Capt Geoffrey van Cutsem 1944-2022

 Capt Geoffrey Neil van Cutsem, late the Royal Horse Guards, scion of that landed gentry family, died 30 December, 2022. He was 78.

He was born 23 November, 1944, the second son of Bernard Henry Richard van Cutsem (1916-75), of Exning, Suffolk, and his 1st wife, and as her first husband, the former Mary Compton (1919-89), scion of the Marquesses of Northampton.

He married firstly, 30 Oct, 1969 (div 2003), Sarah (Sally) McCorquodale (1948-2008), scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Alastair McCorquodale (1925-2009), of Stoke Rochford, near Grantham, by his wife the former Rosemary Sybil Turnor (1924-2015), scion of that landed family. Sarah McCoruodale's brother, Neil married in 1980, Lady Sarah Spencer, sister of Diana, Princess of Wales. Geoffrey van Cutsem married 2ndly, 2006, Mrs Lucy Hester Price (nee Cartwright) (she died 29 Nov, 2008). In 2012 he married, as his third spouse, Mrs Elizabeth Georgina Gail Jewson (born 19 Oct, 1952), scion of the Earls of Clarendon, former wife of Edward Rivers R. Jewson (b 1953), and daughter of William Nicholas Somers Laurence Hyde Villiers (1916-2000), and his wife the former Mary Cecilia Georgina Weld-Forester (1917-2002), scion of the Barons Forester.

Georffrey van Cutsem, of Old Somerby, Grantham, leaves two daughters from his first marriage, Sophie (born 5 Aug, 1975), and Zara (born 11 December, 1978), wife of Henry Robert Anthony Noel, by courtesy Viscount Campden, DL (born 1 July, 1977), son and heir of the 6th Earl of Gainsborough.

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Margaret Colquhoun Gull (née Berger) 1923-2022

Margaret Gull (née Berger), died 15 December, 2022, aged 99.

She was born in 1923, daughter of Capt Capel Colquhoun Berger (1879-1941), of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, descended from the Colquhoun baronets of Luss, and his wife the former Winifred Violet Levett-Scrivener (1895-1981), scion of that landed gentry family, and married 1957, John Evelyn Gull (1914-1997), scion of the Gull baronets, son of Sir William Gull, 2nd Baronet (1860-1922), and his second wife Evelyn Louise Snagge (d 1914), by whom she had issue.

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Loyd/Kwan engagement

 The engagement was announced 5 January, 2023, between James Canning Loyd (born 1 September, 1988), scion of the Loyd landed gentry family formerly of Monk's Orchard, elder son of David William Arnold Loyd (born 4 January, 1949), of Mildenhall, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Anabel Laura Dorothy Morrison (born 31 Dec, 1955), scion of the Barons Margadale, & Stephanie Rachael May Wah Kwan, daughter of Mr and Mrs Steve Kwan of Whitebridge, New South Wales.

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Patricia Frances Marigold (Mally) Bullard 1928-2022

 Patricia Frances Marigold Bullard (nee Read), died 30 December, 2022. She was 94.

A daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert John Read, of Hapton Hall, Tharston, Norfolk, and his wife the former Helen Dorothy Winifred Vernon (1899-1942), scion of the Vernon baronets; she married 1951, Gerald Humphrey (Gerry) Bullard (1916-89), descended maternally from the Barclays of Higham.

Mally Bullard leaves issue, three sons, John Gerald (b 1952), William (born 1954), and Samuel (b 1959).

Sir William Vernon, 1st Baronet > William Allen Vernon > Helen Vernon > Mally Read

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Hoyland/Pole-Carew engagement

 The engagement was announced 5 January, 2023, between Jack Nicholas Hope Hoyland (born 9 March, 1986), elder son of Philip John Hoyland, of Hawnby, North Yorkshire, and his wife the former Hon Henrietta Mary Vivian (born 4 Apr, 1963), scion of the Barons Vivian, & Tatiana Cicely Alice Pole-Carew (born 12 April, 1993), descended from the Barons Lyttelton, elder daughter of (Gerald Anthony) Peregrine Pole-Carew (born 2 September, 1957), of Piddlehinton, Dorset, and his wife the former Georgina Elizabeth Moir Harris.

Jack Hoyland is a grandson maternally of the 6th Baron Vivian (1935-2004), and his first wife the former Catherine Joyce Hope (now Countess of Mexborough).

The 1st Baron Lyttelton > Hon Caroline Anne Lyttelton > William Henry Pole-Carew > Charles Edward Pole-Carew > Gerald Ayshford Pole-Carew > Christopher Gerald Pole-Carew > Peregrine Pole-Carew > Tatiana Pole-Carew

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Lady Nevile, OBE 1923-2022

 Lady Nevile, OBE, who died 31 December, 2022, aged 99, was chatelaine of Aubourn Hall, a 16th-century manor house, near Lincoln. She was the widow of Sir Henry Nevile, KCVO (1920-1996), a Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire for 20 years.

The family seat at Aubourn Hall was designed by architect James Smythson, was built for Sir John Meres between 1587 and 1628. It has been the home of the Nevile family since the 17th century. 

She was born in 1923, the former Jean Rosita Mary Torr, daughter of Cyril James Wenceslas Torr and wife the former Maude Mary Winifred Walpole (1897-1968) (later wife of Vicomte Théophile de Lantsheere).

She married in 1944, Henry Nicholas Nevile (born 13 March, 1920), scion of that landed gentry family, the elder son of Charles Joseph Nevile (1883–1930), of Wellingore in Lincolnshire, and his wife Muriel Margaret, daughter of the diplomat Sir Nicholas Roderick O'Conor, GCB, GCMG. Her husband was Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, 1975-1995, and appointed KCVO in 1992. He died 20 Oct, 1996.

Lady Nevile leaves issue, two sons, Christopher and Hugh, and three daughters, Sarah, Elizabeth and Jill.

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Boyd/Drysdale engagement

 The engagement was announced 3 January, 2023, between Arthur William Boyd (born 1994), scion of the Barons Kilmarnock, younger son of the Hon Jonathan Aubrey Lewis Boyd (born 1 Oct, 1956), of Newton, Lincolnshire, and his wife the former Annette Madeleine Constantine, & Victoria R. Drysdale, younger daughter of Michael Drysdale, KC, of Brisbane, Australia, and Mrs Drysdale.

King William IV > Lady Elizabeth FitzClarence > the 19th Earl of Erroll > 20th Earl of Erroll > 21st Earl of Erroll > 6th Baron Kilmarnock > Hon Jonathan Boyd > Arthur Boyd

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The 7th Baron Camoys, GCVO, PC, DL 1940-2023

 The 7th Baron Camoys, GCVO, PC, DL, who died 4 January, 2023, aged 82, was a City banker who became Lord Chamberlain at an acutely sensitive time in the modern evolution of the monarchy. He was seated at Stonor Park, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

Lord Camoys was Prime Warden, Fishmongers' Company 1992-93; a Lord in Waiting 1992-98; Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire 1994; Privy Councillor 1997; Lord Chamberlain and Chancellor of the Royal Victorian Order 1998-2000; GCVO 1998; a Permanent Lord-in-Waiting 2000.

(Ralph) Thomas Campion Sherman Stonor was born 16 April, 1940, son of the 6th Baron Camoys, DL (1913-76), and his wife the former Mary Jeanne Stourton (who died in 1987), scion of the Barons Mowbray, Segrave & Stourton. He succeeded his father in the barony, 9 March, 1976.

The peerage was created in the Peerage of England by Writ of Summons in 1383, and on the death of the 2nd Baron, 12 Aug, 1426, it fell into abeyance and so remained for 413 years, until the termination of the abeyance, on 14 Sept, 1839.

The 7th Baron married 11 June, 1966, Elizabeth Mary Hyde Parker (born 3 Sept, 1939), scion of the Parker baronets, the only daughter of Sir William Hyde Parker, 11th Baronet, of Melford Hall, Long Melford, by his wife the former Ulla Ditlef Nielsen, by whom he had issue, a son, William, and three daughters, Alina, Emily and Sophia.

The son the Hon (Ralph) William Robert Thomas Stonor (born 10 September, 1974), succeeds as the 8th Baron Camoys.

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Ella Iris Arthur (born 2022)

 Annabel J Arthur (née Hudleston), wife of Anthony James Arthur (born 1979), and scion of the Hudleston landed family, gave birth to a daughter, Ella Iris, 17 December, 2022, a sister for Joseph James Charles (born 10 Nov, 2018), and Iona Bridget (b 2 March, 2017).

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Richard Ker Slingsby Bethell 1928-2022

 Capt Richard Ker Slingsby Bethell, RN, OBE, died 9 December, 2022, aged 94.

He was born 4 August, 1928, scion of the Barons Westbury, son of Major Vivian Lionel Slingsby Bethell (1897-1967), and his wife the former Joan Ker Manwell (1907-85); and married 29 July, 1953, Anne Rosemary Frost, daughter of Harry Frost, of Amwell, Hertfordshire, by whom he had three daughters, Helena, Theresa and Jane.

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Mary-Anne Dixey (née Trevor-Roper) 1954-2022

 Mary-Anne Dixey (née Trevor-Roper), who died 28 December, 2022, aged 68, was a scion of the Barons Teynham; born 15 December, 1954, eldest daughter of Anthony Dacre Trevor-Roper (1921-1986), and his wife the former Amy Frances Collins (1930-2005); and married 1stly, in 1982 (div) Michael John Frederick Charles Buswell; married 2ndly, 2000, Charles Dixey.

She leaves a son from her first marriage, Jonathan Charles Buswell (b 1982).

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Deborah Susan Sinclair-Stevenson (née Walker-Smith) 1941-2022

 Deborah Susan Sinclair-Stevenson (née Walker-Smith), died 26 December, 2022. She was 81, and a scion of the Walker-Smith baronets; she was born 15 June, 1941, daughter of Sir Derek Walker-Smith, 1st Baronet (1910-92), created a life peer as Baron Broxbourne, and his wife the former Dorothy Ellen Mary Etherton (1906-1999); and married 10 June, 1965, Christopher Terence Sinclair-Stevenson, son of George Sinclair-Stevenson, of Hong Kong.

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Mariota Maud Bosanquet 1923-2022

 Mariota Maud Bosanquet, scion of that landed gentry family, died 27 December, 2022, aged 99.

She was born in 1923 a daughter of Major Arthur Rivers Bosanquet, MC (1890-1971), and his wife the Lady Katherine Ethel Carnegie, daughter of the 10th Earl of Southesk (1854-1941); she was an artist, and unm.

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Mary Moore (née Goschen) 1948-2022

 Mary Moore (née Goschen), who died 13 December, 2022, aged 74, was a scion of the Goschen family now represented by Viscount Goschen; she was born 18 January, 1948, daughter of Brigadier Geoffrey William Goschen (1911-1988), and his wife the former Mary Ernestine Morrison-Bell (1910-2002), scion of the baronets of that name; and married in 1973, David Robson Moore (1947-1987), by whom she had issue, a son, Nathaniel (born 1974), and a daughter, Roxanne (born 1977).

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Margaret Colquhoun Gull (née Berger) 1923-2022

 Margaret Colquhoun Gull (née Berger), died 15 December, 2022, aged 99. 

She was born in 1923, a daughter of Capt Capel Colquhoun Berger (1879-1941), of Harfield, Hertfordshire, and his wife the former Winifred Violet Levett-Scrivener (1895-1981), scion of that landed gentry family; and married 27 Apr, 1957, John Evelyn Gull (1914-1997), a younger son of Sir William Cameron Gull, 2nd Baronet (1860-1922), and his second wife the former Evelyn Louise Snagge (d 1914), by whom she had issue, two sons and a daughter.

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Sir John Kemp Barlow, 3rd Baronet 1934-2022

 Sir John Kemp Barlow, 3rd Baronet, died 30 December, 2022, aged 88.

Sir John was a former Joint Master of Foxhounds, Cheshire, and chairman of Majedie Investment plc. He was chairman of Thomas Barlow & Brothers Ltd.

He was born 22 Apr, 1934, son of Sir John Denman Barlow, 2nd Baronet (1898-1986), and his wife the former Hon Diana Helen Kemp (1904-86), daughter of the 1st Baron Rochdale (1866-1945), and succeeded to the baronetcy on his father's death, 1986.

Sir John was twice wed, firstly, 30 June, 1962 (div 1998), Susan Horsbrugh-Porter (1936-2012), scion of the baronets of that name, daughter of Colonel Sir Andrew Horsbrugh-Porter, 3rd Baronet (1907-1986), and his wife the former Annette Mary Browne-Clayton (1908-1992); married 2ndly, 21 May, 1998, Pauline Margaret Bancroft.

Sir John leaves four sons from his first marriage, William, David, Michael and Charles. The eldest son, (John) William Marshall Barlow (born 12 March, 1964), succeeds to the baronetcy.

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Joaquin Patrick Napier Bunbury (born 2022)

 Alice L. Bunbury (nee Martin), wife of Henry Michael Napier Bunbury [born 4 March,1980], gave birth to a son, Joaquin Patrick Napier, 22 December, 2022.

Henry is the elder son and heir of Sir Michael William Bunbury, KCVO, 13th Baronet [born 29 December, 1946], of Rendlesham, co Suffolk, by his wife the former Caroline Anne Mangnall [born 1951].

Alice is the only daughter of Mr Julian Martin and the late Mrs Wishy Martin, of Cappoquin, Co Waterford.

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George Campbell Wilkinson 1930-2022

George Campbell Wilkinson, died 27 December, 2022, aged 92.

He was born in 1930, son of Colonel George Edward Wilkinson, MC, DL, of Wylam, Northumberland; and married 23 November, 1963, Joan Mary Thornton Trevelyan (born 13 February, 1932), scion of the Trevelyan baronets, daughter of John Thornton Trevelyan (1898-1970), and his wife the former Anne Georgina Wardale (1904-89), by whom he had issue, a son who was born and died in 1967, and a daughter, Anne Margaret (born 16 March, 1965).

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Edward Sutton (born 2022)

 Elizabeth Jane B. Sutton (nee Snow, born 1988), wife of Hugo George Richard Sutton [born 1990], scion of the Sutton baronets, gave birth to a son, Edward, 25 November, 2022.

Hugo is a son of Maj. Richard Charles Sutton [born 6 Feb, 1955], of Ansty Cross, Dorset, and his wife the former Jane Elizabeth Bird.

Elizabeth Sutton is a daughter of Mr & Mrs David Snow, of Pencoyd, Herefordshire.

Sir Richard Sutton, 2nd Bt [1799-1855] > Rev Augustus Sutton [1825-85] > Gilbert Sutton [1858-1929] > John Sutton [1892-1982] > Cdr Richard Sutton [b 1922] > Maj Richard Sutton [b 1955] > Hugo Sutton [b 1990] > Edward Sutton [born 2022]

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McKie/Campbell engagement

The engagement was announced 31 December, 2022, between Joseph Fraser McKie (born 1988), son of Richard J. McKie (born 1961), of Wimborne, Dorset, and his wife the former Susan Havelock, & Catherine Janet Denman (Kitty) Campbell (born 10 November, 1994), eldest daughter of Sir James Alexander Moffat Bain Campbell, 9th Baronet (born 23 September, 1956), of Kilbryde, Perthshire, and his wife, Lady Campbell, the former Carola Jane Denman (born 22 Apr, 1963), scion of the Denman baronets.

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