SMITH / GRUBB engagement

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 28 Nov 2025: Mr S.G.G. Smith and Miss K.R.A. Grubb - The engagement is announced between Samuel, only son of Mr and Mrs Humphrey Smith, of Tadcaster, Yorkshire, and Katharine, daughter of Mr Anthony Grubb, of West Sussex, and Mrs Jennifer Dumenil, of East Sussex.

Samuel Geoffrey Gladstone b 1988 s of Humphrey Richard Woollcombe SMITH b Dec 1944 of Oxton Hall, Tadcaster, Yorkshire and Julia Carlotta b 1956 d of John GLADSTONE 1908-77 scion of that Scots gentry family of Capenoch (as well 2xgt gs of 2^nd Earl TALBOT OF HENSOL 1777-1849 who was f of 18^th Earl of SHREWSBURY 1803-68) and his 2nd w Diana Rosamund Maud FLEMING-HAMILTON c1922-2018

Katharine Rosanna Alexandra b 1992 d of Anthony Arbuthnot Watkins GRUBB b 1950 scion of that Irish gentry family (and 3xgt gs of Robert ARBUTHNOT 1728-1803 of Haddo-Ratray who was f of Sir William ARBUTHNOT 1^st Bt 1766-1829), and his former w Jennifer Frances b 1956 d of Cdr Geoffrey WILSON and Jean WALLACE.