Deedes/Macgregor engagement

The engagement was announced 5 July 2006, between Henry Julius Deedes (b. 1978), younger son of the Hon Jeremy Deedes (b. 1943), of Compton, Berkshire, by his wife the former Anna Rosemary Gray, & Sophie Macgregor, daughter of Mr & Mrs Keith Macgregor, of Castlenau, Barnes. Henry Deedes is a grandson paternally of the Baron Deedes, MC, PC (life baron, 1986), sometime Conservative Government Minister in the administrations of Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and later editor of the Daily Telegraph.

Source: Daily Telegraph 5 July, 2006

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Green/Heathcoat Amory engagement

The engagement was announced 3 July, 2006, between Jason A.H. Green, elder son of Mr Christopher Green, of London, and Mrs Isabel Green, of Upavon, Wiltshire, & Jessica Diana Mary Heathcoat Amory (b. 1979), scion of the Heathcoat Amory Baronets (cr 1874), younger daughter of Michael FitzGerald Heathcoat Amory (b. 1941), of Tiverton, Devon, by his 2nd wife Mrs (Sarah) Arabella Marjorie von Westenholz (b. 1942) (former wife of Baron Frederick Patrick Piers von Westenholz) and daughter of Raimund von Hofmannsthal, by his wife Lady Elizabeth Hester Mary Paget, daughter of the 6th Marquess of Anglesey, GCVO, DL (1885-1947).

Isla Davina Margaret Dawson-Damer

Joanne Margaret (Jo) Dawson-Damer (nee Grant), wife since April, 2004, of Capt. the Hon. Edward Lionel Seymour Dawson-Damer, MVO (b. 1967), Equerry to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, 1992-94, gave birth to a daughter, Isla Davina Margaret, 10 July, 2006, at Sydney, Australia, a sister for James Edward Grant, who was b. 10 January, 2005. The Hon. Edward Dawson-Damer is the second son of the 7th Earl of Portarlington and the Countess of Portarlington, & Jo Dawson-Damer is the younger daughter of Professor & Mrs Michael Grant, of Connolly, Western Australia.

Source: Daily Telegraph 12 July 2006

Hubie Mackenzie Smith

Arabella Mackenzie Smith, (nee Hanbury), b. 13 December, 1975, wife of Hugo Mackenzie Smith, gave birth to a son, Hubie, 10 July 2006, a brother for Christopher Hanbury (Archie), who was b. 26 Mar 2002, and for Tallulah-Plum,who was b. 13 October, 2004. Arabella is a daughter of Major Christopher Osgood Philip Hanbury, one-time Equerry to HM The Sultan of Brunei, and of Mrs Hanbury, (the former Bridget Anne Birch), and she is a first cousin of the Earl of Derby. Hugo & Arabella married at Lambourn, Berks, 17 June, 2000.

Source: Daily Telegraph 14 July 2006

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Lady Hester Imelda Florence Feilding

The Countess of Denbigh & Desmond, wife since 1996 of the 12th Earl of Denbigh and (11th) of Desmond (b. 4 Nov, 1970), gave birth to a daughter, Lady Hester Imelda Florence, 5 July, 2006, a sister for Peregrine Rudolph Henry Feilding, styled Viscount Feilding, who was b. 19 February, 2005. The Countess is the former Suzanne Jane Allen, daughter of Gregory R. Allen.
Source: Daily Telegraph, 18 July 2006
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Hon Alexander David Somerled McDonnell

Aurora McDonnell, styled Viscountess Dunluce, wife of Randal Alexander St John McDonnell, styled Viscount Dunluce (b. 2 July, 1967), gave birth to a son, the Hon. Alexander David Somerled McDonnell, 30 June, 2006. Viscount Dunluce is the only son of the 9th Earl of Antrim (b. 1935), of Greywell, Hampshire, by his first wife, the former Sarah Elizabeth Anne Harmsworth (now Mrs Oliver Gates, of Manningford Abbotts, Wiltshire), Viscountess Dunluce is the only daughter of Mr David Gunn, of Aldsworth, Gloucestershire, and Mrs Dale Gunn, of Castel Rigone, Italy.

Source: Daily Telegraph 4 July 2006

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Persephone Yannick Waldemar Brown

The Hon. Catherine Waldemar Brown (nee Gully) wife of Harry H.P. Waldemar Brown, gave birth to a daughter, Persephone Yannick, 19 June, 2006, a sister for Honor Sophie Theresa, who was b. 22 June, 2004. Harry is the younger son of Commander & Mrs Nicholas Waldemar Brown, of London. Mrs Waldemar Brown is the former Hon. Catherine Mary Albinia Gully (b. 1971), only daughter of the 4th Viscount Selby (1942-97), of Shuna Castle, Island of Shuna, Argyll, and Viscountess Gully, of Ardfern, Argyll.

Source: Daily Telegraph 7 July 2006

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Isla Janet Sarah Fox-Pitt

Joanna Margaret Fox-Pitt (b. 1968), nee Spicer, wife of David William Fox-Pitt, gave birth to a daughter, Isla Janet Sarah, 9 June 2006, a sister for Sacha Patricia Bethune, who was b. 23 September, 2004. David is the only son of Capt. and Mrs Mervyn Fox-Pitt, of Fife, and Joanna is the second daughter of Mr David and the Hon Mrs Bethune Spicer, and a granddaughter of the 1st Viscount Watkinson, CH, PC.

Source: Daily Telegraph 7 July 2006

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Smyly/Reid marriage

The marriage took place, 8 July, 2006, at the Church of Our Lady and St Andrew, Galashiels, between Richard (Dick) Smyly (b. 1972), son of Robert Dennis Smyly (b. 1945), of Sunderland Hall, Galashiels, descended from the Barons Buckland, by his wife the former (Charmian) Miranda Muir Mackenzie (b. 1948), scion of the Muir Mackenzie Baronets, & Henrietta E.L. Reid, second daughter of Mr & Mrs David Reid, of Portmore, Peebles.
Richard Smyly's paternal grandfather Colonel Dennis Douglas Pilkington Smyly, DSO, JP, DL, married in 1939, thre Hon Dororthy Margaret Berry (b. 1914), one of the 5 daughters of the 1st (and last) Baron Buckland (b. 1877, d. 23 May 1928).

Source: Daily Telegraph 10 July, 2006

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Ponsonby/Gordon Lennox marriage

The marriage took place 7 July, 2006, at St Margaret's Church, Little Faringdon, between the Hon. (Ashley) George Ponsonby (b. 1959), scion of the Barons De Mauley, second son of the late Hon Thomas Maurice Ponsonby, TD, by his wife the former Maxine Henrietta Thelluson, & Mrs Camilla Douglas (Millie) Gordon Lennox, former wife of Angus Charles Gordon Lennox, scion of the Dukes of Richmond and Gordon, and daughter of Alan Douglas Pilkington, descended from the Barons Faringdon.

Source:Daily Telegraph 13 July, 2006

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Stair/Stonor marriage

The marriage took place 17 June 2006, at the Chapel of The Holy Trinity, Stonor, Oxfordshire, between John David James (Jamie) Dalrymple, 14th Earl of Stair (b. 4 September, 1961), eldest son of the 13th Earl of Stair, KCVO, MBE (1906-96), by his wife the former Davina Katharine Bowes Lyon (b. 1930); & the Hon. Emily Mary Julia Stonor (b. 1969), daughter of the 7th Baron Camoys, GCVO, PC (b. 16 April, 1940), Lord Chamberlain nof HM Royal Household and Chancellor of the Royal Victorian Order 1998-2000, by his wife the former Elisabeth Mary Hyde Parker (b. 1939).
The Earl of Stair is a great-nephew of the late Queen Elizabeth, Consort of George VI. His maternal grandfather, the Hon Sir David Bowes Lyon, KCVO, was Her Majesty's younger brother.
Source: Daily Telegraph 13 July 2006

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Lady Evans

Lady Evans, who died 3 July, 2006, aged 85, at Rottingdean, was the wife of Sir (Sidney) Harold Evans, CMG, OBE, 1st (and last) Baronet, who was created a Baronet in 1963, and who died in 1983. She was Elizabeth, daughter of William Jaffray, of Aberdeen, and married Sir Harold in 1945. One daughter, Annabel Frances, b. 1956.

Source: Daily Telegraph 6 July, 2006

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Pamela Margaret Cooper

Pamela Margaret Cooper, who died 13 July, 2006, at Amesbury Abbey, aged 95, was a extra Woman of the Bedchamber to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother) 1948-51. She was b. circa 1911, 2nd daughter lof the Rev. Arthur Henry Fletcher, MA, of Cadogan Gardens, London SW3; married (i) 5 Jan 1939, Maj. the Hon. Alexander Hardinge Patrick Hore Ruthven, The Rifle Brigade (1913-42); she was raised to the rank of the widow of the eldest son of an earl as Viscountess Ruthven of Canberra, so long as she remained a widow, June 1945 (following the bestowal of the Earldom of Gowrie on her father-in-law); married (ii) 1952, Maj. Derek Cooper, late the Life Guards. She was mother of the 3rd Earl of Gowrie, PC, b. 29 Nov, 1939, sometime a Conservative Government Minister, and the Hon Malise Walter Maitland Knox Hore Ruthven, b. 1942.

Source: Daily Telegraph 17 July, 2006

Sir Carol Mather, Knt, MC

Lieutenant Colonel Sir (David) Carol MacDonell Mather, Knt (1987), MC (1944), b. 3 Jan, 1919, son of Loris Emerson Mather, CBE; married 1951, the Hon. Philippa Selina Bewicke-Copley, only daughter of the 5th Baron Cromwell, DSO; was Conservative MP for Esher, 1970-87; Opposition Whip, 1975-79; a Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury, 1979-81; Vice-Chamberlain, HM Household, 1981-83; Comptroller of HM Household, 1983-86; died at his home, 3 July, 2006. The funeral service took place at St Nicholas Church, Lower Oddington, 13 July 2006

Source: Daily Telegraph 5 July, 2006

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Sir David John Hughes-Morgan, CB, CBE, 3rd Baronet

His Honour Major General Sir David John Hughes-Morgan, CB, CBE, 3rd Baronet, died 15 July, 2006. He was b. 11 Oct, 1925, son of Sir John Vernon Hughes-Morgan, 2nd Baronet (1900-69), by his wife Lucie Margaret Jones-Parry (d. 1987), of that BLG family; was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; career:- Major-General, Army Legal Corps; sometime a Circuit Judge on the South-Eastern Circuit; MBE (Mil) 1959; CBE (Mil) 1973; CB (Mil) 1983; succeeded to the baronetcy on the demise of his father, 1969; married 1959, Isabel Jean Blacklock Gellatly Milne Lindsay (d. 1994), daughter of John Milne Lindsay, of Annan, Dumfriesshire, by whom he had 3 sons. The baronetcy (cr. 1925) now passes to his eldest son, Ian Parry David Hughes-Morgan, b. 22 Feb, 1960.

Source: Daily Telegraph 18 July 2006

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Polly Joanna Jean Bigham

The Mistress of Nairne, wife of the Hon Edward (Ned) John Hallam Bigham, Master of Nairne (b. 1966), son and heir of the 4th Viscount Mersey (also Lord Nairne in the peerage of Scotland), gave birth to a daughter, Polly Joanna Jean, 3 July, 2006, a sister for Flora Diana Joan, who was b. 17 May, 2003. Flora's parents married, 8 December, 2001, at St Cuthbert's Kirk, Dalmeny, West Lothian, Scotland. Clare Bigham was the former Clare Schaw Miller, daughter of the late Mr Robert Schaw Miller and Mrs Schaw Miller, of Newgardens, Dalmeny.

Source: Daily Telegraph 19 July 2006.

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11th Viscount Cobham, DL (1943-2006)

The Viscount Cobham, of Hagley Hall, Worcestershire, died in Spain, 13 July, 2006. He was aged 63.
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John William Leonard Lyttelton, was 11th Viscount (cr 1718) and also Baron Cobham (cr 1718); Baron Lyttelton, Baron of Frankley (1756, renewed 1794), Baron Westcote (Ireland 1776).
He was born 5 June 1943, the eldest son of the 10th Viscount Cobham, KG, PC, GCMG, GCVO, TD, sometime Lord Steward of the Household, by his wife Elizabeth Alison (d. 1986), daughter of J.R. Makeig-Jones, CBE, and was educated at Eton and Christ's College, New Zealand; Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. Career: landowner, Deputy Lieutenant for the West Midlands from 2000. He succeeded to the peerages on the death of his father in 1977.
He was twice married, (i) in 1974 (divorced 1995) to Penelope Anne, daughter of Mr Roy Cooper by his wife Dorothy Henshall (now Mrs John Turner). His first wife is now the partner of the Rt Hon David John Mellor, PC, QC (b. 12 Mar 1949) former Conservative Cabinet Minister, broadcaster and journalist; married (ii) 1997, the yachtswoman, Dr Lisa Clayton, the first British woman to sail single handed non-stop round the world. He leaves nonissue from either marriage, and the peerages now devolve upon his Lordship's next brother, the Hon. Christopher Charles Lyttelton, b. 23 Oct, 1947, who married in 1973, Tessa Mary, daughter of Colonel A.G.J. Readman, DSO, by whom he has one son and one daughter.

Source: Daily Telegraph 15 July, 2006
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Lara Constance Elizabeth Osborn

Lady Osborn, wife of Sir Richard Henry Danvers Osborn, 9th Baronet (b. 12 Aug 1958), gave birth to a daughter, Lara Constance Elizabeth, 20 June, 2006, at St Thomas's Hospital, London.

Source: Daily Telegraph 3 July 2006

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Dru Drury/Kempner engagement

The engagement was announced in June/July 2006 between Joseph Walter Richard Minto Dru Drury (b. 1977), son of Mr Martin Dru Drury, of Clapham, London, by his wife the former Elizabeth Caroline Bridgeman (b. 1944), scion of the Viscounts Bridgeman (created 1929) and descended from the Earls of Bradford, & Joanna L. Kempner, daughter of Mr and Mrs James Kempner, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Source: The Times


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Dru Drury/Kempner engagement

The engagement was announced in June/July 2006 between Joseph Walter Richard Minto Dru Drury (b. 1977), son of Mr Martin Dru Drury, of Clapham, London, by his wife the former Elizabeth Caroline Bridgeman (b. 1944), scion of the Viscounts Bridgeman (created 1929) and descended from the Earls of Bradford, & Joanna L. Kempner, daughter of Mr and Mrs James Kempner, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Source: The Times


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