BUTTER, Maj Sir Henry David KCVO MC (1920-2010)

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 2 June 2010:

BUTTER
Major Sir David Hendry KCVO MC. Died peacefully on Saturday 29th May
2010, aged 90. Adored husband of Myra and greatly loved father,
grandfather and great-grandfather. Funeral Service private.
Thanksgiving Service to be announced at a later date.

He was the head of the Scots gentry family BUTTER of Pitlochry, son of
the previous head, Col Charles Adrian James Butter (RAF) OBE JP DL
(1876-1944) and Agnes Marguerite (Madgedau of William Clark, of
Newark, New Jersey, USA. He m 1946, Myra Alice CVO(b 1925) dau of Sir
Harold Augustus WERNHER (1893-1973) 3rd & last Bt GCVO and Lady
(Anastasia Michailovna) Zia CBE dau of the Grand Duke Michael
Michailovitch of Russia. They had a son and 4 daus. His son (Charles
Harold Alexander (b 1960) m 2006 Agnieszka Dominika Szeluk and has a
son, Henry Archie Alexander b 2009 and a dau Julia Davina b 2006)
succeeds him as head of the family. All four daus are married with
issue. One is the Countess of Dalhousie, wife of the 17th & present
Earl and mother of the heir Lord Ramsay; another is the Princess
Alexander Galitzine and the youngest is married to Mark Pejacsevich,
whose father's death was posted here last year:
http://groups.google.com/group/peerage-news/browse_thread/thread/16915b7238771b45/4dfbda80109dcc57?lnk=gst&q=david+henry+butter#4dfbda80109dcc57

[Richard R]

Corrected 'Henry David' to 'David Henry' in the heading. [I assume
'Hendry' in the death notice is a typo]

> whose father's death was posted here last year:http://groups.google.com/group/peerage-news/browse_thread/thread/1691...

[Turenne]

Anastasia (Zia) Mikhailovna was Countess de Torby in her own righ,t
since her mother Sophie Nikolaievna von Merenberg married the Grand
Duke morganatically. In 1917 she discontinued using her comital title
as she was accorded the style and precedence of the daughter of an
earl by Royal Warrant of George V.

Richard R

[ThomasFoolery]

Is anyone aware when, and for what reason, was Sir Henry knighted?

> whose father's death was posted here last year:http://groups.google.com/group/peerage-news/browse_thread/thread/1691...

[Turenne]

On 4 June, 17:32, ThomasFoolery <mmp...@eden.rutgers.edu> wrote:

> Is anyone aware when, and for what reason, was Sir Henry knighted?

I assume it was because he was Lord Lieutenant (rtd 1995) of the
Tayside Region of Scotland (Perth & Kinross).

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/53987/pages/4339

He was also a Captain in The Royal Company of Archers.

Richard L

[Turenne]

Sorry Richard R. I forgot my own initials! (see above)

RL

[Michael Rhodes]

On 4 June, 19:57, Turenne <rick.lich...@virgin.net> wrote:
> On 4 June, 17:32, ThomasFoolery <mmp...@eden.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>
> > Is anyone aware when, and for what reason, was Sir Henry knighted?

He is one of Her Majesty's closest friends - Lady Butter is regarded
as 'family'
by Prince Philip - hence the KCVO