David Alexander Carroll Reid Scott 1947-2020

 _. David Alexander Carroll Reid Scott died 11 July, 2020, aged 73.

He was born 5 June, 1947, in Dublin. Education: Bachelor in Modern History, University of Oxford, l969; Master of Arts, University of Oxford, 1970.

Career: 1st vice president White Weld & Company, 1969-1978. Senior advisor to Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, Merrill Lynch & Company Inc., 1978-1984. Managing director Phoenix Securities Ltd., London, 1984-1997. Vice chairman Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette International, 1997-2000, CSFB, 2000-2001. Chairman Hawkpoint Ltd., London, since 2001.

He married firstly, 22 April, 1972, Anne Clouët des Pesruches [died February, 1988], married 2ndly, 25 September, 1997, Mrs Clare M McMullen [nee Straker], former wife of Fergus McMullen, who survives him together with three daughters from his first marriage, Iona, Camilla and Serena, and a son, Nicholas, from his second marriage.

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Jane Margaret Beaumont 1964-2020

 _. Jane Margaret Beaumont died 18 August, 2020, aged 56. She was born in 1964, a daughter of Colin Weedon, by his wife the former Shirley A. Sherwin, and married in 1988, Andrew John Blackett Beaumont [born 27 March, 1956], scion of the Viscounts Allendale, son of John Ralph Beaumont [1927-92], by his wife the former Audrey Lilian Christine Hickling, by whom she had issue, a son, Henry George Canning Beaumont [born 1993], and a daughter, Lucinda Eleanor Christine Beaumont [born 1991].

Mrs Beaumont was later the partner of Mr Thomas Crawford.

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Chambers/Gibbs marriage

 _. The marriage took place at St Matthew's Church, Midgham, 25 July, 2020, between Nicholas Timothy G. Chambers [born 1989], elder son of Robert G. Chambers, of Reed, Hertfordshire, by his wife the former [Christine] Belinda Johnson, & Fleur Elizabeth Gibbs [born 1990], daughter of Alan Francis Gibbs [born 1953], of Midgham Park, Berkshire, scion of the Barons Aldenham & Hunsdon, by his wife the former Francine Nicola Preston [born 1956].

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McCorquodale/Russell engagement

 _, The engagement was announced 29 August, 2020, between Malcolm George McCorquodale [born 1989], scion of that landed gentry family, son of Hamish Norman McCorquodale [born 6 Feb, 1945], of Hethe, Oxfordshire, by his wife the former Mary Anne Cookson [born 1952], scion of the Cookson landed gentry family, and Flora E.Q. Russell, daughter of Brigadier and Mrs Bruce Russell, of Stobo, Peebleshire.

Malcolm McCorquodale descends from the Barons Luke on his paternal side, and via that family the Barons St John of Bletso. Prominent McCorquodale kin include Mary Pamela McCorquodale [born 31 May, 1932], wife of the 17th Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne, a cousin of HM The Queen, and Neil Edmund McCorquodale [born 1951], husband of Lady Sarah Spencer, sister of Diana, Princess of Wales.

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Lupi/Maclarlane engagement

 _.The engagement was announced 29 August, 2020, between Edoardo W.K. Lupi,  son of Mr Riccardo Lupi, of La Spezia, Italy, and Ms Karen Fong, of Singapore, and [Laura] Rose Macfarlane [born 1990], daughter of Thomas P. Macfarlane, of Combe, Nettlecombe, by his wife the former Cathryn Harriet Windsor-Clive [born 1958], scion of the Earls of Plymouth, granddaughter of the 2nd Earl of Plymouth [1889-1943].

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Dixon/Stephenson engagement

 _. The engagement was announced 29 August, 2020, between Marcus Hope Dixon [born 1989], scion of the Barons Glentoran, second son of the Hon Daniel George Dixon [born 26 July, 1959], of Drumadarragh, Northern Ireland, by his wife the former Lesley Hope Brooke [born 1959], & Louisa Catherine P. Stephenson [born 1993], daughter of [Edward] Wilfrid [Wilf] Stephenson [born 1957], of Islip, Oxfordshire, by his wife the former Johanna B. Awdry [born 1959], scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Philip Neville Awdry [born 1933].

Marcus's father is heir apparent to Maj the 3rd Baron Glentoran [born 21 Apr, 1935].

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Obituary: Ian Arthur Cluny Macpherson

 _. Ian Arthur Cluny Macpherson died 23 August, 2020. He was 91.

He was a son of Maj Arthur Clarence Macpherson, of Rowana House, Westward Ho!, co Devon, and married 5 March, 1966, the Hon Sarah Catherine Conolly-Carew [born 6 Nov, 1944], daughter of the 6th Baron Carew [1905-94], by his wife the former Lady Sylvia Gwendoline Eva Maitland [1913-91], daughter of the 15th Earl of Lauderdale [1891-1953].

He leaves a widow and three children, John Gavin [born 5 Apr, 1967], and two daughters, Caroline Emma Louisa Gray [born 7 Nov, 1969], and Katharine Heather Elizaabeth Bolder [born 23 Oct, 1974].

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Paul Dennis Guinness 1941-2020

 _. Paul Dennis Guinness, who died 25 August, 2020, aged 79, was a scion of that Irish landed gentry family. 

He was born 4 February, 1941, son of Maj. Owen Charles Guinness, MBE [1894-1970], of Tirbradden, Rathfarnham, co Dublin, by his wife the former Katherine Doris Smith-Ryland [1905-93], scion of that landed gentry family.

He married 31 May, 1968, Susan Elizabeth Jennifer Gill, by whom he had issue, two sons [one deceased] and a daughter.

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Rupert Ivan Archibald Douglass [born 2020]

 _. Laura Douglass [née Sebag-Montefiore], wife of Harry Archibald Braithwaite Douglass, and a member of the Sebag-Montefiore landed gentry family, gave birth to a son, Rupert Ivan Archibald, 18 August, 2020.

Harry is a son of Robin Braithwaite Douglass (b Sept 1939) of Matfen, Northumberland. 

Laura is a daughter of Charles Adam Laurie Sebag-Montefiore [born 1949], by his wife the former Pamela Mary Diana Tennant [born 1953], kinswoman of the Barons Glenconner, descended from the Tennant baronets.

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The Baron Renton of Mount Harry, PC, DL 1932-2020

 _. Lord Renton of Mount Harry, PC, DL, life baron, who died 25 August, 2020, aged 88, was, as Tim Renton, Conservative MP for Mid-Sussex 1974-97.

Ronald Timothy Renton was born 28 May, 1932, son of Ronald Kenneth Duncan Renton [1897-1980], by his wife the former Eileen Doris Torr, MBE, and married 2 Apr, 1960, Alice Blanche Helen Fergusson [born 15 Sept, 1934], scion of the Fergusson baronets, of Kilkerran, daughter of Sir James Fergusson, 8th Baronet [1904-73], by his wife the former Louise Frances Balfour Stratford Dugdale [died 1988], by whom he had issue, 2 sons, and 3 daughters.

He served as Parliamentary Under Secretary, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 1984-5; Minister of State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 1985-87; Minister of State, Home Office 1987-89; Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury [Chief Whip] 1989-90; Minister of State, Ministry for the Arts, 1990-92, &c.

On his retirement from the Commons he was created a life peer, in 1997, as Baron Renton of Mount Harry, of Offham in the County of Sussex. 

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Mary Stella Fetherston-Dilke, CBE 1918-2020

 _. Mary Stella Fetherston-Dilke, CBE, died in Winchester, 23 August, 2020. She was 101.

She was born 21 September, 1918, daughter of Beaumont Albany Percival, later Fetherston-Dilke, by his wife the former Phoebe Stella Riland-Bedford, granddaughter maternally of Sir James Chance, 1st Baronet.

Her father, descended maternally from the Fetherston family, assumed, in 1918, the surname of Fetherston-Dilke, by Royal Licence, on succeeding to Maxstone Castle.

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William Byng Carleton Paget 1968-2020

 _. William Byng Carleton Paget, who died 20 August, 2020, aged 52, was descended from the Lowther baronets.

He was born 1 July, 1968, son of John Byng Oswald Carleton Paget [born 29 Apr, 1939], by his wife the former Sheila Anne Lowther [born 5 February, 1943]. His mother was a great-great granddaughter of Sir Charles Hugh Lowther, 3rd Baronet [1803-94].

William Carleton Paget's great-grandfather, Col John George Lowther [1885-1977], married the Hon Lilah Charlotte Sarah White [1889-1976], daughter of the 3rd Baron Annaly, GCVO [1857-1922], a Permanent Lord in Waiting to King George V.

He married in 1996, Fiona Vanessa M. Maynard [born 1969], daughter of Adrian G.M. Maynard, by his wife the former Tessa R.E. Saun, by whom he had issue, a son Sam Alexander [born 10 June, 2002], and two daughters, Scarlett May [born 1999], and Eliza Bluebell [born 27 January, 2005].

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Verschoyle/Scott-Bowden engagement

 _. The engagement was announced 27 August, 2020, between James H.H.S. Verschoyle, son of the late Mr Hamilton Verschoyle and Mrs Verschoyle, of Compton Abbas, Dorset, & Camilla Frances Scott-Bowden [born 1984], daughter of Brigadier Robert Logan Scott-Bowden, MBE [born 1955], by his wife the former Nicola Frances Phillips.

Camilla Scott-Bowden is a granddaughter of Maj-Gen Logan Scott-Bowden [1921-2014], by his wife the former Helen Jocelyn Price [1920-2010], daughter of Sir Francis Caradoc Rose Price, 5th Baronet [1880-1949].

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Forbes Adam/Hasell-McCosh engagement

 _. The engagement was announced 27 August, 2020, between [Crispin] Beilby Forbes Adam [born 20 April, 1987], scion of the Adam baronets, son of Charles David Forbes Adam [born 8 Oct, 1957], of Skipwith Hall, North Yorkshire, by his wife the former Rosalind Cecilia Colvile, & Hermione Sylvia A. Hasell-McCosh [born 1987], elder daughter of Robert B Hasell-McCosh, of Dalemain, Cumbria, by his wife the former Elizabeth J Halsey.

Beilby Forbes Adam is a grandson of Sir Nigel Colin Forbes Adam, 5th Baronet [born 7 Dec, 1930].

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Brian Edward Allfrey 1938-2020

 _.Brian Edward Allfrey, who died 24 August, 2020, aged 82, was a scion of that landed gentry family, with a plethora of aristocratic families.

He was born 4 Apr, 1938, son of Hubert Mortimer Allfrey [1911-2001], by his wife the former Joan Marsham [1911-62], scion of the Earls of Romney.

He leaves a widow, Antonia, and three children, Simon, Clare and Ed.

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Frost/Mills engagement

 _. The engagement has been announced between George Paradine Frost [born 1987], third son of the late Sir David Paradine Frost, OBE [1939-2013], the broadcaster, by his wife the former Lady Carina Mary Fitzalan-Howard [born 20 February, 1952], and Miss Katherine Mills, a magician.

George Frost is a grandson maternally of the late 17th Duke of Norfolk [1915-2002], Earl Marshal, Premier Duke in the Peerage of England.

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Margaret Anne Hambro 1933-2020

 _. Margaret Anne Hambro, who has died aged 87, was the widow of Jocelyn Hambro, and former wife of the late 7th Earl Fortescue.

She was born Margaret Anne Stratton, in 1933, daughter of Capt Charles Michael Stratton [1906-91], by his first wife the former Anne Drummond [1911-85], scion of the Earls of Perth, daughter of Vice-Admiral the Hon Edmund Rupert Drummond [1884-1965].

She married firstly, 3 March, 1961 [divorced 1987], as his second wife, the then Richard Archibald Fortescue [1922-93], styled Viscount Ebrington, who in 1977 succeeded as the 7th Earl Fortescue, son of the 6th Earl Fortescue [1893-1977], by his wife the former Marjorie Ellinor Trotter.

She married 2ndly, 28 January, 1988, as his third wife, Jocelyn Olaf Hambro [1919-94], scion of that landed gentry family, son of Ronald Olaf Hambro [1885-1961], by his wife the former Winifred Emily Ridley-Smith [who died as the result of a boating accident in 1932].

Mrs Hambro leaves two daughters from her marriage to Lord Fortescue, Lady Laura Margaret Jamieson [born 1 May, 1962], and Lady Sarah Jane Fortescue [born 16 Aug, 1963].

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Brian Mark Whitlock-Blundell 1922-2020

 _. Brian Mark Whitlock-Blundell, of Crosby Hall, Little Crosby, Merseyside, died 19 August, 2020. He was 97.

He was born in 1922, at Battle, Sussex, as Brian Mark Whitlock, second son of Mark Kingsley Whitlock, of Braziers Farm, Chipperfield, Hertfordshire, and married 26 January, 1950, Hester Mary Blundell [1928-2001], daughter of Francis Nicholas Blundell [1880-1936], of Crosby Hall, by his wife the former Theresa Victoria Ward.

His wife succeeded as head of the landed gentry family of Blundell, of Crosby Hall, and in consequence of this Mr Whitlock assumed the surname of Whitlock-Blundell by deed poll.

Mr Whitlock-Blundell was the father of eight, sons Mark, Richard, Joseph, Thomas and Christopher, and daughters, Mary, Emma and Monica.

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Laxton/Crofton-Atkins engagement

 _. The engagement was announced 25 August, 2020, between James R. Laxton, son of Mr Peter Laxton and Mrs Agnes Rodgers, of San Francisco, California, United States, and Rebecca M.C. Crofton-Atkins, scion of that landed gentry family, youngest daughter of Peter Randell Crofton-Atkins [born 1937], of Milton Lilbourne, Wiltshire, by his wife the former Susan Mary Winslow-Taylor.

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Turner/Brooke engagement

 _. The engagement was announced 25 August, 2020, between Henry B. Turner, son of Alix and Pam Turner, of Camden, New South Wales, Australia, and Rebecca L Brooke, younger daughter of Mr Hugo Brooke, and of the Baroness MacLaurin of Knebworth.

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