James Wentworth-Stanley (1985-2006)

James Nicholas Wentworth-Stanley, who died from gun shot wounds, 15 December, 2006, aged 21, was a scion of that LG family, the elder son of Nicholas Philip Wentworth-Stanley (b. 1954), wby his 1st wife, the former Clare H. Steel (now the Marchioness of Milford Haven), and was a grandson of the late (Geoffrey) David Wentworth-Stanley (1924-2005) by his wife, the former Bridget Pease (b. 1926), daughter of Maj. Philip Ivan Pease, by his wife, the former Doris Madeleine Crichton (b. 1904), scion of the Earls of Erne.

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Lady Harford

Lady Harford, who died 9 December, 2006, aged 99, was the 2nd wife, and widow, of Sir James Dundas Harford, KBE, CMG (1899-1993), British diplomat, sometime Governor & Commander-in-Chief of St Helena. She was the former Lilias Madeleine Campbell, eldest daughter of Maj. Archibald Campbell, and married Sir James, a widower, in 1937, by whom she had 2 daughters. Her husband's previous wife (whom he married 14 Mar 1932) was Countess Thelma Alberta Louisa Evelyne Mextá, who had died in 1934. She was widowed, 26 Nov, 1993. The funeral takes place at Holy Trinity Church, Westcott, near Dorking, 5 January, 2007.

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Freddie Jack Lysander Biddulph

The Hon. Sarah Margaret Biddulph, (b. 1971), wife of John Simon Biddulph, (b. 1971), gave birth to son, Freddie Jack Lysander, 16 November, 2006, a brother for Alice Emily Christina, who was b. 28 July, 2002, and for Thomas George Henrik, who was b. 14 October, 2003.
Mrs Biddulph is the only daughter of the late 3rd Baron Gretton, and of Jennifer, Baroness Gretton (of Grey of Codnor descent), and Mr Biddulph is the elder son of Simon Biddulph, of the Barons Biddulph, by his McCorquodale wife.
The couple married 3 July, 1999.

Lily Frances Mary Hastings-Bass

Lily Frances Mary Hastings-Bass, who died as the result of an accident, 6 December, 2006, aged 20, was a scion of the Earls of Huntingdon (cr. 1529). She was born in 1986, the younger daughter of the Hon. John Peter Robin Hood Hastings-Bass (b. 1954), by his wife the former Sophie Scarisbrick, and was a niece of the 16th Earl of Huntingdon.


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Williams/Coleridge engagement

The engagement was announced 12 December, 2006, between Simon D. Williams, elder son of Mr & Mrs David Williams, of Wool, Dorset, & Jessica Alice Seymour Coleridge (b. 1974), scion of the Barons Coleridge, daughter of the Hon. Samuel John Taylor Coleridge (b. 1942), & Mrs Patricia Coleridge, of London SW6.


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Dowager Lady Gethin

The Dowager Lady Gethin, who died 8 December, 2006, aged 92, was the widow of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Richard Patrick St Lawrence Gehtin, 9th Baronet.She was the former Fara Bartlett, daughter of Joseph Henry Bartlett, & married Sir Richard in 1946. He died in 1988. She leaves issue, including Sir Richard Joseph St Lawrence Gethin, 10th Baronet. The funeral is at St Benet's Church, Kemerton, Worcestershire, 20 December, 2006.

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Lady Ann Elliot

The Lady Ann Elliot (nee Child-Villiers), who died 13 December, 2006, at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, at the age of 90, was a daughter of the 8th Earl of Jersey (1873-1923), by his wife, the former Lady Cynthia Almina Constance Mary Needham, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Kilmorey. She was a sister of the 9th Earl, and a great-aunt of the 10th Earl. She married 1937, Maj. Alexander Henry Elliot (1913-86), late the Royal Artillery, scion of the Earls of Minto, by whom she had issue. The funeral takes place at St Lawrence's Church, Chobham, 21 Dec, 2006.

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Hon. Anne Elizabeth Bromley-Martin

The Hon Anne Elizabeth Bromley-Martin, who died 8 December, 2006, aged 95, was a scion of the Barons Ormathwaite (ext. 1984). She was b. 1911, as the Hon Anne Elizabeth Walsh, and was a sister of the 6th Baron. Her elder sister, the Hon Jane Walsh (b. 1910, d. 23 Aug 1996) was a Lady-in-Waiting to HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. Anne m. 1948, as his 2nd wife, Peter Edward Bromley-Martin, scion of that LG family, and descended from the Rouse-Boughton Baronets. He died in 1968.

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Florence Elizabeth Lindsay Clifton-Brown

(Florence) Elizabeth Lindsay Clifton-Brown (nee Vestey), who died 15 December, 2006, was a scion of the Vestey Baronets (cr. 1921), b. 1926, daughter of Ronald Arthur Vestey (1898-1987) by his wife Florence Ellen McLean, and was a granddaughter of the 1st Bart. Married 1952, Robert Lawrence Clifton-Brown (b. 1929), scion of the Brown Baronets (cr. 1863), and leaves issue.

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Florence Elizabeth Lindsay Clifton-Brown

(Florence) Elizabeth Lindsay Clifton-Brown (nee Vestey), who died 15 December, 2006, was a scion of the Vestey Baronets (cr. 1921), b. 1926, daughter of Ronald Arthur Vestey (1898-1987) by his wife Florence Ellen McLean, and was a granddaughter of the 1st Bart. Married 1952, Robert Lawrence Clifton-Brown (b. 1929), scion of the Brown Baronets (cr. 1863), and leaves issue.

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Frank Johnson (1943-2006)

Frank Robert Johnson, journalist, deputy editor of the Sunday Telegraph 1995-99, editor of The Spectator, died 15 Dec, 2006, at the age of 63. Born 20 Jan 1943, son of Ernest Johnson by his wife Doreen Skinner; married 1998, Virginia, widow of the Hon. Simon Fraser, Master of Lovat. No issue. His step children include the present 18th Lord Lovat.
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Lord Mowbray, Segrave & Stourton, CBE (1923-2006)

The Lord Mowbray, Segrave & Stourton, CBE, died 12 December, 2006. He was aged 83. He was the 26th Baron Mowbray (created 1283), the 27th Baron Segrave (created 1283), and the 23rd Baron Stourton (created 1448).

Charles Edward Stourton was born 11 March, 1923, the son of William Marmaduke Stourton, 25th Lord Mowbray, 26th Lord Segrave, and 22nd Lord Stourton, MC, by his wife, Sheila (d. 1975), daughter of the Hon. Edward Gully, CB, and was educated at Ampleforth and Christ Church, Oxford.

In 1912 the then Lord Mowbray, Segraev & Stourton made an unsuccessful cvlaim to the Earldom of Norfolk, which had originally been bestowed on the Bigod family. Roger Bigod had surrendered the earldom to the King in 1302 and 10 years later it had been regranted to Thomas of Brotherton, and the success of this claim depended on the validity of the surrender, as it was the regranted peerage which was under claim. He failed in his case, as it was held (in 1906) that the surrender of 1302 was invalid, and, as "The Complete Peerage" states: "the decision in the case involved a denial of the existence of the earldom in Thomas of Brotherton and his issue."The barony of Stourton which was created by patent in 1448, has existed continuously in the male line since that date. The baronies of Mowbray and Segrave were a different case. The first Lord Mowbray received a writ of summons tyo Shrewsbury in 1283 and other later summonses to undoubted Parliaments. The first Lord Segrave was also at Shrewsbury, but was also summoned to Parliament in 1295. The daughter of the 4th Lord Segrave married the fourth Lord Mowbray, and the titles since then have been held together. The baronies came through the Mowbrays, Dukes of Norfolk, to the Howards, Dukes of Norfolk, and so to 1777, when they fell into abeyance between the two daughters of Philip Howard, brother of the 9th Duke of Norfolk. One married the 16th Lord Stourton and the other the 9th Lord Petre. In 1877 the 20th Lord Stourton applied for the termination of the abeyance, and the case was decided in his favour.

Career:--->>Joined the Army in 1942, commissioned into the Grenadier Guards 1943; served with the 2nd Armoured Battalion, Grenadier Guards, as Lieutenant, 1943-44 (was wounded in France in 1944; lost an eye and invalided 1945); Member of Lloyd's, 1952; Chairman, Ghadeco (UK) Ltd, from 1986; Chairman, Thames Estuary Airport Co., from 1993; Director, Securicor (Scotland) Ltd, 1964-70; Director, General Development Co., Ltd (Ghana) from 1980; EIRC (Ghana) Ltd, from 1982; Director, EIRC Holdings Ltd (Jersey) from 1986; Member, Nidderdale Rural District council, 1954-58; succeeded to the baronies on the demise of his father, 1965; a Conservative Whip in the House of Lords, 1967-70, and 1974-78; a Lord in Waiting (Government Whip) and a Spokesman for the Department of the Environment, 1970-74; Deputy Chief Opposition Whip in the House of Lords, 1978-79, a Lord in Waiting (Government Whip) and spokesman for the arts, environment and transport 1979-80; elected a member of the House of Lords, 1999; Chairman, Government Picture Buying Committee, 1972-74; a Member of the British Parliamentary Delegation to the Bicentennial Celebrations in Washington, 1976; a Trustee, College of Arms Trust from 1975; Chancellor, Primrose League, , 1974-80, 1981-83; Life Governor, Cancer Research UK (formerly ICRF) from 1983; Patron, Tayside and Means Normandy Veterans Association, from 1992; Patron, Bicentennial Year Award of Baronial Order of Magna Charta, USA 1976; Knight of Honour & Devotion, Sovereign Military Order of Malta 1947 ( Vice-Pres, British Assoc from 2001); Bailiff Grand Cross and Senator, Constantinian Order of St George (Parma), 2001; &c. 

He was appointed CBE in 1982.Lord Mowbray, Segrave & Stourton was twice married; firstly, in 1952, to the Hon Jane de Yarburgh Bateson, daughter of the 5th Lord Deramore. She died 2 April, 1998.He married 2ndly, in February, 1999, Joan, Lady Holland, widow of Sir Guy Holland, 3rd Baronet. He is survived by his 2nd spouse and by two sons from the first marriage, Edward and James.

The peerages now devolve upon his elder son, the Hon Edward William Stephen Stourton, born 17 Apr, 1953, who is married with one son, and four daughters.

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Amaryllis Susan Rohays Burnett

Lavinia Margaret Burnett of Leys (nee Cox), wife of Alexander James Amherst Burnett of Leys (b. 1973), gave birth to a daughter, Amaryllis Susan Rohays, 24 November, 2006.
Alexander is the elder son of Mr James Comyn Amherst Burnett of Leys (b. 1941), and Mrs Burnett of Leys, of House of Crathes, Kincardineshire, and Lavinia is the elder daughter of Mr and Mrs C.A.F. Cox, of Leochel Cushnie, Aberdeenshire.
Alexander's father was born James Comyn Amherst Cecil, son of the Hon Henry Kerr Auchmuty Cecil (1914-42), scion of the Barons Amherst of Hackney, who married in 1938, Elizabeth Rohays Mary (who d. in 1993 having married secondly, 1944, Capt Sir Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, KCVO), only daughter of Major-General Sir James Lauderdale Gilbert Burnett of Leys, 13th Baronet, CB, CMG, DSO.
Alexander's father was, in 1966, recognized in the surname of BURNETT of LEYS, by Lyon Court. He married in 1971, Fiona Mercedes, second daughter of Lt-Col Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips, FRGS (who d. 1980), by his wife Georgina (now Lady Kennard), daughter of Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, GCVO, TD, 3rd and last 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].
Alexander Burnett of Leys is a nephew of the Duchess of Abercorn and the Duchess of Westminster.

Lady Wontner

Lady Wontner, who died at her home at Hedsor, 7 December, 2006, aged 95, was the widow of Sir Hugh Wontner, GBE, CVO (1908-92), hotelier, Chairman of the Berkeley and Claridge's Hotels, London; Lord Mayor of London, 1973-74. She was the former Catherine Irvin, daughter of Thomas William Irvin, of the Gordon Highlanders (who was killed in action in 1916), of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, and was a niece of Sir John Irvin, KBE, and married in 1936, Hugh Walter Kingwell Wontner of Barscobe (his style in Scotland), 2 sons, Giles and Julian, and a daughter, Jenifer. Funeral at St Nicholas, Hedsor, 21 December, 2006.
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Hon Willa Katherine Peel

Viscountess Clanfield (b. 1978), wife of Viscount Clanfield (b. 1976), son and heir of the 3rd Earl Peel by his first wife, gave birth to a daughter, Willa Katherine, 1 December, 2006, a sister for Isla Rose Huldine, who was b. 24 March, 2005.

Viscountess Clanfield is the former Matilda Rose Aykroyd (b. 1978), third daughter of David Peter Aykroyd (b. 1937), of Nun Monkton, York, scion of the Aykroyd Baronets, of Lightcliffe (created 1920), by his wife, the former (Lydia) Huldine Beamish, younger daughter of Richard Pigott Beamish, of Castleyons, County Cork (of an Irish landed family).

The infant's father - Ashton Robert Gerard Peel, styled Viscount Clanfield (b. 16 September, 1976), is the only son of the 3rd Earl Peel, PC (b. 1947), of Masham, North Yorkshire, and his first wife, the former Veronica Naomi Livingston Timpson (b. 1950), descended from the
Houstoun-Boswall Baronets (now Veronica Countess Peel, of San Martin de Tesorillo, Spain).

Sir Peter Gadsden, GBE

Sir Peter Drury Haggerston Gadsden, GBE (1979), Lord Mayor of London 1979-80, Chairman PPP Healthcare Foundation, since 1996, died suddenly at his home, 4 December, 2006. He was aged 77. He is survived by Lady Gadsden (nee Belinda Ann Haggerston, daughter of Capt Sir (Hugh) Carnaby de Marie Haggerston, 11th Baronet ) whom he wed in 1955, and his four daughters, Juliet, Caroline, Clare and Elizabeth.
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von Hofmannsthal/Armstrong-Jones marriage

The marriage took place, 2 December, 2006, at St George's Church, Hanover Square, London, between Rodolphe von Hofmannsthal, son of Mr Octavian Charles Hugo von Hofmannsthal (b. 1946), and Mrs von Hofmannsthal, and the Lady Frances Armstrong-Jones (b. 1979), daughter of the 1st Earl of Snowdon, GCVO (b. 1930), by his 2nd wife, the former Lucy Mary Davies. Rodolphe von Hofmannsthal is a great-grandson of the 6th Marquess of Anglesey. Rodople's father is a son of Raimund von Hofmannsthal (d. 1974), who married (as his second wife) in 1939, the Lady Elisabeth Hester Mary Paget (b. 1916), daughter of the 6th Marquess of Anglesey (1885-1947) ...


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Colonel John Kenyon, OBE, MC (1921-2006)

Colonel John Kenyon, OBE, MC, who has died aged 84, won an immediate MC as a mountain gunner in the Burma campaign during the critical battle of Kohima; some 35 years later he waged a successful campaign to restore his county council's name to Shropshire instead of the government-approved Salop.He wasa scion of the Barons Kenyon (Baron GB 1788, Baronet 1784).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=K1JH2ZALW53ENQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/12/01/db0102.xml
He was b. 1921, a son of Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Edward Kenyon, DSO (1881-1958) by his wife Gwendoline Ethel Graham Ommanney, and was educated at Marlborough.
Colonel Royal Artillery and General Staff, , Military Assistant to the C-in-C Far East Land Forces 1962-64, and Defence Naval and Military Attache, Belgium and Luxembourg, 1971-73; Shropshire County Councillor, 1977-85; a Freeman of Shrewsbury (Grand Master) and of the City of London; President of the Freemen of England, 1981-91; MC; OBE (Mil) 1970; Order of Leopold of Belgium, 1989; He was married and divorced 3 times...
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Hon Mrs James Galbraith

The Hon Mrs James Galbraith, who died 28 November, 2006, aged 90, was the widow of the Hon. James Muir Galloway Galbraith, CBE (1920-2003), a younger son of the 1st Baron Strathclyde, PC (1891-1985). She was the former Anne Christine Maud Paget, daughter of Maj. Kenneth Paget, of the Old Rectory House, Itchen Abbas, Hampshire, and married Mr Galbraith, in 1945. He died 4 Oct, 2003. She leaves issue. Funeral Service at Ancrum Parish Church, near Jedburgh, Monday 4th December 2006.
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Jo Countess of Onslow

Jo Countess of Onslow, MBE, who died at her home, 28 November, 2006, at the age of 84, was the second wife, and widow, of Colonel the 6th Earl of Onslow, KBE, MC, TD (1913-71).
She was the former Nina Sturdee, but always known as Jo, daughter of Thomas Sturdee, and was awarded the MBE in 1953. She married Lord Onslow, Colonel RAC, High Steward of Guildford 1947-71, Capt of the Yeoman of the Guard, 1951-60, as his 2nd wife in 1962. He died in 1971. No issue.
Service of Thanksgiving at St. Mary's Church, North Leigh, Oxfordshire, 15 Dec, 2006.
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