BARROW, Hon Mrs (Hilary Ann nee EVANS) (1931-2023)

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Deceased Estates notice in the London Gazette 20 Feb 2024:

Deceased Estates

Details of the deceased

Deceased Surname: Barrow

Deceased First name: Hilary

Deceased Middle name(s): Ann

Deceased Title: The Honourable Mrs

Previous name/any other name/also known as name:

Hilary Barrow, Hilary Ann Evans

Date of Death: 23 June 2023

Reference Number: SXH/809920-1

Claims Date: 21 April 2024

Last address of the deceased

Address Line 1: Duck Cottage, Rectory Lane

Town: Dorchester

Postcode: DT2 9BW

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She was the dau of the life peer Lord Evans of Hungershall (d 1982) and m 1954 (div 1963) William John BARROW and had issue (unspecified in DPB)

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Per https://www.thepeerage.com/p74216.htm#i742160, which has as its source the 1970 edition of Burke's Peerage, the late Hon Mrs Barrow had two children, Sebastian BARROW (born 5 VI 1955) and Melanie BARROW (born 28 I 1961). It also states that her former husband, William John BARROW, was the son of one Hugh P BARROW.

 

The birth of Sebastian J Barrow (mother's maiden surname Evans) was registered in Pancras in Q3 1955, and that of Melanie C Barrow (mother's maiden surname Evans) was registered in Tonbridge in Q1 1961. I suspect that they had another sibling, Ashley Piers BARROW (10 VIII 1958 - 5 III 1989), as his mother's maiden name was also Evans, and his birth was registered in Tonbridge in Q3 1958.

 

It would appear that the late Mrs Barrow's former husband was the William J BARROW whose birth was registered in Reigate in Q1 1931 (he also seems to be the William John Barrow who, per probate records, died on 13 V 2004). It further seems that he was the (third?) son of Hugh Palliser BARROW (3 II 1892 - 14 II 1978) and his wife (married 7 V 1915), Claire Sinclair STYLES (18 VIII 1895 - 7 XI 1973).

 

The eldest son of Mr and Mrs Hugh Barrow was Maj (Samuel) Peter BARROW, MC (29 VI 1916 - 10 I 1990), who was the second husband (married 1 I 1944, as his first wife; divorced 1950) of Peggy Hester Pauline PAGET (18 XI 1913 - 27 VII 2016), a great-granddaughter of the 2nd Marquess of Anglesey and niece of the 6th Marquess. Her mother's second husband (married 22 VI 1922, as his second wife) was the 10th Earl of Drogheda.

 

Maj Peter Barrow was married, secondly, in 1950, to Mrs Mary Constance ASTLEY-COOPER, née PIERCY (c.1922 - ?), the daughter of Capt Basil Hamilton PIERCY, RN (15 VII 1882 - 4 VI 1957) and his second wife (married 9 VI 1920), the Hon Jane Gow DEWAR (12 V 1890 - 6 VI 1969), second daughter of the 1st Baron Forteviot. Mrs Barrow's first husband (married 19 VII 1941, as his first wife; divorced 1945), by whom she had one daughter, was Maj Gerald Nigel ASTLEY-COOPER (8 VI 1916 - 21 I 2005), a great-grandson of Sir Astley Paston COOPER, 2nd Bt (13 I 1798 - 6 I 1866).

 

Maj Peter Barrow and his second wife had four sons:

• Charles Peter BARROW (born 16 III 1951), married in 1976 to Fiona Jane Savary PITTS (born 3 I 1953); they appear to have had two sons and one daughter.
• Antony Andrew BARROW (born 6 IV 1953; triplet), married in 1992 to Imogen Rashleigh DE SÉLINCOURT (born IV 1960); they appear to have had at least one son and two daughters.
• Christopher C BARROW (born 6 IV 1953; triplet), married in 1988 to Belinda Elizabeth RUDD (born 10 VII 1962); they appear to have had two sons.
• James J BARROW (born 6 IV 1953; triplet), married in 1979 to Lucinda A MACFARLANE (born 1959); they appear to have had two sons and two daughters.

The second son of Mr and Mrs Hugh Barrow was Capt Bryan Palliser BARROW (1918 - 15 II 1942), who was killed in action in the Second World War, as was his first cousin, Sgt Michael Bertram Palliser BARROW (c.1923/4 - 27 V 1944), son of Maurice Palliser BARROW (10 I 1899 - ?) and his wife (married 1923), Ella H K HOPKINS.

 

Hugh Barrow was the second son of Sir Samuel BARROW (31 VIII 1859 - 10 X 1935) and his wife (married 14 V 1884), Florence Mary PALLISER (c.1859/60 - 26 IX 1939). His eldest brother, (Samuel) Palliser BARROW (15 IX 1887 - 26 X 1910), died unmarried. His next brother was Maurice as mentioned above, and his youngest brother was Sir Malcolm Palliser BARROW, CBE (13 VI 1900 - 9 VI 1973), Deputy Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1962-63. He also had a sister, Muriel Palliser BARROW (1 IV 1885 - 15 X 1977), who was married on 19 April 1906 to Dr Albert Victor PEATLING (21 III 1869 - 12 V 1922).

 

Capt Basil Hamilton Piercy's first wife (married 31 XII 1910, as her first husband) was (Elsie) Jane TAYLOR (9 VI 1892 - 17 X 1979; her first name has sometimes been rendered as Elizabeth, rather than Elsie). She was married secondly to (as his second wife) Capt Lionel George DAWSON, RN (11 IX 1885 - 3 IX 1968), of that family, of Groton House, Boxford, Suffolk, which, per Burke's family Index, last appeared in Burke's Landed Gentry in the 1894 edition. Capt Dawson was a 2 x greats-grandson of Sir Thomas PILKINGTON, 7th Bt (7 XII 1773 - 9 VII 1811). Mrs Jane DAWSON, née TAYLOR, was married thirdly, on 13 January 1939, to (as his second wife) Adm Sir George Knightley CHETWODE, KCB, CBE (10 XII 1877 - 11 III 1957), youngest son of Lt-Col Sir George CHETWODE, 6th Bt (20 VII 1823 - 28 VI 1905) and brother of FM 1st Baron Chetwode.

 

Mrs Antony Barrow, née Imogen de Sélincourt, is a first cousin twice removed downwards of Dorothy ("Daphne") DE SÉLINCOURT (22 IX 1889 - 22 III 1971), the wife (married 4 VI 1913) of Alan Alexander MILNE (18 I 1882 - 31 I 1956; better known by his initials as A A Milne, the author of Winnie the Pooh). She is therefore a second cousin once removed downwards of the Milnes' only child, Christopher Robin MILNE (21 VIII 1920 - 20 IV 1996), and also of his wife (married 24 VII 1948) and first cousin, Lesley DE SÉLINCOURT (6 V 1925 - 7 XII 2014):

 

Charles Alexandre DE SÉLINCOURT = (2) Theodora Bruce BENDALL

(7 XI 1835 -  24 XI 1900)                      |       (29 IX 1842 - 28 I 1913) (married 7 I 1863)

                                                              |                                                                          

|                                                                                                                                        |

Martin Robert DE SÉLINCOURT                                                                                     Charles Wilfred DE SÉLINCOURT

(26 XI 1864 - 8 VIII 1950)                                                                                                 (19 XII 1868 - 10 V 1934)

= Mabel SPEED                                                                                                                = Bessie Winifred WHITLOCK

| (25 XII 1864 - 13 XII 1932) (married 1888)                                                                      | (c.1871/22 - 28 V 1959) (married 12 VII 1893)

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|                                                                      |                                                                   |

Aubrey DE SÉLINCOURT                             Dorothy ("Daphne") DE SÉLINCOURT       Mark Jocelyn ("Jock") DE SÉLINCOURT

(7 VI 1894 - 20 XII 1962)                               (22 IX 1889 - 22 III 1971)                            (1894- 3 IX 1958)

= Irene Rutherford McLEOD                          = Alan Alexander ("A A") MILNE                 = Joyce Rashleigh PHIPPS

| (21 VIII 1891 - 2 XII 1968) (married 1919)    | (18 I 1882 - 31 I 1956) (married 1913)     | (1894 - 11 XII 1958) (married 1919)

|                                                                       |                                                                  |

Lesley Elizabeth DE SÉLINCOURT  = Christopher Robin MILNE                                    Derek Robin DE SÉLINCOURT 

(6 V 1925 - 7 XII 2014)                        (21 VIII 1920 - 20 IV 1996) (married 24 VII 1948) (1931 - 24 IX 2018)

                                                                                                                                           = Valerie Wadsworth SHAW

                                                                                                                                            | (1927 - 26 X 2014) (married 24 XI 1956)

                                                                                                                                            |

                                                                                                                                            Imogen Rashleigh DE SÉLINCOURT

                                                                                                                                            (born 1960)

 

Mabel Speed (Mrs Martin de Sélincourt) was a step-sister of Emily Maria SPEED (17 IV 1848 - 11 X 1904), the wife (married 1 II 1876) of Sir Thomas Andros DE LA RUE, 1st Bt (26 V 1849 - 10 IV 1911).