George Richard Heathcoat Amory (born 2014)

_. Lucy Heathcoat Amory (nee Reid), wife of Simon Charles Heathcoat Amory (b 1982), scion of the Heathcoat Amory Baronets (Baronet, UK, cr 1874), gave birth to a son, George Richard, 30 December, 2014, a brother for Arthur.

Simon is the elder son of Charles William Heathcoat Amory (b 1945), of South Molton, Devon, and Mrs Harmony Joanna Heathcoat Amory (nee Lyell), of Wylye, Wiltshire, and Lucy Heathcoat Amory is the elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Richard Reid, of Harpenden, Hertfordshire. 

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Camilla Dorothy Leigh-Pemberton (born 2015)

_.Saskia Anne Leigh-Pemberton (b 6 Aug 1977, nee Stirling-Aird), wife of Charles D. Leigh-Pemberton, scion of the landed family of that name,(and nephew of the life peer Baron Kingsdown, KG, PC), gave birth to a daughter Camilla Dorothy, 10 January, 2015, a sister for Elizabeth Helen, who was born 6 December, 2012.

Charles Leigh-Pemberton is a son of Nigel Leigh- Pemberton (b 1929), of Barfrestone, Kent, and Mrs Leigh-Pemberton, and Saskia, a scion of the LG family of Stirling-Aird of Kippendavie (descended from Stirling of Keir), is the 2nd daughter of Patrick Kenneth Stirling-Aird (b 10 Aug 1943), of Dunblane, Perthshire, by his wife the former Elizabeth Susan Wakeham.

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Richard John Hannay Meade, OBE 1938-2015

_. Richard John Hannay Meade, OBE, equestrian, Olympic horse~man, who died 8 January, 2015, aged 76, was a former squeeze of the Princess Royal.

He was born 4 December, 1938, son of John Meade (1907-2005), by his wife, nee Watts; married 1977, Angela Dorothy Farquhar (b 1948), scion of the Farquhar baronets (Bt, GB, 1796), by whom he had issue, 3 sons and one dau. He is survived by his wife and two sons, James and Harry, and by a daughter, Lucy.

(The Telegraph obit says he's Richard John Hannay Meade, but Debrett's says "Hassan" not Hannay.)

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Anne Louise Hoare (nee Deterding) 1926-2015

. Anne Louise Hoare {nee Deterding}, who died 5 January, 2015, aged 88, was the widow of Col Ronald Jack Hoare, OBE (b 1913)....

She was born 4 Oct, 1926, daughter of Ronald Deterding (1900-57), of Kelling Hall, Holt, Norfolk, by his wife, the former Ethel Louise Philbrick (1902-91) ~~~  Kin of Sir Henry Deterding, founder of Royal Dutch Shell ???

She married Colonel Hoare in 1948. Mother of Louise, Christopher & Marty.

Funeral at St Michael's Church, Inkpen, Berkshire, Friday 23 January, 2015.

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Fitzherbert-Brockholes/Dallas engagement

_. The engagement was announced 9 January, 2015, between Thomas Antony (Tom) Fitzherbert-Brockholes (born 1985), scion of the landed family of Claughton, son of Francis Joseph Fitzherbert-Brockholes (b 18 September, 1951), & Mrs Fitzherbert-Brockholes (nee Watts), & Katherine Delphine (Katie) Dallas (born 1986), daughter of James A. Dallas, of Ramsbury, Wiltshire, by his wife the former Annabel D. Hope.

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John Paget Chancellor 1927-2014

_. John Paget Chancellor, who died 31 December, 2014, aged 87, was a publisher, author and bibliophile, descended from the Paget baronets (Bt, UK, cr 1886).

He was born 1 July, 1927, son of Sir Christopher John Chancellor, CMG (who d 1989), by his wife the former Sylvia Mary Paget, OBE (daughter of the 2nd baronet); married 1959 (div 1968) the Hon (Mary) Alice Joliffe, (b 1937), daughter of the 4th Baron Hylton (Baron UK, cr 1866), by whom he had issue, a son (John) Edward Horner (Eddie) Chancellor (b 1962) married to Martin Amis's former wife Antonia; &  daughters ~ Isabel Rose (b 1959), Katharine Sylvia Anthony (b 1961), who married the writer Will Self and then the restaurateur Rowley Leigh, and Anna Theodora (b 1965), the actress Anna Chancellor.

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Dungarvan/Davy engagement

_. The engagement was announced 7 January, 2015, between Rory Jonathan Courtenay Boyle, styled Viscount Dungarvan (born 10 Dec, 1978), son and heir of the 15th Earl of Cork & Orrery (b 1945) (Peerage of Ire, cr 1620), of Lickfold, West Sussex, by his wife the former Hon Rebecca Juliet Noble (b 1950) (see Glenkinglas, Life Peerage & Noble Bts), & Lucinda Julia Davy (born 1982), younger daughter of Mr Julian C.K. Davy, of St Just in Roseland, Cornwall, by his wife the former Alison S. Black.

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Willoughby/Summers engagement

_. The engagement was announced 7 January, 2015, between the Hon Charles Edward Henry Willoughby (born 1986), scion of the Barons Middleton (Baron GB, cr 1711), second son of the 13th Baron Middleton (b 1948), of North Yorkshire, by his wife the former Hon Lucy Sidney (b 1953), scion of the Viscounts de L'Isle (Visc UK, cr 1956), & Isobel Grace Summers (b 1985), daughter of the late Mr Richard Summers and of Mrs Summers (nee Bedborough) , of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

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Williams/Harbord-Hamond engagement

_. The engagement was announced 7 January, 2015, between Robert E.M. Williams, son of Mr & Mrs Tim Williams, of Waldron, East Sussex, & Alice Mary E. Harbord-Hamond (born 1986), scion of the Barons Suffield (Peerage of GB, cr 1786), daughter of the Hon John Edward Richard Harbord-Hamond (born 1956), of Wandsworth, London, by his wife the former Katharine Margaret Lucy Seymour (born 1959), scion of the Marquesses of Hertford, &c.

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Nicholas Fabio Stanley Bond (born 2014)

_.Fabiana Bond (nee Marenghi Vaselli, born Rome 16 Jan, 1982), wife of Harry Piers S. Bond (b 1976), descended from the Earls Fitzwilliam (extinct 1979), gave birth to a son, Nicholas Fabio Stanley, 18 December, 2014, a brother for Philip Robert Shaw, who was b 15 March, 2013.

Harry is the elder son of Ian Robin Stanley Bond (b 1940), by his wife the former Caroline Louise Faber, and Fabiana is a daughter of il Conte Marco Fabio Marenghi Vaselli,Conte di Gorgascura (b Rome, 18 Nov, 1953) and Donna Patrizia dei principi Ruspoli Memmo, of Rome.

Harry Bond's sister, Candida, is Viscountess Petersham, wife of the Earl of Harrington's heir.


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Hon Angela Margo Hamar Delevingne 1912-2014

_. The Hon Angela Delevingne, who died 30 December, 2014, aged 102, was a scion of the Viscounts Greenwood (Peerage of the UK, cr 1937; extinct 7 Jul 2003).

She was born Angela Margo Hamar Greenwood, 8 July, 1912, eldest daughter of Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood (1870-1948), by his wife the former Margery Spencer (who d 1968); married 4 Nov, 1937, (Dudley) Edward Delevingne (d 1974), son of Edward Charles Delevingne, of Beckenham, Kent, by whom she had issue, two sons and two daughters.

Her brothers were the 2nd Viscount Greenwood (d 1998), and 3rd Viscount (d 2003). Her granddaughters are the socialites/models/actresses Chloe, Poppy and Cara Delevingne.

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Ford/Smallwood engagement

_. The engagement was announced 6 January, 2015, between Sebastian Ford, son of Mr & Mrs Augustine Ford, of Kew, London, & Eleanor Bluebell Smallwood (born 1982), daughter of Christopher Marten Smallwood, of Melbury Abbas, Dorset, and the Hon Mrs Kirsty Jane Smallwood (b 1947, nee Aitken), of Glastonbury, Somerset, scion of the Barons Beaverbrook (Peerage of the UK, cr 1917), daughter of the late 2nd Baron Beaverbrook (who disclaimed his peerage for life in 1964, and who d 1985), by his 2nd wife the former Ursula Jane Kenyon-Slaney (scion of the Barons Kenyon).

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2nd Baron Strang 1922-2014

_. The 2nd (and last) Baron Strang, died 19 December, 2014. He was 92.

Colin Strang, was born 12 June, 1922, son of the 1st Baron Strang, GCB, GCMG, MBE (1893-1978), by his wife the former Elsie Wynne Jones (d 23 Sept, 1974), and succeeded to the barony (cr 1954), on his father's demise, 27 May, 1978. 

Lord Strang was Lecturer in Philosophy, Queen's Univ, Belfast 1951-53, and King's College, Newcastle 1953-75; Prof of Philosophy, Univ of Newcast;le 1975-82, Dean of Faculty of Arts, Univ of Newcastle 1976-79, &c.

He was three times wed and elaves a daughter Caroline, from the 2nd union. The peerage now becomes extinct.

Funeral at Brodick Church, Isle of Arran, Monday 29 Dec.

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William Shand Kydd 1937-2014

_. William Shand Kydd, who has died (Dec 2014) aged 77, was the younger half-brother of Peter Shand Kydd, sometime step-father of Diana, Princess of Wales.

He was born in 1937, a son of Norman Shand Kydd (1895-1962), of Horton Hall, Horton, Buckinghamshire. 

Bill Shand Kydd married Christina Muriel Duncan, a daughter of Maj Charles Moorhouse Duncan, by his wife the former Thelma Winifred Watts, and a sister of Veronica Countess of Lucan, wife of the elusive 7th Earl of Lucan. He leaves 2 children, Caspar and Lucinda. His daughter is Lady Kleinwort, wife of Sir Richard Kleinwort, 7th Baronet.

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8th Duke of Wellington, KG, LVO,OBE, MC (1915-2014)

_. The 8th Duke of Wellington (Peerage of the UK, cr 1814), died at his home at Stratfield Saye, near Basingstoke, 31 December, 2014. He was aged 99.

Arthur Valerian Wellesley was born 2 July, 1915, son of the 7th Duke of Wellington (1885-1972), by his wife the former Dorothy Violet Ashton (d 1956), and succeeded to the family honours on his father's demise. 4 Jan, 1972.

The duke married 28 Jan, 1944, Diana Ruth McConnel (d 1 Nov, 2010), by whom he had issue, four sons and one daughter.

He is succeeded by his eldest son, (Arthur) Charles Valerian Wellesley, Marquess of Douro, who was born 19 August, 1945, and is married to Princess Antonia von Preussen, descended from Wilhelm III, German Emperor (and thus from Queen Victoria).

The Duke of Wellington's funeral takes place 8 January, 2015.

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11th Baron Vaux of Harrowden 1940-2014

_. The 11th Baron Vaux of Harrowden (Peerage of England, cr 1523), died suddenly 16 December, 2014. He was 74.

Anthony William Gilbey was born 25 May, 1940, eldest son of the 10th Baron Vaux of Harrowden (1915-2002), by his wife (and cousin) the former Pamela Maureen Gilbey (b 1919), and succeeded his father in the peerage, 3 Aug, 2002.

Lord Vaux married in July, 1964, Beverley Anne Walton, daughter of Charles Alexander Walton, of Cooden, co Sussex, by whom he had issue. He is succeeded as 12th Baron by his elder son, the Hon Richard Hubert Gordon Gilbey, who was born 16 March, 1965.

The funeral took place at Harrowden, 22 Dec, 2014.

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Archibald Victor Baillie (born 2014)

Christelle Baillie (nee Gardella), wife of the Hon Hamish Michael Baillie (born 20 March, 1979), scion of the Barons Burton, gave birth to a son, Archibald Victor, in 2014, a brother for Fergus Louis, who was born 2013.

Hamish Baillie is the 2nd son of the 4th Baron Burton (b. 19 Mar, 1949), of Glencoe, NSW, by his former wife Lucinda Law (now Lady Lister-Kaye, of House of Aigas, Inverness-shire).

Christelle is the former Mlle. Christelle Gardella, daughter of M and Mme Gérard Gardella, of Paris. 

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Joseph Heathcoat Amory (born 2014)

Thierry Heathcoat Amory (nee Kelaart), wife of Patrick Thomas Heathcoat Amory, scion of the baronets of that name, gave birth to a son, Joseph, born in 2014.

Patrick Thomas Heathcoat Amory, is the third son of Sir Ian Heathcoat Amory, 6th Baronet (cr UK, 1874), of Tiverton, Devon, by his wife the former Frances Louise Pomeroy, scion of the Viscounts Harberton.

Thierry Heathcoat Amory is a daughter of the late Paul Kelaart and Mrs Anne Kelaart, of Nettlebed, Oxon. Thierry is a close friend of HRH The Duchess of Cambridge, and at her nuptials in 2012 she was given in marriage by the duchess's father, Michael Middleton.

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Fran Lascelles: son for Tewa & Cynthia Lascelles

_. Cynthia Lascelles [nee Ramirez], wife of Tewa Ziyan Robert George Lascelles (b 8 June, 1985), scion of the Earls of Harewood, and descended from the Royal House of Windsor, gave birth to a son, Fran, in 2014.

Tewa is a son of the Hon James Edward Lascelles (b 5 Oct, 1953), by his second wife the former Lori (Shadow) Susan Lee (b 29 Aug, 1954, d) & is a grandson of the late 7th Earl of Harewood, KBE (1923-2011), and a great-grandson of HRH The Princess Mary, Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood (1897-1965), only daughter of HM King George V, &c.

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Maxey/Beaumont marriage

The marriage took place in 2014, between Richard William Macfarlane Maxey (born February, 1978), youngest son of Philip Ernest Macfarlane Maxey (born 1947), of Longmeadow, Hertfordshire, by his wife the former Victoria I. Walduck (born circa 1950), & the Hon Alice Theresa Beaumont (born 1983), second daughter of the 4th Viscount Allendale (b 13 Nov, 1948) (Peerage of the UK, cr 1911), of Bywell Castle, Stocksfield-on-Tyne, Northumberland, by his wife the former Theresa Mary Magdalene More O'Ferrall. 

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