FORSYTH, Brigit (Brigit Dorothea nee CONNELL, formerly Mrs Brian Mills) 1940-2023

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She was dau of the architect Frank James CONNELL 1910-92 by his 16 Jan 1936 m (St Michael’s, New Malton) to the artist Anne Regiaulde 1911-2006 d of Noel Constable FORSYTH 1878- [see note below *] and Dorothea BURN MURDOCH c1884-1945.

Her brother Malcolm John George CONNELL m 1965 Rosemary Maynard b 1942 d of Hon Robert Maynard HAZLERIGG 1916-97 (s of 1^st Baron HAZLERIGG 1878-1949 and Dorothy Rachel 1883-1972 d of John Henry BUXTON 1849-1934 (gs of Sir Thomas Fowell BUXTON 1^st Bt 1786-1845) and Emma Maria PELLY 1852-1924 gd of Sir John PELLY 1^st Bt 1777-1852) and Rose COX 1907-79, and had a dau.

*Note: Noel Constable FORSYTH’s son Ian Nigel Malcolm m 1947 Julia Hermione Myrtle b 1924 d of Rear-Adm Laurence Richard OLIPHANT CBE 1877-1950 scion of that Scots gentry family of Condie and Hon Adelaide Daphne Hermione WILLOUGHBY 1883-1954 d of 10^th Baron MIDDLETON 1847-1924 and Ida Eleonora Constance 1855-1924 d of Lt-Col George William Holmes ROSS 1825-83 sometime head of that Scots gentry family of Cromarty and Adelaide Lucy 1830-60 d of Duncan DAVIDSON 1800-81 sometime head of that Scots gentry family (now VICKERS) of Tulloch 1800-81 and his 1^st w Hon Elizabeth Diana BOSVILLE MACDONALD 1804-39 d of 3^rd Baron MACDONALD 1775-1832 and Louisa Maria LA COAST 1782-1835, and had four sons and a dau.

Obit in the Times of 4 Dec 2023:

E X T R A C T

Brigit Forsyth obituary

…Actress best known for playing Rodney Bewes’s hen-pecking wife in the popular sitcom Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

Brigit Dorothea Connell was born in 1940. Her father, Frank Connell, was an architect and town planner in Edinburgh and her mother, Anne (née ­Forsyth), was a painter. While her elder siblings, Malcolm, Christopher and Reggie, were all born in Edinburgh, Brigit and her younger brother, Noel, were born in Malton, North Yorkshire, and delivered by their grandfather. Her childhood, she said, was “eccentric and middle-class” and mostly spent in ­Edinburgh. “We had nannies. My parents, I think, were quite delightful and always encouraged us to everything we were interested in.”…

…In 1975 she married Brian Mills, a TV producer who had directed her in the drama Adam Smith (1972). They separated amicably in 1999, seven years before his death. She is survived by their children Ben and Zoe…

Brigit Forsyth, actress, was born on July 28, 1940. She died of undisclosed causes on December 1, 2023, aged 83

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brigit-forsyth-obituary-wrvkf7zpb

 

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Julia Hermione Myrtle Forsyth nee Oliphant b 1924 died c2003 - see NZ historical BDM's indices (ref 2003/1510 - as it's a low reference number she may have died at the end of 2002)