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In the first ten minutes  of this  video 72 year old Lady Colin Campbell  reveals that she almost died in 2016 due to unspecified  serious health problems.

She  may or may not be perfectly  OK now because details are not forthcoming   but I thought it worthwhile bringing it to deadpoolers attention. Especially as she says she was quite ill for the best part of a year.

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Yesterday the 3rd Baron Monk Bretton (wiki), who is 97, broke the record to become the person who has held a peerage for the longest time ever (88 years and 158 days).

 

He used to sit in Parliament… from 1948(!) to 1999.

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2 hours ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

 

What's notable about that? Seven foot I can understand being unusual

It’s an arghton post.

Nuf ced.

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On 27/03/2019 at 00:21, YoungWillz said:

James Nesbitt's (former) father in law, The Rev Sir Timothy Stephen Beilby Forbes Adam, 4th Baronet, death notice: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/232210/forbes-adam

 

Wiki (mention): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Forbes_Adam

Wiki (mention): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_baronets#Adam_baronets_of_Hankelow_Court,_Sussex_(1917)

 

Edit: Also seems to have had an actress wife and daughter (limited info on IMDB), but Nesbitt's name catches the eye more.

Well, his successor Sir Nigel Forbes Adam, 5th Baronet gets just under three years service in the Baronetcy: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/254633/forbes-adam

 

Son Charles (b. 1957) succeeds.

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Death notice for Michael Richard Hope, 5th Baron Rankeillour aged 81: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/254751/hope

 

As far as I know, baronetcies still pass through the male line, so despite having two elder daughters, succession would appear to pass to Hope's youngest child James Francis Hope (b. 1968)

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On 26/06/2021 at 06:45, YoungWillz said:

Interesting one, death notice for Hugh Lowther, 8th Earl of Lonsdalehttp://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/250496/lowther

 

As his adopted son was born by artificial insemination, that son apparently cannot inherit the title.

 

Nobs and their rules, eh?

 

On 26/06/2021 at 11:53, Ulitzer95 said:


The artificial insemination part isn’t relevant. The fact that the sperm used wasn’t his own is. With aristocratic titles, the entire tradition is built around maintaining a clear bloodline.

Well, it is more bad news for the Lowther family. Bear with.

 

The title was inherited by the 8th Earl's half brother William James Lowther from the 7th Earl's second marriage. Another half brother from the 7th Earl's third marriage is next in line to succeed (I believe the 9th Earl has no heirs), that is James Nicholas Lowther. Now it transpires that James' third child but eldest son Will has committed suicide, aged 21: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10409179/Earl-Lonsdale-heir-pays-tribute-artist-son-death-aged-21.html

 

Tortuous to work out, but if you look up the peerage pages it all kind of works out.

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9 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Well, I couldn't resist.

 

Death notice for Lady Ann Lavinia Maud Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Wharncliffe,  aged 102: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/254838/bowlby

 

Through more convoluted bloodlines, the current (5th) Earl of Wharncliffe is a construction worker from Maine.

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Well, I was looking for info on Princess Felicitas von Salm-Horstmar, as you do, picked in the DDP. Well, she's alive, apparently, her birthday seems to be 31st of March 1920, and well, that would make her the second-oldest European royal ever, according to this list:

http://www.royaltymonarchy.com/royfacts/longlives.html

 

She recently overtook the Queen Mum, and now only has Princess Alice in front of her, still at a healthy distance though.

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2 hours ago, gcreptile said:

Well, I was looking for info on Princess Felicitas von Salm-Horstmar, as you do, picked in the DDP. Well, she's alive, apparently, her birthday seems to be 31st of March 1920, and well, that would make her the second-oldest European royal ever, according to this list:

http://www.royaltymonarchy.com/royfacts/longlives.html

 

She recently overtook the Queen Mum, and now only has Princess Alice in front of her, still at a healthy distance though.

 

Its a shame shes not a princess of a proper place though.

 

Like the Earl of Wessex for example.

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Sir Benjamin Slade, 7th Baronet - the guy for whom (if it hadn't already been written for Harry Enfield) "that bloke's a nutter" is appropriate - requires a heavy edit on his Wiki as he appears to have a child at last by his much younger recent bit of stuff: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10478259/EDEN-CONFIDENTIAL-Eccentric-gun-nut-Sir-Benjamin-Slade-father-age-75.html

 

But the child is a girl. Mwahahahahah - no son and heir for you. His hunt for male heir continues...

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7 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Sir Benjamin Slade, 7th Baronet - the guy for whom (if it hadn't already been written for Harry Enfield) "that bloke's a nutter" is appropriate - requires a heavy edit on his Wiki as he appears to have a child at last by his much younger recent bit of stuff: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10478259/EDEN-CONFIDENTIAL-Eccentric-gun-nut-Sir-Benjamin-Slade-father-age-75.html

 

But the child is a girl. Mwahahahahah - no son and heir for you. His hunt for male heir continues...


Christ, that's a weird story!

Baronets are by no means high aristocracy. They're pretty low in the pecking order and many of these ppl have long since stopped caring about their lineage and succession.

In fact, many now live abroad. Others don't use the hereditary "Sir" because they're often embarrassed by it (Edward Mountain being one such example). I suppose you would be if you had to answer the awkward question of "so what did you get your knighthood for?”.

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Hon Simon Howard, scion of the Earls of Carlisle and former manager of the Castle Howard Estate (the Brideshead Revisited one), reportedly dead aged 66: https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2022/02/hon-simon-bartholomew-geoffrey-howard.html

 

Wiki (mention): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Howard,_Baron_Howard_of_Henderskelfe

 

He had suffered a head injury following a fall in late 2020. No mention of course of the fact that he was found to have sexually abused a six year old girl and attempted to rape a woman both of whom stayed at Castle Howard on a trial of the facts: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10210083/Aristocrat-Castle-Howard-heir-65-avoids-prison-declared-unfit-stand-trial.html

 

He thus avoided prison due to his head injury which meant he was unfit to stand trial, and the prosecution was heavily criticised for a three year delay in bringing the case.

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George Pease, 4th Baron Gainford, died on the 12th March, aged 95. Worked as an architect and town planner and although he is from the Pease family in Darlington (whose number include former Grand Prix driver Al Pease), he spent much of his working life in Scotland and indeed died in Perth.

 

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/announcements/deaths/deaths/20016410.George__4th_Lord_Gainford_PEASE/

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On 04/01/2022 at 04:38, Ulitzer95 said:

Yesterday the 3rd Baron Monk Bretton (wiki), who is 97, broke the record to become the person who has held a peerage for the longest time ever (88 years and 158 days).

 

He used to sit in Parliament… from 1948(!) to 1999.

John Dodson, 3rd Baron Monk Bretton Death Notice: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/257526/lord-monk-bretton

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21 hours ago, YoungWillz said:


Last living person other than Elizabeth II to have participated in the Coronation of King George VI(!!)

 

Last person to have succeeded to a peerage in the 1930s AND before WWII.

 

Longest held peerage ever (88 years, 11 months).

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Roger Swinfen, 3rd Baron Swinfen, hereditary peer, deceased aged 83 according to the Parliamentary website: https://members.parliament.uk/member/2235/career

 

Edit: Hansard Entry confirming he died yesterday: https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2022-06-06/debates/B81FB55A-B08D-4D2B-8466-BDFF90466E21/DeathOfAMemberLordSwinfen

 

Elder son of the novelist Mary Wesley.

 

His son Charles (b. 1971) becomes 4th Baron.

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