HAVILAND, Julian Arthur Charles 1930-2023

[Richard R]

He was s of Maj Leonard Proby HAVILAND 1884-1971 (bro of Capt Wilfred Pollen HAVILAND MBE 1881-1947 sometime head of that gentry family of Delrow House) and Helen Dorothea 1902-72 d of Gen Sir Charles FERGUSSON of Kilkerran 7th Bt 1865-1951 and Lady Alice Mary BOYLE 1877-1958 d of 7th Earl of GLASGOW 1833-1915. He m 1959 Caroline Victoria b 1930 d of George Freeland BARBOUR 1882-1946 (s of Charlotte Rachel 1856-1930 of Sir Robert Nicholas FOWLER 1^st Bt 1828-91) and Hon Helen Victoria HEPBURN-SCOTT 1891-1982 d of 9th Lord POLWARTH 1864-1944 and Edith Frances 1867-1930 d of Sir Thomas Fowell BUXTON 3^rd Bt 1837-1915 and Lady Victoria NOEL 1839-1916 d of 1^st Earl of GAINSBOROUGH 1781-1866 (and gd of 3^rd Earl of RODEN 1788-1870), and had three sons as below.

Much of the above shamelessly lifted from G Willis’ post on the Havilands: https://groups.google.com/g/peerage-news/c/HEYPdonkl34/m/EME2RJ1OAwAJ

Obit in the Times of 12 Aug 2023:

Julian Haviland obituary

Esteemed political editor of ITN and The Times despite his unpunctuality

… Julian Arthur Charles Haviland was born in June 1930 at Iver Heath in Buckinghamshire, the son of Major Leonard Proby Haviland, of the 6th Duke of Connaught’s Own Lancers and a military secretary to the governor-general of New Zealand, and Helen (née Fergusson), daughter of General Sir Charles and Lady Alice Fergusson. After Eton he studied English and classics at Magdalene College, Cambridge…

…[In 1959] he married Caroline Barbour, the daughter of George Barbour, a Scottish author, philosopher and Liberal party politician. Caroline worked for the United Nations Association before they married. She survives him with their three sons: Peter, now a retired teacher; Charles, a BBC journalist; and Richard, a former civil servant…

Julian Haviland, journalist, was born on June 8, 1930. He died on August 11, 2023, aged 93

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/julian-haviland-obituary-sb9g7w632

 

[colinp]

One could say that Capt Wilfred Haviland was the founder (and only head?) of the gentry family as it was he who purchased Delrow House ("now in institutional use") Herts in only 1929.  Possibly cadets of Haviland of Ditton Hall (BLG1900)?