6th Baron Hindlip (1940-2024)
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Hon. Henry William Allsopp (born 8 June 1973), (7th Baron Hindlip, not yet claimed)
Hon. Sophia Atherley Allsopp (born 1980)
Hon. Natasha Fiona Allsopp (born 1986)
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Obit in the Times of 7 June 2024:
E X T R A C T
Lord Hindlip obituary: Christie’s chairman who sold Van Gogh’s Sunflowers for £24 million
Father of Kirstie Allsopp also sold Princess Diana’s dresses for record-breaking amounts
…The Hon Charles Henry Allsopp, universally known as Charlie, was the elder son of Major Henry Allsopp, 5th Baronet and Baron Hindlip, and his wife Cecily Valentine Jane, née Borwick. The family were leading members of the “beerage”, having been brewers in Burton-on-Trent since 1730. In 1859 they built the largest brewery in Britain and the title was created in 1886. However, according to Allsopp, neither his grandfather nor his father “ever had a job … They just tanked through the family money and wiped out 200 years of honest labour”. Early in the 20th century they lost control of their brewery and parted with the family seat.
Allsopp was born in 1940 at Haselbech Hall in Northamptonshire, his mother’s family home, and was educated at Eton, where he struggled because of dyslexia and failed to learn to draw from Wilfrid Blunt. After a period in France, which turned him into an ardent Francophile and introduced him to art and architecture, he held a three-year short-service commission in the Coldstream Guards. However, he realised that he had no real aptitude for soldiering and decided to try his luck with Christie’s...
…His salary had not greatly improved. He married in 1968 and later recalled: “In New York, Fiona was working in a clothes shop, I was paid the same as a refuse collector and we weren’t allowed to go overdrawn or have money sent from England — it was the days of exchange controls. On Thursdays we would count up our small change to see if we had enough to get a subway to a movie and dinner in Chinatown. Meanwhile, at work I was coming into contact with some of the richest people in the world.”
One way to improve their finances was through property, and there were six changes of London house in 15 years, although for 17 years they brought up their children at Totterdown House, an 80-acre estate in Berkshire. However, it lacked water, and in 1999 when they saw a Dorset farmhouse on the River Lydden advertised in Country Life, they bought the property. They created a new country house on the footprint of the old, with formal gardens and a nearby mill house.
His wife, a talented interior decorator, was Fiona McGowan, granddaughter of the 1st Lord McGowan, who had worked for the Nobel Explosives Company and then as the result of a merger became chairman of ICI for 20 years. There was a history of breast cancer in her maternal ancestry, and she lived with it for 25 years until her death in 2014. There were four children: Kirstie, the television presenter and property agent; Henry, an art dealer who is a godson of the Queen and succeeds to the titles; Sophia, also a television presenter; and Natasha, like Henry a director of their father’s Hindlip Fine Art…
…He inherited the titles in 1993 and took his seat in the House of Lords where his last speech, in 1999 just before the expulsion of the hereditaries, was on the likely impact of artists’ resale right on the art market…
Charles Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip, was born on August 5, 1940. He died of undisclosed causes on June 5, 2024, aged 83
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/lord-hindlip-allsopp-obituary-death-k7dlgpftv
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From the Times of 15 June 2024: HINDLIP Charles Henry Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip, died at home in Dorset on Wednesday 5th June. Beloved husband, father and grandfather. A service of thanksgiving for Charlie’s life will be held at The Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, W1, at 3pm on Wednesday 26th June and afterwards at Christie’s, King Street…
