Wentworth-Stanley / Bonas engagement

[LoopyCrown3]

The engagement was announced 18th August, 2019 via Instagram, between Harry David Wentworth-Stanley (b. 1989) second son of Nicholas Philip Wentworth-Stanley (b. 1954) and his then-wife Clare Husted Wentworth-Stanley (née Steel) (b. 2 September 1960) The couple divorced in 1997. Clare remarried to George Ivar Louis Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven (b. 6 June 1961). & Cressida Curzon Bonas (b. 18 February 1989) daughter of Lady Mary-Gaye Georgiana Lorna Curzon-Howe (b. 21 February 1947) daughter of Edward Richard Assheton Penn Curzon, 6th Earl Howe (7 August 1908 – 29 May 1984) and Grace Lilian Barker (nee Wakeling) and her third husband Mr Jeffrey Bonas son of Mr Harry George Bonas and Mrs Winifred Bonas (nee Hodgkins).

[G. Willis]

Just some additions re: the Bonas family, since I made notes on them in the past:

Harry George Bonas 1917-1983, of Grangewood Hall, Netherseale, Derbys., formerly of Stanton Manor, Burton, managing director, Bonas Brothers (producers of, int. al., elastic for tights) m. 1941, Winifred (1918-2010), O.B.E., J.P., dau. of - Hodgkins. It was he who greatly increased the company's revenue and raised the family's status to the point where his son, Jeffrey Harry Bonas (1944-), attended Harrow and Oxford, and married a peer's daughter.

He s. of George Bonas (1877-1949), initially in business with his elder brother Joseph at Plough Road, Battersea as butchers and general grocers, but when this endeavour failed he worked for his uncle Joseph at his tape-manufacturing factory in Derby, later opening his own at Castle Gresley; he m. Alice Mary (1883-1959), dau. of - Smith.

His father John Bonas (1847-), of Burton-on-Trent, Staffs., formerly Church Street, Bedworth, nr Nuneaton, Warwicks., grocer, m. 1869, Sophy, dau. of John Dewis. He also worked in tape manufacture and as a factory engineer per census records.

This article, albeit from the 'Scottish Daily Mail', which from the name mightn't be the very best source, gives an interesting look (albeit in rather flowery language) at the family: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/scottish-daily-mail/20130302/283171490948793

[bx...@yahoo.com]

Wasn't she Prince Harry's long time girl friend?

Brooke

[G. Willis]

An addition/ correction: other sources indicate Jeffrey Bonas's middle name to be 'Hal'; his Oxford college was Oriel, where he read Modern History, and per Leviathan: The Business Who's Who of 1972, took an M.A.

[G. Willis]

Brooke- yes, you're quite right.

[www.maltagenealogy.com]

Are the Bonas family of Grecian origin ?

Thats right, though Harry W-S is a well connected guy just the same.  

[G. Willis]

I'm afraid I haven't got a conclusive answer, save to say that the BLG 1952 Wentworth-Stanley pedigree merely starts (as, based on the above, you probably already know!) with Daniel Wentworth and Mary, she being dau. of Joseph Stanley being of Holbeck Woodhouse, Notts. One would imagine that if even a distant link to the Earls of Derby were to exist, they'd make sure to mention it. Of course the lack of such a mention doesn't preclude the possibility of a relationship of which the family are (or were then) unaware. Earlier LG editions (inc. 1894) feature 'Stanley of Longstowe Hall', this being headed by Sidney Stanley (né Wentworth), son of William Wentworth and grandson of the aforementioned Daniel and Mary; this family subsequently becomes the Wentworth-Stanleys of High Wych. This pedigree also starts with Joseph of Holbeck Woodhouse and makes no mention of the Earls of Derby.

The Stanley arms are given in BLG 1894 and 1952 as: 'a saltire between two stags' heads caboshed bendwise between two bendlets engrailed arg.'

Has there ever been a particularly famous member of this family? For whatever reason, the name 'Wentworth-Stanley' immediately rang a bell, which, given what appears to be the family's not particularly distinguished middling gentry status, is hard to explain.

[Harry Merritt]

On a non-peerage note, Clare (Steel) Marchioness of Milford Haven, descends from a wealthy American family, the Husteds, and her uncle, John Grinnell Wetmore Husted Jr., was the first fiancé of Jacqueline Bouvier (1929-94), later world famous as Jacqueline Kennedy and Jacqueline Onassis. How's that for "fun facts?"

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[Richard R]

Yesterday's Evening Standard report the couple's marriage last weekend: https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/alist/prince-harry-ex-cressida-bonas-marries-harry-wentworth-stanley-a4509436.html