Sir Jeremy Brian Vincent Grayson, 5th Baronet 1933-2023

 Sir Jeremy Grayson, 5th Baronet, photographer, died 21 August, 2023, aged 90.

Jeremy Brian Vincent Grayson was born 30 January, 1933, son of Brian Harrington Grayson (1900-1989), and his first wife the former Sofia Buchanan, and was a grandson of Sir Henry Grayson (1865-1951), who was Director of Ship Repairs at the Admiralty 1916-1919, and created a baronet in 1922.

Jeremy Grayson succeeded to the baronetcy in 1991 on the demise of his uncle, Sir Rupert Grayson, 4th Baronet (1897-1991), the novelist. He married in 1958, Sara Mary Upton, daughter of C.P. Upton, by whom he had issue, three sons, Simon, Paul, and Mark, and four daughters, Caroline, Anna, Mary, and Lucy. The baronetcy now passes to his eldest son, Simon Jeremy Grayson, who was born 12th July, 1959.

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de Yong/Wills engagement

The engagement was announced 31 August, 2023, between Carey L. de Yong, son of Mr L. de Yong and Ms N. Giovannini, of Surrey Hills, Melbourne, Australia, and Charlotte Caroline Wills (born 23 September, 1991), scion of the Wills baronets, second daughter of Richard Arnold Wills (born 5 March, 1962), of Middleton, Hampshire, and his wife the former (Gia) Netta Morris (born 1962).

Charlotte Wills is a cousin of the King via her Bowes Lyon ancestry:-

The 14th Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne (1855-1944) > Lady Mary Frances Bowes Lyon (1883-1961) > Hon Jean Constance Elphinstone (1915-1999) > Capt Andrew Wills (1937-1998) > Richard Arnold Wills (b 1962) > Charlotte Wills (b 1991)

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The 14th Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne (1855-1944) > Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon (1900-2002) > HM Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) > HM King Charles III (b 1948)

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Brooke/Rankin engagement

The engagement was announced 31 August, 2023, between Archie Alan John Brooke (born 17 December, 1991), scion of the Viscounts Brookeborough, eldest son of the Hon Christopher Arthur Brooke (born 16 May, 1954), of Colebrooke, and his wife the former Amanda Hodges, and Isobel A. Rankin, daughter of John Rankin of Tortola, British Virgin Islands, and Lesley Rankin of Glastonbury, Somerset.

Archie's father is the younger brother and heir presumptive of the 3rd Viscount Brookeborough, KG (born 30 June, 1952).

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The Baron Haworth 1948-2023

 The Baron Haworth, who died at Reykjavík, Iceland, 28 August 2023, aged 75.

Alan Robert Haworth, who was born 26 April 1948, was a Labour politician. He was an official in the party from 1975 to 2004, including serving as Secretary of the Parliamentary Labour Party from 1992 to 2004. In 2004, he was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer.

Haworth was appointed to the staff of the Parliamentary Labour Party in 1975, became Senior Committee Officer in 1985, and served as Secretary of the PLP from 1992 to 2004. He was elevated to the House of Lords on 28 June 2004, and his peerage was gazetted in the name, style and title of Baron Haworth, of Fisherfield in Ross and Cromarty. 

Haworth married in 1991,  lawyer Maggie Rae. 

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Fortescue/MacDonald engagement

The engagement was announced 26 August, 2023, between Capt Thomas Edmund Horatio Fortescue, Coldstream Guards (born 30 July, 1993), scion of the Earls Fortescue, the elder son of John Andrew Francis Fortescue (born 27 March, 1955), of Wincombe, Dorset, and his wife the former Phoebe Anne Cecilia Burridge (born 25 July, 1959), & Louisa A.R. MacDonald, daughter of Lt Col and Mrs Angus MacDonald, of Muirburn, Peeblesshire. 

Capt Tom Fortescue's father is heir pres to the 8th Earl Fortescue (born 10 May, 1951)

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Hon Orlando Christopher George MacAndrew (born 2023)

 The Baroness MacAndrew (née Clare Lindsay Woodman), wife of the 4th Baron MacAndrew (born 3 September, 1983), gave birth to a son, Orlando Christopher George, 31 July, 2023, a brother for the Hon Archie Charles Wilbur, who was born 2 May, 2017.

Lord MacAndrew is the son of the late 3rd Baron (1945-2023), and his wife the former Sarah Helen Brazier (born 1955).

Lady MacAndrew is a daughter of Mr & Mrs Gordon Woodman, of Haslemere, Surrey.

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The 2nd Baron Elton 1930-2023

Lord Elton, the 2nd Baron, who died 19 August, 2023, aged 93, was a Conservative peer and sometime a deputy speaker of the House of Lords.

Rodney Elton was born 2 March, 1930, the only son of the 1st Baron Elton (1892-1973), and his wife the former Dedi Hartmann (who died 15 March, 1977), daughter of Gustav Hartmann, of Oslo.

His father, Godfrey Elton, was an academic and historian, a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, in 1919, and was lecturer in modern history from 1919 to 1939, dean of the college between 1921 and 1923 and tutor from 1927 to 1934. In 1923 he published The Revolutionary Idea in France, 1789–1878. Godfrey Elton joined the Labour Party shortly after the end of World War I and stood unsuccessfully for Thornbury in the 1924 and 1929 general elections. He was a strong supporter of Ramsay MacDonald, whose son Malcolm MacDonald had been his pupil at Oxford, and followed him into National Labour. On 16 January 1934, on MacDonald's initiative, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Elton, of Headington in the County of Oxford., a controversial creation.

Rodney Elton succeeded his father, 18 April, 1973, as the 2nd Baron, and was elected to the House of Lords in 1999.

Lord Elton was twice married; firstly, on 18 September, 1958 (div 1979), to Anne Frances Tilney, 1st daughter of Brigadier Robert Adolphus George Tilney CBE DSO, of The Hall, Sutton Bonnington, co. Leicester, by his wife Frances Moore Barclay, daughter of Robert Cochrane Barclay, of Virginia, USA; and married 2ndly, 24 August, 1979, Susan Richenda Gurney, CVO (born 14 September, 1937), scion of that landed gentry family, Lady-in-Waiting to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 1987-2022, 3rd daughter of Sir Hugh Gurney, KCMG, MVO (1878-1968), and his wife the former Mariota Susan Carnegie (1892-1980), scion of the Earls of Southesk.

Lord Elton is survived by his second wife and four children of his first marriage, a son, the Hon Edward Paget Elton (born 28, May, 1966), who now succeeds to the peerage, and three daughters, the Hon Annabel (born 24 Oct, 1960), the Hon Jane (born 15 Jan 1962), and the Hon Lucy (born 19 Dec, 1963). The younest daughter is Lady Gray, wife of the 23rd Lord Gray (born 3 Sept, 1964).

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Hugh John Alexander Lindsay 1934-2023

 Hugh John Alexander Lindsay, who died 18 August, 2023, aged 89, was a scion of the Earls of Crawford & Balcarres.

He was born 30 July, 1934, the eldest son of the Hon James Louis Lindsay (1906-1997), and his wife the Hon Bronwen Mary Scott-Ellis (1912-2003), daughter of the 8th Baron Howard De Walden (1880-1946), and was a grandson paternally of the 27th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres, KT, PC (1871-1940).

He married 7 October, 1961, Constance Carolyn (Carol) Buchanan (1934-2021), 2nd daughter of Major Sir Charles James Buchanan, 4th Baronet (1899-1984), and his wife the former Barbara Helen Stanley (1906-1986), scion of the Earls of Derby, by whom he had issue, three sons, David (born 3 Sept, 1962), Alastair (born 24 Aug, 1964), and Robert (born 12 March, 1967), and a daughter, Clare (born 18 March, 1970).

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Rev the 2nd Baron Milverton 1930-2023

Rev. The 2nd Baron Milverton died at Helensburgh, 10 August, 2023. He was 93.

Lord Milverton was ordained Deacon 1957, Priest 1958;  Curate, St George's Beckenham, Kent, 1957-59;  Assistant Priest, St John the Baptist, Sevenoaks, 1959-60;  Curate and Assistant Priest, St Nicholas, Great Bookham, Surrey, 1960-63;  Vicar of Okewood with Forest Green, Surrey, 1963-67;  Rector, Christian Malford with Sutton Benger and Tytherton Kellaways, Wiltshire, 1967-93, &c.

Fraser Arthur Richard Richards was born 21 July, 1930, son of the 1st Baron Milverton, GCMG (1885-1978), and his wife the former Noelle Brenda Whitehead (1905-2010); and succeeded to the peerage on his father's death, 27 Oct, 1978.

His father, Arthur Frederick Richards entered the Malaysian Civil Service 1908; Acting First Assistant Colony Secretary, Straits Settlement 1921; Acting Under-Secretary, Federation of Malay States 1926; Under-Secretary, Federation of Malay States 1927-29; Acting General Adviser, Sultanate of Johore 1929-30; Governor of North Borneo 1930-33;  CMG 1933; Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Gambia 1933-36;  KCMG 1935; Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Fiji and High Commissioner, Western Pacific 1936-38;  Captain-General and Commander-in-Chief of Jamaica 1938-43;  GCMG 1942; Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria 1943-47; KStJ, &c. He was raised to the peerage, 10 Oct, 1947, as Baron Milverton, of Lagos and of Clifton in the City of Bristol.

The 2nd Baron married 10 Aug, 1957, Mary Dorothy Fly (1931-2020), daughter of Leslie Aubrey Fly, of Corsham, co Wiltshire, and his wife the former (Alice) Dorothy Wheeler (1899-1980), by whom he had two daughters, the Hon Susan Mary Richards (born 23 Jan, 1962), and the Hon Juliet Elisabeth Richards (born 8 Nov, 1964). 

The peerage now passes to his younger brother, the Hon Michael Hugh Richards (who was born 1 August, 1936). The 3rd Baron is married with a son.

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The 5th & last Baron Lawrence 1937-2023

The 5th Baron Lawrence died 14 August, 2023, aged 85. His peerage now becomes extinct.

David John Downer Lawrence was born 4 September, 1937, the only son of the 4th Baron Lawrence (1908-1968), and his first wife the former Margaret Jean Downer (1915-1976); and he succeeded to the peerage and baronetcy on his father's death, 8 October, 1968.

His great-great-grandfather was Sir John Lawrence, GCB, GCSI, PC (1811-79), who entered the Bengal Civil Service 1829; assistant to the Chief Commissioner at Delhi 1831; Magistrate and Collector of Delhi 1836;  Settlement Officer at Ettawah 1838; Commissioner of the Sutlej 1848, and of the Punjaub 1852-58; KCB 1856; GCB 1857;  created a Baronet for having aided materially in the quelling of the Sepoy Mutiny 1857, for which he received the thanks of Parliament and a pension of £2,000 from the East India Company; Lieutenant Governor of the Punjaub 1859;  Privy Councillor 1859; Member of the Supreme Council of India 1858-63;  KCSI 1861; Governor General of India 1863-68; GCSI 1866; Chairman of the London School Board 1870-73. He was raised to the peerage, 3 Apr, 1869, as Baron Lawrence, of the Punjaub and of Grateley in the County of Southampton.

Lord Lawrence was unmarried and his peerage and baronetcy now become extinct. 

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Cassia Alice Phyllis Cobb (born 2023)

  Eliza Charlotte A. Cobb [nee Ferguson, born 1985], wife since 2017 of Harry Timothy Cobb (b 1985), and scion of the Ferguson landed gentry family, of Dummer, gave birth to a second daughter, Cassia Alice Phyllis, 2 August, 2023, a sister for Elba Pear Rosemary, who was born 15 October, 2020.

Eliza is a half-sister of Sarah, Duchess of York, descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch & Queensberry etc, and is a daughter of the late Maj Ronald Ivor Ferguson [1931-2003], by his second wife the former Susan Rosemary Deptford (later Lady Swinburn, of Dummer Down, Hampshire).

Harry Cobb is descended from the Holland-Martin landed family, son of Mr Timothy B Cobb, of Bothampstead, Hampstead Norreys, Berkshire, by his wife the former Emma Rose Holland-Martin (b 5 Sep 1953).

The Duchess of York and Princess Beatrice attended the wedding of Eliza and Harry, at Dummer, Hants, in 2017.

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John Henry Inge-Innes-Lillingston 1957-2023

 John Henry Inge-Innes-Lillingston, who died 6 August, 2023, aged 66, ws  scion of that landed gentry family, of Thorpe Constantine, Staffordshire.

He was born 9n March, 1957, son of Henry Anthony Inge-Innes-Lillingston (1925-2017), of Lagg House, Dunure, Ayr, by his wife the former Pamela Nancy Aldous, scion of that landed gentry family; and married 26 July, 1980, Felicity Bullen (born 1958), daughter of Hugh Brian Bullen (1915-2012), of co Hereford, by his wife the former Nora Jennie Holt (1918-1975), by whom he had issue, two sons, Anthony Hugh (born 5 Sept, 1985), and Peter George (born c 1990), and a daughter, Victoria Anne (born in 1982).

He was descended from the Gough baronets (now the Barons Calthorpe).

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Jane Ewart (nee Elliot) 1943-2023

 Jane Ewart (nee Elliot), who died 9 August, 2023, aged 79, was a scion of the Earls of Minto.

She was born 23 September, 1943, daughter of Gilbert Cecil Ninian Elliot (1907-2002), and his wife the former Rosamond Cholmley (who died 1987); and was twice wed, firstly, 9 January, 1963 (div 1985), to Major Iain Alastair McKay, Scots Guards; married 2ndly, 1994, David Ewart. She leaves issue from her first marriage, 2 sons, Alastair (b 19 Oct, 1963), and Andrew (born 1970), and two daughters, Catriona (born 6 Mar, 1966), and Arabella (born 12 Apr, 1968).

The 1st Earl of Minto > Hon John Edmund Elliot > Augustus John Elliot > Archibald Campbell Elliot > Gilbert Augustus Elliot > Gilbert Cecil Ninian Elliot > Jane Elliot (d 2023)

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Maureen, Lady Harrison 1938-2023

 Maureen, Lady Harrison, who died 26 July, 2023, aged 85, was the widow of Sir Colin Harrison, 4th Baronet, of Stearsby Hall, North Yorkshire.

The former Maureen Marie Chiverton was born in 1938, daughter of Ernest Leonard Chiverton (1903-1990), of Langley House, Lanchester, County Durham, and his wife the former Kathleen Frances Dossett (1901-83), and married 27 July, 1963, Sir (Robert) Colin Harrison, 4th Baronet (born 25 May, 1938), second son of Sir John Fowler Harrison, 2nd Baronet (1899-1947), and his wife the former Kathleen Livingston (died 1993). Her husband succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his elder brother, Sir John Wyndham Harrison, 3rd Bt, 24 June, 1955.

Her husband died 23 March, 2020. She is leaves issue, a son, Sir John Wyndham Fowler Harrison, 5th Baronet (born 14 Dec, 1972), and two daughters, Rachel (born 22 Apr, 1966), and Claire (born 7 Oct, 1974),

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Daughter for the Marquess and Marchioness of Worcester

 The Marchioness of Worcester [nee Lucy Eleanor Yorke-Long, born 23 June, 1986], wife of Henry Robert Fitzroy [Bobby] Somerset, styled Marquess of Worcester [born 20 January, 1989], gave birth to a daughter, Lady Lara Charlotte Somerset, 4 July, 2023, a sister for Henry, styled Earl of Glamorgan, who was born 26 May, 2021.

The Marquess of Worcester is the elder son & heir of the 12th Duke of Beaufort [born 22 May, 1952], of Badminton House, by his former wife, Tracy, Duchess of Beaufort [born 22 Dec 1958], of Badminton, Gloucestershire [who is known as Tracy, Marchioness of Worcester].

The Marchioness of Worcester is the only daughter of Mr Jonathan Crispin Yorke-Long [born Oct 1951], of Old Stratford, Northamptonshire, by his wife the former Charlotte Rose Fownes-Luttrell [born 1954]. The Marchioness descends from the Williams & Peek baronets, the Luttrells of Dunster, and the extinct Earls of Midleton.

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Kevin Aubrey Francis Burke 1945-2023

 Kevin Aubrey Francis Burke, who died 7 August, 2023, aged 77, was descended maternally from the Norman baronets. He was an escort in the 1960s of the debutante Camilla Shand (now HM The Queen).

He was born 15 November, 1945, son of Sir Aubrey Francis Burke, OBE (1904-1989), sometime deputy chairman of the aircraft manufacturer Hawker Siddeley, by his wife the former Laura Rosalind Norman (1908-1994), scion of the Norman baronets; and was twice married, firstly, in 1987 (div 2001), Peta Jacqueline Clare Baker; and married 2ndly, Luisa Fairey, by whom he had a son, Max.

The 1st Baron Aberconway (1850-1934) > Hon Florence Priscilla McLaren (d 1964) = Sir Henry Norman, 1st Bt > Laura Norman (1908-94) > Kevin Burke (1945-2023)

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Tennant/Frisby engagement

 The engagement was announced 18 August, 2023, between Hugh F. Campbell Tennant (born 1992), son of Robert M. Tennant, of Frinkley, Hampshire, and of Ms Joanna Louise Campbell (born 9 July, 1953), of Idle Hill, Kent, scion of the Barons Colgrain, & Serena Camilla Frisby (born 2 June, 1994), scion of that landed gentry family, and descended from the Marquesses of Bristol, daughter of Richard Lionel William Frisby (born 20 May, 1961), of Cowlinge, Suffolk, and his wife the former Anne-Louise Landless (born 1961).

Serena Frisby is a first cousin of Olivia Grace Henson (born 1992), the future Duchess of Westminster, betrothed of the 7th Duke.

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Alison Marjorie Gundrede Trappes-Lomax 1926-2023

 Alison Marjorie Gundrede Trappes-Lomax (nee Perkins), died 2 August, 2023, aged 96.

She was born 8 August, 1926, the only daughter of Capt George Algernon Perkins (1896-1980), of that landed gentry family, of Bure House, Lamas, Norwich, and his wife the former Marjory Emily Morse (1900-1992); and married 25 November, 1952, Major Stephen Richard Trappes-Lomax, MC, TD (1913-1982), scion of that landed gentry family, 7th son of Major Richard Trappes-Lomax (1870-1936), of Allsprings, Lancashire, and his wife the Hon Alice Mary Wilhelmina Fitzherbert (1873-1955), scion of the Barons Stafford, by whom she had issue, two sons, Francis (born 8 March, 1955), and Richard (born 28 Nov, 1960), and two daughters, Mary (born 3 Sept, 1953), and Clare (born 18 Dec, 1957).

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John Lennox Napier 1934-2023

John Lennox Napier, who died 9 August, 2023, aged 89, was a scion of the Napier baronets.

He was born 25 January, 1934, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel  Sir Joseph William Lennox Napier, 4th Baronet (1895-1986), and his wife the former Isabel Muriel Surtees (1906-2006), scion of that landed gentry family; married Apr, 1967, Cecily Mary Mortimer, daughter of Arthur Mortimer, of Malta, by whom he had issue, a son, James (born 5 March, 1969), and a daughter, Jessica (born 1971).

He was a younger brother of Sir Robert Surtees Napier, 5th Bt (1932-1994), and an uncle of Sir Charles Joseph Napier, 6th Bt (born 15 Apr, 1973).

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Whitton/Goodman engagement

  The engagement was announced 17 August, 2023, between Jackson R.B. Whitton (born 1996), the only son of Mr and Mrs Peter Whitton, of Penrith, Cumbria, and Polly Rachel Goodman (born 1996), elder daughter of Rupert Andrew Woodward Goodman (born 1963), of Elmbridge, Worcestershire, and his wife the former Pamela Jane Blount (born 24 March, 1965), scion of that landed gentry family.

The 1st Baron Cobbold, KG > Hon Susan Victoria Cobbold > Pamela Jane Blount > Polly Goodman

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