b. 11 June, 2003.
Lady Coke was the former Polly M. Whately, youngest daughter of David Whately, of Dorset.

Source: Daily Telegraph 11 January, 2006
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Brabyn/Montgomery Cuninghame engagement

The engagement was announced 9 January 2006, between Mr A.A. Ben Brabyn, son of Mr Frederick Brabyn and Mrs Jane Brabyn, of Darlingscott, Warwickshire, & Elizabeth Clara Montgomery Cuninghame (b. 1971), 3rd daughter of Sir John Christopher Foggo Montgomery Cuninghame, 12 Baronet (b. 24 July, 1935), by his wife Laura Violet Nicholson, daughter of Sir Godfrey Nicholson, 1st Baronet.

Source: Daily Telegraph 9 Jan 2006
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Tebbit/Tupper engagement

The engagement was announced 9 January, 2006, between the Hon. William M. Tebbit, younger son of the Baron and Baroness Tebbit, of Horsham, West Sussex, & Angela H. Tupper, daughter of Mr & Mrs David Tupper, of Petworth, West Sussex.

Source: Daily Telegraph 9 January, 2006
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Holloway/Brabazon marriage

The marriage took place at Christ Church, Bray, County Wicklow, 29 December, 2005, between Julian C.R. Holloway, yr son of the Rev. Roger and Mrs Holloway, of Tanglewood House, Ullapool, Ross-shire, and the Lady Corinna Lettice Brabazon (b. 1974), daughter of the 15th Earl of Meath (b. 11 May 1941) and the Countess of Meath, of Killruddery, Bray, County Wicklow.

Source: Daily Telegraph 9 January, 2006
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2nd Lord Silsoe, QC

Lord Silsoe, QC, the 2nd Baron, died 31 December, 2005. He was aged 75.
David Malcolm Trustram Eve was born 2 May, 1930, eldest son of Sir (Arthur) Malcolm Trustram Eve, GBE, MC, TD, QC (1894-1976) Chairman of the War Damage Commission 1941-49, Chairman of the War Works Commission 1945-49, and First Crown Estate Commissioner 1954-62, was was created a Baronet in 1943, and raised to the peerage in 1963 as Baron Silsoe, of Silsoe, in the County of Bedfordshire.
He was educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford (MA), and Columbia University, New York.
Career:-->>Called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, 1955; Bar Auditor, Inner Temple, 1965-70; Bencher 1970; QC 1972; was 2nd Lieutenant Royal Welch Fusiliers, and Lieut. Queen Victoria Rifles (TA). Succeeded to the titles on the demise of his father, 1976.
He married in 1963, Bridget Min, daughter of Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis, of The Old Rectory, Marske-in-Swaledale, Richmond, Nortgh Yorkshire, by whom he had a son, the Hon. Simon Rupert Trustram Eve, b. 17 Apr 1966, who now succeeds to the peerage and baronetcy, and a daughter, the Hon Amy Comfort Trustram Eve, b. 1964.
Funeral at All Saints', Rotherfield Peppard, near Reading, on Wednesday 11 January, 2006.


Source: The Times

Gervaise George Michael Havelock-Allan

Gervaise George Michael Havelock-Allan, scion of the Havelock-Allan Baronets (created 1858), who was b. 1921; married 1946, Rhoda, daughter of Thomas Beard, of Swansea; died 1 January, 2006. he is survived by his wife and son, Thomas Allan Spencer (b. 1949), and a daughter, Louise Charlotte (b. 1954). He was a younger half-brother of Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan, 4th Bt (1904-2003), the film producer.
The funeral takes place 16 January, 2006, at Semmington.

Source: Daily Telegraph 10 January, 2006
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Mountgarret/Fawcus engagement

The engagement was announced 9 January, 2006 between Piers James Richard Butler, 18th Viscount Mountgarret (b. 15 Apr, 1961), eldest son of the late 17th Viscount Mountgarret (1936-2004), by his 1st wife, Gillian Margaret Buckley (now Gillian, Baroness Howard De Walden), & Fenella M. Fawcus, daughter of Mr and Mrs David Fawcus, of Keevil, Wiltshire.
It will be Lord Mountgarret's second marriage. He has 2 daughters from his 1995 marriage to Laura Brown Gary, dau of Albert Dickens Williams, Jr. Hde was divorced in 2000.

Source: The Times 9 January, 2006
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Florence Mary-Jean Arbuthnott

Emily Arbuthnott (nee Agg-Manning) wife of Christopher Keith Arbuthnott (b. 20 July 1977), gave birth to a daughter, Florence Mary-Jean, 24 December, 2005.
Christopher Arbuthnott is the only son and heir of the Master and the Hon Mrs Arbuthnott, (nee Farquharson), of Arbuthnott, Kincardineshire, and Emily is the eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Nicholas Agg-Manning, of Gittisham, Devon.
Christopher Arbuthnott's father, the Hon. (John) Keith Oxley Arbuthnott, Master of Arbuthnott, (b. 1950), is heir to the 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott, CBE, DSC, FRSE, (b. 1924).

Source: The Times

Fleming/Fell engagement

The engagement was announced 7 January, 2006, between Harry Geoffrey Fleming (b. 1966), scion of the BLG family of Fleming of Nettlebed, & descended from the Borthwick Baronets, 2nd son of Valentine Patrick Fleming (b. 1 Aug 1935), of Stonewall Park, near Edenbridge, Kent, by his wife the former Elizabeth Helen Gibbs (1938) scion of the Barons Aldenham & Hunsdon, & Heather A. Fell, daughter of Mr Alexander Fell, of Craighead, Blair Drumond, & Mrs Robin Nicholson, of Claymoddie, Wigtownshire.
Harry Fleming is a great-nephew of Ian Fleming (1908-64) creator of "James Bond". Harry's maternal grandfather was the Hon Sir Geoffrey Cokayne Gibbs, KCMG (1901-75), who was 2nd son of the 1st Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon.

Source: Daily Telegraph 7 January, 2006
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Hendriks/Floyd engagement

The engagement was announced 6 January, 2006, between Timothy I.M. Hendriks, son of the late Peter Hendriks, and of Mrs Conia Hendriks, of Fernhurst, Surrey, & Marina Jocelin Floyd (b. 1971), 3rd daughter of John Edmund Kincaid Floyd (b. 1936), of London, scion of the Floyd Baronets (cr. 1816), by his 1st wife the former Victoria Jane Cannon (now Mrs Bryan Norman, of Much Fadham, Hertfordshire).
Marina Floyd is a granddaughter paternally of Lt-Col. Sir John Duckett Floyd, 6th Baronet, TD.

Source: The Times 6 January, 2006
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Playfair/Ripley engagement

The engagement was announced 6 January, 2006, between Charles A.L. Playfair, elder son of Mr & Mrs John Playfair, of Gloucestershire, & Katherine Ripley (b. 1974), only daughter of Sir Hugh Ripley, 4th Baronet (1916-2003), by his 2nd wife the former Susan Parker (Lady Ripley, of Kensington).

Source: Daily Telegraph 6 January, 2006
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Holroyd Pearce/Annesley engagement

The engagement was announced 6 January, 2006, between Bertie Holroyd Pearce, younger son of the late Hon. James Edward Holroyd Pearce, QC (who d. 1985), by his wife, the former Julia Hill (now Mrs Ian Strickland Ball, of Crowborough, East Sussex), & Philippa Vere Annesley (b. 1975), 2nd daughter of Mr Richard Bruce Annesley (b. 1937), of Banwell, Somerset, scion of the Viscounts Valentia (cr. 1642), by his wife the former Elizabeth Mary Emily Doyle.
Bertie Holroyd Pearce is a grandson paternally of the life peer Baron Pearce (extinct 1990).

Source: Daily Telegraph 6 Jan 2006
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