relationship between Henry Blofeld and Hon. Frederick Somerset Gough Calthorpe

[G. Willis]

Hello all,

 

Just a (perhaps slightly unorthodox?) posting I thought to make after encountering a slightly perplexing matter online, with which your A1 knowledge might be helpful!

 

I've noticed a few references (Wikipedia and http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/9130.html) to an uncle/ nephew relationship between the cricketer Frederick Gough-Calthorpe and the commentator 'Blowers', which seems to have been entirely extrapolated by whomsoever did so due to the fact that Blofeld's middle name is 'Calthorpe'. From what I've looked into, the Calthorpe name started to appear in the Blofeld pedigree (as seen under Blofeld of Hoveton in BLG) following the marriage sometime in the 1600s of Thomas Blofeld and Catherine, the daughter of John Calthorpe of Hickling Hall (who very well might be a connection to the Gough-Calthorpes; I haven't had the opportunity to look that far into this, and even if so it wouldn't mean FGC was Blofeld's 'uncle', or at least it'd be a very distant kind).

 

Obviously, for FGC to be Blofeld's uncle, he would have to be a brother to either Blofeld's father (Thomas Robert Calthorpe Blofeld) or mother, Grizel Blanche Turner. Given that the baronial Gough-Calthorpe pedigree is pretty well-established and available anywhere, this doesn't appear to be the case. I just wondered if, based on any information any helpful individual might have to hand, it could be considered that the relationship as outlined above is correctly stated. If not, I have no idea how to go about 'correcting' Cricinfo, without which correction Wikipedia- adhering to its policy of 'if it's stated in pretty much anything, it's OK by us' [don't get me wrong, I love Wikipedia for what it is, but this kind of scenario I find rather irritating]- will continue to include 'Blofeld's uncle was cricketer Freddie Calthorpe' as a misleading piece of incorrect information (unless, of course, anyone can show me where I've missed an obvious piece of information that clears the whole dealy up!).

 

Many thanks to anyone who might help me come to a conclusion on this matter one way or the other!

[G. Willis]

Just for anyone who might come across this at some point: http://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/henry-blofeld-nephew-of-an-england-captain-217019

I'd like to think the timing of the article is suggestive- coming only a short time after the initial posting in this thread- but that might reasonably be considered rather egotistical! 

At any rate, as one would, I feel, reasonably conclude based on the information in my post above, Henry Blofeld is not Freddie Calthorpe's nephew- far from it, according to author Michael Jones, who concludes- with much evidence to hand- that the two are twelfth cousins three times removed.

A satisfyingly in-depth treatment of genealogy, I'd say, particularly given the article's not in a dedicated place for it!

[Royal Ancestry]

Through this line, they are 12th cousins twice removed:

Edward Stanley 1508-1572 3rd Earl of Derby
&/1530 Lady Dorothy Howard 1513-1557

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Lady Elizabeth Stanley †1590		Henry Stanley 1531-1593 4th Earl of Derby
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Hon. Mary Parker †1566		William Stanley 1561-1642 6th Earl of Derby
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John Leventhorpe ca 1560-1625		James Stanley 1607-1651 7th Earl of Derby
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Joan Leventhorpe †1654		Lady Amelia Anne Sophia Stanley 1633-1702
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Leventhorpe Altham 1618-1681		Charles Murray 1661-1710 1st Earl of Dunmore
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James Altham 1662-1697		Lady Anne Murray 1687-1710
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Mary Altham 1688-1752		Lady Catherine Cochrane 1709-1786
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Roger Altham 1718-1788		Lady Susanna Stewart †1805
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Arabella Altham 1755-1827		Lady Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower 1771-1854
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Charlotte Graham-Clarke 1787-1835		Lady Charlotte Sophia Somerset 1795-1865
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Charlotte Mary Butler †		Somerset John Gough-Calthorpe 1831-1912 7th Baron Calthorpe
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Arlette Isabel Reynolds ca 1860-?		Somerset Frederick Gough-Calthorpe 1862-1940 8th Baron Calthorpe
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Jill Helen Pickersgill-Cunliffe 1882-?		Hon. Frederick Somerset Gough-Calthorpe 1892-1935
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Grizel Blanche Turner 1903-1992
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Henry Calthorpe Blofeld 1939

[Royal Ancestry]

Henry Hulton ca 1730/1731-1790
&1766 Elizabeth Preston 1738-1805

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Sir Thomas Hulton 1767-1823 1st Bt. &1799 Jane Bagge 1777-1846		Henry Hulton 1769-1820 &1797 Sophia Heald †1840
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Pleasance Preston ca 1807-1870 &1828 Rev. Jeremiah Burroughes 1796-1872		Elizabeth Anne Hulton ca 1809-1851 &1828 Robert Clutterbuck 1798-1879
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Thomas Henry Burroughes 1834-1924 &1869 Susan Helen Russell †		Marianne Emily Clutterbuck 1837-1928 &1862 William George Mount 1824-1906
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Isabel Clare Burroughes 1872-1968 &1902 John Calthorpe Blofeld 1875-1920		Sir William Arthur Mount 1866-1930 1st Bt. &1899 Hilda Lucy Adelaide Low 1875-1950
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Thomas Robert Calthorpe Blofeld 1903-1986 &1928 Grizel Blanche Turner 1903-1992		Sir William Malcolm Mount 1904-1993 2nd Bt. &1929 Elizabeth Nance Llewellyn 1904-1994
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Henry Calthorpe Blofeld 1939		Mary Fleur Mount 1934 &1962 Ian Donald Cameron 1932-2010
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		David William Donald Cameron 1966 PM