The engagement was announced 18 October, 2025, between the Hon Hamish Peter Lorne Colville (born 1989), younger son of the 3rd Baron Clydesmuir (born 8 April, 1949), of Biggar, Lanarkshire, and his wife the former Aline Frances Merriam (born 1951), & Amy Faith Saunders (born 1989), daughter of the Rev Timothy Saunders, of Sutton, Surrey, and his wife the former Elizabeth Harrison.
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Margaret Cassé Money-Kyrle died 30 September, 2025, aged 87.
She was a daughter of Dr Frederick Wright, of Edinburgh, and married 7 November, 1964, Roger Spencer Money-Kyrle (born 4 February, 1928), son of Squadron Leader Roger Ernle Money-Kyrle (1898-1980), and his wife the former Juliet Rachel Fox (1890-1980), scion of that landed gentry family, by whom she had three sons, Richard (b 1965), Roger (1968-1990), and Oliver (b 1970), and a daughter, Emma (b 1971).
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The marriage took place 4 October, 2025, at the Parroquia de San Ignacio de Loyola, Getxo, Spain, between Magnus Malcolm James Arbuthnott (born 1989), scion of the Viscounts of Arbuthnott, eldest son of Charles Philip Arbuthnott (born 13 February, 1946), of Caputh, Perthshire, and his wife the former Lindsay Sillars, and Sofia de Marcoartu Basterra, eldest daughter of Señor and Señora Patrik de Marcoartu Basterra, of Bilbao, Spain.
Magnus Arbuthnott is directly descended from the 8th Viscount of Arbuthnott (1778-1860).
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Sir Jan Hew Dalrymple-White, 3rd Baronet, died 15 October, 2025, aged 74.
He was born 26 November, 1950, son of Sir Henry Arthur Dalrymple-White, 2nd Baronet (1917-2006), and his wife the former Mary Thomas. He succeeded to the baronetcy (created in 1926), on his father's death, in Nairobi, 30 June, 2006.
Sir Jan married firstly, 23 June, 1979 (div) Elizabeth Wallis; married 2ndly, Oct, 1984 (div), Angela Stevenson; married thirdly, 1990, Betty Smith; and married 4thly, 1997, Ann E. Holmes
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Desmond Charles Bernard Alexander, who died 13 September, 2025, aged 87, was a scion of the Earls of Caledon.
He was born 7 April, 1938, the second son of Colonel the Hon William Sigismund Patrick Alexander (1895-1972), and his wife the former Jane Hermione Buxton (1913-1967), scion of the Buxton baronets, and was a grandson paternally of the 4th Earl of Caledon (1846-1898); and married 1stly, 1980, Joanna Patricia Vigors (born 1943), scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Wing Commander Timothy Ashmead Vigors, DFC, RAF (1921-2003), and his 1st wife Janet Ramsay Geoffrey. He is survived by his second wife, Elizabeth. No issue.
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Hilary George Alfred Gosling died 12 October, 2025.
He married in 1955, Diana Maria de Rin (1930-2021), daughter of Nobile Angelo Victor John de Rin de Capodistria (who died 1944), and his wife the former Blanche Esther Muriel Howard (1904-1994), scion of the Earls of Carlisle, by whom he had issue, a son, Oliver (born 1958), and three daughters, Jane (born 1956), Rosemary (born 1961), and Veronica (born 1963).
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(Robert Myles) Randal MacDonnell died 20 September, 2025. He was 86.
He was born in 1939, son of Edward Geoffrey Randal MacDonnell (1890-1981), of Yelverton, Co Devon, by his wife the former Kate Sophia Montgomery; and married 18 April, 1964, Elizabeth Clare Newman (born 19 July, 1941), scion of the Newman baronets, second daughter of Thomas Lydston Newman (1906-1980), and his wife the former Helen Young (1909-1972), daughter of Sir Charles Young, 9th Baronet (1864-1944). He leaves a son, Julian Sorley Randal MacDonnell (born 1 March, 1967), and two daughters, Natasha Clare (born 21 Mar, 1965), and Louisa Helen (born 1 May, 1971).
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The engagement was announced 16 October, 2025, between William Albert Louis FitzGibbon (born 19 February, 1996), son of Gerald David Patrick Fitz-Gibbon (born 1956), of Richmond upon Thames, London, and his late wife the former Susan Pamela Smee, & Lucienne Elizabeth Jane Baddeley (born 1995), the only daughter of Mark Christian Jon Baddeley (born 18 June, 1960), of Brenchley, Kent, and his wife the former Brigette Susan Alfille.
Lucienne is descended from the Vestey baronets.
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The engagement was announced 16 October, 2025, between Karim Sheikh, youngest son of Mr and Mrs Amar Sheikh, of Ascot, Berkshire, & Rosanna Mary Aitchison (born 2 April, 1996), scion of the baronets of tat name, eldest daughter of Jeremy David Aitchison (born 10 Apr, 1959), of Duncton, West Sussex, and his wife the former Ruth Mary Timmis.
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Edward Charles Melville, who died 1 October, 2025, aged 85, was descended from the Scrymgeour Earls of Dundee.
He was born in 1940, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Christian Landale Melville (1913-1984), and his wife the former Rosemary Scrymgeour-Wedderburn (1916-2017), scion of the Earls of Dundee; and married in 1966, Alison Sinclair Fraser, daughter of Thomas Sinclair Fraser, by whom he had a son, Peter Charles Fraser Melville (born 1970), and a daughter, Rachel Anne Rosemary (born 1972).
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Meriel Rose Afia, CVO, Extra Lady-in-Waiting to HRH Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady Ogilvy, died 8 October, 2025, aged 85.
She was born in 1940, daughter of Capt Joseph Gurney Fowell Buxton (1913-1943), and his wife the former Elizabeth Barbour; and married 1stly, Robert Ivan Kenyon-Slaney (1926-1984), scion of the Barons Kenyon, son of Maj Robert Orlando Rodolph Kenyon-Slaney (1892-1965), and his 1st wife Lady Mary Cecilia Rhodesia Hamilton (1896-1984), daughter of the 3rd Duke of Abercorn, KG (1869-1953); married 2ndly, 1985, Peter Maurice Afia (born 1938), and leaves issue from her 1st marriage, two sons, Rupert & Tom, and a daughter, Natasha-
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Clara Louise Pearson-Jones (born 21 July, 1995, nee Davies-Cooke), wife of Dr Thomas W. Pearson-Jones, gave birth to a daughter, Clementine Rose, 29 September, 2025.
Dr Pearson-Jones is the only son of Wyn Pearson-Jones (born 1953), of Rhewl Fawr, Flintshire.
Clara is a scion of the Cooke baronets, middle daughter of Richard Piers Davies-Cooke (born 1 July, 1960), of Gwysaney Hall, Flintshire, and Mrs Sarah Jane Davies-Cooke (nee Latham, born 1964), of Gwysaney, Flintshire.
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Admiral of the Fleet Sir (David) Benjamin Bathurst, GCB, died in Gibraltar, 12 October, 2025. He was 89.
He was a scion of the Earls Bathurst, and descended maternally from the Earls Temple of Stowe.
Bathurst served as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from 1993 to 1995: in that capacity he advised the British Government on the deployment of naval support including Sea Harriers during the Bosnian War.
He was born 27 May, 1936, son of Group Capt Peter Bathurst (1903-1970), and his wife Lady Elizabeth Ann Temple-Gore-Langton (1908-2004), sister of the 6th Earl Temple of Stowe (1909-66), and the 7th Earl Temple of Stowe (1910-1988); and married 29 August, 1959, Sarah Christian Pandora Peto (born 6 July, 1940), scion of the Peto baronets, daughter of Maj Basil Arthur John Peto (1900-1954), and his wife the former Patricia Geraldine Browne (1911-2011), by whom he had issue, a son, Lieutenant General Sir Benjamin Bathurst, KCVO, CBE (born 15 Apr, 1964), and three daughters, Alice (born 24 May, 1962), Anna (born 15 Aug, 1968), and Lucilla (born 28 Dec, 1970).
He was appointed KCB in 1987, advanced to GCB in 1991, and appointed an Admiral of the Fleet in 1995. From 2022 he was the only non-royal Admiral of the Fleet, the sole remaining Admiral of the Fleet is HM The King.
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The marriage took place on Saturday, 4 October, 2025, at St James the Less Church, Litchfield, Hampshire, between Thomas Robert Hamilton Wills (born 1991), scion of the Barons Dulverton, elder son of Christopher Aubrey Hamilton Wills (born 21 February, 1953), of Litchfield Down, Hampshire, and his wife the former Lady Katharine Anne Meade (born 10 Aug, 1959), & Emma A. Webb, daughter of Mr Michael Webb, of Boxford, Berkshire, and Mrs Bridget Roupell, of Kintbury, Berkshire.
Thomas Wills is a grandson maternally of the late 6th Earl of Clanwilliam (1914-1989).
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Sophie Diana Roberts (nee Fanshawe, born 8 Oct, 1991), wife of Edward D.L. Roberts, and scion of the Fanshawe landed gentry family, gave birth to a son, Frederick David Gennys, 28 September, 2025.
Edward is a son of Mr & Mrs David Roberts, of Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire.
Sophie is a daughter of Richard Philip Fanshawe (born 4 Apr, 1964), of Ascott under Wychwood, Oxfordshire, and his wife the former Charlotte Winifred Margaret Benjamin.
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Annabelle Hay-Drummond-Hay (born 1995, née Hazell), wife of Edward John Hay-Drummond-Hay (born 7 June, 1994), scion of the earls of Kinnoull, gave birth to a daughter, Beatrice Auriol Hay, 22 September, 2025).
Annabelle is a daughter of Benedict Michael Hazell (born 1963), of Chelsea, London, and his wife the former Lisa G. Brassington.
Edward is a son of (Robert) Simon Hay-Drummond-Hay (born 23 Aug, 1967), of Keasden, North Yorkshire, and his wife the former Julia Elizabeth Roberts.
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Hannah Wilson (nee Williams), wife of the Hon Alistair Thomas Hay Wilson (born 17 March, 1993), gave birth to a son, Henry Arthur Llewelyn, 5 October, 2025.
Alistair Wilson is the second son of the 3rd Baron Moran (born 6 August, 1952), of Brookline, Massachusetts, and his wife the Hon Mary Jane Hepburne-Scott (born 16 February, 1955), scion of the Lords Polwarth.
Hannah Wilson is the elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Gareth Williams, of York, South Carolina, USA.
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The engagement was announced 11 October, 2025, between Henry George M. Martin (born circa 1996), elder son of Edward M. Martin, of Farley, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Charlotte L.C. Baker, & Emily Jane E. Lyle (born 1995), daughter of Alexander Lyle (born 1957), of East Melbury, Dorset, and his wife the former Clarissa Pragnell (born 1959), descended from the Goulding baronets.
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The engagement was announced 11 October, 2025, between the Hon Edward Thomas Archer Windsor-Clive (born 18 July, 1994), youngest son of the 4th Earl of Plymouth (born 19 Nov, 1951), of Oakly Park, Bromfield, and the Countess of Plymouth (nee Caroline Anne Nettlefold , born 28 Feb, 1954), & Megan Victoria Boscawen (born 2 November, 1995), scion of the Viscounts Falmouth, daughter of David Simon Townshend Boscawen (born 24 May, 1965), of Sandon, Hertfordshire, and his wife the former Clare Victoria Floyd (born 13 Oct, 1966), scion of the Floyd baronets.
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The engagement was announced 11 October, 2025, between Henry Lyon Lakin (born 1991), scion of the Lakin baronets, younger son of Mark Philip Lakin (1941-2025), of Over Worton, Oxfordshire, and his wife the former Christina Lisa Josephine Dolan (born 1950); and Kinvara Mary Mactaggart (born 1992), daughter of Sir John Auld Mactaggart, 4th Baronet (born 1951), of Ardmore, Islay, and his second wife the former Caroline Emma Williams (born 1963).
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