Stewart Menzies (d 1968) issue?

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Shinjinee

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Nov 7, 2008, 5:28:54 AM11/7/08
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I am confused. Wikipedia says he had a daughter called Fiona b 1937

The peerage dot com credits him with a daughter called Daphne b ca
1934
http://thepeerage.com/p27859.htm#i278587
complete with picture

Paul Theroff merely says that Pamela Thetis Beckett (d 1951) had
issue
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/Part_h11.htm

Did Menzies, ex spy chief, and thrice married, have one daughter or
two daughters? Did the elder daughter Daphne die young?

I can't find any attribution for a daughter named Fiona, either!

Shinjinee

Michael Rhodes

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Nov 7, 2008, 7:06:15 AM11/7/08
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On 7 Nov, 10:28, Shinjinee <ssen_ro...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am confused. Wikipedia says he had a daughter called Fiona b 1937


According to Who was Who the spychief had just one daughter.



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Michael Rhodes

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Nov 7, 2008, 8:14:16 AM11/7/08
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On 7 Nov, 12:06, Michael Rhodes <mig73allenford2...@yahoo.co.uk>
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Problem solved, I think. The infant is Fiona D. Menzies, born at
London
Westminster, Jan-Mar 1934. Fiona Daphne?

Michael Rhodes

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Nov 7, 2008, 9:42:54 AM11/7/08
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The Knightage section of Burke's Peerage (1956) says that Sir
Stewart's only child
is indeed Fiona Daphne, born in 1934.

Sir Stewart's 3 wives were all of the peerage. The first was Lady
Avice Sackville, dau of the 8th Earl De La Warr, they wed in 1918 and
divorced in 1931. He married Pamela Thetis Beckett in 1932 and she
died 13 Mar 1951; he married thirdly, Dec 1952, Audrey Clara Lilian,
former wife of the Hon Niall Chaplin (Viscounts Chaplin Ext), and
previously widow of Lord Edward Hay, scion of the Marquesses of
Tweeddale, and yr dau of Sir Thomas Latham, 1st Bt.

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