Lady Jane Bethell (1923-2006)

The Lady Jane Bethell (nee Pleydell-Bouverie) who died 21 July, 2006, aged 82, was the widow of (Richard) Anthony Bethell (d. July 1996), sometime High Sheriff and Lord Lieutenant of Humberside, scion of that BLG family, of Rise, Hull. She was b. 1923, as Lady Jane Pleydell-Bouverie, daughter of the 7th Earl of Radnor, KG, KCVO (1895-1968), sometime Keeper of the Privy Seal to the Prince of Wales and Lord Warden of the Stannaries, by his 1st wife, the former Helen Olivia Adeane (d. 1985); she married Tony Bethell in 1945, and was mother of 2 sons, Hugh (who married a St Aubyn of the Barons St Levan) and William, and 2 daughters, Camilla (who married a scion of the Viscounts Hood), and Sarah (who married a Ratcliffe-Brotherton). A Service of Thanksgiving takes place at All Saints' Rise Hull, 31 July 2006.

Sources: Yorkshire Post 26 July 2006/Daily Telegraph: 27 July 2006
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Lydia Duchess of Bedford (1917-2006)

Lydia Duchess of Bedford died at St Peter's Hospital Chertsey, 25 July, 2006, after a fall. She was b. 1917, the Hon Lydia Yarde-Buller, daughter of the 3rd Baron Churston, MVO, OBE (1873-1930), by his wife Jessie (d. 1960) daughter of Alfred Smither. Her siblings included (1) Joan who married (i) a Guinness (ii) the Aly Khan (and was mother of HH the Aga Khan), and (iii) Viscount Camrose, and (2) Denise, wife of the 5th Baron Ebury. Lydia married (i) 1938, Capt Ian Archibald de Hoghton Lyle, Black Watch (who was killed in action in 1942), eld son of Sir Archibald Lyle, 2nd Baronet, and (ii) 1947 (divorced 1960) as his 2nd wife, the 13th Duke of Bedford (1917-2002).She leaves a daughter, by the first marriage, Lorna Elwes, and a son from the 1st marriage, Sir Gavin Lyle, 3rd Baronet, and a son from the second marriage, Lord Francis Russell.
Funeral service to take place on Wednesday 2 August 2006, at Chobham St Lawrence Church, Chobham, Surrey.

Source: Daily Telegraph: 27 Jul 2006
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Thomas Alexander Claude Lawson-Tancred

Julia F. Lawson-Tancred (nee Murray), wife of Andrew Peter Lawson-Tancred, [b. 18 February, 1952], eldest son of Sir Henry Lawson-Tancred, 10th Baronet, and the late Lady Lawson-Tancred, of Aldborough, North Yorkshire, gave birth to a son, Thomas Alexander Claude, 17 June, 2006, a brother for Flora Isabel Jean, who was b. 31 July, 2004.
Mrs Lawson-Tancred is a daughter of Mr John Murray, of Edinburgh, and Mrs Claude Murray, of London.

Source: The Times 12 July 2006
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Audrey Plum Stuart-Menteth

Abigail J. Stuart-Menteth, wife of James William Francis Stuart-Menteth, (b. 1965), scion of the Stuart-Menteth Baronets, gave birth to a daughter, Audrey Plum, 19 May, 2006, a sister for Martha. James is the elder son of Mr Charles Granville Stuart-Menteth, (b. 1928), & Mrs Stuart-Menteth, (nee Newman, of the Newman Baronets, cr. 1836), of Gloucestershire, and Abigail is a daughter of the late Mr Francis Costolloe and of Mrs Susanna Costolloe, of Buxted, East Sussex.

Source: The Times 8 July, 2006
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Diana Lady Eardley-Wilmot

Diana Lady Eardley-Wilmot, who died 4 July 2006, was the widow of Sir John Assheton Eardley-Wilmot, LVO, DSC, RN, 5th Baronet (1917-95). She was Diana Elizabeth, daughter of Commander Aubrey Moore, RN, and married Sir John in 1939. She was the mother of Sir Michael, 6th Bt (b. 13 Jan, 1941), and Patricia Enid (b. 1944). The funeral took place at Mortlake Crematorium, 12 July 2006.

Source: The Times 6 July 2006

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Catherine Lorraine (Kitty) Pelly

Catherine Lorraine (Kitty) Pelly, who died 30 June 2006, aged 89, was the widow of Commander Douglas Charles Vincent Pelly, RN, (b. 1908; d.?) scion of the Pelly Baronets (cr 1840). She was Catherine Lorraine, daughter of Edwyn Conran, of Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, and married in 1938. She leaves issue, Anne, Gill, Catherine and Edwyn. The funeral took place at St Mary's, Church, Winchfield, Hants, 13 July 2006...

Source: The Times 5 July 2006

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Baroness Lloyd of Highbury, DBE (1928-2006)

Professor The Baroness Lloyd of Highbury, DBE (1990), Nuffield Professor of Child Health, British Postgraduate Medical Federation, London University, 1985-92; created a life peeress in 1996, died at Chilton House, 28 June, 2006. She was 78....

Source: The Times 5 July 2006

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Benedict George Mountifort Ponsonby

Jamilie Emett Ponsonby, (nee Searle), wife of the Hon Matthew Douglas Longfield Ponsonby, younger son of the 11th Earl of Bessborough, gave birth to a son, Benedict, George Mountifort, at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, 5 July, 2006, a brother for Douglas, Matilda and Edmund.

Source: Daily Telegraph 25 Jul 2006
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9th Earl of Ilchester (1920-2006)

The Earl of Ilchester, died at Tunbridge Wells, 2 July, 2006. He was aged 86. He was 9th Earl (cr 1756), and Baron Ilchester and Ilchester, Somerset, Baron Strangways of Woodsford Strangways, Dorset (cr 1741), Baron Ilchester and Stavordale of Redlynch, Somerset (1747). Maurice Vivian de Touffreville Fox-Strangways was b. 1 April, 1920, son of the 8th Earl of Ilchester by his wife Laure Georgine Emilie (d. 1970), daughter of Evanghelos Georgios Mazaraki, sometime Treasurer of the Suez Canal Co., and was educated at Kingsbridge School. Career:-> served in the RAF, 1936-76 (Group Captain); CEng, MRAeS, FINucE (Pres 1982-84); Vice Chairman, Biggin Hill Airport Consultative Committee, 1976-95; Director 1982-90, Vice Chairman 1985-86 Nottingham Building Society; Member House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology, 1984-89; President, Society of Engineers, 1974 (Hon FSE 1989); President, Biggin Hill Br, 1973-, SE Area, 1978-2003, Royal Air Force Assoc; President Darent River Preservation Soc, 1993-2003; President, Grant Maintained Schools Foundations, 1991-99; Chairman of the Governors of Cannock School, 1978-92; Kent and Downs Regional Newspaper Society, 1994-95; President, 285 Squadron, ATC, 1973-2000, 2427 Squadron, ATC, from 1977; succeeded to the peerages on the death of his father, 4 Oct, 1970 &c. He married in 1941, Diana Mary Elizabeth (President of the WAAF Assoc), eld daughter of George Frederick Simpson, of Cassington, Oxfordshire, by whom he had no issue. The peerages now devolve upon his Lordship's nephew, Robin Maurice Fox-Strangways, b. 2 Sept, 1942. Memorial Service at St Mary's, Westerham, 25 July, 2006

Source: The Times 7 July, 2006

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Commander the 5th Baron Tennyson, DSC, RN (1920-2006)

Commander the 5th Baron Tennyson, DSC, RN, died at his home in Cape Town, South Africa, 3 July, 2006. He was 86.
Mark Aubrey Tennyson was b. 28 March, 1920, a younger son of the 3rd Baron by his wife the Hon Clarissa Tennant (d. 1960), daughter of the 1st Baron Glenconner, and was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.
Career:- Royal Navy 1937-60; served in the Second World War, 1939-45 on destroyers in action in the Atlantic & Meditterean (mentioned in despatches in 1945); Production Manager, Rowntree Mackintosh (South Africa) 1960-67; Export Sales Director, Joseph Terry & Sons (UK), 1968-72; Skied for the Royal Navy, 1947-51; Captain, Royal Navy Cresta Run team, 1951-54.
He married in 1964, Deline Celeste Budler, who d. 1995. He leaves no issue, and the peerage (created in 1884) devolves upon his Lorship's cousin, David Harold Alexander Tennyson, b. 4 June 1960, of of Flat 3, 165 Clarence Street, Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Source: The Times 6 July 2006
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Commander the 5th Baron Tennyson, DSC, RN (1920-2006)

Commander the 5th Baron Tennyson, DSC, RN, died at his home in Cape Town, South Africa, 3 July, 2006. He was 86.
Mark Aubrey Tennyson was b. 28 March, 1920, a younger son of the 3rd Baron by his wife the Hon Clarissa Tennant (d. 1960), daughter of the 1st Baron Glenconner, and was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.
Career:- Royal Navy 1937-60; served in the Second World War, 1939-45 on destroyers in action in the Atlantic & Meditterean (mentioned in despatches in 1945); Production Manager, Rowntree Mackintosh (South Africa) 1960-67; Export Sales Director, Joseph Terry & Sons (UK), 1968-72; Skied for the Royal Navy, 1947-51; Captain, Royal Navy Cresta Run team, 1951-54.
He married in 1964, Deline Celeste Budler, who d. 1995. He leaves no issue, and the peerage (created in 1884) devolves upon his Lorship's cousin, David Harold Alexander Tennyson, b. 4 June 1960, of of Flat 3, 165 Clarence Street, Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Source: The Times 6 July 2006
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Ludovic Patrick Angus Bruce-Gardyne

Alexandra C.F. Bruce-Gardyne (nee Mackenzie), wife of Vere A. Bruce-Gardyne, gave bitth to a son, Ludovic Patrick Angus, 4 July, 2006, a brother for Georgia.Vere is the younger son of Mr & Mrs Patrick Bruce-Gardyne, of that BLG family, of Meonstoke, Hants, and kin of Baron Bruce-Gardyne (life peer) , & Alexandra is a daughter of Mr & Mrs Angus Mackenzie, of Calgary, Canada, and Oslo, Norway.

Source: Daily Telegraph 22 July 2006

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Guy Newman Gilbey (1952-2006)

Guy Newman Gilbey, who died at Melbourne, Australia, 19 July 2006, aged 53, was a scion from the family from which the Gilbey Baronets (cr 1893) descend. He was b. 23 Aug 1952, 2nd son of James Newman Gilbey (b. 1921), by his wife the former Celia Sparrow. He was a first cousin of James Gilbey (b. 1956), renowned as Diana, Princess of Wales's "Squidgy", &c. The Telegraph death notice says he was "Much loved by Siobhan and all his family". I have no details of a marriage, or of his issue, if any.

Source: Daily Telegraph 21 Jul 2006

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Rosemary Helen Arnaud de la Poer Beresford

Rosemary Helen Arnaud de la Poer Beresford, who died 11 July2006, following a fall, aged 95, was the second wife, and widow, of Colonel Gervais de la Poer Beresford, MBE, MC, DSM (1895-1979), scion of the Marquesses of Waterford.
The daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel G.E. Painter, Royal Engineers, she married firstly, a Mr. ------Gange, and secondly, 1957, Col. de la Poer Beresford. She leaves a daughter, Tonia. Funeral Service at 11.15 a.m. on Wednesdy 2nd August at Woodvale Crematorium, Brighton.

Source: Daily Telegraph 21 July 2006
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Isabel Speir

Alix Speir (nee McConnel), wife of Francis J. (Frank) Speir, gave birth to a daughter, Isabel, 11 July, 2006. Frank Speir is a son of Mr Thomas Francis Eyre (Tom) Speir, [b.1941], of Middleton Tyas, North Yorkshire, and Mrs Richard Hall, of Hales, Shropshire, and Alix is the former Miss E. Alix McConnel, daughter of Captain and Mrs Ian McConnel, of Brailes, Oxfordshire.
The Speir family have been landowners at Middleton Tyas for 300 years. Francis Speir's paternal grandfather married a Baker Baker [landed gentry]; his great-grandfather married a Fletcher of Saltoun [landed gentry]; his gt-gt-grandfather married a daughter of the 2nd Baron Gifford; & his gt-gt-gt-grandfather married a daughter of Sir William Napier, 8th Baronet, of Merchistoun.

Source: Daily Telegraph 21 July 2006
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Fergus Montgomerie

Philippa M.W. Montgomerie, wife since 26 Sept, 1998, of the Hon James Montgomerie, third son of the Earl and Countess of Eglinton & Winton, gave birth to a son, Fergus, 15 July 2006, a brother for Daisy Molly Watson, who was b. 27 April, 2004, and Maddy (b.?). Mrs Montgomerie is the eldest dau of Dr and Mrs N.E. Williams, of Tinwell, Rutland.


Source: Daily Telegraph 21 July 2006


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Hon Juliana Eveline Roberts

The Hon. Juliana Eveline Roberts (nee Curzon), who died 16 July, 2006, was a daughter of the 2nd Viscount Scarsdale (1898-1977), of Kedleston, Derby, by his 1st wife Mildred Carson Dunbar. She was born in 1923; married (i) 1948 (div 1952), George Derek Stanley Smith (who d. 1963); married (ii) 1953 (div 1956), Frederick Nettlefold; (married (iii) 1956 (div 1962), as his 2nd wife, Sir Dudley Herbert Cunliffe-Owen, 2nd Baronet; married 4thly, 1962 (div 1972), John Roberts, scion of the Roberts Baronets (cr 1909); she leaves issue, son Charles Stanley Smith, daughters Venetia (Stanley Smith) Caroline (Windsor), Juliana (Markeson) and Lulu (Roberts). Funeral ceremony on Thursday 20th July at 11.00 am in Carrig Church, Ballycommon, Nenagh followed by burial in Dromineer graveyard.


Source: The Times
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Eve Violet Ernestine Fraser

The Hon. James (Jamie) Murray Fraser (b. 1974), and his wife, the former Katie Geiser, had a daughter, Eve Violet Ernestine, at Homerton Hospital, 7 July, 2006, a sister for Archie (b. ?) and for Maisie Jean Florence, who was b. 20 May, 2004. Jamie Fraser is the only son of the Baron Fraser of Carmyllie (a life peer) and Baroness Fraser of Carmyllie.

Source: The Times
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Wraxall/Feilden marriage

The marriage took place 8 July, 2006, between Eustace Hubert Beilby Gibbs, 3rd Baron Wraxall, KCVO, CMG (b. 3 July, 1929), widower, son of the late 1st Baron Wraxall (1873-1931), by his 2nd wife, the former Hon Ursula Mary Lawley (d. 1979), daughter of the 6th Baron Wenlock, & Mrs Caroline Feilden, widow of Mr P. Feilden.
Lord Wraxall's first wife, the former Evelyn Veronica Scott, died 14 Dec, 2003.

Source: Daily Telegraph 10 July, 2006

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Anne Lady Farrington

Anne Lady Farrington, who died suddenly 25 June 2006, aged 88, was the widow of Sir Henry Francis Colden Farrington, 7th Baronet (b. 1914-d. 11 Mar 2004). She was Anne, eldest daughter of Maj. William Albert Gillam, DSO, Borders Regiment, and married in 1947. She leaves 2 children, (1) Susan Maria (b. 1949), and (2) Sir Henry William Farrington, 8th Baronet (b. 27 Mar 1951).The funeral took place at St Andrew's Church, Wiveliscombe, 3 July, 2006.

Source: Daily Telegraph 28 June 2006 ***