Few Brown / PLUNKETT-ERNEL-ERLE-DRAX engagement

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph & Times of 24 Dec 2022: Mr F.R.T. Few Brown and Miss N.S. Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax - The engagement is announced between Frederick, son of Mr and Mrs Ben Few Brown, of Cholderton, Wiltshire, and Natasha, younger daughter of Mr Richard Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, of Charborough Park, Dorset, and Mrs Angus Gordon Lennox, of Gordon Castle, Moray.

Natasha Shan b 1993 d of Richard Grosvenor PLUNKETT-ERNLE-ERLE-DRAX b 1958 (gt gs of 16th Baron DUNSANY 1853-99 as well 6xgt gs of Sir Robert GROSVENOR 6th Bt 1695-1755 f of 1st Earl GROSVENOR 1731-1802 gt gf of 1st Duke of WESTMINSTER 1825-99 etc etc), and his 1st w Zara Victoria b 1966 d of William Nigel Henry LEGGE-BOURKE 1939-2009 (2xgt gs of 5th Ear of DARTMOUTH etc etc), and Hon Dame Elizabeth Shân Josephine BAILEY DCVO b 1943 d of 3rd Baron GLANUSK 1891-1948 and Margaret Eldrydd SHOUBRIDGE d 2002.

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Fred Few Bown’s aunt Rebecca (Becky) was the first wife of James, current Duke of Marlborough.

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It's interesting.  Rebecca Mary (nee Few Brown) is mother of George John Godolphin Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford,  heir to the dukedom.

Rebecca and Ben are children of Peter Few Brown (1929-2017) and his 1st wife Elizabeth Linda Milling (d. 2022).

Peter Few Brown remarried Lavinia Mary Agnew, scion of Agnew baronets.

Elizabeth Linda Milling remarried Edward John WINNINGTON-INGRAM, scion of Winnington baronets.

[S R Eglesfield]

Ben Few Brown's full name is Benjamin Geoffrey FEW BROWN (although note that it was as Geoffrey B Few Brown that his birth was registered in Hammersmith in Q3 1959; per company records, he was born on 28 July 1959). He and his wife (marriage registered April 1988 - Surrey Mid Eastern), the former Alison Louise COTTERELL (born c.1964), have two children, the prospective bridegroom, Frederick Richard T FEW BROWN (birth registered August 1992 - Lambeth), and a daughter, Emily Elizabeth FEW BROWN (birth registered March 1990 - Lambeth; per company records, born on 23 March 1990).

Mrs Alison Few Brown is the eldest of the four children of Richard Player COTTERELL (14 V 1932 - living?) and his wife (marriage registered Q2 1963 - Surrey South Eastern), Anne Elizabeth CALVERT (6 I 1940 - 24 X 2021), who was herself the elder daughter of Henry Reginald CALVERT (25 I 1904 - 15 VIII 1992) and his wife (marriage registered Q2 1938 - Wandsworth), Eileen Mary ("Bobbie") FROW (1906 - 3 IX 1990).

Henry Reginald CALVERT was the Keeper of the Department of Astronomy and Geophysics in the Science Museum from 1949, retiring in 1969. He was also Honorary Treasurer of the British Society for the History of Science from 1952 to 1963. He was the eldest of the three sons of Dr Harry Thornton CALVERT, MBE (3 V 1878 - 23 IX 1947) and his wife (marriage registered Q2 1903 - Leeds), Annie TETLEY (1879 - 26 VI 1937). Their second son, John Thornton CALVERT, CBE (1907 - 4 XII 1987), was married in 1948 to (as her first husband) Barbara Adamson PARKER (30 IV 1926 - 22 VII 2015), who, as Barbara CALVERT QC, became the first woman to head a barristers' chambers in 1974; she was married secondly in 1994 to (as his second wife) Robert Erskine Lynd LOWRY, Life Peer as Baron Lowry, PC, PC (NI) (30 I 1919 - 15 I 1999), former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland from 1971 to 1989.

The son of John Thornton CALVERT and Barbara Adamson PARKER was Paul T CALVERT (1949 - 7 V 2004), who was married on 20 July 1972 to Deborah Deirdre Anne MERIVALE-AUSTIN (born 12 I 1948), a granddaughter maternally of the 2nd Baron Rankeillour.