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

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Georgina Helena Weatherall (born 16 Sept, 1990, nee Hilton), wife of Bertram Edward Johnston Weatherall [born 1989], gave birth to a daughter, Penelope Pear, in Hong Kong, 20 February, 2025.

Bertram is the son of [Edward] Percy Keswick Weatherall, of Cowhill, Dumfriesshire, and his wife the former Clare Mary Johnston [born 1960], descended from the Paget baronets.

Georgina is a daughter of Andrew Graham Hilton [born 1953], of Battersea, London, and his wife the former Victoria Jane Sanders [now Mrs Victoria Donald, of Grouville, Jersey, Channel Islands].

Bertram Weatherall is a nephew of Isobel, Countess of Strathmore & Kinghorne, first wife of the late 18th Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne.

Sir Richard Paget, 2nd Bt > Sylvia Mary Paget > Susanna Maria Chancellor > Clara Mary Johnston > Bertram Weatherall > Penelope Weatherall

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/penelope-pear-weatherall-born-2025.html

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 (Agnes) Valerie Livingstone, Madam Livingstone of Bachuil (née Collins), died 25 February, 2025, aged 98.

She was the former Agnes Valerie Collins, and married 1952, William Jervis Alastair Livingstone of Bachuil (1914-2008), feudal Baron of Bachuil, and Chief of the Clan Maclea, by whom she had five children, 2 sons, Niall (born 12 Nov, 1953), and Alexander (born 14 May, 1968), and three daughters, Deirdre (born 26 Jan 1956), Catriona (b 17 Sept 1957), and Morag (b 23 Sept 1960).

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/madam-agnes-valerie-livingstone-of.html

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The engagement was announced 1 March, 2025, between Group Capt James Niall Doyle, RAF, son of the Rev. Nigel Doyle, of Penclawdd, Gower and Mrs Gillian Loyd (nee Peake), of Blewbury, Oxfordshire, & the Hon Emily Sophia Wedgwood Benn (born 4 October, 1989), daughter of the 3rd Viscount Stansgate (born 21 Aug, 1951), and Viscountess Stansgate.

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/doylewedgwood-benn-engagement.html

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 The 5th Baron Rathdonnell, of Lisnavagh, Rathvilly, Co. Carlow, died 28 February, 2025. He was 86.

He was educated at Charterhouse and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; Lieutenant, Royal Navy.

Thomas Benjamin McClintock-Bunbury was born 17 September, 1938, son of the 4th Baron Rathdonnell (1914-1959), and his wife the former Pamela Drew (1910-1989); and he succeeded to the peerage (created in 1868), on the demise of his father, 13 October, 1959.

He married 2 Oct, 1965, Jessica Harriet Butler (born 17 Dec, 1940), daughter of George Gilbert Butler, of  Scatorish, Bennettsbridge, County Kilkenny, by his wife the former Noreen Helen Colley (1910-1997), by whom he had issue, three sons, William, George and James, and a daughter, Sasha.

The eldest son, the Hon William Leopold McClintock-Bunbury (born 6 July, 1966), succeeds as 6th Baron Rathdonnell.

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-5th-baron-rathdonnell-1938-2025.html

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 Lucy India Clare Astor [nee Ponsonby, born 1991], wife of Thomas David Astor [born 1987], scion of the Barons Astor of Hever, gave birth to a son, Walter Esmond Ponsonby (Wol), 27 August, 2024, a brother for Eva, who was born 29 May, 2022.

Tom Astor is a son of [George] David Astor [born 8 July, 1958], of Ashbury, Wiltshire, by his late wife the former Marianne Piroska Julia Leche [1958-2019], and is a great-grandson of the 1st Baron Astor of Hever [1886-1971].

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/walter-esmond-ponsonby-wol-astor-born.html

Lucy Astor, is a scion of the Ponsonby baronets, a daughter of Luke Arthur Ponsonby [born 15 July, 1957], of Ledwell, co Oxford, by his wife the former Nicola J. Guy, and is a granddaughter maternally of General Sir Roland Guy, GCB [1928-2005], and a granddaughter paternally of Sir Ashley Charles Gibbs Ponsonby, 2nd Baronet [1921-2010], and is a great-granddaughter of the 6th Marquess of Ormonde [1893-1971].

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 The engagement was announced 4 March, 2025, between Edmund Brabazon Ponsonby (born 1989), scion of the Ponsonby baronets, elder son of Luke Arthur Ponsonby (born 15 July, 1957), of Sandford St Martin, Oxfordshire, and his wife the former Nicola Jane Guy (born 1960), and Sophia Madelein M. (Beetle) Spicer (born 1992), elder daughter of John A.L. Spicer (born 1962), of Mildenhall, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Rebecca Llewelyn Jones (born 1963).

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/ponsonbyspicer-engagement.html

Edmund is descended from the Marquesses of Ormonde:-

The 6th Marquess of Ormonde > Lady Martha Butler > Luke Ponsonby > Edmund Ponsonby

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 The engagement was announced 4 March, 2025, between William Roland Ashley Ponsonby (born 10 September, 1995), scion of the Ponsonby baronets, younger son of Luke Arthur Ponsonby (born 15 July, 1957), of Sandford St Martin, Oxfordshire, and his wife the former Nicola Jane Guy (born 1960), and Miss Isobel Daisy Mary Jones (born 1996), the only daughter of Mr David Wyn Jones (born 31 January, 1951), of Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire, and Mrs Deirdre Anne Patrick Jones (nee Vine, born 1953), of Bayswater, London.

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/ponsonbyjones-engagement.html

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Sir Henry Stephenson, 3rd Baronet, has died aged 98

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/sir-henry-upton-stephenson-3rd-baronet.html

Jennifer, Lady Lloyd, widow of Sir Richard Lloyd, 2nd Baronet, has died aged 90

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/jennifer-lady-lloyd-1934-2025.html

Major Peter Egerton-Warburton, of that landed gentry family, has died aged 92

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/major-peter-egerton-warburton-1933-2025.html

Caspar Courage, scion of that landed brewing dynasty, to wed Abigail Hill

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/couragehill-engagement.html

Lady Maxwell-Hyslop, widow of Sir Robert Maxwell-Hyslop, MP, has died aged 80

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/lady-maxwell-hyslop-1944-2025.html

James Majendie, scion of that family of Hedingham Castle, Essex, has died aged 92

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/james-lewis-ashurst-majendie-1932-2025.html

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The Duchess of Westminster, wife of the 7th Duke, is expecting a baby in the summer.

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-duchess-of-westminster-is-expecting.html

The 7th Duke, 34, one of Britain's wealthiest men, married Olivia Henson, 32, at Chester Cathedral on 7 June, 2024. The Prince of Wales was an usher. Both the duke and the prince are cousins (albeit distantly) in their descent from the Imperial family of Romanov.

The Duke and his Duchess are both 6 x great grandchildren of the 5th Earl of Carlisle.

A son and heir will take the courtesy title Earl Grosvenor. A daughter will be Lady (Christian name) Grosvenor. The dukedom will eventually become extinct if the peer fails to father a son.

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Patricia Ruck Keene, who died 7 March, 2025, aged 103, was the widow of Capt John Ruck Keene, OBE, DSC, RN.

She was born Patricia Gibbons, daughter of James Henry Gibbons, of Castlebar, Co Mayo, and married firstly, 1939, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Leslie Fasson (1904-1944); married 2ndly, 27 September, 1948, Capt John Henry Ruck Keene (born 5 May, 1902), Naval ADC to Queen Elizabeth II, 1953-67, scion of that landed gentry family, fifth son of the Rev Edmund Ralph Ruck Keene (1857-1932), and his wife the former Emma Corrie (who died 1935). Capt Ruck Keeene died 17 October, 1967.

Mrs Ruck Keene had issue, one son, Benjamin Charles (1949-2011).

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/patricia-ruck-keene-nee-gibbons-c1921.html

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 Major Philip Andrew Janson Wright, OBE, late the Grenadier Guards, sometime Deputy Assistant Serjeant-at-Arms, House of Commons, died 4 March, 2025, aged 83.

He was a son of Sir Andrew Barkworth Wright KCMG CBE MC with Bar (1895 – 1971) a colonial administrator and army officer. He served as the Governor of British Cyprus from 1949 to 1954 and as Governor of the Gambia from 1947 to 1949, by his wife Rosemary Barrett, CStJ.

In a Daily Telegraph interview Wright told of a time in 1950 when he was 10 years old and Prince Philip lent him a pair of flippers in a swimming pool in Cyprus. As Philip recalls, Prince Philip '... was commanding HMS Magpie ..... and the ship called in on Cyprus as part of the Mediterranean fleet. My father, Sir Andrew Wright, was Governor and Prince Philip visited us in Government House. My father said "any time you want to use the swimming pool, do come and use it". One night Prince Philip's evening swim coincided with mine. He had "frog feet" and I'd never seen them before. He said they belonged to his uncle, Lord Mountbatten'. Philip Wright, wearing Prince Philip's flippers 'flip flopped up and down the pool' until a governess appeared and shouted 'It's time to get out now, Philip!' The Prince looked up sharply. 'I think he thought she was talking to him'.

Philip Wright married 17 June, 1967, Henrietta Elizabeth Hotham (born 3 May, 1944), scion of the Barons Hotham, daughter of Lieutenant-Commander the Hon John David Hotham, RN (1911-1962), and his wife the former Aileen Coates (who died 1 Nov, 2009), and a niece of the 7th Baron Hotham (1899-1967), by whom he had two daughters, Romayne Louise (born 1972), and Melanie Clare (born 1974).

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/major-philip-andrew-janson-wright-obe.html

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 The engagement was announced 13 March, 2025, between Patrick William Edmund Massey (born 1983), son of William Grevile Sale Massey (born 31 Aug, 1953), of Beanacre, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Cecilia D'Oyly Awdry (born 4 Aug, 1954), scion of that landed gentry family, and Rosie May Brunel-Cohen (born 1991), fifth daughter of Mark Patrick Brunel-Cohen (born 8 August, 1949), of Sherborne, Dorset, and his wife the former Sally Joan Culham.

Rosie Brunel-Cohen is descended from the Samuel baronets:-

Sir Stuart Montagu Samuel, 1st Baronet, MP (1856-1926) > Vera Evelyn Samuel > George Stuart Brunel-Cohen (1918-80) > Mark Brunel-Cohen (b 1949) > Rosie Brunel-Cohen

The Samuel family founded the merchant bank Samuel Montagu & Co. Sir Stuart, the 1st Bt, was a nephew of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling (1832-1911).

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/masseybrunel-cohen-engagement.html

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Amber Genevieve Armytage died 1 March, 2025, aged 53.

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/amber-genevieve-armytage-1971-2025.html

The former Amber Genevieve Renwick was born at Hastings in 1971, a daughter of Matthew Renwick, of Hawkhurst, Kent, and his wife nee Colley; and married in 2003, Marcus David Armytage (born 17 July, 1964), scion of the Armytage baronets, son of Roderick Charles Armytage (1934-2014), and his wife the former Susan Whitehead (who died 23 July, 1996), by whom she had issue, a son Arthur (born 28 September, 2004), and two daughters, Molly (born 14 February, 2006), and Arabella (born 26 April, 2011).

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The engagement was announced 14 March, 2025, between George Repard (born 2 August, 1994), son of James Philip Repard (born 1956), and Jennie Spencer-Churchill (born 25 September, 1966), scion of the Dukes of Marlborough, and Alice E. Newman, daughter of Mr Jeremy Newman and Mrs Elaine Burrows.

George Repard is a great-great grandson of the Rt Hon Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA (1874-1965)

Sir Winston Churchill  > Randolph Churchill (1911-68)  > Winston Churchill (1940-2010) > Jennie Spencer-Churchill (b 1966) > George Repard (b 1994)

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/repardnewman-engagement.html

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14491631/Duke-Duchess-Westminster-reveal-expecting-baby-summer.html

https://people.com/duke-duchess-westminster-pregnant-expecting-first-child-11695707

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/2026397/duke-of-westminster-baby

https://www.thesun.co.uk/royals/33806883/duke-duchess-westminster-pregnant-first-baby-harry-william/
Baby due summer 2025 but remember rules no gender reveal till birth will announced its surprise