Suzanne, Lady Mahon dies

Suzanne, Lady Mahon, who died 22 March, 2009, at Winchester, was the second wife, and widow, of Sir George Edward John Mahon, 6th Baronet, who she married in 1958, and who died in 1987. She was daughter of Thomas Donnellan, of Pirbright, Surrey. Private family funeral. Thanksgiving service St Mary's Church, Battersea.—Wednesday 15th April 2009.


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Turner/Howard engagement

The engagement was announced circa 24 March, 2009, between Christian Turner, elder son of Professor and Mrs David Turner, of Syracuse, New York, and Victoria Picton Seymour Howard (b 1975), scion of the Howard Baronets (cr 1955), younger daughter of Sir David Howarth Seymour Howard, 3rd Baronet (b 29 Dec 1945), of the City of London, & Lady Howard.
The marriage will be celebrated in London on 31st July 2009.


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Emily Jane Theodora Vyvyan

Venetia Ruth Caroline Vyvyan (née Turner), wife since 1993, of George 
James Tawney Vyvyan (b. 1951), scion of the Vyvyan Baronets (created 
in 1645), gave birth to a dau, Emily Jane Theodora, 5 March, 2009, a 
sister for Charlotte, Alice, & George Alexander Tawney, who was b 24 
January, 2004. 

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Violet May Vane-Tempest-Stewart

Lady Reginald Vane-Tempest-Stewart, wife of Lord Reginald Alexander Vane-Tempest-Stewart (b. 1977), gave birth to a daughter, Violet May, 13 Feb, 2009, a sister for Amy Romaine, who was b 19 February, 2007, & a sister for Robin Gabriel, who was b. 29 May, 2004. 

Lord Reginald is the younger son of the 9th Marquess of Londonderry and of Doreen Marchioness of Londonderry (Doreen Wells, the 
ballerina), & Lady Reginald is the former Chloe B. Guinness, only daughter of Mr William Loel Seymour Guinness (b. 1939) and Mrs (Agnes 
Elizabeth) Lynn Guinness (nee Day). 


Lady Reginald is a granddaughter paternally of Group Capt (Thomas) Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness, OBE, (d. 1988), and of the former Lady 
Isabel Violet Kathleen Manners, daughter of the 9th Duke of Rutland. 

Gerard Morgan-Grenville

Gerard Morgan-Grenville, who died 2 March, 2009, was a scion of the 
Lords Kinloss, and a great-grandson of the last Duke of Buckingham and 
Chandos, who lost the family seat at Stowe. 
He was a grandson of Mary, Lady Kinloss (peeress in her own right). 

Gerard Wyndham Morgan-Grenville was born 26 March 1931 at Iping, near 
Midhurst, son of Capt the Hon Robert William Morgan-Grenville 
(1892-1988), by his 2nd wife the former Elizabeth Renshaw, widow of 
Maj Francis Wm Lindley Gull (of the Gull Bts), dau of Sir Charles 
Renshaw 1st Baronet. Educated at Eton; He married three times, (i) 
1955  (Div 1981) Virginia Anne Peto, scion of the Peto Baronets; (ii) 
Fern Diana Jackson; (iii) Margaret____; and is survived by his third 
wife, and by two sons and a daughter from his first marriage, viz: 
Hugo Gerard b 1958, George Septimus b 1964, and Laura Isabel Hester, b 
1961. 

Hon Richard Neville Cabbell Manners (1924-2009)

The Hon Richard Neville Cabbell Manners, of Cromer Hall, Norfolk, who 
died 17 March, 2009, aged 85, was a scion of the Barons Manners (cr 
Peerage of the UK 1807): & descended from the Dukes of Rutland; b 
1924, yr son of the 4th Baron Manners, MC (1897-1972), by his wife the 
former Mary Edith Gascoyne-Cecil, scion of the Marquesses of 
Salisbury; educated at Eton; married 1945, Juliet Mary, dau of Col Sir 
Edward Hulton Preston, 5th Baronet, DSO, MC; by whom he had issue: (i) 
Christine Margaret Lavender b 1946; (ii) Edward Preston b 1948: (iii) 
Rupert Francis Henry b 1950; (iv) (Thomas) Benjamin, b 1954.  Service 
of Thanksgiving at St Marys Church, Roughton, 30 March 2009. 

This gentleman assumed the additional surname of CABBELL before that 
of MANNERS... 

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Gruffudd Jones/Barttelot engagement

—The engagement was announced 21 March, 2009, between Freddie N. 
Gruffudd Jones, younger son of Mr and Mrs Dafydd Gruffudd Jones, of 
Anglesey, and Emma, youngest daughter of Col Sir Brian Walter De 
Stopham Barttelot, OBE, 5th Baronet (b 17 Jul 1941), of Stopham, 
Pulborough, Sussex, by his wife the former Hon (Mary Angela) Fiona 
Weld-Forester (b 1944), yst dau of the late 7th Baron Forester 
(1899-1977). 

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The Hon Claudia Violet Allhusen (nee Betterton)

The Hon Claudia Violet Allhusen (nee Betterton), who died at 
Bereweeke, Winchester, 16 March, 2009, aged 91, was born in 1917, the 
younger dau of the 1st and last Baron Rushcliffe, PC, GBE (d 1949), 
and widow of Maj Derek Swithin Allhusen, CVO (1914-2000), 9th Lancers, 
a former High Sheriff of Norfolk, one of HM Bodyguard of the Hon Corps 
of Gentelmen-at-Arms, [Standard Bearer, 1981-4],  the scion of a 
family long established at Bradenham Hall, Thetford. They married in 
1937 . He died 24 Apr, 2000. The Rushcliffe barony has been extinct 
since 1949. 
She leaves issue. The funeral Service to be held at St Andrew's 
Church, Claxton, 25 March 2009. 

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Faith Deborah Etrenne Grattan (née Arbuthnot)

Faith Deborah Etrenne Grattan (née Arbuthnot), who died 15th March 
2009 at her home, was a scion of the Arbuthnot Baronets (cr 1823); 
born in 1921, a daughter of Lieut-Col. Archibald Hugh Arbuthnot 
(1874-1957), by his second wife the former Marjory Beech (d 1975); 
Subaltern, ATS 1939-45; maried 1948,  Edmund O'Donnell Colley Grattan, 
FRCS (deceased); by whom she had issue. 

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7th Baron Kilmarnock (1927-2009)

The 7th Baron Kilmarnock, who died 19 March 2009, aged 81, was head of 
the Clan Boyd, a gifted writer, lifelong Hispanophile and chairman of 
the all-party parliamentary group on Aids. 

Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd was born 11 May 1927 and educated at 

Bradfield and King's College, Cambridge. 

He was a Page to the Lord High Constable of Scotland at the Coronation 
of King George VI, May 1937. 

During national service he was in Palestine, in 1947-48, as a 
lieutenant in the Irish Guards, then entered his father's business in 
the City. 

Lord Kilmarnock's publications (as Alastair Boyd) included Sabbatical 
Year (1958); The Road from Ronda (1969); The Essence of Catalonia 
(1988); The Social Market and the State (1999); and Rosemary: a memoir 
(2005). 

He married first, in 1954 (dissolved 1970), Diana Mary Grant Gibson, 
who died in 1975. He married secondly, 1977, Hilary Anne, dau of 
Leonard Sidney. His second wife survives him with their son, and his 
younger brother, the Hon Robin Jordan Boyd, known as "Tiger" who was 
born 6 Jun 1941, succeeds to the peerage (Baron, UK 1831). 

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Michael Allstar Astor

Leslie Astor, wife of Henry Waldorf Astor, scion of the Viscounts Astor, gave birth to a son, Michael Allstar, 9 March, 2009, in New York, a brother for Jakie, and for Charles Edgar Spence, who was b New York, 15 Sept 2007, and a half-brother for George. --==--

Major Philip Charles Metcalfe Bathurst

_. Major Philip Charles Metcalfe Bathurst died 15 March, 2009, aged 
86. He was descended from the Rt Hon Charles Bathurst (formerly 
Bragge), kisnman of the Earls Bathurst and the Viscounts Bledisloe; 
born 5 May 1922; the second son of Lt.-Col. Charles Robert Bathurst 
(1879-1967) by his wife the former Felicite Esther Theophilia Metcalfe 
(d 1960); career:- Maj. Royal Engineers; married 14 May 1953, 
Winifrede Gillian Debenham, daughter of Leonard Snowden Debenham; by 
whom he had issue, (i) Nicholas Charles George Bathurst, b 3 Jun 1954; 
(ii) Robert Guy Bathurst, b 22 Feb 1957; (iii) Charlotte Mary Bathurst 
b. 23 Sep 1961.  Funeral Mass at South Woodchester RC Church, Stroud, 
Glos, Saturday 28 March 2009. 

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Greta Elizabeth Geddes

Georgina P.T. Geddes (née Wetherill), wife of Leo Patrick T.C. Geddes 
(b. 1981), scion of the Barons Geddes (cr 1942), gave birth to a 
daughter, Greta Elizabeth, 30 January, 2009. 

Leo Geddes is a son of His Honour Andrew Campbell Geddes (Judge 
Geddes) (b. 1943), by his 2nd wife the former Bridget Caroline Helen 
Warren-Swettenham, & Georgina is a daughter of Mr & Mrs Martin 
Wetherill. 

Leo is a grandson of Colonel the Hon Alexander Campbell Geddes, OBE, 
MC, TD (1910-72), by his 1st wife, Margaret Kathleen Addis, and is a 
great-nephew of the Hon Margaret Campbell Geddes (HRH The Princess of 
Hesse and the Rhine), &c. 

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Hon Mary Katharine Medina Duckworth

The Hon (Mary) Katharine Medina Duckworth (nee Chatfield), OBE, who 
died 14 March, 2009, aged 97, was b circa 1911, second of the three 
children of the 1st Baron Chatfield, PC, GCB, OM, KCMG, CVO 
(1873-1967), by his wife the former Lillian Emma Matthews; she married 
22 Sept, 1947, Henry George Austen de l'Etang Herbert Duckworth (b 
1905; deceased), scion of that landed gentry family and descended from 
Herbert Earls of Carnarvon, son of Sir George Duckworth, CB, FSA; by 
whom she had issue, (i) Sarah Margaret Katharine, b 1951, who married 
a Munro of Foulis (Baronetcy family); & (ii) Harriet Angela Victoria, 
b 1951 (twin), who m. Count Andreas von Einsiedel.  Funeral, Thursday 
26th March 2009 at St Margaret's, West Hoathly, W. Sussex. 

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Benjamin Lascelles to marry Carolina Velez Robledo

The engagement has been announced between the Hon Benjamin George 
Lascelles (b 23 Nov 1978), scion of the Earls of Harewood, and a 
descendant of HM King George V and Queen Mary, 1st son of David Henry 
George Lascelles, styled Viscount Lascelles (born 21 October 1950), by 
his 1st wife the former Margaret Rosalind Messenger (b 1948); & 
Carolina Velez Robledo. 

Benjamin and Carolina's marriage received the "Declaration of Consent" 
from The Queen during a meeting of the Privy Council in February, 
2009. 

Benjamin Lascelles was born prior to the marriage of his parents and 

was legitimated when they married in 1979. He remains excluded from 
the succession to the Throne and from the succession to the earldom of 
Harewood. His older sister, Lady Emily Shard (reported to have wed 
last year and is the mother of twins)  born in 1976, is also excluded 
from the line of succession to the Crown.  His next brother, 
Alexander, born in 1980, is in line to the Throne and to the earldom 
of Harewood, and is said to be father of an illegitimate son. 

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Manuel Basil (Bluey) Mavroleon 1927-2009

Manuel Basil (Bluey) Mavroleon, who died 16 Feb, 2009, aged 81, was a 
ship owner, Grenadier Guardsman, yachtsman, pilot, patriot, a good 
shot and a famously generous host. He was born 17 April 1927, the son 
of Basil Mavroleon and his English wife Violet (née Withers). 
Mavroleon's first wife, Ruth, was a London policeman's daughter. They 
married in 1951 and divorced three years later. In 1956 he married 
Gioconda de Gallardo y Castro, with whom he had two sons, Carlos (d 
1998) and Nicholas. The marriage was dissolved in 1961, and he married 
thirdly, in 1963, Camilla Paravicini, later Countess Frédéric Chandon 
de Brailles, dau of Lt.-Col. Vincent Rudolph Paravicini, by his wife 
Mary Elizabeth Maugham (later Lady John Hope (see Linlithgow) & then 
Baroness Glendevon), dau of the playwright Somerset Maugham and niece 
of the 1st Viscount Maugham (extinct 1981). They had two daughters, 
(i) Syrie Mavroleon (engaged now married (?) to Mark R.A. Swire, scion 
of that LG family, eldest son of the late Humphrey Roger Swire (b 17 
Oct 1934, d 3 Jan 2004) by his 1st wife, the former Philippa Sophia 
Kidston-Montgomerie, scion of that LG family (now Marchioness 
Townshend, of Raynham), & (ii) Sacha Mavroleon, before this marriage 
too was dissolved. In 1982 Mavroleon married Caroline Tomé, who 
survives him together with his son Nicholas (a former husband of the 
actress Barbara Carrera) and his two daughters. His son Carlos, a 
journalist working for CBS who had converted to Islam, died in 
mysterious circumstances in a hotel room in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 
1998. 

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Francis (Frank) Simon James Nixon

The Hon. Hermione Marie Hilda Edith Nixon (b. 1973, née Roper-Curzon), 
wife of Simon P.J. Nixon, gave birth to a son, Francis (Frank) Simon 
James, 6 March, 2009, a brother for Florence Elizabeth Dora, who was b 
23 November, 2006, & for Joseph Patrick John, who was b. 3 March, 
2005. 

Simon Nixon is the eldest son of Mr and Mrs Patrick Nixon, and 
Hermione is the fourth of the five daughters of the 20th Baron Teynham 
and Baroness Teynham. Hermione is twin with the second of the 
Teynham's 5 sons. 

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Margaret Eleanor Arnold (nee Horton-Fawkes) 1931-2009

Margaret Eleanor Arnold (nee Horton-Fawkes), who died at her home, 15 
March, 2009, aged 77, was a scion of the Horton-Fawkes landed gentry 
family, of Farnley Hall, Otley, West Yorkshire; born in 1931 a 
daughter of Maj. Le Gendre George William Horton Horton-Fawkes 
(formerly Starkie) (1892-1982), by his wife the former Sylvia Louisa 
Mabel Edina Duckworth (1899-1990), descended from the Seymour 
Marquesses of Hertford and the FitzRoy Dukes of Grafton descending 
from Charles II (and a near relative of Virginia Woolf); married 1957, 
Edmund Martin Arnold, by whom she had issue, (i) Edmund M. G. Arnold, 
b 1958; (ii) Jeremy R Arnold, b 1960; (iii) Justin T. Arnold, b 1962. 
She was grandmother of Georgia, Edward, Elsa and Iris Arnold; Funeral 
takes place at Harrogate Crematorium, 24 March, 2009. 

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Graham-Campbell/Hay engagement

_.The engagement was announced 16 March 2009, between Charles R Graham-Campbell, son of Mr and Mrs Niall Graham-Campbell, of Pitlochry, Perthshire, and Caroline Laura Hay (b 1978), scion of the Marquesses of Tweeddale, daughter of Alexander Douglas Hay (b 1948), of Duns Castle, Berwickshire, by his wife the former Aline Mary Macdougall. Charles Graham-Campbell's brother Alastair married Josephine Emma Anson (b 1968), scion of the Earls of Lichfield.

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The Hon. Peter John Kershaw 1924-2009

The Hon. Peter John Kershaw, who died at the Chatterwood Nursing Home,
Liss, Hampshire, 10 March, 2009, aged 84, was a yr son of the 1st
Baron Kershaw, OBE (1881-1961), by his wife the former Frances Edith
Wigmore; b 1924; sub-lieut, RNVR 1945-6; Director and Chief Engineer
of Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons Ltd; married 1948, Brenda Margaret
(née Smith) dau of James Austin Smith, by whom he had issue, a son
Michael James, b 1951.  Funeral at Chichester Crematorium, West
Sussex, 23rd March 2009.

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