FLOWER / THOMPSON-ROYDS engagement

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph & Times of 24 Sept 2022: THE HON H. W. W. FLOWER AND MISS K. L. THOMPSON-ROYDS The engagement is announced between Harry, younger son of Viscount and Viscountess Ashbrook, of Arley, Cheshire, and Kate, daughter of Mr and Mrs Timothy Thompson-Royds of Newnham, Northamptonshire.

Hon Harry William Warburton FLOWER b 1977 yr s of 11th Viscount ASHBROOK b 1935 and Zoe Mary b 1938 d of Francis Henry Arnold ENGLEHEART 1896-1963 sometime head of that gentry family of Stoke Priory and Filumena Mary MAYNE 1900-83 scion of that gentry family Gidleigh Park, 2xgt gd of 6th Baron CLIFFORD OF CHUDLEIGH 1759-1831 etc. He m 1st 2014 (div 2018, DPB online) Annie Elizabeth d of Christopher James CRUICKSHANK of Wimbledon.

Katherine (Kate) Louise b 1985 d of Timothy Christopher THOMPSON-ROYDS b 1950 (2xgt gs of Sir Matthew William THOMPSON 1st Bt 1820-91) and Anne b 1959 d of Gordon Shafto HEDLEY 1927-2007 and Gabrielle Anne Mary 1936-2010 d of Maj John Stephen SCHILIZZI 1896-1985 and Lady Gabrielle Sophia Annette WALDEGRAVE 1908-98 d of Rev 11th Earl WALDEGRAVE 1854-1936.

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Some ancestry of his great-grandmother:

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730-Ramsgate 25 Feb 1809); m.Edinburgh 21 Feb 1759 Lady Charlotte Stewart
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Lady Susan Murray (1768-Apr 1826); m.1st 7 Jul 1788 Joseph Tharp; m.2nd John Drew; m.3rd 23 Aug 1809 Rev Archibald Edward Douglas
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Augusta Douglas; m.5 May 1830 John Wilson, later Wilson-FitzPatrick, Lord Castletown (23 Sep 1811-22 Jan 1883), natural son of 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory
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Hon. Florence Virginia Fox Fitzpatrick; m.29 Jul 1858 Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson (21 Jun 1826-1 Feb 1927)
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Gladys Lucille Beatrice Higginson, d.18 Jun 1968; m.14 Feb 1899 Llowarch Robert Flower, 9th Viscount Ashbrook (9 Jul 1870-30 Aug 1936)

[George]

Timothy Christopher THOMPSON-ROYDS was a scion not only of the THOMPSON baronets, of Park Gate, Guiseley, co. York, but also of the WYVILL baronets, of Constable Burton, co. York, and the STAPYLTON baronets, of Myton, co. York.


Rev. Sir Martin STAPYLTON (c. 1723 – 21 January 1801), 7th Baronet, of Myton Hall, co. York, Rector of Brightwell, co. Oxon, m. (29 April 1742) Leckie (admon. July 1797), dau. of John LOVE, a merchant at Bristol.
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Anne STAPYLTON m. (1770) Rev. John BREE (c.1734–96), Rector of Marks Tey, co. Essex, sometime Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford (son of Rev. Robert BREE).
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Martin BREE, later STAPYLTON, (September 1771 – 7 March 1842) of Myton, co. York, Sheriff of the City of York 1821–22, (who inherited the estate of Myton in 1817 on the death of his maternal uncle the 8th and last Baronet and assumed the name of Stapylton) m. (1st) Sophia, dau. of William PARSONS.
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Stapylton STAPYLTON (22 January 1798 – 8 July 1864), of Myton, co. York, m. (2ndly, 5 August 1830) Margaret (d. 29 November 1883), dau. of Thomas TOMLINSON, of York.
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Martin Bryan STAPYLTON (23 November 1832 – 2 January 1894), B.A. (Oxon.), J.P., barrister-at-law, Inner Temple, of 62, Albert Hall Mansions, South Kensington, co. Middlesex, m. (11 December 1860 at Melcombe Regis, co. Dorset) Mary Jane (d. 1 January 1885), dau. of John BRYMER, of Ilsington House, Puddletown, co. Dorset.
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Laura Mary STAPYLTON m. (1st, 19 December 1882 at Holy Trinity, Ryde, co. Southampton) Col. Huntly BACON (d. 9 June 1897); m. (2ndly, 2 August 1898 at St. Peter's, Eaton Square, Pimlico, co. Middlesex) James Leslie WANKLYN (14 April 1860 – 6 July 1919), M.P. for Central Bradford, sometime of Aasleagh House, Leenane, co. Galway, and of 75, Chester Square, Belgravia, co. Middlesex.
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Vera Marguerite BACON (14 September 1883 – 3 May 1970) m. (1905) Lieut. Arthur Thomas HODGSON, 60th Rifles, J.P., of Tatchbury Manor House, Netley Marsh, co. Southampton.
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Yolande Anne HODGSON (31 October 1912 – 2004) m. (17 October 1936 at St. Matthew's, Netley Marsh) Major Christopher Smith Byrom THOMPSON-ROYDS (19 April 1907 – 29 August 1967).
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Laura Yolande THOMPSON-ROYDS (born 1947), widow of the recently deceased Oliver Crewdson HOWARD (1948–2022) (see https://groups.google.com/g/peerage-news/c/fbYwAf-diyk/m/oewZTKC7BAAJ);
Timothy Christopher THOMPSON-ROYDS (born 1950), above-mentioned.

[George]

A minor correction: Arthur Thomas HODGSON married Vera Marguerite BACON on 5 December 1906 at the parish church of Marchington Woodlands, co. Stafford (The Times, 7 Dec. 1906, Issue 38197, p. 1).

Per the same source, he was the son of George Arthur HODGSON, of Smallwood Manor, co. Stafford.  I note that the mother of A.T.H. was apparently a descendant twice over, through the GWYNNE family, of the 1st Baron CHEDWORTH (d. 1742).  The maternal grandmother of A.T.H. was apparently Jane Eliza Anna Maria HOLFORD, for whose descent from the 1st Baron CHEDWORTH see Ruvigny, Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, Mortimer–Percy volume (London, 1911), p. 436.