Olivia Anne Baroness Hemphill (c1931-2015)

[Michael Rhodes]

_. Olivia Anne, Baroness Hemphill, who died 7 July, 2015, aged 84, was the widow of Peter Patrick Fitzroy Martyn-Hemphill, 5th Baron Hemphill (Peerage of the UK, cr 1906)

She was the former Olivia Anne Ruttledge, 1st daughter of Maj Robert Francis Ruttlledge, MC, of Cloonee, Balinrobe, Co Mayo, & married 17 Apr, 1952. Her husband succeeded as 5th baron, 19 Mar, 1957, and died 6 6 April, 2012, when he was succeeded by their son, Charles, the 6th Baron.

Funeral at St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway, Thurs 16 July, 2015.

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[Richard R]

Lady Hemphill was b 8 Aug 1930, the elder child of Maj Robert Francis RUTTLEDGE (1899-), sometime head of that Irish gentry family formerly of Bloomfield, co Mayo and Mabel Rose d of William Creagh BURKE of Cloonee, co Mayo, and Kathleen PERSSE, scion of the Irish gentry family of that name.