Smith / CHAMBERLAIN engagement

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 18 October 2019: MR T F SMITH AND MISS N D CHAMBERLAIN The engagement is announced between Thomas, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Anton Smith, of Badminton, Gloucestershire, and Natasha, daughter of Mr and Mrs James Chamberlain, of Slad, Gloucestershire.

Natasha Diana (b 1990) d of James Edward CHAMBERLAIN (b Sep 1958) and Cecilia Diana (Cisy) (b Aug 1958) d of Hon Cecil Towry Henry LAW (1931-2005 s of 7th Baron ELLENBOROUGH (1889-1945)) and Daphne Mary Jean METHUEN-CAMPBELL (b 1935, gd of FM 3rd Baron METHUEN (1845-1932)) and Brig-Maj 4th Baron BLYTHSWOOD (1870-1929)).

[G. Willis]

Some Chamberlain notes:

James Edward Chamberlain of Gravel Hill House, The Vatch, Slad, Stroud, Glos., a director of the family firm E. A. Chamberlain Ltd, per company records also 'publisher'; he s. of Edward John Rodney Chamberlain (1930-2017), of Baytree House, Box, Stroud, educ. Beaudesert Park Sch., Radley, managing director, E. A. Chamberlain Ltd, director, Pressboard Ltd, director, EAC Shoe Components Ltd, member, Shoe and Allied Trades Research Association, 2nd Lt, Royal Gloucestershire Hussars and (m. 1954) Mary (1932-), dau. of  Lister [presumably she b. that year at Stroud, mother 'Barnett'; 1931 marriage of Ashton C. Lister and - Barnett (error in transcription of document) at Bridgend, Glamorgan]

E. J. R. Chamberlain elder s. of John Edward Chamberlain (1903-1978), of Pensile House, Nailsworth, nr Stroud, director, E. A. Chamberlain Ltd ('leather board manufacturer' per father's probate), appointed land tax commissioner (Glos.) 1938, and (m. 1925) Kathleen F., dau. of - Stephens. J. E. Chamberlain's second son, George M. D. Chamberlain (1933-) was later of Pensile House, and a member of Stroud council.

J. E. Chamberlain [possibly only son; other directors of E. A. Chamberlain Ltd include two individuals, Brian Leslie Chamberlain and Christopher Raymond Chamberlain, both born in the early 1940s, per birth records mothers' names 'Smith' and 'Knight', presumably grandsons of E. A. Chamberlain but unclear] s. of Edward Alfred Chamberlain (1858-1940), of Heath House, Amberley, Minchinhampton, Glos., founder, E. A. Chamberlain Ltd ('leather board manufacturer' per census records, at Nailsworth Mills) and (m. 1888) Mabel, dau. of Rev. Augustus Turner. E. A. Chamberlain, per census records, b. at Handsworth, Warwicks.