YoungWillz 18,963 Posted August 29, 2019 Guy Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe, dead at 64: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/4659781/duke-roxburghe-guy-innes-ker-dead-cancer/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,963 Posted December 11, 2019 On 14/07/2018 at 04:41, YoungWillz said: You know, I feel we are always late to the party with this thread. So why not have one of my world famous lists? If you are looking for a nob or two around Christmas to fill out your DDP package, it might do to consider some of these. Why have diamonds and pearls when you can have Dukes, Marquesses and Earls? I've gone for those over 80 currently or who will be over 80 in 2019. In order of seniority. Wiki is my friend here, any errors are theirs not mine. SNIP Earls: SNIP Scotland: Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford (b. 1927) Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland (b. 1921) Malcolm Erskine, 17th Earl of Buchan (b. 1930) - No individual Wiki Page John Eric Drummond, 9th Earl of Perth (b. 1935) Randolph Stewart, 13th Earl of Galloway (b. 1928) Ian Maitland, 18th Earl of Lauderdale (b. 1937) Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin and 15th Earl of Kincardine (b. 1924) David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie (b. 1926) Peter St John, 9th Earl of Orkney (b. 1938) - No individual Wiki Page Ian Studley, 13th Earl of Seafield (b. 1939) - No individual Wiki Page Neil Primrose, 7th Earl of Rosebery and 3rd Earl of Midlothian (b. 1929) Patrick Boyle, 10th Earl of Glasgow (b. 1939) SNIP Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland reported dead at 98: https://www.northern-times.co.uk/news/countess-of-sutherland-dies-187901/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 10,952 Posted December 11, 2019 10 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland reported dead at 98: https://www.northern-times.co.uk/news/countess-of-sutherland-dies-187901/ She was also the Chief of Clan Sutherland, a role that her son now resumes. There are very few female clan chiefs in Scotland I believe. Her death also means Prince Philip now enters the top 3 oldest hereditary peers. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,963 Posted December 28, 2019 Death Notice for Richard Dickinson, 2nd Baron Dickinson aged 93: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/238262/dickinson Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,963 Posted January 7, 2020 Death Notice for Robert Crause Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell, grandson of the creator of the Scouts: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/238469/baden-powell Apparently no heirs, so the title passes to his brother Michael. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,963 Posted January 14, 2020 Death Notice for David Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/238707/montgomery Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,963 Posted January 21, 2020 Death Notice for Edmund Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/238902/ironside 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 10,952 Posted January 21, 2020 1 hour ago, YoungWillz said: Death Notice for Edmund Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/238902/ironside Another World War II veteran. I still haven’t finished my research but between peers and former MPs I could only find 19 who served. That’s down to 17 already with the passings of Lord Chalfont and Lord Ironside. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 14,800 Posted January 21, 2020 4 hours ago, YoungWillz said: Death Notice for Edmund Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/238902/ironside Wasn't he in "Vikings"? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,963 Posted February 13, 2020 Death Notice for Malcolm Greenhill, 3rd Baron Greenhill of Townhead, aged 95: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/239215/greenhill-malcolm No heir apparently, so..finis. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,963 Posted March 17, 2020 Death Notice for Alexander George Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, aged a mere 64: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/240193/aberdeen Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,963 Posted April 1, 2020 Death Notice for Robert Guy Eardley Yerburgh, 2nd Baron Alvingham, aged 93: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/240606/alvingham 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,164 Posted April 5, 2020 On 14/07/2018 at 04:41, YoungWillz said: You know, I feel we are always late to the party with this thread. So why not have one of my world famous lists? If you are looking for a nob or two around Christmas to fill out your DDP package, it might do to consider some of these. Why have diamonds and pearls when you can have Dukes, Marquesses and Earls? I've gone for those over 80 currently or who will be over 80 in 2019. In order of seniority. Wiki is my friend here, any errors are theirs not mine. Dukes: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921) James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose (b. 1935) James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn (b. 1934) Prince Edward, 2nd Duke of Kent (b. 1935) Murray de Vere Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans (b. 1939) Marquesses: David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensbury (b. 1929) Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath (b. 1932) Michael Cecil, 8th Marquess of Exeter (b. 1935) David Pratt, 6th Marquess Camden (b. 1930) - No individual Wiki page. Michael Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury (b. 1926) Mark Dundas, 4th Marquess of Zetland (b. 1937) Earls: England: Michael Howard, 21st Earl of Suffolk, 14th Earl of Berkshire (b. 1935) Richard Bertie, 14th Earl of Lindsey and 9th Earl of Abingdon (b. 1931) George Coventry, 13th Earl of Coventry (b. 1939) Scotland: Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford (b. 1927) Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland (b. 1921) Malcolm Erskine, 17th Earl of Buchan (b. 1930) - No individual Wiki Page John Eric Drummond, 9th Earl of Perth (b. 1935) Randolph Stewart, 13th Earl of Galloway (b. 1928) Ian Maitland, 18th Earl of Lauderdale (b. 1937) Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin and 15th Earl of Kincardine (b. 1924) David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie (b. 1926) Peter St John, 9th Earl of Orkney (b. 1938) - No individual Wiki Page Ian Studley, 13th Earl of Seafield (b. 1939) - No individual Wiki Page Neil Primrose, 7th Earl of Rosebery and 3rd Earl of Midlothian (b. 1929) Patrick Boyle, 10th Earl of Glasgow (b. 1939) Great Britain: Robert Edgcumbe, 8th Earl of Mont Edgcumbe (b. 1939) Charles Cadogan, 8th Earl Cadogan (b. 1937) Ireland: William Anthony Nugent, 13th Earl of Westmeath (b. 1928) Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda (b. 1937) Arthur Gore, 9th Earl of Arran (b. 1938) John Savile, 8th Earl of Mexborough (b. 1931) - No individual Wiki Page Robert Jocelyn, 10th Earl of Roden (b. 1938) - No individual Wiki Page Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim (b. 1935) Thomas Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford (b. 1933) George Dawson-Damer, 7th Earl of Portarlington (b. 1938) - No individual Wiki Page Michael Annesley, 12th Earl of Annesley (b. 1933) - No individual Wiki Page Arthur Stewart, 8th Earl Castle Stewart (b. 1928) Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 8th Earl of Donoughmore (b. 1927) Brendan Parsons, 7th Earl of Rosse (b. 1936) Gerald Knox, 7th Earl of Ranfurly (b. 1929) - No individual Wiki Page United Kingdom: Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton (b. 1934) Keith Rous, 6th Earl of Stradbroke (b. 1937) - No individual Wiki Page David Howard, 7th Earl of Effingham (b. 1939) - No individual Wiki Page Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns (b. 1939) Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl Cranbrook (b. 1933) - No individual Wiki Page Edward Baldwin, 4th Earl Balwin of Bewdley (b. 1938) Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie (b. 1939) Shane Alexander, 2nd Earl Alexander of Tunis (b. 1935) Nicholas Cunliffe-Lister, 3rd Earl of Swinton (b. 1939) Alexander Thynn dies. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,963 Posted April 5, 2020 Lawdy, wee while since I picked him for anything. RIP, was quite a character. Pretty sure he's one for the List of the Missed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 17,722 Posted April 5, 2020 8 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Lawdy, wee while since I picked him for anything. RIP, was quite a character. Pretty sure he's one for the List of the Missed. Yep, last picked in the DDP in 2017 by...err...me! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,963 Posted April 5, 2020 1 minute ago, msc said: Yep, last picked in the DDP in 2017 by...err...me! Pretty sure then I had him in the Hare's Pool at some point and also on my shadow list. Quite simply, I didn't believe he'd be a unique this year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,963 Posted April 5, 2020 Here's the Marquess making a cameo in the Pet Shop Boys' Rent: 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,963 Posted April 7, 2020 Death Notice for Sir Andrew de la Rue, 4th Baronet, aged 74: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/240755/de-la-rue 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,963 Posted April 20, 2020 Death Notice for Lady Elizabeth Grimthorpe (nee Lumley), widow of the late Christopher Beckett, 4th Baron Grimthorpe and daughter of Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarborough: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/241066/grimthorpe She'd have been 94. Apparently a Lady of the Bedchamber at Clarence House for, and until the death of, the Queen Mother. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,963 Posted April 20, 2020 Death Notice for Sir Michael Oppenheimer, 3rd Baronet aged 95: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/241089/oppenheimer Apparently he held the baronetcy since 1933. No heir according to Wiki. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,963 Posted April 22, 2020 Duke of Bedford and family remove themselves from Woburn Abbey property after discovery of asbestos: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8242913/SEBASTIAN-SHAKESPEARE-Duke-Bedford-forced-flee-Woburn-Abbey-family.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 10,952 Posted April 22, 2020 According to a post on the Peerage Google Group, the 13th Earl of Galloway possibly died back on 27th March. He would've been 91 but strange that his death would go unnoticed for a month. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 10,952 Posted April 22, 2020 Martin Broadbridge, 4th Baron Broadbridge, who succeeded his first cousin in 2000, died 19th April in Cardiff at the age of 90. The new titleholder, Richard (b. 1959), is an honory surgeon to the Queen. Whatever that is. When is lockdown going to be over? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,963 Posted April 22, 2020 27 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said: Martin Broadbridge, 4th Baron Broadbridge, who succeeded his first cousin in 2000, died 19th April in Cardiff at the age of 90. The new titleholder, Richard (b. 1959), is an honory surgeon to the Queen. Whatever that is. When is lockdown going to be over? Not sure how I missed his death notice in the Telegraph: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/241128/broadbridge Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,963 Posted April 22, 2020 10 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said: According to a post on the Peerage Google Group, the 13th Earl of Galloway possibly died back on 27th March. He would've been 91 but strange that his death would go unnoticed for a month. Death Notice for Randolph Stewart, 13th Earl of Galloway, now added to the Telegraph announcements today: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/241233/stewart 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
