The Duke of Bedford's descent from Henry VII

 HENRY VII,

King of England = Elizabeth of York, dau of Edward IV

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MARY TUDOR = 1515, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, KG (1484-1545)

(1496-1533)

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LADY ELEANOR BRANDON =1537, Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland

(d. 1547)

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LADY MARGARET CLIFFORD =1555, Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby KG

(c. 1540-96)

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FERDINANDO STANLEY, 5th Earl of Derby =c.1580, Alice Spencer

(c.1559-94)

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LADY FRANCES STANLEY = John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgwater

(1583-c. 1636)

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LADY ELIZABETH EGERTON =David Cecil, 3rd Earl of Exeter (c1600-43)

(d. c. 1686/7)

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JOHN CECIL, 4th Earl of Exeter =1646, Lady Frances Manners

(1628-1687/8)

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JOHN CECIL, 5th Earl of Exeter =1670, Anne (d. 1703)

(c.1648-1700)

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LADY ELIZABETH CECIL =1706, Charles, 4th Earl of Orrery. KT

(1687-1708)

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JOHN BOYLE, 5th Earl of Cork & Orrery =(2) Margaret Hamilton

(1706/7-62)

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LADY LUCY BOYLE = 1765, George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington

(1744-92)

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HON GEORGIANA BYNG = John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford

(1768-1801)

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Major-General LORD GEORGE RUSSELL = 1817, Elizabeth Rawdon

(1790-1846)

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FRANCIS, 9th Duke of Bedford =1844, Elizabeth Sackville West

(1819-91)

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HERBRAND RUSSELL, 11th Duke of Bedford =1888, Mary Tribe

(1858-1950)

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HASTINGS RUSSELL, 12th Duke of Bedford =1914, Louisa Whitwell

(1888-1953)

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JOHN RUSSELL, 13th Duke of Bedford =(1) Clare Bridgman

(1917-2002)

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HENRY (IAN) RUSSELL, 14th Duke of Bedford =1961, Henrietta Tiarks

(1940-2003)

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ANDREW RUSSELL, 15th Duke of Bedford =2000, Louise Crammond

(b. Boston Mass., 30 March, 1962)

Source: *The Blood Royal of Britain: Being a Roll of the Livng

Descendants of Edward IV and Henry VII, Kings of England and James III,

King of Scotland, by the Marquis of Ruvigny & Raineval (published by TC

& EC Jack, London & Edinburgh, 1903)*.

The Duke of Beaufort's descent from Henry VII

 HENRY VII,

King of England = Elizabeth of York, dau of Edward IV

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MARY TUDOR = 1515, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, KG (1484-1545)

(1496-1533)

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LADY FRANCES BRANDON =c.1535, Henry Grey, Marquis of Dorset, KG

(d. 1559)

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LADY KATHERINE GREY =1560, Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford

(c.1538-c. 1567)

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EDWARD SEYMOUR, Lord Beauchamp = c.1585, Honora Rogers

(1561-1612)

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WILLIAM SEYMOUR, 2nd Duke of Somerset =Lady Frances Devereux

(1588-1660)

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HENRY SEYMOUR, Lord Beauchamp =1648, Hon Mary Capell

(1626-54)

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LADY ELIZABETH SEYMOUR =1676, Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury

(d. 1696/7)

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LADY ELIZABETH BRUCE =1707, George Brudenell, 3rd Earl of Cardigan

(d. 1745)

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COLONEL THE HON ROBERT BRUDENELL, MP =1759, Anne Bisshopp

(1726-68)

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ROBERT, 6th Earl of Cardigan =1794, Penelope Cooke

(1769-1837)

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LADY HARRIET BRUDENELL = 1820, Richard Curzon, 1st Earl Howe

(1799-1836)

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LADY GEORGIANA CURZON =1845, 8th Duke of Beaufort

(d. 1906)

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LORD HENRY SOMERSET = 1872, Isabella Caroline

(1849-1932)

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HENRY SOMERSET =(1) 1896, Lady Katherine Beauclerk

(1874-1945)

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HENRY SOMERSET = 1922, Bettine Malcolm

(1898-1965)

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DAVID SOMERSET, 11th Duke of Beaufort = (2), 2000, Miranda Morley

(1928-2917)

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HENRY SOMERSET, 12th Duke of Beaufort

(born 22 May, 1952)

Source: *The Blood Royal of Britain: Being a Roll of the Livng

Descendants of Edward IV and Henry VII, Kings of England and James III,

King of Scotland, by the Marquis of Ruvigny & Raineval (published by TC

& EC Jack, London & Edinburgh, 1903*.

Catherine Jane Hall 1954-2022

Catherine Jane Hall [née Lewthwaite], who died 30 September, 2022, aged 68, was a scion of the Lewthwaite baronets. She was born 16 March, 1954, second daughter of Sir William Anthony Lewthwaite, 3rd Baronet [1912-1993], and his wife the former Lois Mairi Kerr-Clark [died 2001]; and married in 1986, William Tobias [Toby] Hall [1952-2015], son of Stanley John Hall [1914-1996], of Stratfield Turgis, Hampshire, and his wife the former Judith Ida Blanche Higgins [1924-2003], by whom she had twin daughters, Francesca and Sophie  [born 22 July, 1990].

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Roland Rupert William de Klee [born 2022]

Edwina Margaret Fiona de Klee [née Drake] born 1987, wife of Kyle Murray F. de Klee [born 1987], scion of the De Klee landed gentry family, gave birth to a son, Roland Rupert William, 13 October, 2022, a brother for Eliza Henrietta Charlotte, who was born 12 August, 2020.

Edwina is descended from the Barons Colgrain, a daughter of William Eric Drake [born 1953], by his wife the former Henrietta Sara Scott [born 1957], descended from the 1st Baron Colgrain [1866-1954].

Kyle de Klee is a son of Rupert Murray de Klee [born 18 August, 1956], by his wife the former Charlotte-Ann M. Hutley [born 1956].

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Monty Otto Edward Fletcher [born 2022]

 Olivia Rose Fletcher [nee Campbell-Lamerton, born 12 July, 1990], wife of Edward Fletcher, and a descendant of the Barons Stafford, gave birth to a son, Monty Otto Edward, 1 October, 2022, a brother for Beatrice Coco Hester, who was born 15 August, 2020.

Edward Fletcher is a son of Stephen Fletcher, of Charlsfield, Sussex, and Olivia Fletcher is a daughter of Jeremy Campbell-Lamerton, of Rendlesham, Suffolk, and his wife the former Mary Louise Thorneycroft [born 18 March, 1961].

Basil Fitzherbert [father of the 14th Baron Stafford] > Hon Beatrice Fitzherbert > Hester Chichele-Plowden > Daphne Poland > Mary Thorneycroft > Olivia Campbell-Lamerton > Monty Fletcher

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Lady Swann (died 2022), wife of Sir Michael Swann, Bt

 Lady Swann, who died 8 October, 2022, aged 84, was the wife of Sir Michael Swann, 4th Baronet.

She was the former Marilyn Anne Morse Tobitt, daughter of Leslie Charles Tobitt, of Montevideo, Uruguay, and married in 1988, as his second wife, Michael Christopher Swann [born 25 September, 1941], son of Sir Anthony Charles Christopher Swann, 3rd Baronet [1913-91], and his wife the former Jean Margaret Niblock-Stuart [died 2001]. Her husband succeeded to his father's baronetcy, [cr UK, 1906], in 1991.

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Athena Lyra Crawley (born 2022)

 Alice Sophie Crawley (nee Rugge-Price, born 22 May, 1985), wife of Aidan Harold Winston Crawley [born 22 October, 1983], gave birth to a daughter, Athena Lyra, 8 October, 2022.

Aidan Crawley is a son of the late Randall Stafford Crawley [1950-88], and his wife the former Marita Georgina Phillips [born 28 May, 1954] [now Mrs Marita Knight].

Alice Crawley, former wife of Archibald David Keswick [born 1980], scion of that landed family, is a daughter of James Keith Alan [Jamie] Rugge-Price [born 10 Oct, 1944], scion of the Rugge-Price baronets, and his former wife Alexa Crookshank [now Mrs Alexa Vere Nicoll].

The infant is descended from the Royal House of Russia, via the Wernher baronets.

Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia > Grand Duke Michael of Russia [d 1909] > Grand Duke Michael of Russia [d 1929] > Anastasia [Zia] de Torby > Georgina Wernher > Marita Phillips > Aidan Crawley > Athena Lyra Crawley 

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(John Laurence) David Aschan 1943-2022

 (John Laurence) David Aschan, who died 5 October, 2022, aged 79, was descended from the banking arm of the Guinness brewing dynasty.

He was born 1 May, 1943, son of Carl Nils Wilhelm Gunnar Aschan, of Torstensonsgatan, Sweden, and his wife the former Marit Victoria Guinness (1919-2004); and married firstly, 20 September, 1967 (div 1968), as her first husband, Pennant Elfrida Iremonger [born 1943], scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Thomas Lascelles Isa Shandon Valiant Iremonger, MP [1916-1998], and his wife the former Lucille Parks [1915-89]; and married 2ndly, 1970 (div 1978), Penelope Jane Wilson, daughter of Robert Edward Arnsby Wilson; and married 3rdly, 1979 (div 1981), Emma Mary Henderson (born 5 November, 1950), descended from th Lowther baronets, daughter of Robert Alistair Henderson (1917-99), and his wife the former Bridget Elizabeth Lowther (1921-99).

David Aschan leaves issue, a son and a daughter from his second marriage, Patrick (born 17 July, 1971), and Charlotte (born 16 Sept, 1974), and two daughters from his third marriage, Clare (born June, 1979), and Elizabeth (born 5 Feb, 1981).

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Frederick Thomas James Micklem (born 2022)

Louisa Hale Micklem (born 1986, nee Garnier), wife of Robert Esmond Micklem (born 1984), gave birth to a son, Frederick Thomas James, 8 September, 2022, a brother for Henry (born 2016) and Rosanna (born 2019).

Louisa is the eldest daughter of Major James Hugh Garnier (born 7 Apr, 1948), descended from the Barons Walsingham, and his wife the former Katherine Hale Puckle.

Robert, a scion of Micklem landed gentry family, is son of (Charles) Barney Micklem [born 1948], and his wife the former (Else) Jane Brocksopp.

The 8th Baron Walsingham > Hon Lavender de Grey > Maj James Garnier > Louisa Garnier > Frederick Micklem

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Sir Walter John Hugh St John-Mildmay, Bt 1935-2022

 Sir Walter John Hugh St John-Mildmay, 12th Baronet, died 1 October, 2022. He was 87.

He was born 3 September, 1935, son of Michael Paulet St John-Mildmay ( 1901-93), and his wife the former Joan Elizabeth Stockley (who died in 1977), and was educated at Wycliffe College, Stroud, and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

He successfully claimed the baronetcy in 1998. The title had fallen dormant over forty years previously with the demise of Sir Aubrey, the tenth holder of the baronetcy [created in 1772 for Paulet St John].

Sir Walter is succeeded by his younger brother, Michael Hugh Paulet St John-Mildmay, who was born 28 September, 1937.

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William and Toby Beare [born 2022]

 Judith Kate Beare (nee Durrant, born 1986), wife of Capt Charles Henry Lyell Beare (born 1984), Welsh Guards, gave birth to twin sons, William and Toby, 29 July, 2022, brothers for Poppy and Cecily.

Charlie Beare is the yr son of Mr Julian Lyell Beare (b 1951), of Cowden, Kent, by his wife the former Charlotte Julia Mary Elborne (descended from the Viscounts Galway) .

Judith Beare is a daughter of {Graham} Michael Durrant, of Wardour, Wilts, by his wife Dr Pamela H. Durrant (nee Swingler).

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Glaister/Hawley engagement

The engagement was announced 15 October, 2022, between Henry Augustus Glaister (born 9 July, 1994), elder son of Stephen Blair Glaister (born 1958), of Alresford, Hampshire, and his wife the former Melita Louise Hely-Hutchinson (born 6 June, 1962), scion of the Earls of Donoughmore, & Miranda Alice Hawley (born 15 July,1996), middle daughter of Charles J. Hawley, of Colton, Staffordshire, and his wife the former Victoria Louise Prideaux (born 26 May, 1967), descended from the Birch-Reynardson landed family, and the Ponsonby Barons De Mauley.

The 4th Earl of Donoughmore > Rt Hon Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson > Maurice Hely-Hutchinson > Henry Aymar Hely-Hutchinson > Melita Hely-Hutchinson > Henry Glaister

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Sir Hugh Frederick Corbet Gore, 15th Baronet 1934-2022

 Sir Hugh Frederick Corbet Gore, 15th Baronet, died at his home in Australia, 12 October, 2022. He was 87.

Sir Hugh, late of St.Ives, formerly of Goondiwindi, was the fifteenth holder of the baronetcy, created of Magherabegg, co. Donegal [Ireland, 1622].

He was born 31 December, 1934, son of Frederick Dundas Corbet Gore [1885-1964], and his wife the former Ella Maud Sydney-Jones [died 17 July, 1967]; and succeeded to the baronectcy, 23 September, 2008, on the death of his cousin, Sir Nigel Hugh St George Gore, 14th Baronet.

He married 12 July, 1963, Jennifer Mary Copp, daughter of Milton Gordon Copp, by whom he had issue, a son, Timothy, and two daughters, Penelope and Virginia. The son, Timothy Milton Corbet Gore, born 26 November, 1969, succeeds as 16th baronet.

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Life peerages announced: October 2022

 Political Peerages 2022:-

The King has been graciously pleased to signify His intention of conferring the following Peerages of the United Kingdom for Life.

From:

Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

Published

14 October 2022

The King has been graciously pleased to signify His intention of conferring Peerages of the United Kingdom for Life upon the undermentioned:

Nominations from the former Leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party

Angie Bray – Formerly Member of Parliament for Ealing Central and Acton, and leader of the Conservative Group in the London Assembly.

Graham Evans – Formerly Member of Parliament for Weaver Vale.

Sir Michael Hintze – Businessman, founder of the Hintze Family Charitable Foundation; Trustee of the National Gallery.

Stewart Jackson – Formerly Member of Parliament for Peterborough, and Special Adviser at the Department for Exiting the European Union.

Kate Lampard CBE – Chair of GambleAware; Lead Non-Executive Director of the Department for Health and Social Care.

Dr Sheila Lawlor – Founder and Director of Research at Politeia.

Dr Ruth Lea CBE - Economist, former civil servant and think tank director.

Dr Dambisa Moyo – economist and author; formerly Commissioner for the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities.

Teresa O’Neill OBE - Leader of the Council in the London Borough of Bexley; Vice Chair on London Councils; Deputy Chair of the Local Government Association.

Professor Andrew Roberts – historian and journalist; Founder-President of the Cliveden Literary Festival.

Dr Cleveland Anthony Sewell CBE – formerly Chair of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities; Chair of Generating Genius.

Rt Hon Sir Nicholas Soames – formerly Member of Parliament for Mid Sussex, and Minister of State for the Armed Forces.

Sir Hugo Swire – formerly Member of Parliament for East Devon, and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Nominations from the Leader of the Labour Party

Sonny Leong CBE – Co-Founder and Co-Chair of SME4Labour.

Frances O’Grady – General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress of the UK.

David Prentis – President of Public Services International and formerly Secretary General of Unison.

Kuldip Singh Sahota – Labour Councillor for Malinslee & Dawley Bank.

Ruth Smeeth – Formerly Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent North.

Sharon Taylor OBE – Labour Leader of Stevenage Borough Council.

Dr Fiona Twycross – Deputy Mayor of London for Fire and Resilience.

Thomas Watson – formerly Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

Nominations from the Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party

Peter Weir – formerly Minister for Education in the Northern Ireland Executive.

Nominations for non-affiliated Peerages

Dame Arlene Foster – formerly First Minister of Northern Ireland.

Professor Guglielmo Verdirame KC - barrister and Professor of International Law at King’s College London.

Nominations for Crossbench Peerages

Sir Peter Hendy – Chair of Network Rail.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach – Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to the Western Balkans and formerly Chief of Defence Staff.

The Prime Minister recommended this list to the King, further to advice from the former Prime Minister, Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP.

Published 14 October 2022

Baroness Guthrie of Craigiebank, OBE 1941-2022

The Baroness Guthrie of Craigiebank, OBE, who died 8 October, 2022, was the wife of Field Marshal The Baron Guthrie of Cragiebank, GCB, GCVO, OBE, DL [born 17 November, 1938]. She was 81.

Her husband was Colonel of the Life Guards and Gold Stick in Waiting to Queen Elizabeth II, 1999-2019.

She was born 10 September, 1941, the former Catherine A. Worrall, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Claude Worrall, OBE, MVO, of the Coldstream Guards, ofBitham Hall, Warwickshire, and his wife the former Cecilia Moore, and married 11 September, 1971, the then Major Charles Ronald Llewelyn Guthrie, scion of a landed family, son of Maj Ronald Guthrie and his wife the former Nina Llewelyn. 

Her husband, Chief of the General Staff 1994-97, and Chief of the Defence Staff 1997-2001, was raised to the peerage of life, in June 2001, as Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank.

Lady Guthrie leaves issue, two sons.

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Lucy, Baroness Swansea 1931-2022

 Lucy, Baroness Swansea, who died 9 October, 2022, aged 91, was the second wife, and widow of the 4th Baron Swansea [1925-2005].

She was born Lucy Gough, 14 September, 1931, daughter of the Most Rev Hugh Rowlands Gough, CMG, OBE, DD, Archbishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia 1959-66, and his wife the Hon Madeline Elizabeth Kinnaird [1908-2001], daughter of the 12th Lord Kinnaird [1880-1972].

She married firstly 1959 [div 1971], Harold Mervyn Temple-Richards, scion of the Temple baronets; and married 2ndly, 2 December, 1982, John Hamilton Hussey Vivian, 4th Baron Swansea [born 1 January, 1925]. He died 24 June, 2005, aged 80. 

Lady Swansea leaves issue from her first marriage.

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Julia Margaret Barton (nee Lindsay) 1941-2022

 Julia Margaret Barton (nee Lindsay), who died 4 October, 2022, aged 81, was a scion of the Earls of Crawford and Balcarres.

She was born 24 September, 1941, daughter of Major the Hon James Louis Lindsay [1906-1997], sometime MP for North Devon, by his wife the former Hon Bronwen Mary Scott-Ellis [1912-2003], daughter of the 8th Baron Howard De Walden [1880-1946].

She married 7 September, 1963, Malcolm Peter Speight Barton, son of Major Michael Hugh Barton, by whom she had issue, two sons, Henry James [born 5 July, 1967], and Christopher Charles [born 10 Nov 1970], and a daughter, Fenella Jane [born 10 March, 1965].

Julia Barton was a granddaughter paternally of the 27th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres, KT, PC [1871-1940].

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John Kenneth Andrew Gibbs [1948-2022]

 John Kenneth Andrew Gibbs, who died 2 October, 2022, aged 73, was a scion of the Barons Aldenham, and a half-brother of the 5th Earl of Liverpool [born 14 Nov, 1944].

He was born 9 October, 1948, first son of Major Andrew Antony Gibbs [1914-2000], and his wife Mrs Elizabeth Joan Foljambe [1921-1993], widow of Capt Peter George William Savile Foljambe [1919-44], scion of the Earls of Liverpool, and a scion of the Flint landed gentry family, daughter of Major Eric Charles Montagu Flint, DSO [1883-1962], and his wife the former Frances Sarah Nancy Hulbert [1893-1938], scion of that landed gentry family.

He married 7 January, 1978, Julia Margaret Edwards [born 1950], daughter of Major Maurice Alfred Edwards [1919-2005], and his wife the former Margaret Anne Beale [born 1920], by whom he had issue, a son, Simon Andrew Maurice Gibbs [born 27 Nov, 1985], and two daughters, Emma Elizabeth [born 5 Nov, 1979], and Louisa Mary [born 11 Dec, 1981].

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Eileen Loveday Miller [nee Pole-Carew] 1930-2022

 Eileen Loveday Miller [nee Pole-Carew], who died 28 September, 2022, aged 92, was a scion of the Pole Baronets [cr 1628] and a descendant of the Barons Lyttelton.

She was born 20 May, 1930, the second daughter of  Major Gerald Ayshford Pole-Carew [1887-1969], and his wife the former Eileen Flora O'Callaghan [1893-1989]; and married 15 January, 1955 [div 1964], Brian Arnold Miller, son of W.S. Miller.

The 1st Baron Lyttelton > Hon Caroline Lyttelton > William Henry Pole-Carew > Charles Edward Pole-Carew > Gerald Ayshford Pole-Carew > Eileen Loveday Pole-Carew

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Susan, Countess of Leven and Melville 1933-2022

 Susan, Countess of Leven and Melville, widow of the 16th Earl of Leven and [13th] of Melville, died 8 October, 2022. She was 89.

The Countess was born Susan Steuart Menzies, 30 March, 1933, elder daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Steuart Menzies [1884-1961], late the Scots Guards, Chief of the Clan Menzies, of Arndilly House, Craigellachie, Banffshire, by his wife the former Sybil Mary Willoughby Boulton.

Susan Steuart Menzies married 30 Apr, 1953, Alexander Robert Leslie-Melville, 15th Earl of Leven [Peerage of Scotland, cr 1641], and 13th Earl of Melville [also Peerage of Scotland, cr 1690], whose other titles include Viscount of Kirkaldie [Scot, 1690], Lord Melville of Monymaill [Scot, 1616], Lord Balgonie [Scot, 1641], and Lord Raith, Monymaill and Balwearie [Scot, 1690]. Her husband, born 13 May, 1924, & succeeded his father in the family honours, and 15 January, 1947. 

Lord Leven and Melville was ADC to Governor-General of New Zealand 1951-52; Lord Lieutenant of Nairn from 1969; Chairman, Nairn County Council 1970-74; Chairman of Governors, Gordonstoun School 1971-89; President, British Ski Federation 1981-85, &c. He died 7 April, 2012.

Susan, Countess of Leven & Melville leaves issue, a son, the Hon Archibald Leslie-Melville [born 15 September, 1957], and a daughter, Lady Jane Hudson [born 5 May, 1956]. She was predeceased by her elder son, David, styled Lord Balgonie [born 26 January, 1954], who died, killed in a skiing accident near Verbier, 14 February, 2007.

Her grandson, Alexander [born 29 Nov, 1984], is the 17th Earl of Leven & 14th Earl of Melville.

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