CHETWYND, Capt Rupert Milo Talbot 1934-2021

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph & Times of 8 May 2021: CHETWYND Captain Rupert Milo Talbot, died at the age of 87 in Staffordshire on 26th April 2021.  He was educated at Stowe School from 1947. In 1952 he joined the Grenadier Guards and was made a 2nd Lieutenant, afterwards joining the Guards Parachute Company and then the 21st SAS Regiment. He had his own successful Advertising Agency Chetwynd’s in London. In 2005 he published, 'Yesterday’s Enemy, Freedom Fighters or Terrorists' an account of his time in Afghanistan in the 1980’s. Over the past 20 years, he worked with Conflicts Forum and The Institute of Statecraft. The Funeral Service will be held at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Ingestre, Staffordshire at 11 a.m. on 27th May 2021. In memory of Rupert charitable donations to: Medécins Sans Frontières and Help for Heroes...

He was s of Maj Wentworth Randolph CHETWYND MBE 1903-85 (gt gs of 6th Viscount CHETWYND 1800-79) and his 1st w (her 1st h) Bridget 1910-70 (having m 2nd 1964 Daniel H G Sykes s of Sir Tatton Sykes 6th Bt) d of Col Theobald Alfred WALSH DSO 1882-1935 and Winifred Mabel WOODHOUSE 1883-1953. He m 1st 1956 (div 1970) Antonia C. b 1935 reg Q3 Devon d of Denis E I CLARK DFC by his 1934 m reg Q4 London to Stephanie COLLOREDO, and had 4 sons and a dau. He m 2nd 1970 Luciana Maria d of Count Ernest ARRIGHI and had a further two children.

[Richard R]

Obit in the Telegraph of 10 June 2021:
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Captain Rupert Chetwynd, soldier and adventurer who helped to run a medical mission in Afghanistan – obituary
...Rupert Milo Talbot Chetwynd, the eldest son of Major Wentworth Randolph Chetwynd, was born in Brighton on January 7 1934 and educated at Stowe.
...In 1976, he and his brother Tom purchased the New Stables at Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire, the former seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury. He was also a great supporter of the village church at Ingestre and raised funds for its renovation in 2000.
A self-confessed hermit, he lived in a yurt in Corsica for almost a year ... Aged 83, he spent Christmas in a cave in Bethlehem.
Rupert Chetwynd married, first, in 1956, Antonia Clark; that marriage was dissolved. He married, secondly, in 1970, Luciana Maria Arrighi, the production designer who in 1993 won an Oscar for the best art direction for the film Howards End. She survives him with three sons and a daughter of his first marriage and a son and a daughter of his second. Another son by his first marriage predeceased him.
Rupert Chetwynd, born January 7 1934, died April 26 2021  
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/06/09/captain-rupert-chetwynd-soldier-adventurer-helped-run-medical/

[Richard R]

Obit in the Times of 24 June 2021: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rupert-chetwynd-obituary-brwvm8028