HARMAN, Sir Jeremiah Leroy 1930-2021
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He was s of Rt Hon Sir Charles Eustace HARMAN 1894-1970 and Helen Sarah Le Roy LEWIS 1900-92. He m 1st 1960 (div 1987) Erica Jane b 1934 d of Hon Sir Maurice Richard BRIDGEMAN 1904-80 s of 1st Viscount BRIDGEMAN 1864-1935 and Diana Mary Erica 1912-79 d of Capt Humphrey Minto WILSON 1883-1961 by his 1907 m reg Q2 London to Gladys MERTON 1883-1978, and had two sons and a dau. He m 2nd 1987 as her 2nd h Katharine Frances Goddard 1939-2002 d of Rt Hon Sir Eric Leopold Otho SACHS 1898-1979 and Hon Janet Margaret GOODDARD 1909-2005 d of Law Lord Baron GODDARD 1877-1971
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Sir Jeremiah Harman's maternal grandfather, Colonel Herman LE ROY-LEWIS, CB, CMG, DSO (27 VI 1860 - 7 VI 1931), the younger son of Captain Robert LE ROY (1823 - 5 III 1865) and his wife Amelia LEWIS (died 1913), was of an American family with connections to the UK. His first cousin once removed upwards, John Delaware LEWIS (1828 - 31 VII 1884), who was MP (Liberal) for Devonport from 1868 to 1874, had married, on 6 January 1868, Teresa (1835 - 2 IX 1899), eldest daughter of Sir Jervoise CLARKE-JERVOISE, 2nd Bt (28 IV 1804 - 1 IV 1889). That marriage being childless, Herman Le Roy, as he then was, became his cousin's heir, and changed his surname to Le Roy-Lewis by deed poll on 14 January 1885, having come into his inheritance in the previous year (although he was not naturalised in the UK until 27 May 1897).
Colonel LE ROY-LEWIS was married in 1888 to Kathleen Teresa Turner NEWCOMEN (27 VII 1865 - 26 V 1948), and they had one son and four daughters. Per Burke's Family Index, the Le Roy-Lewis family of Westbury House, near Petersfield, Hampshire, last appeared in Burke's Landed Gentry in the 1921 edition, so full details of the marriages of the children will not be found there. A few points of interest are that Ysolt (1889 - 31 XII 1964), the eldest daughter, was married firstly, on 27 March 1912 (divorced 1920), to (as his first wife) the Hon Harold Burge ROBSON (10 III 1888 - 13 X 1964), son of the Law Life Peer, William Snowdon Robson, Baron Robson (10 IX 1852 - 11 IX 1918); and that Armorel (31 III 1890 - 9 I 1967), the second daughter, was married firstly, on 1 September 1911 (divorced 1919), to (as his first wife) Colonel Richard Henry MEINERTZHAGEN (3 III 1878 - 17 VI 1967), of that landed gentry family (she was married secondly, in 1922, to Sir Laurence Rivers DUNNE (1893 - 30 VI 1970), Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, 1948-1960). Sir Jeremiah Harman's mother, Helen Sarah, was the third daughter of Colonel and Mrs Le Roy-Lewis.
Sir Jeremiah Harman's maternal grandmother, née Kathleen Teresa Turner NEWCOMEN, was the daughter of Arthur Henry Turner NEWCOMEN (18 III 1844 - 6 IV 1884) and his wife (married 1863, as her first husband) Rachel (13 XII 1840 - 27 IV 1889), third daughter of Sir Jervoise CLARKE-JERVOISE, 2nd Bt, and sister of Teresa, the wife of John Delaware LEWIS, as previously mentioned. Arthur Henry Turner Newcomen was the son of Arthur NEWCOMEN (died 17 XII 1848, aged 31) and his wife (her first husband; married 11 VII 1841), Teresa VANSITTART (1813 - 29 IV 1887). Several sources state that Arthur was Teresa's cousin; I have been unable to definitively ascertain his parentage, but one possibility (see https://www.myheritage.com/names/arthur_gleadowe-newcomen) is that he was one of the eight illegitimate children of Thomas GLEADOWE-NEWCOMEN, 2nd and last Viscount Newcomen (18 IX 1776 - 15 I 1825) and Harriet HOLLAND (1787 - 1835). Teresa was herself the daughter of Lord Newcomen's sister, the Hon Teresa GLEADOWE-NEWCOMEN (died 1840) by her second husband (married 21 VII 1812), Henry VANSITTART (10 VII 1784 - 22 IV 1848).
Henry Vansittart was the only son of another Henry VANSITTART (1755 - 7 X 1786), the eldest brother of the Rt Hon Nicholas VANSITTART, 1st and last Baron Bexley (29 IV 1766 - 8 II 1851), Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1812 to 1823. This Henry's wife (married 3 II 1783, as her first husband), and the younger Henry's mother, was Catherine Maria POWNEY, who was married secondly on 30 July 1791 to George Nesbitt THOMPSON (25 XII 1753 - 1831), friend and private secretary to Warren Hastings, Governor General of Bengal. The youngest of the nine children of this second marriage was Georgiana THOMPSON (1808 - 25 II 1873), who on 15 June 1829 married Sir Jervoise CLARKE-JERVOISE, 2nd Bt, by whom she had two sons and four daughters, including Teresa and Rachel as mentioned above. Thus, Arthur Henry Turner NEWCOMEN, as a great-grandson of Catherine Maria POWNEY and her first husband, was a step-first cousin once removed downwards of his wife, Rachel CLARKE-JERVOISE, who was a granddaughter of Catherine Maria POWNEY and her second husband.