WILLS / Webb engagement

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 1 Feb 2025: Mr T.R.H. Wills and Miss E.A. Webb - The engagement is announced between Thomas, elder son of Mr Christopher and Lady Katharine Wills, of Litchfield Down, Hampshire, and Emma, younger daughter of Mr Michael Webb, of Boxford, Berkshire, and Mrs Bridget Roupell, of Kintbury, Berkshire.

Thomas Robert Hamilton b 1991 elder s of Christopher Aubrey Hamilton WILLS b 1953 (gs of 1^st Baron DULVERTON 1880-1956 etc) and Lady Katharine MEADE b 1959 d of 6^th Earl of CLANWILLIAM 1914-89 and Catherine 1923-2014 d of Col Arthur Thomas LOYD OBE 1882-1944 sometime head of that gentry family of Lockinge and Dorothy WILLERT 1886-1966.

[S R Eglesfield]

The birth of the prospective bride, Emma Alexandra WEBB, was registered in Oxford in Q1 1993 (mother's maiden name Haselden). Her parents, Michael Charles WEBB (born 6 VII 1952) and his former wife, née Bridget HASELDEN (born 1961), were married in 1985. Her father is the third and youngest son of William WEBB (30 XI 1911 - 1991) and his wife (married 1948, as her second husband), Kathleen Matilda SPENCER-NAIRN, MBE (12 VII 1913 - 23 IX 2003), the eldest daughter of Maj Sir Robert SPENCER-NAIRN, 1st Bt (11 VII 1880 - 20 X 1960).

Miss Webb's mother is the daughter of the Rev Eugene John Charles HASELDEN (1917 - 7 VI 1999) and his wife (married 1959), Christine Nancy GRAZEBROOK (1925 - 25 VIII 2004), who was herself the elder daughter of Christopher John GRAZEBROOK (18 VI 1898 - 25 V 1988), of that landed gentry (LG) family, and his wife (married 1924), Nancy Kate Neild COLLIS (19 VI 1902 - 15 VI 1971).

Richard's posting about the engagement of Miss Webb's sister in 2022 is at https://groups.google.com/g/peerage-news/c/uU7A7lGlFfA/m/vyjiqJCkAQAJ. Her stepfather, Christopher John ROUPELL (born 23 IX 1957), is a member of that family, formerly of Charlton, which, per Burke's Family Index, last appeared in Burke's LG in the 1952 edition.

[colinp]

From the Daily Telegraph 11 October 2025:

Mr T.R.H. Wills and Miss E.A. Webb

The marriage took place on Saturday, Oct 4, 2025, at St James the Less Church, Litchfield, Hampshire, between Thomas, elder son of Mr Christopher and Lady Katharine Wills, and Emma, younger daughter of Mr Michael Webb and Mrs Christopher Roupell.