Ivan Cottam Foxwell, (1914-2002)
Michael Rhodes
16 January, 2002, aged 87.
His films included: No Room at the Inn; Guilt is my Shadow; Stephan
Zweig's Twenty Four Hours of a Woman's Life; The Intruder; The
Coldtitz Story; Manuela; A Touch of Larceny; Tiara Tahiti; The Quiller
Memorandum; Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, (or was it entitled
*Decline and Fall of a Birdwatcher*?)
He was born 22 February, 1914, the son of Lt-Col Herber Somerton
Foxwell (who died on active service in 1943).
Educated at Stubbington House, Wellington, and the Royal Military
Academy Sandhurst; was substantive Major in the Royal Norfolk
Regiment, served in the BEF in France, 1940, France & Germany,
1944-45.
In 1937 he met the Debutante, Edith Sybil Lambart, niece of a Field
Marshal, and the only child of Capt the Hon Lionel Lambart, second son
of the 9th Earl of Cavan; though Ivan never officially proposed
marriage, Edith assumed, in her confident manner, that they would
marry, and they did in 1940.
After the war Foxwell resumed his career in films and went on to make
many excellent films in the 1950s and 1960s.
He and his photogenic wife became one of the most glamorous couples in
London. They had two daughters, and divided their time between
Belgravia and Edith's family home, an Elizabethan manor house at
Sherston, Wiltshire.
When his wife's uncle -the tenth Earl of Cavan -died in 1946 he should
have been succeeded by Edith Foxwell's father. But he had been killed
in action in June, 1940, when his yacht -which had already rescued
many troops from the beaches of Dunkirk - was torpedoed.
Had Edith Foxwell been a boy, she would have become 11th Earl of
Cavan. Because of this, in 1947, King George VI granted Edith the
title, rank and precedence of the daughter of an earl. Whereas this is
quite frequently granted to a sister, Lady Edith's case was unusual.
Ivan Foxwell was amicably divorced from Lady Edith in 1975. She died
in March, 1996, aged 77.
Ivan Foxwell later married a lady by the name of Zena (no other
details).
His elder daughter, Zia, (b. 1940), married 1968, (div. 1991) David
Kruger; the younger daughter, Atalanta Edith, (b. 1956), married at a
young age, in 1973, Don Stefano, Prince Massimo of Roccasecca dei
Volsci, of Rome.
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Michael Rhodes.
Michael Rhodes
Michael Rhodes
> The British film producer and screenwriter, Ivan Cottam Foxwell, died
> 16 January, 2002, aged 87.
> He was born 22 February, 1914, the son of Lt-Col Herber Somerton
> Foxwell (who died on active service in 1943).
His father was Herbert Somerton Foxwell.
Mike Dickson
> > He was born 22 February, 1914, the son of Lt-Col Herber Somerton
> > Foxwell (who died on active service in 1943).
>
> His father was Herbert Somerton Foxwell.
Well thank Buddha for that.
Mike Dickson, Edinburgh, Scotland