SWIRE, Sir Adrian Christopher DL (1932-2018)

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 28 August 2018: SWIRE Adrian Christopher Swire died on 24th August 2018. His funeral will take place at the Church of the Holy Rood, Sparsholt, OX12 9PU on 18th September at noon. All are welcome. At his request there will be no memorial service. Anyone requiring transport between Sparsholt and Didcot Parkway station....

He was s of John Kidston SWIRE (1893-1983), scion of the KIDSTON gentry family of Redenham Park, and Juliet Richenda (1901-81) d of Charles Theodore BARCLAY (1867-1921), scion of the gentry family of that name and of the GURNEY gentry family, and Josephine Lister HARRISON (1870-1950). He m 1970 Lady Judith COMPTON (b 1943) d of 6th Marquess of NORTHAMPTON (1885-1978) and Virginia Lucie (1919-97) d of David Rimington HEATON (1893-1963) and Louisa (Isa) Marie FREEMAN (1880-1924), and had 2 sons and a dau.

Times Obit - EXTRACT

Sir Adrian Swire obituary

Billionaire chairman of the Swire Group who ran shipping businesses for the Hong Kong conglomerate and had a passion for flying

Adrian Christopher Swire, ... second son [of Jock Swire and Juliet Barclay], was born in London in 1932. His older brother, John (obituary, December 3, 2016), also served as chairman of the family firm. There were two sisters, Bridget, who predeceased him, and Gillian. Adrian grew up at Hubbard’s Hall, Essex, which had been built by his grandfather

...  After Eton he did National Service with the Coldstream Guards. He was one of the officers who stood guard for several 20-minute shifts around the coffin of George VI as it lay in state in Westminster Hall in 1952, and described it as “a moving experience”. 

... In 1970 Swire married Lady Judith Compton, the elder daughter of the 6th Marquess of Northampton,whose families had long been friends. She survives him with their daughter, Martha, who trained as a furniture-maker and now lives with her five children in Dorset; and two sons, Merlin, who is the “taipan”, or chairman, of the Swire Group in Hong Kong, and Sam, who is an executive director of the group in London. Swire particularly enjoyed spending time with his seven grandchildren.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/register/sir-adrian-swire-obituary-8j2c6vhrz

[G. Willis]

Looking into Josephine Lister Harrison's background, a quite interesting connection:

She was dau. of Smith Harrison (1818-1883) of Elmhurst, High Road, Woodford, Essex, tea merchant (Great Tower Street, City of London), J.P., by his second wife (m. 1858), Jane, dau. of Joseph Jackson Lister (1786-1869), of Upton House, West Ham, Essex, formerly of Tokenhouse Yard, London. J. J. Lister was a wine merchant and also invented the optical microscope; his son was Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, the pioneer of antiseptic surgery.

Smith Harrison was born at Rochdale, son of a Reuben Harrison (likely he who lived 1769-1827) and his wife (likely m. 1794 at York) Margaret (1776-1831), who, according to that marriage record, was dau. of John and Margaret Thompson. The marriage record gives Reuben Harrison's mother as 'Hannah'; a Hannah Harrison was b. 1800 at York, a John Harrison in 1804 at Marsden, Lancs., and a Thompson Harrison b. 1813 at Rochdale (along with several other children indicating the change of location between these years), which I think serves to corroborate this as the correct marriage and these as the correct individuals. Secondary sources relate to the Harrison family's Quaker beliefs.

[G. Willis]

Sorry, omitted to mention those children were, of course, recorded with parents Reuben and Margaret Harrison, and no other marriages between two individuals of those names were apparent in records I perused.

[colinp]

Obit in Daily Telegraph 31 August 2018 here - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/08/30/sir-adrian-swire-leading-figure-swire-trading-empire-keen-airman/