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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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Bagot, Theodosia, (Lady Bagot), (1865–21 Feb. 1940)  

Born 1865; 3rd d of Sir John Leslie, 1st Bt; m 1st, 1885, Lt-Col Josceline FitzRoy Bagot, MP (d 1913); one s three d; son was Sir Alan Desmond Bagot, 1st Bt (...

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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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Burghclere, Lady; Winifred Henrietta Christina, (2 July 1864–28 Sept. 1933)  

Born 2 July 1864; e d of 4th Earl of Carnarvon; m 1st, 1887, Capt. Hon. Alfred Byng (d 1887), s of 2nd Earl of Strafford; 2nd, ...

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Campbell, Lady Archibald, (Janey Sevilla), (died 1923)  

Born d of late James Callander of Ardkinglas and Craigforth, and of late Hon. Mrs Callander (whose portrait hangs in the King of Bavaria’s Gallery of Beauty at Munich); ward of George, 8th Duke of Argyll; ...

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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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Churchill, Lady Randolph Spencer, (Jennie Spencer), (1854–29 June 1921), Lady of Grace of St John of Jerusalem, 1901; was proprietor and Editor of the Anglo-Saxon Review  

CI 1885; RRC 1902

Born 1854; d of late Leonard Jerome, New York; m 1st, 1874, Rt. Hon. Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, 3rd s...

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Cohen, Mrs Nathaniel Louis, (Julia Matilda), (6 Sept. 1853–17 Dec. 1917), President of the Union of Jewish Women  

Born 6 Sept. 1853; d of Prof. Jacob Waley, MA, Conveyancing Council to the Court of Chancery; m 1873, Nathaniel Louis Cohen, LCC (d...

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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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Cotes, Sara Jeannette, (Mrs Everard Cotes), (22 Dec. 1861–22 July 1922)  

Born Brantford, Canada, 22 Dec. 1861; d of Charles Duncan, merchant; m 1890, Everard Cotes; died 22 July 1922

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Creighton, Mrs (Louise), (7 July 1850–15 April 1936)  

Born Sydenham, 7 July 1850; 10th c of Robert von Glehn; m 1872, Rt Hon. Mandell Creighton, Bishop of London (d 1901); three s four d; died 15 April 1936...

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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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Ingram, Hon. Mrs Meynell, (Emily Charlotte), (1840–21 Dec. 1904)  

Born 1840; e d of Charles, 1st Viscount Halifax, and Mary, 5th d of Charles, 2nd Earl Grey; m 1863, Hugo Francis Meynell Ingram (d 1871); died 21 Dec. 1904...

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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 ...