Hereditary and non-hereditary aristocrats and gentry for UK and Europe Chat

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Welcome to Hereditary and non-hereditary aristocrats and gentry for UK and Europe Chat - Part 2

The previous thread can be found here

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Charles Anthony Fry who died 27 October, 2024, aged 84, was sometime president and chairman of Marylebone Cricket Club, and scion of landed gentry families.

He was born 14 January, 1940, the third son of the cricketer Stephen Hope Fry (1900-1979), and his wife the former Gladys Yvonne Blunt (1905-2001), and was grandson of the great sportsman C.B. Fry (1872-1956), and his wife the former Beatrice Holme-Sumner (1862-1946), descended from the Kingscote landed gentry family, and Lieutenant-General the 1st Baron Bloomfield, GCB, GCH, PC (1768-1846).

Charles Fry, while studying at Oxford, played first-class cricket for Oxford University Cricket Club, making his debut for the club against Yorkshire at Oxford in 1959.

The 1st Baron Bloomfield > Hon Harriott Bloomfield (1806-1901) > Georgina Kingscote (1835-1912) > Beatrice Holme-Sumner (1862-1946) > Stephen Hope Fry (1900-79) > Charles Fry (1940-2024)

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2024/11/charles-anthony-fry-1940-2024.html

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Sir Henry Keswick, head of Jardine Matheson and owner of The Spectator during a golden era, died 5 November, 2024. He was 86.

Keswick was a youthful taipan of Jardine Matheson, his family's Far Eastern trading house, and later, for four decades, its presiding spirit from London. He was also a benevolent proprietor of The Spectator magazine, though the political career that he hoped might follow did not transpire.

He joined Jardines in 1961 and was assigned to the firm's offices in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. He was made a director in 1967, senior managing director in 1970 and chairman in 1972. He retired as senior managing director and chairman in 1975. He returned to London and is the current chairman of Jardine Matheson Holdings.

Henry Neville Lindley Keswick, William Jardine's great-grandson, was born in Shanghai, 29 September, 1938. He was the eldest of three sons of Sir William "Tony" Keswick (1903-90), who combined his role as a resident director of Jardines with the chairmanship of the Municipal Council of Shanghai's International Settlement, and was later a director of the Bank of England. Henry's mother was Mary Etheldreda Lindley (1911-2009), a great-granddaughter of Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat (1828-87).

Henry had a sister, Teresa, and two brothers, Sir John Chippendale "Chips" Keswick (1940-2024), who was not associated with Jardine Matheson but instead with the London merchant bank, Hambros. He was the chairman of  Arsenal football club, who died in April, and a brother Simon (born 1942), also a managing director of Jardine Matheson.

It was his cousin Hon. Annabel Thérèse (Tessa) Fraser (1942-2022) – then married to the 14th Lord Reay (1937-2013), but who became Henry Keswick's wife in 1985 – who first suggested that he should buy The Spectator. He called on the magazine's then owner, Harry Creighton, and agreed to buy it for £75,000.

Henry Keswick's country home was Oare House, a Georgian mansion near Marlborough in Wiltshire, where he and his wife commissioned a contemporary pavilion by the Chinese-American architect IM Pei. In the Keswick homeland of Dumfriesshire, Henry enjoyed the sporting life at Glenkiln, a wild domain inherited from his father with its collection of sculptures by Moore and Epstein in moorland settings; Henry Moore's Standing Figure, valued at £3 million, was stolen from the estate in 2015.

He also owned and greatly improved an 18,000-acre grouse moor at Hunthill in Angus. For recreation in London, Keswick was a keen bridge player at the Portland Club.

He was appointed Knight Bachelor in 2009.

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2024/11/sir-henry-neville-lindley-keswick-1938.html

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Victoria, Baroness Oaksey, who died 19 October, 2024, aged 86, was the first wife of John Geoffrey Tristram Lawrence, 4th Baron Trevethin (Peerage of the UK, cr 1921) & 2nd Baron Oaksey (Peerage of the UK, cr 1947).

Her husband, 'John Oaksey', was the jockey, journalist, broadcaster and author was founded of the Injured Jockeys Fund.

She was the former Victoria Mary Dennistoun, born 1938, daughter of Major John Dennistoun, by his wife the former Nancy Mary Court (1909-90); and married 21 May, 1959 (div 1987), the then Hon John Lawrence (born 21 March, 1929), son of Geoffrey Lawrence, judge, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, who was created the 1st Baron Oaksey in 1947 and who succeeded as 3rd Baron Trevethin on the death of his elder brother in 1959, and his wife the former Marjorie Frances Alice Robinson (who died 1984). Her husband succeeded his father in the baronies, 28 Aug, 1971, and died 5 September, 2012.

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2024/11/victoria-baroness-oaksey-1938-2024.html

Lady Oaksey leaves a son, the present baron (born 29 June, 1960), and a daughter, Sara (born 26 July, 1961).

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Lord Renwick of Clifton, KCMG, who died 4 November, 2024, aged 86, was a diplomat, sometime ambassador to Washington and to South Africa.

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-baron-renwick-of-clifton-kcmg-1937.html

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Jancis Primrose Hayes-Newington, who died 30 October, 2024, aged 89, was a descendant of the Dukes of Grafton.

She was born Jancis Primrose Evatt, 7 August, 1935, the second daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Beckwith Evatt (1904-1942), and his wife the former Barbara Wilson (1910-1997); and married 23 October, 1965, Maj Anthony Lyle Hayes-Newington, OBE (1929-2017), of Breamore, Hampshire, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Bertram Yorke Hayes-Newington, DL, by whom she had four sons, Edward, Oliver, Mark & Adam.

The 7th Duke of Grafton, KG > Rev Lord Charles FitzRoy > Lady Violet FitzRoy > Barbara Wilson > Jancis Evatt (who d 2024)

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2024/11/jancis-primrose-hayes-newington-1935.html

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The engagement was announced 8 November, 2024, between Thomas James Curzon Coaker (born 12 February, 1987), second son of Charles Henry Curzon Coaker, of Little Everdon, Northamptonshire, and his wife the former Caroline Philippa Floyd (born 18 July, 1953), & Olivia L. Brown, daughter of Mr & Mrs Simon Brown, of Iping, West Sussex.

Thomas Coaker is descended from the Floyd baronets:-

Sie Henry Floyd, 2nd Baronet > Lt-Col Arthur Floyd > John Anthony Floyd > Caroline Floyd > Thomas Coaker

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2024/11/coakerbrown-engagement.html

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Matilda Bertie, wife of the Hon Willoughby Henry Constantine St Maur Bertie (born 15 January, 1996), scion of the Earls of Lindsey & Abingdon, gave birth to a daughter, Matilda, 21 October, 2024, at St Bernard's Hospital, Gibraltar.

Willoughby is the elder son and heir of the Hon Henry Mark Willoughby Bertie, styled Lord Norreys (born 6 Jun 1958), and his wife the former Lucinda Sol Moorsom, 2nd daughter of Christopher Stewart Moorsom, by his 1st wife Maria del Pilar Sanchez y Betancourt. Willoughby'a father is the elder son and heir of the Earl of Lindsey & Abingdon (born 28 June, 1931).

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2024/11/matilda-bertie-born-2024.html

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Catriona Sarah Elizabeth Pickthall (born 1985, nee Simpson), wife of Alexander Ryland Pickthall (born 1985), gave birth to a son Finn Stuart David, 3 November, 2024, a brother for Hamish Robert Marmaduke (born 10 March, 2023).

The infant is descended from the Durie of Durie landed gentry family:-

Rosamond Dewar-Durie > Susan Elizabeth Scott > Helena Steedman > Catriona Simpson > Finn Pickthall

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2024/11/finn-stuart-david-pickthall-born-2024.html

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Rachel M.M. Fellowes [nee Arkle], wife of Robert Gavin Fellowes [born 1982], scion of the Fellowes landed family, of Shotesham Park, gave birth to a son, Alexander Hugh, 13 October, 2024, a brother for Olivia Rose, who was born 24 March, 2020.

Robert Fellowes is a son of William Robert Fellowes [born 1953], by his wife the former Sharon Y. Dickerson.

Rachel Fellowes is a daughter of Mr & Mrs Richard Arkle.

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2024/11/alexander-hugh-fellowes-born-2024.html

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The engagement was announced 9 November, 2024, between Patrick van 't Hoff, son of Mr Jean-Philippe van 't Hoff, of The Hague, Netherlands, and the Hon Marina Olivia Astrid Martyn-Hemphill (born 22 October, 1992), third daughter of the 6th Baron Hemphill (born 8 October, 1954), of London, and his wife the former Sarah Jane Frances Lumley (born 1956).

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2024/11/van-t-hoffmartyn-hemphill-engagement.html

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Arabella Jasmine Balmford (born 23 July, 1994, nee Bradley), wife of Guy William Crosley Balmford [born 7 September, 1993], gave birth to a daughter, Kit Serena Jane, 31 October, 2024.

Arabella is a daughter of David Wilson Bradley, of Haddington, East Lothian, and his wife the former Hon Melissa Clare Remnant [born 20 May, 1963], daughter of the 3rd Baron Remnant [born 23 Oct, 1930].

Guy Balmford is the elder son of Mr Simon Balmford, of Little Waltham, Essex, by his wife the former Joanne Bearman.

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2024/11/jasmine-balmford-born-23-july-1994-nee.html

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