+ The Earl of Gainsborough

[Turenne]

Anthony Edward Noel, 5th Earl of Gainsborough died on the 29th Dec,
2009 aged 86. He was the son of the 4th earl and Alice, nee Eyre. He
married Mary Stourton, d. of the Hon. Maj John Stourton in 1947 and gd-
d of the 25th Baron Seagrave.

He is succeeded by Anthony Baptist Noel as 6th earl.

Richard L

[bx...@yahoo.com]

Before his passing, this was one of the few peerages with a living
peer and 3 succeeding generations.

Brooke

[Michael Rhodes]

Anthony Gerard Edward [Noel], 5th Earl of Gainsborough, born 24 Oct
1923; died 29 Dec 2009. Married 23 Jul 1947 Mary Stourton, scion of
the Barons Mowbray, Segrave & Stourton; 1st dau. of Maj Hon John
Joseph Stourton, of Miniature Hall, Wadhurst, co. Sussex (by his first
wife Kathleen Alice Gunther, 1st dau. of Robert Louis George Gunther,
of Park Wood, Englefield Green, co. Surrey), 2nd son of Charles
Botolph Joseph [Stourton], 24th Baron Mowbray, and had issue:-
1.Hon Anthony Baptist Noel, styled Viscount Campden, of 105 Earls
Court Road, London (b. 17 Jan 1950), mar. 23 May 1972 Sarah Rose
Winnington LVO DL, Lady-in-Waiting to Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 29
Apr 1951), sister of Sir Anthony Edward Winnington, 7th Bt., and 1st
surv. dau. of Col Thomas Foley Churchill Winnington MBE (by his wife
Lady Betty Marjorie Anson, 1st dau. by his first wife of Thomas Edward
[Anson], 4th Earl of Lichfield), 2nd son of Francis Salway Winnington
(by his wife Blanche Emma Casberd-Boteler, dau. of Cdr William John
Casberd-Boteler RN, of Eastry, co. Kent), 1st son and heir ap. of Sir
Francis Salway Winnington, 5th Bt., by his wife Jane Spencer-
Churchill, 1st dau. of Lt Col Lord Alfred Spencer-Churchill MP (by his
wife Hon Harriet Louisa Hester Gough, 3rd dau. of Frederick [Gough-
Calthorpe later Gough], 4th Baron Calthorpe), 2nd son by his first
wife of George [Spencer later Spencer-Churchill], 6th Duke of
Marlborough, and has issue:

1a.Hon Henry (Harry) Robert Anthony Noel (b. 1 Jul 1977), mar. Zara
van Cutsem (b. 1978), dau. of Geoffrey Neil van Cutsem by his wife
Sally McCorquodale, and has issue:

1b.Edward Noel (b. 30 Apr 2007)

2.Hon Gerard Edward Joseph Noel, of 29 Ingersol Road, London W12 (b.
23 Jan 1955), mar. 1985 Charlotte Dugdale (b. 15 May 1955), 2nd dau.
of Sir William Stratford Dugdale, 2nd Bt., by his first wife Lady
Belinda Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd dau. of William [Pleydell-Bouverie],
7th Earl of Radnor, and has issue

3.Hon Thomas Noel, of 24 Lennox Gardens, London SW1 (b. 9 Mar 1958)

4.Hon Edward Andrew Noel (b. 22 Oct 1960), mar. (1) 1990 (div. 1994)
Lavinia Jane Bingham, only dau. of Cdr George Edward Bingham RN, of
Grenville House, Droxford, co. Hampshire, and mar. (2)
19.... ..........

1.Lady Juliana Mary Alice Noel (b. 27 Jan 1949), mar. 29 Jan 1970
(div. 1994) as his first wife Edward Peter Bertram Savile [Foljambe],
5th Earl of Liverpool, and has issue

2.Lady Maria Noel (b. 3 Feb 1951), mar. 17 Apr 1971 Robert Pridden,
son of John Robert Pridden, of Fort Henry House, Exton, co. Leicester,
son of John Robert Pridden, of Bridge Way, Ickenham, co. Middlesex,
and has issue

3.Lady Janet Noel (b. and dvp. 23 Jan 1953)

4.Lady Celestria Magdalen Mary Noel (b. 27 Jan 1954), mar. 1 Mar 1990
Timothy Manville Hales, of Marsh Hall, Orleton, Ludlow, son of S W M
Hales MC, and has issue

Lord Gainsborough was Chairman, Oakham Rural District Council 1952-67;
President, Rural District Council's Association 1965; Master of the
Worshipful Company of Gardeners 1967; President, British Association
Order of Malta 1968-74; Bailiff Grand Cross Order of Malta; Chairman,
Rutland County Council 1970-73; KStJ 1970

[Leigh Rayment]

and also one of the very few to have held his peerage for more than 80 years

Brooke

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[Shinjinee]

On Jan 3, 12:34 am, Michael Rhodes <mig73allenford2...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

>
> 1a.Hon Henry (Harry) Robert Anthony Noel (b. 1 Jul 1977), mar. Zara
> van Cutsem (b. 1978), dau. of Geoffrey Neil van Cutsem by his wife
> Sally McCorquodale, and has issue:

yr daughter of Geoffrey Neil van Cutsem (brother of Hugh van Cutsem,
and
2nd son of Mary Compton, of the marquesses of Northampton) by his 1st
wife
Sally McCorquodale (d 1 Aug 2008; sister of Neil McCorquodale, husband
of
Lady Sarah Spencer and brother-in-law to the late Diana Frances
Spencer,
Princess of Wales). Neil McCorquodale and the late Sally van Cutsem
(nee
McCorquodale) are grandchildren maternally of Lady Enid Fane, daughter
of
the 13th Earl of Westmorland.

Geoffrey McCorquodale's divorced his first wife, mother of his two
daughters,
in 2003. He married Mrs Lucy Hester Price (nee Cartwright) in 2006,
and
she died on 29 November 2008.

Zara's paternal grandmother Mary Compton married twice, and had two
sons
from her first marriage to Bernard van Cutsem (who married 2ndly the
daughter
of an earl, and had further issue including the Countess of Arran),
and one son
and one daughter by her second marriage.

Her maternal grandmother Alastair McCorquodale (5 December 1925
Hillhead,
Glasgow - 27 February 2009 Grantham) was born into a well-connected
and
well-married LG family, details of which can be found by a search of
older
postings in this group with the help of Google.

Sources:

1. Michael Rhodes Peerage Update 23 February 2005
http://thepeerage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=735&sid=c420b648d40ea7c59e1898fca27fc9eb

2. Mary van Cutsem
http://www.thepeerage.com/p5690.htm

3. Alastair McCorquodale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_McCorquodale

[Michael Rhodes]

The 5th Earl of Gainsborough, who died on December 29 aged 86, was a
resolute defender of country life against the incursions of
metropolitan authorities.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7301061/The-Earl-of-Gainsborough.html

As president of the Rural District Councils' Association of England
and Wales in the 1960s, he played a vigorous role in opposing Lord
Redcliffe-Maud's plans for reorganising local councils: "We are looked
upon as a nuisance and irrelevant. We are not going to lie down under
that. The fight is to save local government for people in rural areas
who do not want decisions made by people 40 or 50 miles away in large
towns."

As the largest landowner in Rutland, the smallest county in England,
he was closely involved in the battle to preserve it from being
absorbed by neighbouring Leicestershire. The debate stirred such
acrimony that even moves to update Rutland's old road signs were
reversed.

Rutland eventually was absorbed, in 1974, Gainsborough (motto: Tout
bien ou rien, All well or nothing) continued to lobby in the Lords,
where he sat as a Liberal and then as an Independent, declaring that
the takeover would never work. In 1997 Rutland County Council
returned.

Anthony Gerard Edward Noel was born on October 24 1923 and, aged
three, succeeded his father as Earl of Gainsborough, Viscount Campden,
Baron Barham and Baron Noel. The family estate was heavily encumbered
by death duties and mortgages, so his mother let out the seat, Exton
Park, and retreated to a London flat. Nevertheless, Tony performed his
first local duty at seven when he opened a village hall.

As a Roman Catholic, who was to become president of the Sovereign
Order of Malta, he went to Worth Priory in Sussex. He was on his way
to America when war was declared, with the result that he studied at
Georgetown School in Washington DC. On returning to Britain in 1943 he
was declared unfit for military service and worked for Vickers
Supermarine in Southampton.

Two busloads of tenants attended his marriage to Mary Stourton at the
Brompton Oratory in 1947, and by the time he was 30 he was free from
debt and farming some 400 acres on the estate. He soon moved back into
Exton.

In 1952 Gainsborough became chairman of Oakham rural district council
before becoming vice-chairman and then chairman of Rutland County
Council, staying on for three more years when it was reduced to
Rutland district council.

Possessed of a generous figure and known to all as "Big G",
Gainsborough was a trencherman with a wide knowledge of food and wine.
A generous host at Exton before moving to a farmhouse in later years,
he entertained in style with the aid of his tall, dignified butler,
Harold Bottomley, who, when fresh orange juice was introduced into the
household, used to ask: "Red, white or orange?"

Tony Gainsborough is survived by his widow, four sons and three
daughters; the eldest son, Viscount Campden, born in 1950, succeeds to
the titles.