BLACK, Mrs Charles (Melanie Fiona Louisa nee LOWSON) 1940-2024

[Richard R]

From the Times of 28 June 2024: BLACK Melanie Fiona Louisa (née Lowson) died peacefully on 23rd June 2024, aged 84. Much-loved wife of Charles, mother of Adam and Holly, and grandmother of Charles and Daisy.

She was d of Sir Denys Colquhoun Flowerdew LOWSON 1^st Bt 1906-75 and Hon Ann Patricia MACPHERSON 1919-2003 d of 1^st Baron STRATHCARRON 1880-1937 and Elizabeth Marjorie d 1956 d of Sir George Wood RHODES 1^st Bt 1860-1924 and Margaret Catherine PHILLIPS c1861-1915. She m 1964 Charles Archibald Adam 1937-2013 s of Archibald Adam Gordon BLACK 1907-90 (scion of the publishing family A&C Black who produce Who’s Who) and Violet Rosamund 1911-85 d of Lt-Col Charles Hyde VILLIERS CVO TD 1862-1947 (2xgt gs of 1^st Earl of CLARENDON 1709-86, etc) and Lady Victoria Alexandrina INNES-KER 1877-1970 d of 7^th Duke of ROXBURGHE 1839-93 and Lady Anne Emily SPENCER-CHURCHILL 1854-1923 d of 7^th Duke of MARLBOROUGH 1822-83 (gf of course of the British wartime PM Sir Winston CHURCHILL KG) and Lady Frances Anne Emily VANE 1822-99 d of 3^rd Marquess of LONDONDERRY 1778-1854 by his 2^nd w a dau of The Countess of ANTRIM 1778-1834, and had a son and a dau.

1. Adam Sebastian BLACK b 1965

1. Holly Patricia BLACK b 1968: m 1 Sep 2006 (Times 2 Sep) Jeremy Paul b May 1965 s of Peter MARSDEN of Bowdon, Cheshire by his 1955 m reg Q3 Lancs to (Elizabeth) Sheila KENNY, and had issue

1.1 Charles Peter Archie BLACK b 2007 reg Q2 Ken&Chelsea (not in DPB online)

1.1 Daisy Elizabeth Louisa BLACK b 2008 reg Q3 Ken&Chelsea (not in DPB online)

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she was aunt of the Earl of Kinnoull.

[Richard R]

From the Times of 6 July 2024: BLACK Funeral Arrangements. Funeral to be held at St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge SW1 on Tuesday 23rd July 2024 at 11am. Family flowers only but donations if desired to the Friends of Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens, c/o Leverton & Sons funeral directors, 212 Eversholt Street, London…