+ Robert Fleetwood Hesketh (1956-2004)

[Michael Rhodes]

Robert Fleetwood Hesketh, who died suddenly at Fosbury Manor,
Wiltshire, on Sunday 14 November, 2004, aged 48, was the only son of
Roger Fleetwood Hesketh, MP (b. 28 July, 1902, d. 14 Nov, 1987), of
Meols Hall, Southport, Lancashire, by his wife Lady Mary Constance
Lumley, OBE, DStJ (1923-98), daughter of the 11th Earl of Scarbrough,
KG, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, PC (1896-1969).

Robert was born in 1956. His father, in 1956, abandoned the surname of
Fleetwood-Hesketh and assumed the surname of Hesketh only. He was Tory
MP for Southport from 1952 to 1959.

Robert had two sisters, Laura (b. 1953), married to the publisher
Anthony Blond, and the late Sarah (1954-84), who married Patrick
Bellville.

Robert Hesketh married in 1990, as her second husband, the Hon Catherne
Ingrid Guinness, elder daughter of the 3rd Baron Moyne and formerly the
wife of James Dnald Charteris, styled Lord Neidpath (heir to the Earl
of Wemyss & March).

He was the father of twin daughters, Anna & Violet, born in 1991, and a
son born in 1992. He is survived also by his step-children, Richard and
Mary Charteris.

Source: Daily Mail 17 Nov, 2004.

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