Centenarians in Debrett's Part 5 (2026)
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Sir Dallas Bernard, 2nd Baronet b 14 Dec 1926 – of Wroughton, Wilts
BARRETT-LENNARD Bt (1801) – Godfrey Trevor Barrett-Lennard, psychologist/author, b 1926 – of Wembley Downs, Western Australia
BEAUFORT D – Arthur Henry Somerset b 30 May 1926 – of Dalveen, Queensland
BRADFORD E – Victoria Mary Bridgeman b 24 Feb 1926 – of London NW8
BYASS Bt (ext) – Pamela Julia Veall nee Byass, dau of 2nd Bt, b 11 Dec 1926 – of Newbridge-on-Wye, Powys
CARBERY B – Trevor Wallace D’Arcy-Evans b 1926 – of Jennapullin, Western Australia
CAYLEY Bt (1661) – (Katherine) Sonia, Baroness ffrench nee Cayley b 2 Dec 1926 – of Kelso, Roxburghshire
COURTOWN E – John Walter Stopford b 7 Mar 1926 – of North Canterbury, NZ
DACRE B/HAMPDEN V – Patricia Helen Winifred Micheletto formerly Lubbock nee Brand b 11 Dec 1926 – of Lausanne, Switzerland (her h Pierre Micheletto may be b 1925)
EBRAHIM Bt (1910) – Ariff Ebrahim b 17 Nov 1926
- Munira Ebrahim b 1926
FFRENCH B – see Cayley Bt above
FORBES ADAM Bt (1917) – Penelope, Lady Forbes Adam nee Munday, widow of the 4th baronet b 9 Oct 1926 (Companies House) – of Escrick, York
GARDNER B (dormant) – Hazel Mendes nee Gardner b 1926
- Florence Hoffland nee Gardner b 1926 - of Naini Tal, India
GIBSON Bt (1931) – Diana Madeleine Gibson b 17 Feb 1926 - of Buenos Aires, Argentina
HAMPDEN V – see Dacre B above
MALET Bt (1791) – Wendy Malet b 21 Mar 1926 – of Gillingam, Dorset
SIMEON Bt (1815) – Cdr Hugh Michael Simeon b 1 Nov 1926. I have a note stating he died in 2011 citing http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/Hugh-Michael-Simeon-91635971 (link not working) and which I may have reported on. I wonder whether this was correct as Companies House shows him as an active director of ZZCM Investments Holdings Ltd (incorporated in Zambia) with a correspondence address West View Lane, South Norwalk, Connecticut 06854, United States (last address in DPB 2019 Rowayton, Connecticut)
SOUTHWELL V – Hon Susan Mary Macrae nee Southwell b 19 Dec 1926 – of Slacks Creek, Queensland, Australia
SPEARMAN Bt (1840) – Richard Ian Campbell Spearman b 14 Aug 1926 – of Winchester, Hants
STARKEY Bt (1935) - Phoebe Olivia Shone nee Long (dau of Sylvia Augusta LONG dau of 1st Bt) b 25 Oct 1926 m 1954 Henry Martin Shone (d 1990)
Also the following are likely to be centenarians (from the date of their marriage) if still alive
CROFT Bt (1671) – Barbara Croft nee Carter m 1943 Frederick James Croft – of Barraba, NSW
EDEN Bt – Patricia Everett nee Brook m 1944 Michael Charles Eden (ka 1944) - of Roeburndale, Lancs
GIBBONS Bt – Phyllis Sheehan nee Greenwood m 1945 John Hayton Gibbons (1909-1963) – of Newport, NSW, Australia
GREY E – Wendy Ursula Grey nee Wray m 1943 Major Martin Grey (1913-1975) – of Ditchling, Sussex
GUNNING Bt (1778) – Patricia Mary, Lady Gunning nee O’Connor m 1940 Sir Orlando Peter Gunning (1908-1964) – of London SW3 (there is a probate record for a Patricia Mary Gunning died 16 Feb 2014)
MACARTNEY Bt (1799) – Geraldine Macartney nee Leach m 1945 Lt-Cdr John Hussey Burgh Macartney (1915-2001) - of Balgowlah, NSW, Australia
MANCHESTER D - Katharine Mary Montagu nee Jenkins m 1946 John Drogo Montagu (1923-2010) – of Plants Green, Warminster, Wilts
MANSEL Bt (1622) – Mary Germaine Mansel nee LIttlewood m 1941 Regnier Ranulf Dabridgecourt Mansel (1919-1984) – of Maesycrugian, Carmarthenshire
MILMAN Bt (1800) – Noreen J Pryor nee Elliot m 1944 Gerald Stephen Milman (1908-1987) – of Sirras de Cordoba, Argentina (she wrote a letter to the Telegraph 24.03.2010 about Argentinian titles as “(Mrs) Noreen J. Pryor (Señora Noreen J. Elliot de Pryor)”)
MOON Bt (1887) – Ann Beare nee Melhuish m 1945 John Richard Philip Moon (1915-1978) – of St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent
PETRE B - Pamela Mary Bannister nee Pratt m 1941 Gerard Malcolm Mary Laurence Petre (1916-1944) – of North Cheriton, Somerset
PROBY Bt (1952) – Patricia Amelia Proby nee Pearce m 1942 Claud Proby (1917-1987) – of Great Waldingfield, Sudbury, Suffolk
RAMSAY Bt (1806) – Helen MacGregor Ramsay nee Shaw m 1944 Cdr Alexander Robert Ramsay (1910-2004) – of South Brisbane, Qld, Australia
ROSSE E – Veronica Rosetta de Courcy Parsons nee Glover m 1945 Maj Arthur Christopher Parsons RA (1919-1999) – of Odiham, Hants
ROWLEY Bt (1786/1836) – Dale Rowley nee Antellin m 1941 Frederick Duncan Lorin Rowley (1912-1968) – of Palm Springs, California
SLEIGHT Bt (1920) – Jacqueline Margaret, Lady Sleight nee Carter m 1942 Sir John Frederick Sleight, 3rd Bt
TEYNHAM B - Patricia Audrey Straight formerly Martin formerly Trevor Roper nee Edwards m 1942 Fl/Lt Richard Dacre Trevor Roper DFC (1915-1944) – of Winnersh, Berks
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http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/Hugh-Michael-Simeon-91635971
The date of birth given matches exactly thepeerage (https://thepeerage.com/p57686.htm#i576860)
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Tim
"Amberley veteran John Stopford was in Germany when Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party came to power.
His father was a navyman and posted to the British Embassy.
"My father was at the embassy in Berlin from 1933 to 1934, but because in 1934 things were getting a bit tricky dad said to me and mum 'I think you better go back to England', so we did," Stopford said. [...]
"I was set to be part of the invasion [of Nazi-occupied Europe; parentheses in the original text]. God knows what could've happened then, but coincidence happened, their Lordships said no to 12,000 sailors which meant we then went across to the army and went into training, instead of going across the channel," he said.
He ultimately deployed with the 7th Royal Tank Regiment.[...]
Tim
Tim
The below newsletter from St Andrew's Church in Girton, Cambridge for the week beginning Sunday 21 December 2025 mentions a "Phoebe Shone" among other "church family members listed for general prayer". A Phoebe O. SHONE was listed on the open register of electors in the Cambridge area from 2009-2022.