REPARD / Newman engagement

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 14 March 2025: Mr G.S. Repard and Miss A.E. Newman - The engagement is announced between George, son of Mr James Repard and Mrs Jennie Churchill, and Alice, daughter of Mr Jeremy Newman and Mrs Elaine Burrows.

George Spencer b 1994 s of James Philip REPARD b Oct 1956 and Jennie b 1966 d of Winston SPENCER-CHURCHILL 1940-2010 (gs of the former British PM Rt Hon Sir Winston SPENCER CHURCHILL KG 1874-1965 who was gs of 7^th Duke of MARLBOROUGH 1822-83, etc) and his 1st w Mary Caroline (Minnie) b c1940 reg Q1 Berks d of Sir Gerard John Regis Leo d'ERLANGER CBE 1906-62 and Gladys Florence SAMMUT 1906-85.

[S R Eglesfield]

James Repard is the younger son of Hugo William Arbouin REPARD (15 V 1911 - 28 IV 2002) and his second wife (married 1948), Rosemary ("Rosie") PAINE (19 II 1917 - 29 IX 2003), who was herself the younger daughter of Lt-Col Albert Ingraham PAINE, CMG, DSO (12 I 1874 - 29 VI 1949) and his wife (married 21 II 1906), Elsie Caroline WYKEHAM (10 X 1883 - 12 V 1963) of that landed gentry family, of Tythrop, Oxfordshire.

 

Hugo Repard was the younger son of William John REPARD (13 IX 1882 - 11 XI 1929) and his first wife (married c.1909), Grace Madeline BIGSBY (c.1870 -11 X 1919). William Repard's son by his second wife (married 1920, as her second husband), Edyth Louise LATIMER (c.1888/9 - 27  VIII 1967), was Cdr (John) David Latimer REPARD, OBE, DSC (21 VI 1921 - 17 IX 2011), the husband (married 1947) of the Hon Peggy BOWYER (18 V 1925 - 17 II 2024), only daughter of the 1st Baron Denham.

 

I had thought that the Repard family name might have been of French origin. However, it seems that it is just the original family name with the letters in reverse order, as it came into being when the aforesaid William John Repard changed his surname from Draper to Repard by deed poll on 27 October 1908.