LOVEDAY, Mark Antony 1943-2024

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He was yr s of George Arthur LOVEDAY TD 1909-81 scion of that gentry family of Arlescote and his 1^st w Sylvia Mary 1907-67 d of Maj Antony Edmund GIBBS 1873-1922 (gt gs of Antony GIBBS 1756-1815 who was gt gf of 1^st Baron WRAXALL 1873-1931, as well gf of 1^st Baron ALDENHAM 1819-1907 who was f of 1^st Baron HUNSDON 1854-1935 whose son united both baronies as 4^th Baron Aldenham & 2^nd Baron Hunsdon) and Euphemia Constance 1884-1966 d of Thomas Alford HOUSTON-BOSWALL-PRESTON 1850-1918 (s of Col Sir George Augustus Frederick HOUSTON-BOSWALL 2^nd Bt 1809-86) and Alice Mary CUNARD d 1916 (gd of Sir Samuel CUNARD 1^st Bt 1787-1865). He m 1981 Mary Elizabeth b 1943 d of John Simpson TOLMIE 1913-65 by his 1939 m reg Q4 Somerset to Mary Catherine Deirdre 1910-98 d of Vyvyan James MITCHELL 1879-1950 and Catherine Bridget MACDONNELL c1886-1967, and had a son and a dau as below.

Obit in the Times of 26 Sep 2024:

Mark Loveday obituary: head of Cazenove at a time of upheaval

Stockbroker behind the inevitable, yet historic, decision to convert the City’s most blue-blooded firm into a limited company

… Mark Antony Loveday was born in London in 1943, younger son of George Loveday, a stockbroker and London Stock Exchange chairman, and Sylvia, née Gibbs, a longstanding banking family. George was wounded on the first day of the D-Day landings. Mark’s elder brother, Peter, had a career in publishing and antique pictures.

George encouraged Mark to take up golf and cricket, while his mother gave him a love of Italy. He first attended Twyford School in Winchester, where he struggled until a teacher realised he was too short-sighted to read the blackboard. He went on to Winchester College, where he played first XI football and, as a fast-medium bowler, he captained the cricket first team. He read modern history at Magdalen College, Oxford, where his ancestors had studied since the 18th century. He captained the college cricket and football teams and played for the Authentics, the university cricket second XI. Magdalen made him a Waynflete fellow for his work on the college’s development trust and investment committee. He was a member of the vice-chancellor’s guild and became a distinguished friend of Oxford in 2012.

After university Loveday hitchhiked from Dover to Zimbabwe, then followed his father into stockbroking. He was drawn to Cazenove by his godfather, Sir Anthony Hornby, senior partner there. Initially, TB kept him away from the office for months. He became a stock exchange member in 1972 and a partner in 1974. He specialised in raising finance for companies, mainly through share issues.

He met Elizabeth Tolmie, known as Liza, on a ski holiday and they married in 1981. Their daughter, Lucy, worked in the arts before launching an interior design business. Sam, their son, runs his own tour guide firm…

Mark Loveday, stockbroker, was born on September 22, 1943. He died of complications from motor neurone disease on September 4, 2024, aged 80

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/mark-loveday-obituary-head-of-cazenove-at-a-time-of-upheaval-bf7nsbnhs