Latest news of births, marriages and deaths in the Peerage,Baronetage and landed gentry families.
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Fran Lascelles: son for Tewa & Cynthia Lascelles
Tewa is a son of the Hon James Edward Lascelles (b 5 Oct, 1953), by his second wife the former Lori (Shadow) Susan Lee (b 29 Aug, 1954, d) & is a grandson of the late 7th Earl of Harewood, KBE (1923-2011), and a great-grandson of HRH The Princess Mary, Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood (1897-1965), only daughter of HM King George V, &c.
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Cosima Calliope Colville (born 2014)
Isabelle C. Colville (nee Winkler), wife since 2013 of the Hon Edmund Carleton Colville [b 14 Jul 1978], gave birth to a daughter, Cosima Calliope, in 2014, a sister for Maya Calypso, who was born in 2012.
Edmund is a son of the late 4th Viscount Colville of Culross, QC, by his 2nd wife, the former Margaret Birgitta Norton.
Isabelle is a daughter of Dr & Mrs Joachim Winkler, of Zurich.
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Daer & Shortcleuch/Van Baal marriage
The marriage took place in 2014 between John Andrew Douglas-Hamilton, Master of Selkirk, styled Lord Daer and Shortcleuch (born 8 February, 1978), eldest son and heir of the 11th Earl of Selkirk, PC (born 31 July, 1942), and his wife the former Hon Priscilla Susan Buchan, scion of the Barons Tweedsmuir, & Marlene Yvonne Van Baal.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014
3rd Baron Mountevans 1943-2014
Hon Isla Astrid Florence Wrottesley (b 2014)
Lord Wrottesley marr. 2001 Sascha Antoinette d of Urs SCHWARZENBACH of Oxfordshire and Switzerland.
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3rd Baron Bicester 1932-2014
Angus Edward Vivian Smith, 3rd holder of the peerage, was born 20 Feb 1932, second son of Lt-Col the Hon Stephen Edward Vivian Smith (1903-52), by his 1st wife the former Eleanor Hewitt, and succeeded to the barony on the demise of his uncle, the 2nd Baron, 15 Jan, 1968.
Lord Bicester was unmarried. The peerage now devolves upon his younger brother, the Hon Hugh Charles Vivian Smith, who was born 8 Nov, 1934.
The funeral takes place at York Minster, 8 January, 2015.
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Hon Alfred Wellesley (b 2014)
The infant is a grandson for the Marquess of Douro and the Marchioness of Douro (nee von Preussen, a
descendant of Queen Victoria, via the German Emperor William II); and a great-grandson for the 8th Duke of Wellington, KG, LVO, OBE, MC, DL (b 2 Jul 1915).