Lady Margaret Fortescue 1923-2013

[Michael Rhodes]

_.The Lady Margaret Fortescue, who died 25th May, 2013, aged 89, was a daughter of the 5th Earl Fortescue, KG, CB, OBE, MC, PC (1888-1958),  (Ear; cr GB, 1789) by his wife the former Hon Margaret Helen Beaumont, CBE (1892-1958), dau of the 1st Viscount Allendale (Visc UK, cr 1911); she married 1948 (div 1968) Bernard van Cutsem (b 1916, d 1975), head of that landed family, son of Henry Harcourt van Cutsem, by whom she had issue, 2 daughters, Eleanor (b 1949), wife of the 9th Earl of Arran, and Rosamund (b 1952). A Thanksgiving service takes place at St Paul's, Filleigh, 3 June.

Both the Earl and Countess of Arran have lost their mother's in recent days.

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[Michael Rhodes]

Lady Margaret Fortescue, who has died aged 89, inherited one of the largest family landholdings in Britain, on Exmoor in Devon, and as a prominent huntswoman was known as The Last of the Meltonians on account of her prowess in the hunting field around Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10135755/Lady-Margaret-Fortescue.html

[marquess]

On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:40:14 PM UTC+7, Michael Rhodes wrote:
> _.The Lady Margaret Fortescue, who died 25th May, 2013, aged 89, was a daughter of the 5th Earl Fortescue, KG, CB, OBE, MC, PC (1888-1958),  (Ear; cr GB, 1789) by his wife the former Hon Margaret Helen Beaumont, CBE (1892-1958), dau of the 1st Viscount Allendale (Visc UK, cr 1911); she married 1948 (div 1968) Bernard van Cutsem (b 1916, d 1975), head of that landed family, son of Henry Harcourt van Cutsem, by whom she had issue, 2 daughters, Eleanor (b 1949), wife of the 9th Earl of Arran, and Rosamund (b 1952). A Thanksgiving service takes place at St Paul's, Filleigh, 3 June.
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> Both the Earl and Countess of Arran have lost their mother's in recent days.

> It was the Castle HIll estate that I was referring to in an earlier thread about succession to estates as the current earl fortescue was bemoaning that his current estate is entailed and he has no sons. I wonder if the Castle HIll estate is the larger of the ancestral property?
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[malcolm davies]

Marquess,

                Bateman recorded the Ebrington estate as 1071 acres in 1883 and the Devon estates at 20,000 acres.There was a substantial landowning in Lincolnshire(5000 or so acres) and some land in Waterford.