COLMAN, Sir Timothy James Alan KG 1929-2021

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 10 Sept 2021: COLMAN Sir Timothy KG died peacefully at home on 9th September 2021. Beloved husband of the late Lady Mary, adored father of Sarah, Sabrina, Emma, James and Matthew, much loved grandfather of ten and great-grandfather of seventeen. Private family funeral and a Thanksgiving Service to be held at a later date.

He was s of Geoffrey Russell Rees COLMAN 1892-1935 whom he succ as head of that gentry family of Crown Point, and Lettice Elizabeth Evelyn ADEANE 1897-1970 scion of that gentry family Babraham Hall. He m 1951 Lady Mary Cecilia BOWES-LYON 1931-2021 d of Capt Hon Michael Claude Hamilton BOWES-LYON 1893-1953 (s of 14th Earl of STRATHMORE &c 1855-1944 and bro of Queen ELIZABETH The QUEEN MOTHER 1900-2002) and Elizabeth Margaret CATOR 1899-1959 scion of that gentry family of Woodbastick, and had two sons and three daus.

We shouldn't hold our breath for a new Garter, as the deaths of previous Knights hasn't prompted the Sovereign of the Most Noble Order to fill other vacancies.

[Brian Coleman]

and the death was also announced yesterday of Sir Anthony Acland KG GCMG GCVO another Knight of the Garter 

[dpth...@gmail.com]

Lord Edward Fitzgerald, b.15 Oct 1763, d.of wounds received in resisting arrest on charge of treason 4 Jun 1798; m.Tournai 27 Dec 1792 Stephanie Caroline Anne "Pamela" Syms (d.1831)

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Pamela Fitzgerald (1795-25 Nov 1869); m.21 Nov 1820 Sir Guy Campbell, Bt. (d.26 Jan 1849)

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Madeline Campbell, d.8 Mar 1920; m.Hon.Percy Scawen Wyndham (30 Jan 1835-13 Mar 1911), son of 1st Lord Leconfield, himself a son of the 3rd Earl of Egremont

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Madeline Pamela Constance Blanche Wyndham (1869-31 Jul 1941); m.23 Jul 1888 Charles Adeane, of Babraham (2 Nov 1863-11 Feb 1943)

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Lettice Elizabeth Evelyn Adeane (29 Jul 1895-Framingham Chase 27 Nov 1970); m.25 Feb 1919 Geoffrey Russell Rees Colman (1892-1935)

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Sir Timothy James Alan Colman (19 Sep 1929-9 Sep 2021); m.10 Nov 1951 Lady Mary Bowes-Lyon (30 Jan 1932-2 Jan 2021)

[colinp]

Obit/tributes in Eastern Daily Press -   More tributes for Norfolk's Sir Timothy Colman | Eastern Daily Press (edp24.co.uk)

[malcolm davies]

There are now 5 vacancies in the order,almost as many as there were in 1946(6).

[Richard R]

Obit from the Telegraph of 16 Sept 2021:

Sir Timothy Colman, record-breaking sailor, naturalist, long-serving lord lieutenant and well-liked figure in Norfolk life – obituary

A friend of the Royal family, he set world speed records at sea, journeyed to Antarctica, and worked on many local projects in Norfolk

Sir Timothy Colman, who has died aged 91, was a scion of the Norfolk mustard dynasty and a long-serving lord lieutenant of the county, as well as holding world speed records in sailing. Married to a first cousin of the Queen, he was also a familiar figure in royal circles.

Timothy Colman was a great-great-grandson of James Colman (1801-1854), who with his uncle Jeremiah founded the company that in 1938, after its merger with the starch-maker Reckitt of Hull, became Reckitt Benckiser. The yellow-labelled Colman’s mustard pot, introduced in 1855, became an icon of British table and pantry, and the company itself set progressive standards of welfare for its workers.

…As lord lieutenant from 1978 until his 75th birthday in 2004 – his Colman grandfather having held the post in the 1930s – he and his wife Lady Mary were much-loved figures in county life.

…Timothy James Alan Colman was born in Norfolk on September 19 1929, the fourth of five children of Captain Geoffrey Colman – a fine batsman for Norfolk and Oxford University before joining the family firm – and his wife Lettice, née Adeane. Geoffrey died, of complications from First World War wounds, in 1935; Timothy’s elder brother David died at El Alamein, his younger brother Russell in a car crash in 1958.

…In 1951 Colman married Mary Bowes-Lyon, daughter of Lt-Col Michael Bowes-Lyon, whose brother Patrick would succeed as 15th Earl of Strathmore – and whose sister was the Queen Mother. After Mary’s brother Fergus inherited the earldom in 1972, she became Lady Mary by courtesy.

Their wedding at St Bartholomew-the-Great in Smithfield was a grand society event attended by the then Queen and Princess Margaret; the couple were later to become regular guests at Sandringham and members of the innermost circle of trusted royal friends.

Appointed a Knight of the Garter – a personal gift of the monarch – in 1996, Colman declared the honour to be “in part, at least, a compliment to the people” of Norfolk. At his death he was the second most senior non-royal Garter knight, after Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover (appointed in 1992); another member of the Order, Sir Antony Acland, predeceased him by one day.

Lady Mary – a patron of many Norfolk charities, a businesswoman in dried flowers and an extra lady in waiting to Princess Alexandra – died in January 2021, aged 88. Timothy Colman is survived by their three daughters and two sons; the eldest, Sarah Troughton, is lord lieutenant of Wiltshire.

Sir Timothy Colman, born September 19 1929, died September 9 2021

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/09/15/sir-timothy-colman-record-breaking-sailor-naturalist-long-serving/

 

[Richard Carton]

The DT should have written that "after its merger with ...Reckitt in 1938, later became Reckitt Benkiser, in 1999. Sixty-one years between the two mergers. 

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