+ 7th Viscount St Vincent (1905-2006)
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Michael Rhodes
Sep 6, 2006, 9:13:51 PM9/6/06
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The Viscount St. Vincent, who died at his home in Jersey, Channel
Islands, 4 September, 2006, was aged 101.
Ronald George James Jervis, 7th Viscount (Peerage of the United
Kingdom, created 1801) was born 3 May, 1905, son of the 6th Viscount
(1859-1940) by his wife, the former Marion Annie Brown (d. 1911), and
was educated at Sherborne.
Career: - - - > served in the Second World War as acting
Lieutenant-Commander, RNVR; Justice of the Peace for Somerset, 1950-55,
&c.
He succeeded to the peerage on the demise of his father in 1940. His
ancestor, Admiral Sir John Jervis, First Lord of the Admiralty 1801-04,
was the celebrated naval commander who obtained a splendid victory over
the Spanish Fleet at Cape St. Vincent.
He married in 1945, Constance Phillida Anne, daughter of Lt-Col. Robert
Hector Logan, OBE, by whom he had issue, the Hon. Edward Robert James,
b. 12 May, 1951, and the Hon. (Ronald Nigel) John, b. 1954. The title
devolves upon his elder son.
Islands, 4 September, 2006, was aged 101.
Ronald George James Jervis, 7th Viscount (Peerage of the United
Kingdom, created 1801) was born 3 May, 1905, son of the 6th Viscount
(1859-1940) by his wife, the former Marion Annie Brown (d. 1911), and
was educated at Sherborne.
Career: - - - > served in the Second World War as acting
Lieutenant-Commander, RNVR; Justice of the Peace for Somerset, 1950-55,
&c.
He succeeded to the peerage on the demise of his father in 1940. His
ancestor, Admiral Sir John Jervis, First Lord of the Admiralty 1801-04,
was the celebrated naval commander who obtained a splendid victory over
the Spanish Fleet at Cape St. Vincent.
He married in 1945, Constance Phillida Anne, daughter of Lt-Col. Robert
Hector Logan, OBE, by whom he had issue, the Hon. Edward Robert James,
b. 12 May, 1951, and the Hon. (Ronald Nigel) John, b. 1954. The title
devolves upon his elder son.
Michael Rhodes (Please erase the x to e-mail me)
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Craigy
Sep 7, 2006, 1:36:50 PM9/7/06
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Aww, how sad. I was waiting for him to beat Manny Shinwell as the
longest lived peer too.
longest lived peer too.
bx...@yahoo.com
Sep 9, 2006, 12:43:19 PM9/9/06
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May he rest in peace. I don't want to say he was old but his siblings
(a sister and an older brother who would have inherited the title if he
hadn't been killed in in accident in 1929) were both born in the
CENTURY before the last one-- 1895 and 1898)
(a sister and an older brother who would have inherited the title if he
hadn't been killed in in accident in 1929) were both born in the
CENTURY before the last one-- 1895 and 1898)
Brooke
bx...@yahoo.com
Michael Rhodes
Sep 12, 2006, 11:12:20 AM9/12/06
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Who is now the oldest hereditary peer ?
bx...@yahoo.com
Sep 12, 2006, 9:06:22 PM9/12/06
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The 17th Earl of Lauderdale, born March 17, 1911, is the oldest
hereditary peer (now age 95).
There are 4 hereditary peers born in 1912 and who are all now age 94.
They are:
12th Earl of Wemyss & 8th Earl of March (born Jan. 19)
9th Baron Langford (born March 8) who is one day older than the next
peer--
8th Baron Thurlow (born March 9) and
22nd Baron Hastings (born April 14)
These are the only current hereditary peers born prior to World War I.
Brooke
bx...@yahoo.com
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