NICKSON, Rt Hon Baroness (Eira nee GOVETT, formerly Drysdale) c1936-2026

[Richard R]

From the Times of 28 March 2026: NICKSON Eira died peacefully at home, aged 90, on 22nd March 2026. Much loved by her husband, David, Lord Nickson, and her three sons, James, Michael and Alasdair Findlay, her seven grandchildren and by her wider family of Drysdales and Nicksons. Private family cremation. Service of thanksgiving at St John the Baptist Episcopal Church, Princes Street, Perth, PH2 8LJ, at 2.30pm on Thursday 9th April 2026.

She was d of John Romaine GOVETT 1897-1956 (stockbroker) by his 7 Nov 1929 m (Holy Trinity, Sloane St) to as her 1 h Angela Mary Mostyn 1909-79 (Mrs Christopher Garnett) d of Hugh John Mostyn PRITCHARD 1878-1959 (stockbroker) of Lennox Gdns SW1 by his 4 July 1904 m (St Andrew, Wells Street, St Marylebone) to Mildred Catherine c1882-1959 d of Herbert FLETCHER 1851-1931 by his 1877 m reg Q2 Leics to Sarah Tuffley BANKART c1857-1928. She m first 1983 ref 452/10 Kinross John DRYSDALE and had three sons as above. She m second 2013 the LP Baron NICKSON b 1929.

[S R Eglesfield]

The late Lady Nickson's first husband (married 6 VIII 1955, as his first wife), and the father of her three sons, was John Robert FINDLAY (29 IV 1927 - 17 X 2016), of that landed gentry family, of Boturich, Balloch, Dumbartonshire. It therefore seems that John Drysdale was her second husband, and Lord Nickson her third.