MARR, Sir Leslie Lynn, 2nd Baronet (1922 - 2021)

[Henry W]

It appears the oldest Baronet on the Roll has died.

https://www.oldracingcars.com/driver/Leslie_Marr

https://twitter.com/BRDCSilverstone/status/1390238291203665920

His reported date of death is 4 May 2021. Further confirmation would be helpful.

Sir Leslie was the only son of John Lynn MARR (1877 - 1931), eldest son of Sir James MARR, 1st Baronet CBE (1854 - 1932), and Amelia Rachel THOMPSON.

He m. 1st 1948 (div 1956) Dinora Delores MENDELSON. Is there issue? - thepeerage.com gives one dau, but not reported in DB 2008.  He m. 2nd 1962 (div 2000) Lynn WALKER-HENEAGE, and had issue: 2 daus. He m. 3rd 2002 Maureen Thelman DORMER.

He is succeeded by his kinsman (Sir) Allan James William MARR, (3rd Baronet), a 2xgt gs of the 1st Baronet, born 1965. He m. 1988 Dawn RIDLEY and has issue, a son L J A M. (born 1991)

[Henry W]

If confirmed, I believe the eldest Baronet on the Roll is now Sir John CONANT, 2nd Baronet (born 1923). There are two Baronets born 1924. Of course, Sir Humphrey Moon, 7th Baronet (born 1919) is a presumed Baronet not on the Roll and if his succession were confirmed would be the eldest Baronet on the Roll.

[Ind_Duke]

Sir Leslie Lynn Marr was both the oldest and the longest serving baronet on the roll. He was also the third longest serving baronet ever after Sir John Prichard-Jones, 2nd baronet and Sir Peter Soame, 4th baronet. Now the longest serving baronet is Sir (Marmaduke) Adrian Francis William Blennerhassett, 7th Baronet who succeeded to the baronetcy on the same year of his birth in 1940. 

[Ind_Duke]

  Sir Leslie Lynn Marr was also the last living baronet who succeeded before the start of the second world war. During the second world war, a number of baronets and heirs apparent to baronetcies died during active service and as a result, there are currently eight living baronets who succeeded to the baronetcies at a very small age from the period of 1940 - 1944.

[Ind_Duke]

The Wikipedia page lists Sir Jeremy Norman Marr, 3rd Baronet (1940- ) as the next baronet. However you have mentioned  (Sir) Allan James William MARR, (3rd Baronet). Which of these is correct?

[S R Eglesfield]

The third baronet has got to be (Sir) Allan James William MARR (provided that he was alive at the moment when the second baronet died) - he is the elder son of James Allan MARR (17 V 1939 - 27 III 2012), who was himself the only son of Allan James MARR (6 V 1907 - 20 IX 1989), the eldest son of William Bell MARR (4 X 1881 - 19 X 1971), the younger son of the first baronet. Jeremy Norman MARR (born 12 V 1940) is the only son of Norman Carse MARR (20 II 1910 - 15 VIII 1980), who was the second son of the aforementioned William Bell MARR.

[Henry W]

Kershaw gives Allan J W M. as the heir, and Debrett's 2008 gave him in capital letters (their way of indicating ha / hp), so I am relatively confident in saying he is 3rd Baronet. Even if he has died unnoticed, Allan's son would be next in line not Jeremy.

On Tuesday, 11 May 2021 at 09:45:27 UTC+1 Ind_Duke wrote:

[www.maltagenealogy.com]

The new baronet is clearly Allan James William Marr, (8 Oct 1965-, his son and heir is Liam James Allan Marr, (1991-.

https://www.maltagenealogy.com/LeighRayment/baronetage/baronetsM2.htm

[rich...@googlemail.com]

By one of those odd coincidences there are three paintings by Sir Leslie Lynn Marr in a forthcoming.........

https://www.cheffins.co.uk/fine-art/lot-view,-sir-leslie-lynn-marr-2nd-baronet-british-19222021_71836.htm

https://www.cheffins.co.uk/fine-art/lot-view,-sir-leslie-lynn-marr-2nd-baronet-british-19222021_71837.htm

https://www.cheffins.co.uk/fine-art/lot-view,-sir-leslie-lynn-marr-2nd-baronet-british-19222021_71921.htm

[Henry W]

I have verified that the 3rd Baronet is alive and well on Electoral Roll records, living at an address near Carlisle.  A correction to my original post - the 3rd Baronet has issue: 2 sons - Liam J A M. (born 1991) and R D M. (born 1995)

[Henry W]

Obituary in the Guardian of 23 May 2021:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/may/23/leslie-marr-obituary

[Richard R]

The reluctant Baronet's obit is in the Times of 31 May 2021.

It reveals the death of his yr dau in 2016, which is confirmed by BMD: https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60630&h=2297951&tid=&pid=&queryId=7ba4df8d45d41c8b188b064467b0ac7e&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Fco12172&_phstart=successSource.

The obit also mentions the adoption of his first wife's dau from a prev union (Juliet b 194_), and she's listed as such in Burke's Peerage & Baronetage 2003, but not mentioned in Drebrett's 2019.

Interestingly, the first mention of his marriages and daus in Debrett is in the 1976 edn (I have a complete run of DPB between 1970 and 2019, as well as some earlier edns between 1897 and 1965).

EXTRACT
OBITUARY
Sir Leslie Marr, Bt obituary
Colourful landscape artist and Formula One racing driver who was heir to a shipbuilding family and refused to acknowledge his title
...In 1948 he married [Dinora Delores] Mendelsohn [b 1924 reg Q2 London] and adopted her daughter Juliet...
...Leslie Lynn Marr was born in Durham in 1922, the only child of Colonel John Marr OBE, a Flanders veteran, and his wife Amelia (nee Thompson), known as May, an excellent markswoman and a pioneering motorist. His parents' marriage had been a union of Wearside family shipyards and they assumed that young Leslie would follow in their footsteps....
...in 1931 he learnt that his 53-year-old father had died from pneumonia. His paternal grandfather, Sir John Marr, who in 1919 had been awarded a baronetcy by David Lloyd George, died within the year and ten-year-old Leslie inherited a title that he refused to acknowledge....
...His first marriage had been formally dissolved in 1956 and in 1962 he married Lynn Moynihan... They had two daughters, Joanne, a luxury-yacht broker in the south of France, and Rebecca, a chef who died from breast cancer in [30 March] 2016.... The marriage was dissolved in 1998 and the following year he met Maureen Monk, a former actress, who accompanied him on many painting expeditions. They were married in 2002 and she survives him....
Sir Leslie Marr, Bt, artist and racing driver, was born on August 14, 1922. He died on May 4, 2021, aged 98
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sir-leslie-marr-bt-obituary-2hh6tqx8d

[colinp]

Sir Allan James William Marr, 3rd Baronet, is now entered on the Official Roll of the Baronetage

[colinp]

The 3rd Baronet's DOB, as given in the latest Who's Who, is 10 October 1965

[colinp]

It appears from DPB online that the ha Liam Jamie Allan has a dau Emily b 2019 though he is still recorded as unm