GRAHAM-MOON, Sir Peter Wilfred Giles 5th Bt 1942-2023
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[Sir] RUPERT FRANCIS WILFRED Graham-Moon [6th Bt] has yet to establish claim, b 29 April 1968 and has a son and a dau by Denise Wesley
SON LIVING
Arthur Sidney b 1992
DAUGHTER LIVING
Tansy b 19__
BROTHER LIVING
THOMAS EDWARD BRADSHAW Graham-Moon b 19 Feb 1972
HALF-SISTER LIVING (Daughter of the 5th Baronet
by his 3rd m)
Aleena Honey b1998 and has a dau
Obit in the Times of 20 Feb 2023:
E X T R A C T
Sir Peter Graham-Moon Bt obituary
Rally driver and noted womaniser who made headlines in 1992 when his wife cut up his Savile Row suits and gave away his wine cellar
… Sir Peter Graham-Moon’s family motto may have been “Keep an even mind”, but to the tabloids he was “Baron Bonk”, a philandering minor aristocrat who left a trail of destruction in the wake of his amorous pursuits. He was a charismatic figure and a successful rally driver, known to friends as Hippo on account of his 19-stone frame. Although his behaviour did little to quell critics of the heredity principle, many women at first found him entertaining company; certainly not a martyr to shyness. Yet, according to his ex-wife, Graham-Moon “became very un-fun almost immediately”…
… Peter Wilfred Giles Graham-Moon was born in London in 1942, the only son of Sir Wilfred Graham-Moon, the fourth baronet, and his second wife Doris (née Baron-Jobson); their marriage was dissolved when he was five, and his father married for a third time.
The title, known as the Portman Square baronetcy, was created in 1855 for Francis Graham-Moon, a print seller who as lord mayor of London received the Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie of France. The second baronet, Edward, was a clergyman. The title passed in 1904 to Francis, who had served in the Second Boer War (1899-1902), and seven years later to his nephew, Wilfred.
Graham-Moon’s mother died in 1953 and his father died a year later, leaving the 12-year-old boy with a title and a £150,000 trust fund (£5 million in today’s money). His stepmother, Theodora, died in 1956 and thereafter he was shunted around various guardians, at least one of whom was an alcoholic. He was educated at Lancing College, leaving at 17 with one O-level to pursue rally driving while living on a private income of £2,000 a year (£50,000 today)…
… One night in 1965 he met Sarah Chater (née Smith) in a casino. Her three sons from a previous marriage lived with their father…
… He and Chater married in 1967 and had two children, who survive him: Rupert, an antiques dealer who succeeds to the baronetcy, and Thomas, a graphic designer.
…A few months after their wedding Graham-Moon was declared bankrupt, denying him access to the trust fund…
He met Terry de Vries, a casino croupier and mother of four who was 20 years his junior…That fell apart [later reconciling and marrying in 1993] and he retreated to the matrimonial home where an “amicable divorce” was discussed. “We agreed to share this house which divides very easily into two, it has two staircases and two bathrooms,” his wife added…
… He had a stormy four-year relationship with Dim Rabeab Salee, a bar worker. He then gravitated to Bangkok and met Mem Noodaeng Samingram, a country woman less than half his age. They married in 1997 and had a daughter, Honey Bee, who lives in Thailand…
… “I’ve always been a womaniser and I’ve always enjoyed a drink,” he admitted to the Sunday Mirror in 1999. “Nothing’s going to change me.”
Sir Peter Graham Moon Bt, rally driver and womaniser, was born on October 24, 1942. He died after a short illness on February 6, 2023, aged 80
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sir-peter-graham-moon-bt-obituary-qnlnngbrj
