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Lord Palumbo (the younger) for services to nightclubbing? And Floella Benjamin for children’s tv?

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• MACMILLAN, Bruce Warwick Hugh (1951-2022) - 1 Update
• FRENCH / Wadham-Smith marriage - 2 Updates
• Will we ever see another celebrity who has been created a life peer/peeress? - 1 Update

MACMILLAN, Bruce Warwick Hugh (1951-2022)

colinp <colina...@hotmail.com>: May 30 12:32PM -0700 From the New Zealand Herald 30 May 2022 Bruce MACMILLAN Obituary (2022) - Remuera, Auckland - The New Zealand Herald (legacy.com) <https://www.legacy.com/nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/name/bruce-macmillan-obituary?pid=202089753>   MACMILLAN, Bruce Warwick Hugh. Passed away peacefully on 27 May 2022, aged 70 years, at St Andrews Village, Auckland. Loved husband of Tatiana, loving dad to Fiona, Hugh, Yasha, Enya and Chloe and grandfather of Bryan. Adored brother and brother-in-law of Brenda and Gary, uncle of Natalie and Alastair, and Claire and great uncle to Matthew and Daniel. A service to celebrate the life of Bruce will be held in the All Souls Chapel, Purewa Crematorium, 100 St Johns Road, Meadowbank on Wednesday 1 June at 3pm.   He was the son of Thomas Duncan MACMILLAN (1916-2003) and (m 1946) Ellen Maryan (1920-1997) dau of John Francis HILL (1882-1948), scion of the *Hill Baronets* (GB 1727) (now *Viscounts Hill*) being descended from the 4th son of the 1st Bt, and (m 1916) his kinswoman Natalie Ivy ST JAMES (d 1967) (also descended from the 1st Bt through her mother Ellen Eliza HILL). He m (1) 1973 (div 1980) Deborah Suzanne CATHEY. He m (2) ? Tatiana ?

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FRENCH / Wadham-Smith marriage

Richard R <r_ru...@hotmail.com>: May 29 11:19PM -0700 From the Times of 30 May 2022: LADY S. M. E. FRENCH AND MR D. B. WADHAM-SMITH The marriage took place on 21st May 2022, at Camborne Registry Office, between Lady SME French and Mr DB Wadham-Smith.   *Lady *Sarah Mary Essex *FRENCH *b 1953 d of the *3rd & final Earl of YPRES *1921-88 and his former w Maureen Helena b 1922 reg Q3 London d of Henry John Piers KELLY 1897-1969 of Attleborough, Norfolk by his 1921 m reg Q3 London to Emma Mary 1897-1973 d of Charles Jerome WOOLLETT 1853-1932 by his 1888 m reg Q4 London to Dorothy MACKAY c1858-1917.   A "David B WADHAM-SMITH" of Redruth, Cornwall appears as an elector on 192.com

S R Eglesfield <sregle...@talktalk.net>: May 30 03:59AM -0700 David WADHAM-SMITH (born 1944) would appear at one time to have been a motor racing driver. He is the son of Walter Mervyn WADHAM-SMITH, CBE (1910 - ?), who was an Assistant Solicitor in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and his wife (marriage registered Q1 1942 - Kensington), Frances Dolores D'ALBANI (1912 - ?), a daughter of Arthur James Louis Francis D'ALBANI (2 IV 1856 - 9 X 1928) and his second wife (married 1907), Elizabeth FLETCHER.   Captain and Hon Major Arthur James Louis Francis D'ALBANI was a solicitor in Newmarket, Suffolk. He was the son of Rinaldo Carlo Luigi Ferdinando DI LARA, Count D'Albani, who was naturalised as a British subject on 11 January 1859, and there is some suggestion that he may have been a descendant of the Young Pretender, Prince Charles Edward Stuart (see http://www.newmarketshops.info/No.85_High_Street.html.   On Monday, 30 May 2022 at 07:19:12 UTC+1 Richard R wrote:

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Will we ever see another celebrity who has been created a life peer/peeress?

David Beamish <beam...@gmail.com>: May 30 12:44AM -0700 Laurence Olivier's peerage was announced in the 1970 Birthday Honours, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's in the 1997 New Year Honours. There have been no peerages in honours lists since the 2000 New Year Honours. In 2001 the nomination of Crossbench peers was passed to the House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC), and although the restriction on the Prime Minister's nomination of non-party peerages has been progressively watered down since then (and HOLAC has in recent times been limited to an average of two nominations a year) it seems unlikely that a "celebrity" would be nominated except (1) as a political nomination, as with Ian Botham (Lord Botham 2020), or (2) through HOLAC, which would require a commitment to play an active part in the House of Lords. Past HOLAC nominations of people from "the arts" include Michael Berkeley (Lord Berkeley of Knighton, 2013) and Deborah Bull (Baroness Bull, 2018). Other pre-2001 creations of life peers from the arts include Benjamin Britten (Lord Britten, 1976), Bernard Miles (Lord Miles, 1979) and Yehudi Menuhin (Lord Menuhin, 1993).   On Monday, May 30, 2022 at 3:15:50 AM UTC+1 https:/www.maltagenealogy.com/LeighRayment/ wrote:

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