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Aberconway, 3rd Baron, (Charles Melville McLaren) (16 April 1913–4 Feb. 2003)  

Born 16 April 1913; e s of 2nd Baron Aberconway, CBE, LLD and Christabel (d 1974), y d of Sir Melville Macnaghten, CB; ...

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Aylesford, 11th Earl of, cr 1714, (Charles Ian Finch-Knightley) (2 Nov. 1918–19 Feb. 2008)  

Born 2 Nov. 1918; er s of 10th Earl of Aylesford; m 1946, Margaret Rosemary Tyer (d 1989); one s one d (and one d decd); died 19 Feb. 2008...

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Aylmer, 13th Baron, (Michael Anthony Aylmer) (27 March 1923–2 Aug. 2006)  

Born 27 March 1923; s of Christopher Aylmer (d 1955) and Marjorie (d 1981), d of Percival Ellison Barber, surgeon, Sheffield; ...

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Blaker, Baron cr 1994 (Life Peer), of Blackpool in the County of Lancashire, and of Lindfield in the County of West Sussex, (Peter Allan Renshaw Blaker) (4 Oct. 1922–5 July 2009)  

KCMG 1983; PC 1983; MA

Born Hong Kong, 4 Oct. 1922; s of late Cedric Blaker, CBE, MC and Louisa Douglas Blaker (née Chapple); m 1953, Jennifer, d of late Sir Pierson Dixon, GCMG, CB; one ...

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Chamberlain, Sir Henry Hamilton Erroll, (22 Nov. 1857–28 June 1936), 4th Bt cr 1828  

Born 22 Nov. 1857; m 1887, Gwendolen (d 1928), d of J. Inglis Jones, Royal Horse Guards, Derry Ormond, Cardiganshire, and Lady Elizabeth Inglis Jones; one ...

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Chorley, 2nd Baron, (Roger Richard Edward Chorley) (14 Aug. 1930–21 Feb. 2016)  

FCA

Born 14 Aug. 1930; er s of 1st Baron Chorley, QC, and Katharine Campbell (d 1986), d of late Edward Hopkinson, DSc; ...

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Constantine of Stanmore, Baron, (Theodore Constantine) (15 March 1910–13 Feb. 2004)  

Kt 1964; CBE 1956; AE 1945

Born 15 March 1910; er s of Leonard and Fanny Louise Constantine; m 1935, Sylvia Mary (d 1990...

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Ford, Sir Edward (William Spencer), (24 July 1910–19 Nov. 2006), DL; Secretary and Registrar of the Order of Merit, 1975–2003; Secretary to the Pilgrim Trust, 1967–75  

GCVO 1998 (KCVO 1957; MVO 1949); KCB 1967 (CB 1952); ERD 1987

Born 24 July 1910; 4th (twin) s of late Very Rev. Lionel G. B. J. Ford, Headmaster of Repton and Harrow and Dean of York, and of Mary Catherine, ...

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Halliday, Prof. Fred, (22 Feb. 1946–26 April 2010), ICREA Research Professor, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, since 2008  

FBA 2002

Born 22 Feb. 1946; s of Arthur Halliday and Rita (née Finigan); m 1979, Prof. Maxine Deirdre Molyneux; one s; died 26 April 2010

ICREA Research Professor, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, since ...

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Howe of Aberavon, Baron, (Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe) (20 Dec. 1926–9 Oct. 2015)  

CH 1996; Kt 1970; PC 1972; QC 1965

Born 20 Dec. 1926; er s of late B. E. Howe and Mrs E. F. Howe, JP (...

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Huntington-Whiteley, Sir Hugo (Baldwin), (31 March 1924–17 June 2014), DL  

3rd Bt cr 1918

Born 31 March 1924; e surv. s of Captain Sir Maurice Huntington-Whiteley, 2nd Bt, RN, and Lady (Pamela) Margaret Huntington-Whiteley (...

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Kingsdown, Baron cr 1993 (Life Peer), of Pemberton in the County of Lancashire, (Robert Leigh-Pemberton, (Robin)) (5 Jan. 1927–24 Nov. 2013)  

KG 1994; PC 1987

Born 5 Jan. 1927; e s of late Robert Douglas Leigh-Pemberton, MBE, MC, Sittingbourne, Kent; m 1953, Rosemary Davina, OBE, d of late Lt-Col D. W. A. W. Forbes, MC, and late Dowager Marchioness of Exeter; four ...

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Lane of Horsell, Baron, (Peter Stewart Lane) (29 Jan. 1925–9 Jan. 2009)  

Kt 1984; JP; FCA

Born 29 Jan. 1925; s of Leonard George Lane; m Doris Florence (née Botsford) (d 1969); two d...

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Lisburne, 8th Earl of, cr 1776, (John David Malet Vaughan) (1 Sept. 1918–2 Sept. 2014)  

Born 1 Sept. 1918; o s of 7th Earl of Lisburne; m 1943, Shelagh, er d of late T. A. Macauley, 1266 Redpath Crescent, Montreal, Canada; three s; died 2 Sept. 2014...

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Macpherson of Drumochter, 2nd Baron, ((James) Gordon Macpherson) (22 Jan. 1924–7 Sept. 2008)  

Born 22 Jan. 1924; s of 1st Baron Macpherson of Drumochter and Lucy Lady Macpherson of Drumochter (d 1984); m 1st, 1947, Dorothy Ruth Coulter (...

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Mansfield and Mansfield, 8th Earl of, (William David Mungo James Murray) (7 July 1930–21 Oct. 2015)  

Born 7 July 1930; o s of 7th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield, and of Dorothea Helena (d 1985), y d of late Rt Hon. Sir Lancelot Carnegie, GCVO, KCMG; ...

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Moray, 20th Earl of, (Douglas John Moray Stuart) (13 Feb. 1928–23 Sept. 2011)  

Born 13 Feb. 1928; e s of 19th Earl of Moray and Mabel Helen Maud Wilson (d 1968); m 1964, Lady Malvina Murray, ...

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Morley, 6th Earl of, cr 1815, (John St Aubyn Parker) (29 May 1923–20 Sept. 2015)  

KCVO 1998

Born 29 May 1923; e s of Hon. John Holford Parker (y s of 3rd Earl), Pound House, Yelverton, Devon; m 1955, Johanna Katherine, d of Sir John Molesworth-St Aubyn, 14th Bt, CBE; one ...

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Oaksey, 2nd Baron, (John Geoffrey Tristram Lawrence) (21 March 1929–5 Sept. 2012)  

OBE 1985

Born 21 March 1929; o s of 1st Baron Oaksey and 3rd Baron Trevethin and Marjorie (d 1984), d of late Commander Charles N. Robinson, RN; ...

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Peto, Sir Michael (Henry Basil), (6 April 1938–2 Aug. 2008)  

4th Bt cr 1927

Born 6 April 1938; s of Brig. Sir Christopher Henry Maxwell Peto, 3rd Bt, DSO, and Barbara (d 1992), ...