Peerage & Baronetage deaths & births 2023

[Henry W]

This follows: Peerage & Baronetage deaths & births, 2022 (Peerage News Group)

6 years of work on this can be found here: Peerage & Baronetage deaths & births (Google Docs) - 2022 has received updates on the Google Doc only, as have other years.

Corrections and updates are very gratefully received. I spent most of Friday going through the 2,200 threads that have received posts this year!  Inevitably a few more deaths will come to light during the last few days of the year and into the new year.   I am now including various categories of deaths (peers, baronets, heirs, centenarians and Joint LGCs), and births of those likely to succeed to titles.

HEREDITARY PEERS

EARLS
Crawford & Balcarres (18 Mar, see LP Balniel), Perth (27 Mar), Cadogan (11 June), Airlie (26 June), Castle Stewart (21 Nov), Selkirk (28 Nov, disclaimed 1994 & see LP Selkirk of Douglas)

VISCOUNTS
Gough (14 Apr, EXTINCT), Knollys (21 Apr), Tenby (12 June, retd 2015)

BARONS / suo jure BARONESSES
Camoys (4 Jan), Berners (23 Jan), Churston (16 Feb), MacAndrew (3 Mar), Harris (17 Mar), Kirkwood (15 Apr), Strathspey (26 May), Leighton of St Mellons (?28 May), Inchiquin (3 June), Bolton (10 June), Baden-Powell (3 July), Palmer (10 July), Bradbury (8 Aug), Milverton (10 Aug), Lawrence (14 Aug, EXTINCT), Elton (19 Aug, retd 2020), Brougham & Vaux (27 Aug), Teviot (15 Oct)

LIFE PEERS & LAW LIFE PEERS
Boothroyd (26 Feb), Pendry (26 Feb), Masham of Ilton (12 Mar), Balniel (18 Mar, see Earl of Crawford & Balcarres, retd 2019), Kirkhill (21 Mar, retd 2018), Lawson of Blaby (3 Apr, retd 2022), Phillips of Sudbury (9 Apr, retd 2015), Carswell (4 May, LAW, retd 2019), Brooke of Sutton Mandeville (13 May, retd 2015), Morris of Aberavon (5 June), Clinton-Davis (11 June, retd 2018), McDonagh (24 June), Kerslake (1 July), Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood (7 July, LAW, retd June 2023), Haworth (28 Aug), Thomas of Walliswood (6 Oct, removed 2016), Elder (24 Oct), Judge (7 Nov), Cotter (14 Nov), Rowe-Beddoe (15 Nov), Walker of Gestingthorpe (16/17 Nov, LAW, retd 2021), Selkirk of Douglas (28 Nov, retd July 2023 & see Earl of Selkirk), Darling of Roulanish (30 Nov, retd 2020), Kinnock of Holyhead (3 Dec, retd 2021)

BARONETS
Rawlinson (8 Jan), Cotter (11 Jan), Hodson 8th Bt (18 Jan), Evans-Tipping (31 Jan), Graham-Moon (6 Feb), Forbes of Craigievar (8 Mar), Bonsor (21 Mar), Duff Gordon (24 Apr), Aird (4 May, see DEATHS OF HEIRS), Wills (2 June), Lake (17 July), Grayson (21 Aug), Welch (5 Sep), Houldsworth (13 Sep), Benn (10 Oct), Sanderson (9 Nov), Williams-Wynn (18 Nov)

CENTENARIANS DECEASED
NEAVE Bt (1795) – Diana Hope Habdank-Kolaczkowska (formerly Ritchie, nee Hay-Neave), b 20 November 1918, of the NEAVE baronets. DIED ?22 January 2023 (exact date not certain)
Lady Martha Veronica BRUCE, born 7 November 1921, dau of 10th Earl of ELGIN and 15th Earl of KINCARDINE. DIED 22 January 2023
(Mary) Stephanie HIGHAM (formerly SIKA, nee PIGOTT), born 29 October 1920, dau of Sir Berkeley PIGOTT, 4th Baronet. DIED 12 March 2023
Hon Isobel Caroline SALES (nee IRBY, formerly ROBERTS), born 4 May 1917, dau of 7th Baron BOSTON. DIED 23 March 2023
Hon Cynthia MACKAY (nee VANSITTART, formerly WHITMAN), born 31 December 1922, dau of 1st & last Baron VANSITTART. DIED 29 March 2023
Kenneth MacALPINE OBE, born 21 September 1920, of the McALPINE baronets. DIED 8 April 2023
Susan Eleanor GLYN, Lady GLYN (nee RHYS WILLIAMS), born 17 May 1923, dau of Sir Rhys RHYS WILLIAMS, 1st Baronet. DIED 4 July 2023
Ann Catherine MARKS (nee PINTO), born ? July 1920, 1st wife of 2nd Baron MARKS OF BROUGHTON (m diss before creation of the peerage) & mother of the 3rd Baron MARKS OF BROUGHTON.  DIED 11 September 2023
Anne Phillida CHETWYND-STAPYLTON (nee PEASE), born 4 May 1923, dau of Sir Alfred PEASE, 2nd Baronet & wife of (Edward) Mark CHETWYND-STAPYLTON, a scion of the CHETWYND viscounts.  DIED 31 Ocotober 2023
Margaret Jean ARBUTHNOT, Lady ARBUTHNOT (nee DUFF), born 29 September 1919, wife of Sir John ARBUTHNOT, 1st Baronet and mother of Lord ARBUTHNOT OF EDROM (life peer). DIED 13 November 2023, aged 104

BIRTHS of ha, ha's ha, or a senior position in the next generation
Baron WESTBURY - Richard Maximilian Ferdinand BETHELL (born 23 February) - ha's ha
Earl of BATHURST - Hon Theodore (Teddy) George Eugene (born 7 Mar) - ha's ha
Earl of STRATHMORE & KINGHORNE - Albemarle John BOWES-LYON (born 17 April) - ha's ha
Earl FERRERS - Hon Alfred Richard Robert SHIRLEY (born 27 April) - ha's ha
Baron ST LEVAN - Leo James Hugh ST AUBYN (born 28 May) - eldest son of the 2nd son of the 5th Baron (eldest son of 5th Baron has no issue)
Earl of HAREWOOD - Hon Kit Moon William LASCELLES (born 4 June) - ha's ha
Earl of MANSFIELD & MANSFIELD - Hon Helier David Edward Mungo MURRAY, Master of Stormont (born 20 July), ha's ha
Baron MacANDREW - Hon Orlando Christopher George (born 31 July) - 2nd son of the 4th Baron.
Baron HENLEY - Francis John Robert EDEN (born 14 September) - ha's ha
Viscount GAGE - Sebastian Roderic Llewellyn (born 14 September) - 2nd son of 2nd son of the 8th Viscount (eldest son of 8th Viscount has no issue)
Baron CATTO - Jamie Gordon CATTO CASTELLANOS (born 15 September) - first m-l grandson of the hp

DEATHS OF HEIRS
Charles Joseph CLIFFORD, hp to the CLIFFORD baronets. DIED 20 February
Hon Andrew Nicholas BUCKMASTER, ha to Viscount BUCKMASTER. DIED 10 April
Alan Stobart MONCKTON, hp to the Viscount GALWAY. DIED 21 May
Sir John AIRD, 4th Baronet, co-heir presumptive to Baron WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY & to a share of the LGC. DIED 4 May
Hon Simon Campden BUXTON, hp to Baron NOEL-BUXTON. DIED 7 July
Walter Anthony GILBEY, hp to the GILBEY baronets. DIED 13 July
Charles Rupert NUGENT, hp to the NUGENT baronets (cr 1795 I). DIED 4 November

TITLES WITH NO HEIRS
Viscount Tenby [A* 1962]
Clifford baronets [A* 1936]
Baron Teviot [A* 1971]
Baron Strathspey [A* 1953]

TITLES EXTINCT
Viscount Gough
Baron Lawrence

[bx...@yahoo.com]

Henry,

Another outstanding job!  

Thanks so much for your annual list.   It's our group's "year in review" of the most important events. 

I always use it to check and see if I've missed anything.

Brooke

[Henry W]

You are most kind Brooke - a labour of love, but in going through the posts I often find some I have missed - I've been busy with other things, especially the past few months. Particularly worried that I've missed a birth somewhere.

[Robin Benn]

This is indeed a labour of love and respect.

Just a minor point: my father, James Jonathan Benn, 4th baronet, died on 3rd October, not 10th October.

With very best wishes for Christmas and the New Year,

Robin Benn 

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[Henry W]

In addition to the above correction there have been the following additional deaths:

DEATHS OF HEIRS:
Hon Harry St Clair FANE, hp to the Earl of WESTMORLAND. DIED 15 December

Deaths of Baronets:
Maxwell MacDonald (24 Dec), Colman (26 Dec)

I will wait a couple more weeks before doing the transfer to Google.

[Patricia Light]

Great job Henry, all the updates in one place. What a task you took on. Always great to read your posts.

[BREMENMURRAY]

It seems ironic that the hereditary peers are all clustered in the earlier part of the year with only three since August and none at all in September and December. Also no non royal Dukes for almost four and a half years. Is this a record length of time for no Dukedoms to change hands? 

Also no Marquessates since 2021

[Peter FitzGerald]

Cheating slightly, but no non-royal dukedoms changed hands between 1572 and 1623 (over 50 years), for the simple reason that there weren't any.

(There were no non-royal dukes in England between the forfeiture of the Dukedom of Norfolk in 1572 (it was not restored until 1660) and the creation of the Dukedom of Buckingham in 1623. There were no dukes at all between 1572 and the accession of James I in 1603 (over 30 years), at which point his eldest son Henry automatically became Duke of Cornwall. In the absence of dukes, the senior peers were the Marquesses of Winchester, who held the only marquessate until the creation of the Marquessate of Buckingham in 1618.)

[malcolm davies]

Bremen,

              It depends on who you consider "royal".HH The Duchess of Fife(HRH Princess Arthur of Connaught) died in 1959.She was the only holder of a ducal title to die between the 9th Duke of Atholl in 1957 and the 5th Duke of Sutherland in 1963.

I expect when the next duke dies there will be other dukes who die within a short space of time.

[Henry W]

Bremen,

I don't think this pattern is that unusual at all.  My attempts to collate some data on this for just a few recent years show that two months per year with no hereditary peer deaths is quite normal, and for them to "cluster" into a bit of the year happens every few years as well.

Perhaps the most remarkable pattern this year is that we only have 19 deaths of Baronets at current count.  This is the lowest I have recorded so far.

On Monday 8 January 2024 at 16:59:15 UTC BREMENMURRAY wrote:

[BREMENMURRAY]

Fife is a non royal Dukedom held by a minor member of the royal family.Between the death of Princess Alexandra 26 February 1959 and the fifth Duke of Sutherland 1 February 1963 there were three years eleven months.The present interlude of over four years seems to be the longest of modern times(from 1900 onwards)

[gorgo...@gmail.com]

7th Lord Kenyon died on 27th December 2023

[Henry W]

Deaths of Heirs

Hon Peter Nanton TRUSTRUM EVE, hp to Baron SILSOE. DIED 30 December.

Deaths of Baronets

Pease (26 Dec)

[Henry W]

Deaths of Baronets

Smith-Marriott (8 Nov),  Muir (date unknown ?Dec)

I have now updated the Google Doc that tracks over time:

Peerage & Baronetage deaths & births

On this document I am also working on updating the 2017 records.

I have also updated the numerical tracker by month:

Peerage deaths by year/month

The largest number of deaths of hereditary peers (28) in some years (no year exceeds this in my records), but somewhat offset by a low number of baronet deaths (22, though not a recent low as previously thought).  The total number of hereditary deaths is 50, slightly lower than last year (53), but greater than all years 2018-2021.

[BREMENMURRAY]

Worth noting that in the big year of Covid 19 2020 the numbers are low

[Henry W]

I've been keeping the Google Doc updated (linked two posts above) - thanks particularly to Colin for bringing these to light.

Includes the additional baronet deaths:

Nelson (2 June), von Friesendorff (21 Nov), Munro [1634] (22 Nov)

2 June & 26 Dec both had TWO baronet deaths on the same day.

[BREMENMURRAY]

The seventh Earl Grey in November 2023

[Henry W]

Hi Bremen - whilst I never noted the death on this thread, I did update the Google Doc in November 2024 when the death came to light a year after 7th Earl's death:

Peerage & Baronetage deaths & births