BELL, Delilah Rose Wentworth b 6 Feb 2026

[colinp]

From the Irish Times 20 March 2026: 

BELL - February 6, 2026, Cambridge. To Alex and Cialann (née McKeating) a beautiful baby girl Delilah Rose Wentworth Bell. Welcomed with much love by big sister Alicia and all her family. Deo Gratias

I can do no better than replicate Richard's 2020 post of the parents' engagement:

Alexander Luke Wentworth (b 1990) s of Michael Leopold Wentworth BELL (b Oct 1960) and Georgina Patricia (b 1965) d of Alan LILLINGSON (1935-2014) scion of the INGE-INNES-LILLINGSTON gentry family of Thorpe Constantine, and Lady Vivienne Margaret NEVILLE (1941-2018) d of 5th Marquess of ABERGAVENNY (1914-2000).

BELL / McKeating engagement

[S R Eglesfield]

The infant's paternal grandfather, Michael Leopold Wentworth Bell, is the son of Capt Brian Raymond Wentworth BELL (1928 - 10 VI 2004) and his wife (married 1956), Fiona Daphne MENZIES (12 I 1934 - 16 III 2012), the daughter of Maj-Gen Sir Stewart Graham MENZIES, KCB, KCMG, DSO, MC (30 I 1890 - 29 V 1968), Chief of MI6, 1939-52, and his second wife (married 13 XII 1932, as her second husband), Pamela Thetis BECKETT (4 II 1903 - 13 III 1951), a niece of the 2nd Baron Grimthorpe.

 

Capt Brian Bell was the son of Capt Philip Wentworth BELL (23 XI 1893 - 1 II 1961) and his wife (married 1923), Vera Isabel LONSDALE (9 V 1897 - 4 II 1964), the younger daughter of Thomas LONSDALE (5 XII 1854 - ?) and his wife (married 22 VII 1891), Mary Alice McCLINTOCK, whose father was the youngest half-brother of the 1st Baron Rathdonnell.

 

Philip Wentworth Bell was the son of Charles Wentworth BELL (1857 - 20 I 1929) and his wife (married 31 III 1891), the Hon Edith MARY BIDDULPH (1867 - 16 XI 1939), the second daughter of the 1st Baron Biddulph and his first wife, who was herself a granddaughter, paternally, of Sir Robert PEEL, 1st Bt, and, maternally, of the 1st Marquess of Ailsa.