CHILD, (Sir Coles John) Jeremy, 3rd Bt (1944-2022)

[colinp]

The actor Jeremy Child, 3rd Baronet Child (of Bromley Palace cr  1919), who did not use his title, has died on 7 March 2022 - see obit in the Guardian published online yesterday -  Jeremy Child obituary | Theatre | The Guardian

He was the only son of Maj Sir Coles John Child, 2nd Bt  (1906-1971) and (m 1933) Sheila MATHEWSON (d 1964).  He m three times (see details below) and had 5 children, a dau by his 1st m, a son and a dau by his 2nd m and a son and a a dau by his 3rd m.  His elder son succeeds him:

(Sir Coles John) Alexander Child b 10 May 1982.  

The only other known heir is the presumed hp, the new Baronet's half-brother Patrick Grenville Child b 1991.

The Guardian obit refers to the late Baronet's having 7 grandchildren so there may be heirs among them

EXTRACTS:

Jeremy Child obituary

Actor whose collection of stage and screen establishment figures included three TV foreign secretaries

For someone who succeeded to a baronetcy in 1971, the actor Jeremy Child, who has died aged 77 after a long period of ill health, was something of a rebel. In his last stage appearance in the West End he appeared as a psychoanalyst morphing into a Jewish leprechaun in Ying Tong (2004), a play about the Goons and Spike Milligan’s depression....

Child was born in Woking, Surrey, to Sir Coles John Child, the second baronet, a diplomat with the Foreign Office, and his wife, Sheila (nee Mathewson). After his education at Eton, Aiglon college in Switzerland and a year’s stint at the University of Poitiers in France, he worked briefly in the City as a reluctant broker before training at the Bristol Old Vic theatre school....

Child – who never used his full name or title – was married three times: to the actor Deborah Grant, from 1971 to 1976, and the dancer Jan Todd, from 1978 to 1986, his first two marriages ending in divorce; and the publisher Elizabeth Morgan from 1987 until her death in 2019. With her, he settled in the village of Benson, Oxfordshire, where he enjoyed the friendship of the neighbouring actors Simon Williams and Patrick Ryecart and their families.

He is survived by five children – Melissa from his first marriage; Alexander and Leonora from his second; and Patrick and Eliza from his third, and by seven grandchildren.

 Jeremy Child (Sir Coles John Jeremy Child), actor, born 20 September 1944; died 7 March 2022

[colinp]

I should have made clear that DPB online does not list any of the grandchildren

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Jeremy Child obituary | Theatre | The Guardian

[Henry W]

Debrett's database now lists 3 grandchildren (issue of eldest dau Melissa) - I can well believe these weren't listed this morning. Debrett's database do tend to act quickly on deaths of title holders when they become aware, including following up leads from notices.

My own social media searches indicate that the 2nd dau, Leonora, m 2011 Dimitris AGGELOU and with him has issue: a son and a dau. They seem to live in Greece.

I did a speculative search in the GRO over several years for a boy named Coles ___ CHILD, but no luck.  The hp is known as Paddy CHILD in social media.

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 16 March 2022: CHILD Sir Jeremy. Peacefully on the 7th March after a long illness. Loving father to Melissa, Leonora, Alexander, Eliza and Patrick and Grandpa to 7 adorable grandchildren. Funeral private, memorial service to follow.

[colinp]

Sir Coles John Alexander CHILD is now entered on the Official Roll of the Baronetage as the 4th Baronet Child of Bromley Palace