GAISFORD-ST LAWRENCE, Christopher Stephen 1930-2023
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He was s of Capt Thomas Julian Edward GAISFORD-ST LAWRENCE MC 1892-1957 (who he succ as) head of that Irish gentry family and Mary Clare d 1985 d of Lt-Col Edward Henry Joseph MOSTYN 1857-1916 (gs of Sir Edward MOSTYN 7th Bt 1785-1841) and Mary Cecily 1865-1916 d of John Reginald Francis George TALBOT 1826-1906 (3xgt gs of Sir Robert TALBOT 2nd Bt c1610-1670 gt gf-in-law of The Baroness TALBOT OF MALAHIDE d 1834) and Sarah Eliza JONES 1837-78. He m 1957 Penelope Christian 1937-2010 d of Col Arnold DREW 1894-1972 and Honora May 1897-1974 d of Frederick Henry CHRISTIAN 1862-1947 scion of that gentry family f/o Milntown and Mary Victoria 1866-1959 d of Frederick Lewis MAITLAND-HERIOT 1818-81 (gt gs of 6th Earl of LAUDERDALE c1688-1744, etc etc) and Martha 1826-1904 d of Sir Andrew AGNEW 7th Bt 1793-1849 of Lochnaw and his w a dau of Sir David CARNEGIE 4th Bt 1753-1805 of Pittarrow (who was gf of the 9th Earl of SOUTHESK 1827-1905 (who was gt gf of 3rd Duke of FIFE 1929-2015 gt gs of King EDWARD VII)), and had issue:
1. JULIAN TRISTRAM b 17 Nov 1957 who succeeds his father as family head, m 1989 reg Q1 Ken&Chelsea Christine d 2011 d of Guy DELALANDE of Ave de la Motte-Picquet, Paris, and had issue
1.1 Thomas Jean b Aug 1993 reg Q3 Westminster
1.2 Alix Nicole P. b May 1995 reg Q2 Westminster
2. Oliver James b 1965 m 2000 reg Q2 Rutland Helena Jane b 1967 reg Q4 Essex d of Michael J ELEY of Pilton, Rutland by his 1966 m reg Q2 London to Anne HERRIDGE, and had issue
2.1 Alicia Cecelia E[ley] b 2001 reg Q4 Cambridge
2.2 Rosanna Clare E[ley] b 2005 reg Q1 Cambridge
1. Antonia Mary b 1959 m 1984 Edward Simon b 1958 s of Rt Hon Sir James Roualeyn HOVELL-THURLOW-CUMMING-BRUCE 1912-2000 (s of 6th Baron THURLOW ) and Lady (Anne) Sarah Alethea Marjorie SAVILE 1919-91 d of 6th Earl of MEXBOROUGH 1868-1945 and Hon Margaret Eva de Burgh KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN d 1957 d of 2nd Baron BRABOURNE 1857-1909 (2xgt uncle of 8th Baron BRABOURNE and 3rd Earl MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA b 1947) and Hon Amy Virginia BEAUMONT 1859-1949 d of 1st Baron ALLENDALE 1829-1907 and Lady Margaret Anne DE BURGH 1831-88 d of 1st Marquess of CLANRICARDE 1802-74 and Hon Harriet CANNING 1804-76 d of sometime British PM Rt Hon George CANNING 1770-1827 and The Viscountess CANNING OF KILBRAHAN 1776-1837 (m of the 1st & only Earl CANNING 1812-62), and had issue
1.1 Michael Alastair HOVELL-THURLOW-CUMMING-BRUCE b 1985
1.2 William James HOVELL-THURLOW-CUMMING-BRUCE b 1987
1.1 Isabelle Sarah HOVELL-THURLOW-CUMMING-BRUCE b 1990
2. Edwina Katherine b 1962, m 1989 Dominic Sebastian Molyneux 1953-91 s of Maj Rufus R M CLARKE of Egerton Place, London and _ SILVERTOP (Mrs William Ballard)
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Emily (Dec 1829-6 Nov 1868); m.26 Oct 1859 Thomas Gaisford, of Offington (12 Dec 1816-26 Feb 1898)
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Julian Charles Gaisford-St.Lawrence, of Howth Castle (28 Mar 1862-7 Nov 1932); m.19 Nov 1889 Bertha Mary Riddell, d.12 Jul 1941
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Stephen Francis Gaisford-St.Lawrence (3 Apr 1892-30 Sep 1957); m.26 Jun 1929 Mary Clare Francis Mostyn, of the Baronets
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Christopher Stephen Gaisford-St.Lawrence, of Howth Castle (12 Jun 1930-29 Oct 2023); m.5 Feb 1957 Penelope Drew (1937-9 Aug 2010)
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Christopher Stephen Gaisford-St. Lawrence 1930-2023
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Sosa 2 - Stephen Francis Gaisford-St. Lawrence 1892-1957
Sosa 3 - Mary Clare Mostyn 1897-1985
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Sosa 5 - Bertha Mary Riddell †1941
Sosa 6 - Edward Henry Joseph Mostyn 1857-1916
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Sosa 11 - Ellen Blount †1909
Sosa 12 - Edward Henry Mostyn 1813-1895
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Sosa 23 - Elizabeth Anne Mary Petre 1798-1848
Sosa 24 - Edward Mostyn, Baronet Mostyn of Talacre 1785-1841
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Sosa 46 - Robert Edward, Baron Petre 1763-1809
Sosa 48 - Pyers Mostyn, Baronet Mostyn of Talacre 1749-1823
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Sosa 92 - Robert Edward, Baron Petre 1742-1801
Sosa 97 - Barbara Browne 1729-1801
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Sosa 185 - Anna Maria Barbara Radcliffe 1716-1760
Sosa 195 - Barbara Lee 1695-1729/
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Sosa 370 - James Radcliffe, Earl of Derwentwater 1689-1715
Sosa 391 - Charlotte Fitzroy 1664-1718
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Sosa 741 - Mary Stuart 1673-1726
Sosa 782 - Charles II Stuart, King of England 1630-1685
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S R Eglesfield
Pamela Silvertop's first husband (married 7 VI 1934, as his first wife; divorced 1937) was Peter Frank TIARKS, MC (15 V 1910 - 17 IV 1975), of that landed gentry family, by whom she had one daughter. Her third husband (married 1962, as his fourth wife), William Fitz Randolph BALLARD (c.1904/5 - IX 1993), an architect, was chairman of the New York City Planning Commission from 1963 to 1966, and he was a great-grandson of Theodore FITZ-RANDOLPH, Governor of New Jersey from 1869 to 1872.
William Fitz Randolph Ballard's first wife (married 1930, as her first husband; divorced 1938), Lucinda Davis GOLDSBOROUGH (a costume designer as Lucinda Ballard; 3 IV 1906 - 19 VI 1993), was a great-great-grand niece of Jefferson Finis DAVIS (3 VI 1808 - 6 XII 1889), the President of the Confederate States of America. Her second husband (married 31 VII 1951, as his third wife), Howard DIETZ (8 IX 1896 - 30 VII 1983), had previously been the second husband (married 25 I 1937, as his second wife; divorced 1951) of Tanis Eva Bulkeley GUINNESS (27 XII 1908 - 1993), of the banking branch of that family.
Robert Fitz Randolph "Bob/Bobby" BALLARD (13 VIII 1933 - 21 III 2023), the son of William Ballard and his first wife, was the husband (married 30 VII 1962, as his first wife) of Caroline Claire ALERS-HANKEY (born 12 V 1944), of that landed gentry family.
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Christopher Gaisford-St Lawrence, owner of Howth Castle in Ireland and racing enthusiast – obituary
At Howth, Gaisford-St Lawrence modernised the farming practices, cut costs and built a hotel and two 18-hole golf courses
Christopher Gaisford-St Lawrence, who has died aged 93, was a noted figure in the life of Ireland – as the owner of Howth Castle, an estate to the north of Dublin held in unbroken line by his family from 1177, where he lived for three-quarters of a century – and on the turf.
It is said that the family’s Norman founder, Almeric, seized Howth peninsula from the Danes on the feast of St Lawrence, so giving his descendants their name. Centuries later, in 1909 the last male-line St Lawrence, the childless 4th Earl (and 18th Baron) of Howth, left the estate to his nephew, Julian Gaisford, who adopted the name. Gaisford was a Catholic, his father having been converted by John Henry Newman….
Christopher Stephen Gaisford-St Lawrence was born at Ascot, Berkshire, on June 12 1930, the second of three children and elder son of Stephen Gaisford-St Lawrence, a naval officer, and his wife Mary Clare, a daughter of Lt-Col Edward Mostyn. Christopher grew up at Eversley, Hampshire, with an annual summer holiday at Howth, then owned by his bachelor uncle Tom. He was always treated as his uncle’s heir….
…While living in London, he met debutantes Penny and Flicky Drew, identical twins, glamorous and blonde, who were being noticed in the gossip columns. When he married Penny on February 5 1957, their wedding provided the “good news” item at the end of the ITN television news.
Four children were born over the next decade, and with the flourishing golf business and horses in training, Gaisford-St Lawrence and his wife settled into a congenial routine of summer race meetings – Epsom and Ascot were firm fixtures, as was Longchamp in October – and winter shooting parties.
The success of the golf courses encouraged competitors: in the 1990s and early 2000s a dozen new courses were built in North Dublin. As golf then declined in popularity, there was overcapacity. The hotel was hit badly by the recession of 2009-10 and closed in 2014.
The Howth estate was no longer viable, and in 2019 it was sold to Tetrarch Capital, under an agreement which allowed Gaisford-St Lawrence to stay on in part of the castle for 20 years – a period which some feared might not be long enough for a man who, at 89, still liked nothing better than outdoor work, cutting up wood and clearing drains.
Exceptionally for a fit man of his age, he was always a heavy smoker. When past 90, he reflected that while he had probably never smoked more than 80 cigarettes a day, he had seldom smoked less than 200 a week, and he had had barely a day’s ill health. Last year, aged 92, he danced late into the night at the party after a grandson’s wedding. When he returned to his hotel, he found himself locked out, and so climbed in through a window.
He died in the night at Howth, suddenly and unexpectedly, having spent much of the day trying to clear a blocked drain, and to finish a fiendishly difficult jigsaw puzzle. There were 14 fresh cigarette butts in an ashtray by the side of the puzzle.
With his wife Penny (Penelope), daughter of Major Arnold Drew, he had two sons and two daughters. Following her death in 2010, he married, secondly, in 2011, Meryl Long, née Guinness, who survives him. [my bold]
Christopher Gaisford-St Lawrence, born June 12 1930, died October 29 2023
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Obit in the Times of 7 Dec 2023:
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Christopher Gaisford-St Lawrence obituary
Owner of Howth Castle who built Ireland’s first ‘pay and play’ golf course on the estate which popularised the game there
Christopher Gaisford-St Lawrence may have exemplified the slightly batty, antediluvian aristocrat so amusingly drawn in the novels of Evelyn Waugh, but his transformation of the ancient Howth Castle estate in Dublin’s Northside became a model for other noble families to keep their lands intact when the sums no longer added up.
He hit upon an idea that ensured Howth’s future entirely by accident. In 1973 he built a public golf course on the estate to stave off compulsory purchase of some of his land to make way for council housing.
Such was demand for the first “pay and play” course in Ireland that at weekends people slept in the car park to be sure of a round. At its peak in the early 1990s there were some 190,000 rounds a year played on the estate. “It opened up golf to a whole section of the population that hadn’t played the game before and couldn’t get into other clubs,” his son Julian said.
...his Norman ancestor Almeric had first surveyed the Howth peninsula that juts out like a quiff. Almeric built the castle after seizing the land from Vikings on the feast of St Lawrence, August 10, 1177. Thereafter his descendants would take the name of the Roman martyr. The estate grew over the centuries with the aid of “judicious marriages” to encompass Raheny, Killester and Baldoyle. In 1425 a barony was conferred on the family, and an earldom in 1767.
In 1909 the 4th earl and 18th Baron of Howth died childless and the estate passed to his nephew, Julian Gaisford. Adopting the name Gaisford-St Lawrence, he commissioned a new wing of the castle designed by the British architect Edwin Lutyens.
…Christopher Stephen Gaisford-St Lawrence was born in Ascot, Berkshire, in 1930 to Stephen Gaisford-St Lawrence, a naval officer, and his wife Mary Clare, a daughter of Lt Col Edward Mostyn.
…In 1955 Christopher inherited the estate on the death of his childless uncle Tom Gaisford-Lawrence (whom he euphemistically referred to as “not the marrying type”). The young man decided to leave the army, get married and assume a new role as lord of the manor. He frequented the coming-out balls of that season in London and secured the hand of Penelope (née Arnold Drew), a glamorous debutante who along with her identical twin featured regularly in the gossip columns.
…Eventually, Christopher acceded to his son Julian’s proposal to sell the estate to the hotel group Tetrarch Capital in 2019, with the consolation of knowing that it would be kept intact in its entirety, with the addition of a luxury hotel and championship golf course.
As part of the deal Christopher was allowed to remain living in a set of rooms where he would keep himself amused by doing jigsaw puzzles and puffing away on cigarettes.
…His wife died in 2010 and he is survived by their four children: Julian, a former fund manager who took on management of the estate in 2000; Antonia, a stay-at-home mother; Edwina, a counsellor; and Oliver, a bloodstock agent. In 2011 he married Meryl (née Long), who survives him.
…His death brings to an end the St Lawrence name at Howth for the first time in 846 years.
Christopher Gaisford-St Lawrence, army officer and owner of Howth Castle, was born on June 12, 1930. He died on October 29, 2023, aged 93
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/christopher-gaisford-st-lawrence-x2fng3z2x