_. Susan Van Oss, who died 12 February, 2021, was the third wife, and widow of Peter Humphrey Alexander Van Oss, who died died 8 May, 2020. Her husband was a descendant of the 9th Earl Waldegrave [and a descendant of King James II].
As Susan Dickson-Brown, she married Mr Van Oss in 2001. She was previously wife of Colin Brown, by whom she had issue, a son Jeremy and a daughter, Sarah.
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_. Sarah Louise Rouhani [nee Dent, born 1984], wife of [Naveen] Foad Rouhani [born 1990], gave birth to a son, Feliz Balthazar Rouhani, 17 December, 2020.
Foad Rouhani is a son of Mr & Mrs Farzad Rouhani, of Wilmslow, Cheshire. Sarah Rouhani, scion of that landed family, is a daughter of Charles Jonathan Dent, of Ribston Hall, near Wetherby, West Yorkshire, by his wife the former Hon Anne Elizabeth Taylor [born 1951], daughter of the Baron Ingrow, OBE, TD, life peer.
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_. The infant son of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank has been named August Philip Hawke.
Royal watchers have been on tip toe with excitement over the choice of names that Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank has selected for their infant son. Few suspected that the boy would be called August [no doubt to be known as 'Gus'].
Philip is in honour of the infant's great-grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, who will be 100, in June, and Hawke, after a Brooksbank ancestor. The Brooksbanks do tend to use surnames as Christian names. Jack has Stamp amongst his, as does his nephew, Wilfred.
August's 5 x great-grandfather was the Rev Edward Hawke Brooksbank [1789-1883], of Healaugh, Tadcaster, a country squire, and clergyman.
The baby is the first child for the princess, 30, and husband Jack Brooksbank, 34, and a first grandchild for the Duke of York and for Sarah Duchess of York. The infant is the ninth great-grandchild of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.
Master Brooksbank [he has no courtesy title] who weighed in at 8lb 1oz, was born at 8:55am, 9 February, 2021, London's Portland Hospital, where Eugenie was born in 1990, and where Archie Mountbatten-Windsor was born in 2019.
The baby is eleventh in line of succession to the throne, following his mother, who is in tenth place, and displacing the Earl of Wessex, who drops to 12th position.
Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank married at St George's Chapel, Windsor, 12 October, 2018.
The most recent birth in the Brooksbank family was last summer, when Amy Brooksbank, wife of Jack's younger brother, Thomas George, gave birth to a son, named Wilfred Stamp Ewing Brooksbank.
The family do tend to go for family surnames as christian names, and it's a tradition going back generations.
The trend for including what is usually a surname as a christian name is not common in the royal family. Prince Michael of Kent, born in 1942, has the name Franklin in honour of the wartime US president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and of course the Duke and Duchess of Sussex gave Archie the middle name of Harrison, at his birth in 2019. It is not known why Harry and Meghan selected Harrison.
Jack Christopher Stamp Brooksbank (born 3 May, 1986), scion of the Brooksbank baronets, is the elder son of Mr George Edward Hugh Brooksbank (b 8 Feb 1949), by his wife the former Nicola J Newton (b 1953).
HRH Princess Eugenie Victoria Helena of York (b 23 Mar, 1990), is the younger daughter of HRH The Duke of York, KG (born 19 Feb, 1960), by his former wife the former Sarah Margaret Ferguson [born 15 Oct, 1959], scion of the Fergusons of Dummer.
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_. Rupert Nicholas Hambro, CBE, who died 19 February, 2021, aged 77, was a scion of the eponymous banking landed gentry dynasty, and a chairman of Hambros Bank.
He was a great-grand grandson of the Danish-born Carl Hambro, who founded Hambros Bank in 1839, and a grandson of Olaf Hambro, chairman of the bank, 1932-60.
He was born 27 June, 1943, the eldest son of Maj Jocelyn Olaf Hambro, MC [1919-94], of Waverton House, Gloucestershire, and his first wife, the former Ann Silvia Muir [who died 1972]. [His father's second wife was the widowed Elisabeth, Duchess of Roxburghe, widow of the 9th Duke, of Floors Castle.
Old Etonian Rupert Hambro married in 1970, Mary Robinson Gillam Boyer, daughter of Francis Boyer, by whom he had issue, a son, Jonathan [born in 1974], and a daughter, Flora [born in 1976].
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_. William Robert Cavendish Boyle, who died 15 February, 2021, aged 76, was a scion of the Earls of Cork & Orrery. He was born 21 May, 1944, son of Richard Courtenay Boyle [1902-86], and his wife the former Guendolen Mabel Maclean Griffith. He was unmarried, and leaves a brother John, and a sister, Belinda.
Cork & Orrery lineage:-
Edmund Boyle, 7th Earl of Cork [1742-98]-->Sir Courtenay Boyle [1770-1844]-->Charles Boyle [1806-85]-->Lionel Boyle [1851-1920]-->Richard Boyle [1902-86]-->William 'Wig' Boyle [1944-2021]
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_. The engagement was announced 20 February, 2021, between William Philip David Mungo Murray, styled Viscount Stormont [born 1 November, 1988], son and heir of the Earl of Mansfield & Mansfield [born 17 Oct, 1956], of Scone Palace, Perthshire, and his wife the former Sophia Mary Veronica Ashbrooke [born 22 Jan, 1959], & Charlotte Nevling Clune, daughter of Mr Jonathan E. Clune [born 17 Dec, 1952], of West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, and his wife the former Sarah Potter [born 17 Aug, 1950].
Charlotte Clune is destined to become chatelaine of Scone Palace. There can be few places of interest in Scotland as historically potent as Scone Palace. When you visit the Palace you are walking in the footsteps of Scotland’s ancient founding fathers, both pagan and Christian. It was an important religious gathering place of the Picts, it was the site of an early Christian church and it housed the Stone of Destiny.
Robert the Bruce was crowned at Scone in 1306, and the last coronation was of Charles II when he accepted the Scottish crown in 1651.
The place of coronation was called Caislean Credi, 'Hill of Credulity', which survives as the present Moot Hill.
Viscount Stormont's father is the 9th Earl of Mansfield, Alexander David Mungo Murray, who succeeded his father in 2015. He is married to Sophia, daughter of Biden Ashbrooke and Veronica Ashbrooke, nee Stourton. Lord Mansfield is also 14th Viscount Stormont and Lord Scone, 12th Lord Balvaird and Hereditary Keeper of Bruce’s Castle of Lochmaben.
In the 9th century, Kenneth MacAlpin established himself as the first true King of Scots. According to legend, he is said to have invited the Pictish King Drostan with all his nobles to banquet with him at Scone. While they were seated, and perhaps taking advantage of their gluttony of both drink and food, the Scots drew out the bolts supporting the boards, whereupon the Picts fell into the hollows below their benches. While caught in some strange contraption up to their knees, they were all slaughtered.
The last coronation in Scotland took place at Scone in 1651 when King Charles II was crowned King of Scots upon the Moot Hill. The Earls following the 3rd Earl all suffered imprisonment, mainly in consequence of their support of the Jacobite cause.
The 4th Viscount Stormont was briefly imprisoned for his part in a fatal duel. The 5th Viscount opposed the Treaty of Union and entertained James Stuart, the Old Pretender, at Scone Palace during the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion, for which he was imprisoned.
The 6th Viscount suffered the same fate when his sisters received the Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie, at Scone during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion.
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_. Antonia Malim [nee Plunkett], wife of Guy Frederic de Paula Malim [born 1984], scion of that landed gentry family, gave birth to a daughter, Evelyn Sophie Joan, in Los Angeles, 10 February, 2021, a sister for Jack.
Antonia is a daughter of Mr & Mrs Peter Plunkett, of Herefordshire.
Guy Malim is a son of Andrew Frederick de Paul Malim [born 1943], of Gloucestershire, and Mrs Beverley Joan Malim [nee Searle], of Perthshire.
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_. John 'Jimmy' James, KCVO, CBE, FRICS, who died 16 February, 2021, aged 85, was Secretary and Keeper of the Records, Duchy of Cornwall, 1993-97; Trustee of the Grosvenor Estate, 1971-2000; a Crown Estate Commissioner 1984-99, and a member of the Prince of Wales's Council, 1984-97.
He was born 31 March, 1935, son of Frank Courtenay James [1900-41] and his wife the former Beryl May Wilford Burden [1903-82].
He married 18 Nov, 1961, Elizabeth Jane St Clair-Ford [1937-2018], scion of the St Clair-Ford baronets, daughter of Lieutenant-Commander Drummond St Clair-Ford, RN [1907-1942] and his wife the former Norah Elizabeth Maberly [1911-99], by whom he had issue, a son, Simon, and a daughter, Annabel.
He was appointed CBE in 1990, and KCVO in 1997.
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_.Bernard Peter Fane de Salis died 14 February, 2021. He was 84.
He was born 15 December, 1936, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Count Peter Francis Fane de Salis [1902-82], and his wife the former Winifred Alice d'Anyers Willis [1910-77].
Bernard's mother, Winifred, was a granddaughter, maternally, Clotworthy Skeffington, the 11th Viscount Massereene [1842-1905], and she and her issue are in remainder to the Viscountcy of Massereene and the Barony of Loughneagh. The Counts de Salis descend from the Fane Earls of Westmorland.
Bernard Fane de Salis married 5 Aug, 1967, Monica Juanita Bower [born 27 Dec, 1944], daughter of Commander Robert Tatton Bower, RN [1894-1975], and his wife the Hon Henrietta May Caribbea Strickland [1903-1975], daughter of the 1st [and last] Baron Strickland [1861-1940].
He leaves a widow and two sons, Piers [born 1969], and Hugo [born 1971].
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_.The engagement was announced 18 February, 2021, between Hugo Richard Seymour Smyly [born 15 June, 1990], descended from the Barons Buckland, eldest son of Captain [Richard] Mark Smyly [born 1943], of the 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers, of Kingston Lisle, Oxfordshire, and the Hon Harriet Lucy Smyly [nee Beckett, born 18 February, 1961], of East Garston, Berkshire, and Sanderijn M. Wuelen Kranenberg, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ruurd Weulen Kranenberg, of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Hugo Smyly is a grandson paternally of Col. Dennis Douglas Pilkington Smyly, DSO, of the 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers, who married 1939, the Hon Dorothy Margaret Berry, one of the five daughter of the 1st Baron Buckland [1877-1928].
Hugo Smyly is a grandson maternally of Brigadier the 4th Baron Grimthorpe [1915-2003], of Westow Hall, York, and his wife the former Lady Elizabeth Lumley, DCVO [1925-2020], sometime Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, daughter of the 11th Earl of Scarbrough, KG [1896-1969].
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_. Beth M. Holdsworth Hunt [nee Horne], wife of Piers Richard Holdsworth Hunt [born 1980], gave birth to a daughter, Lena Mary, 14 February, 2021.
Beth Holdsworthn Hunt is a daughter of Mr & Mrs John Horne, of St Saviour, Jersey.
Piers, a descendant of the Barons Braybrooke, is the younger son of Mr Christopher Holdsworth Hunt [born 2 August, 1942], of Holland Park, London, and his 2nd wife Mrs Joanne Lesley Starr Minoprio, née Reynolds.
Piers Holdsworth Hunt is a grandson of Maj. Peter Holdsworth Hunt [1917-96], and his first wife the former Monica Neville [who died 1969], scion of the Braybrooke barons. Monica married 12 May, 1955, the third of her four husbands, and as his third wife, Lt-Col Thomas William Arnold Anson, styled Viscount Anson [1913-58], son and heir of the 4th Earl of Lichfield [1883-1960].
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_. The engagement was announced 12 February, 2021, between Frederick A.J. Campbell [born 1991], scion of the Campells of Airds, the second son of John Patrick [Johnny] Campbell Yr of Airds [born 1961], of Taynuilt, Argyll, and his wife the former Caroline Elizabeth Jane Adam, and Imogen L.B. McCann, younger daughter of Air Commodore Ken McCann, CBE, of Oakham, Rutland, and Mrs Angela Glover, of Stamford, Lincolnshire.
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_. Rose Leslie, actress wife of actor Kit Harington, has given birth to their first child, a son.
The couple, who married 23 June, 2018, starred together in the Game of Thrones series.
Christopher Catesby (Kit) Harington (born 1986), scion of the Harington baronets, is the younger son of Sir David Richard Harington, 15th Baronet (born 1944), by his wife the former Deborah Jane Catesby.
Rose Leslie, is the former Rose Eleanor Arbuthnot-Leslie (b 1987), daughter of Sebastian Arbuthnot-Leslie, 14th of Warthill, by his wife the former Candida Mary Sibyl Weld, scion of that landed family.
Both Kit and Rose have royal ancestry, and both are descended from the Merrie Monarch, Charles II. Kit descends from King Charles II and Louise de Penancoet de la Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, and Rose descends from the monarch and his mistress Barbara Villiers.
Rose is descended from Charles II and his mistress Barbara Palmer, Duchess of Cleveland, via their illegitimate daughter, Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield.
Kit's Royal line of descent:-
Charles II-->Charles Lennox 1st Duke of Richmond-->Lady Anne Lennox-->Lady Caroline Keppel-->Elizabeth Adair -->Frances Barrington-->Hon Henry Legge-->Lois Legge-->Lavender Denny-->Sir David Harington-->Kit Harington
Rose's Royal line:-
Charles II-->Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield-->George, 2nd Earl of Lichfield-->Lady Anne Lee-->Thomas Clifford-->Laura Maria Mary Clifford-->Filumena March Phillipps de Lisle-->Humphrey Weld-->Humphrey Joseph Giles Weld-->Candida Weld-->Rose Leslie
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_. Elizabeth Mary Tudway Quilter [nee Carew Pole] scion of the Carew Pole baronets, died 14 February, 2021. She was 91. She shared, with Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, descent from the Cavendish-Bentinck Dukes of Portland.
She was born 14 April, 1929, daughter of Sir John Gawen Carew Pole, 12th Baronet [1902-1993], and his 1st wife the former Cynthia Mary Burns [died 1977], descended from the Dukes of Portland, now extinct.
She married 30 Oct, 1953, Capt David Cuthbert Quilter, afterwards Tudway Quilter [1921-2007], scion of the Quilter baronets, and a High Sheriff of Somerset, and Vice-Lord Lieutenant of the County, 1978-95, son of Percy Cuthbert Quilter [1879-1947], and his wife the former Gladys Clare Alice Tudway [1889-1973], by whom she had issue, a son, Simon, and three daughters, Susan, Melanie and Lucy.
Descent from the Cavendish-Bentinck family:-
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland [prime minister] 1738-1809-->Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck [1781-1828]-->George Cavendish-Bentinck [1821-1891]--> William Cavendish-Bentinck [1854-1909]-->Ruth Cavendish-Bentinck [b 1883]-->Cynthia Burns [d 1977]-->Elizabeth Mary Carew Pole [1929-2021].
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_. The engagement was announced 17 February, 2021, between Finbar Duffy, son of Mr & Mrs Keith Duffy, of Margate, Kent, and Victoria Hannah Guy [born 1989], eldest daughter of Mr [Ronald] John Guy, of Almeria, Spain, and Miss Lucinda M. Peyton-Jones [born 1954], of Wandsworth, London, descended from the Barons Ebury.
Victoria Guy's descent from the Grosvenor family:-
Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster [1767-1845]-->Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury [1801-93]-->Hon Norman Grosvenor [1845-98]-->Margaret Grosvenor-->Jeremy Peyton-Jones-->Lucinda Peyton-Jones [b 1954]-->Victoria Hannah Guy [b 1989]
_.Oliver John Diggle died 10 February, 2021, aged 86. He was a son of Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Wyndham Diggle, MC [1891-1972], and his wife the former Evelyn May Crosland [1897-1989]; married 5 December, 1970, the Hon Horatia Marion Waldegrave [born 1 Aug, 1941], scion of the Barons Radstock, daughter of Commander the Hon John Montagu Granville Waldegrave [1905-44], and his wife the former Lady Hersey Margaret Boyle [1914-93], scion of the Earls of Glasgow.
He leaves a son, John Wyndham Hugh [Jack], born 1974, and two daughters, Rowena [born 1972] and Emma [born 1977].
Royal lineage of Oliver's wife:
James II King of England-->Henrietta FitzJames-->1st Earl Waldegrave-->3rd Earl Waldegrave-->1st Baron Radstock-->2nd Baron Radstock-->3rd Baron Radstock-->5th Baron Radstock-->Cdr John Waldegrave-->Horatia Waldegrave
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The engagement was announced 16 February, 2021, between Christopher Nicholas Fearon [born 1991], son of [William] Guy Rupert Fearon [born 1955], of Gasper, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Cristina Gabrielle Negretti [born 28 December, 1956], scion of that landed gentry family, & Kitty-Rose Rattle, daughter of Mr & Mrs James Rattle, of Cape Town, South Africa.
Christopher Fearon's grandfather, Peter Noel Negretti [1916-2010], married 27 Oct, 1951, Ann Caroline Eden [1923-2017], scion of the Eden baronets, and a niece of Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon [1897-1977], prime minister 1955-57, &c.
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_. The Earl of Selborne, GBE, FRS, DL, died at his home 12 February, 2021. The ecological expert and businessman was 80.
John Roundell Palmer was the 4th Earl of Selborne, Viscount Wolmer and Baron Selborne. He served as Chancellor of Southampton University, and was President of the Royal Geographical Society [with the Institute of British Geographers].
He was one of the hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, sitting as a Conservative. He re-designated as non-affiliated in September 2019 and retired from the House on 26 March 2020.
He was born 24 March, 1940, his father, William Matthew Palmer, styled Viscount Wolmer [1912-42], was accidentally killed by a shell on active service, in Oct 1942. His mother, the former Priscilla Egerton-Warburton [1915-2010], was a scion of that landed gentry family.
He succeeded to the three peerages on the death of his grandfather, the 3rd Earl of Selborne, 3 Sept, 1971.
Lord Selborne married 19 December, 1969, Diana van Antwerp James [born 1946], daughter of Evan Maitland James [1911-2008], of Upwood Park, Abingdon, by whom he had three sons, William, Luke and George, and a daughter, Emily.
He was appointed KBE in 1987, advanced to GBE in 2011, FRS 1991.
The eldest son, William Lewis Palmer, styled Viscount Wolmer [born 1 Sept, 1971], succeeds as 5th Earl of Selborne.
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_. Diana Maria Gosling, who died 9 February, 2021, was descended from the Howard Earls of Carlisle [and their ancestors the Dukes of Norfolk].
She was born in 1930, the daughter of Angelo Victor John de Rin [known in Italy as the Nobile de Rin de Capodistria [born c 1884, and who died 27 May, 1944], and his wife the former Blanche Esther Muriel Howard [1904-94].
She married in 1955, Hilary George Alfred Gosling, by whom she had a son, Oliver, and three daughters, Jane, Rosemary and Veronica.
Lineage: Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle [1748-1825]-->Hon Frederick Howard [b 1785-killed at Waterloo, 1815]--.>Frederick John Howard [1814-97]--->Gerald Howard [1853-1945]--->Blanche Howard [1904-94]--->Diana Maria de Rin [1930-2021]
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_. Lord Mowbray, Seagrave and Stourton, head of one of Britain's senior Roman Catholic dynasties, and holder of three ancient English peerages, has announced his engagment just weeks after succeeding his father.
James Charles Peter Stourton, the 28th Baron Mowbray, the 29th Baron Segrave, and the 25th Baron Stourton [born 12 Dec, 1991], has announced his engagement to Anna Maria R. Sparrow [born 1992], daughter of Mr Edward C.A. Sparrow [born 1953], of East Molesey, Surrey, and his wife the former Jane A.I. Jefferson [born 1954].
Lord Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton is the only son of the late Lord Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton [1953-2021], of Allerton Park, Knaresborough, and his wife the former Penelope Lucy [Nell] Brunet.
James succeeded to his father's peerages only three weeks ago when his father died tragically at his North Yorkshire home following a fall.
The family has a fascinating history. The Lords Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton claimed unsuccessfully in 1912 the ancient Earldom of Norfolk [1312] to which he was the senior co-heir. The Norfolk earldom had originally been bestowed on the Bigod family. Roger Bigod surrendered the earldom to the King in 1302 and ten 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 to 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.
The future Lady Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton has six siblings - Tamsin [born 1980], Benedicte [born 1982], Christopher [born 1985], Charles [born 1989], and twins Edward and Catriona [born 1995]
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