MILVERTON, Rt Hon Benda, Baroness CStJ (Noelle Benda nee Whitehead) 1905-2010

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 25 September 2010


Lady Milverton
Lady Milverton, who died on September 11 aged 105, was the widow of
Sir Arthur Richards, later the 1st Lord Milverton, who was a
remarkable colonial governor and an important figure in the transition
from Empire to Commonwealth.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8023617/Lady-Milverton.html

She was the dau of Charles Basil WHITEHEAD of Torquay. She m 1927 the
1st Baron MILVERTON (1885-1978) and was mother of the present 2nd
Baron and of his heir presumptive, Michael Hugh RICHARDS (b 1936). The
latter m twice and his only son by his 1st m, Arthur Hugh RICHARDS (b
1963 & unm) is the only other person in line to the title.

[ThomasFoolery]

How many other wives or widows of created hereditary peers survive?
The Queen and the Countess of Wessex come to mind, but are there any
non-Royal cases?

[ThomasFoolery]

And, of course, the Duchess of Cornwall (as Princess of Wales).

[Michael Rhodes]

Viscountess Whitelaw?

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[marquess]

I have long written this peerage off as being one beyond the realms
of saving!

On 28 Sep, 18:00, Michael Rhodes <mig73allenford2...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

[gorgo...@gmail.com]

She was born Noelle Bënda Whitehead on December 18 1904. Her father, Charles Basil Whitehead, came from a family of clergy and she also descended from Sir Thomas Delves-Broughton, Bt, of Doddington Park, Cheshire. Bënda’s mother, Ethel Maude Little, died in 1909 when Bënda and her two brothers were under 10, and their father remarried, going on to have twin daughters. He was again widowed in 1920, by which time he was chief police officer at Butterworth, in Province Wellesley, Malaya, where his hot-headedness and eccentricities earned him the sobriquet “The Tiger of Malaya”.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8023617/Lady-Milverton.html

Is it correct?

Rev. Sir Thomas Broughton, 6th Bt. (c1744 - 1813) m. Mary Wicker
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Elizabeth Broughton (1773 - 1856) m. J. William Clough
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Harriet Clough (1802-1891) m. John Holberton
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Caroline Maria Holberton (1845-1930) m. James Nicholas Whitehead
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Charles Basil Whitehead (1873-1947) m. Ethel Maude Little
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Noelle Bënda Whitehead (1904-2010)