HICKS / D'arcy Clark engagement
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Frederick Charles B[erkeley] b 1991 s of Timothy James Hicks b Nov 1955 and Edwina Penelope Berkeley b 1956 d of Berkeley Charles Berkeley PORTMAN 1919-2008 (2xgt gs of 2nd Viscount PORTMAN 1799-1888) and Sheila Margaret Penelope 1923-2017 d of Capt Francis Douglas MOWAT 1887-1938 and Gwendoline COLLIER.
Clementine Constance Louisa b 12 Nov 1992 (Times 23 Nov) d of Brian J N D'ARCY CLARK b Sept 1954 and Constance D. d of Michael VIRULY of Hong Kong.
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Timothy James HICKS (born 8 XI 1955) is the youngest brother of Jeremy William HICKS (born 20 IX 1952), who was married in 1979 to Joanna Vivian PALAIRET (born 25 I 1955), the second daughter of Lt-Col John Hamilton PALAIRET (23 I 1917 - 27 XI 1969) and his wife (married 5 V 1951, as her first husband), Anne Marjorie BIBBY (30 X 1928 - 16 II 2020). Lt-Col Palairet was a first cousin of Anne Mary Celestine PALAIRET (14 XI 1916 -19 VIII 1998), who was married on 28 August 1947 to the 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith (22 IV 1916 - 16 I 2011); his wife was the youngest daughter of Sir Arthur Harold BIBBY, 1st Bt (18 II 1889 - 7 III 1986).
Per company records, the full names of the prospective bride's parents are Brian John Norman D'ARCY CLARK (born 14 IX 1954) and Constance Daniella ("Stanny") D'ARCY CLARK (born VII 1955; Dutch nationality). Brian D'Arcy Clark is the son of James D'ARCY CLARK (born c.1921) and his wife (married 1950), Marianne Jill HARBEN (c.1930 - 16 X 2019); his sister (Marianne) Susan ("Sue") D'ARCY CLARK (1951 - 29 I 2011) was married in 1979 to Guy Edward Nairne Sandilands WILSON (born 1948), the elder son of John Sandilands WILSON (died 25 VIII 1963) and his wife (married 15 VI 1945), Penelope Anne FISHER-ROWE (28 IV 1917 - ?), of that landed gentry family, formerly of Thorncombe (her paternal grandmother, née Lady Victoria Isabella RIDDELL (6 VIII 1841 - 31 III 1935), was the youngest daughter of the 1st Earl of Ravensworth).
James D'ARCY CLARK is the younger son of Major John Norman D'ARCY CLARK (1874 - 1954) and his wife (married 22 I 1913), Susan Shuttleworth HOLDEN (22 X 1882 - 12 II 1969). of that landed gentry family, formerly of Aston, a great-granddaughter of the Rev Charles Edward HOLDEN (1750 - 19 XII 1821), who assumed the surname and arms of HOLDEN in lieu of SHUTTLEWORTH in 1791. Mr Holden, whose elder brother was the ancestor in the female line of the Barons Shuttleworth, was the younger son of James SHUTTLEWORTH (1714 - 28 VI 1773), MP for Preston from 1741 to 1754 and for Lancashire from 1761 to 1768, High Sheriff of Yorkshire 1760-61 and his wife (married 25 V 1742), Mary HOLDEN (died 12 X 1701), the only daughter of Robert HOLDEN (1676 - 7 VI 1746) and his wife (married 1716, as her second husband), Hon Elizabeth TRACY, only daughter of the 4th Viscount Tracy and his first wife, Hon Frances DEVEREUX, daughter of the 6th Viscount Hereford.
The prospective bride's sisters are Alexandra Charlotte ("Ra") D'ARCY CLARK (birth registered June 1988 - Westminster) and Isabelle Laetitia ("Issy") D'ARCY CLARK (born I 1990).
Isabelle D'Arcy Clark's engagement was announced in The Daily Telegraph on 22 July - see http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/engagements/258444/mr-e.-hodgson-and-miss-i.-d'arcy-clark. Her fiancé, Edward Benjamin George HODGSON (birth registered April 1990), is the son of Michael E HODGSON and his wife (marriage registered Q3 1979 - Surrey S W), Nicola J TALBOT WILLCOX (birth registered Q1 1955 - Surrey N W), who was herself the daughter of Peter Desmond Ropner TALBOT WILLCOX (1927 - 25 IX 2000) and his wife (marriage registered Q1 1950 - Westminster), Jennifer April ("Jenny") HOLT (born 1929), daughter of Lt-Col Edward HOLT, OBE, MC (died 26 VI 1969) and his wife (married 1926, as her first husband), Phyllis Daisy WILLIAMS.
Peter TALBOT WILLCOX was the son of Major George TALBOT WILLCOX, MC (1895 - 28 XI 1968) and his wife (married 19 X 1922), Constance Winsome ROPNER (15 III 1899 - 24 XI 1988), a granddaughter of Sir Emil Hugo Oscar Robert ROPNER, 1st Bt (16 XII 1838 - 26 II 1924).