ORR-EWING, Hon Sir Alistair Simon 2nd Bt 1940-2024

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Richard R

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Aug 12, 2024, 12:32:25 AM8/12/24
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From the Telegraph of 12 Aug 2024: ORR-EWING Sir Alistair Simon died on 6th August. Hugely loved by his wife Victoria and their children Archie, Jamie and Georgina, and proud grandfather of ten. Memorial Service at St Mary's Church, Shipton-under-Wychwood… on 25th September at 2 p.m.

He was s of the LP Baron ORR-EWING & 1st Bt 1912-99 and Joan Helen Veronica 1917-2010 d of (William) Gordon Milne McMINNIES 1886-1982 of Stow-on-the-Wold, Glos and Joyce Millicent KERMODE 1896-1965. He m 1968 Victoria b 1946 reg Q4 Oxon d of Keith CAMERON of Fifield House, Milton-under-Wychwood, Oxon, and had two sons and a dau. His elder son succeeds him.

Sir ARCHIE CAMERON Orr-Ewing 3rd Bt has yet to establish claim, b 29 March 1969: m 1999 Nicola J d of Charles DE SELINCOURT of Vicars Hill, Hants, and has issue living,

SONS LIVING

ALFRED CHARLES  b 20 Nov 1999

Ronald Ian b 2001

George, b 2004

 

 

 

Henry W

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Aug 12, 2024, 5:24:11 AM8/12/24
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Debrett's online shows that the 3rd baronet married June 1999, meaning his eldest son Alfred Charles is definitely in remainder.

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Aug 12, 2024, 8:02:06 AM8/12/24
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His father was great-grandson of Sir Archibald Orr Ewing, 1st Bt. (1886 creation).

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Aug 12, 2024, 2:34:49 PM8/12/24
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DPB Online has updated this page.

ALFRED  CHARLES is shown as the heir apparent.

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S R Eglesfield

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Aug 16, 2024, 12:05:06 PM8/16/24
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The new baronet's wife, née Nicola Jane DE SELINCOURT (born 26 IX 1969), is the daughter of Charles Martin DE SELINCOURT, OBE (29 I 1936 - 2 V 2024) and his wife (married 1966), Jane C MCKENZIE (born 23 IX 1943). The late Charles de Selincourt was the son of Martin Robert DE SELINCOURT (26 XI 1864 - 8 VIII 1950) and his second wife (married 2 III 1933, as her first husband), Nancy Dorothy BROWN, MBE (25 V 1907 - 9 II 2002), whose second husband (married 25 XI 1964, as his second wife) was Capt John HUNTER-GRAY, MC (24 VII 1923 - 12 VIII 1975).
 
Martin de Selincourt and his first wife (married 7 VIII 1888), Mabel SPEED (25 XII 1864 - 13 XII 1932), had a daughter, Dorothy ("Daphne") DE SELINCOURT (22 IX 1890 - 1971), who was the wife (married 4 VI 1913) of Alan Alexander MILNE (18 I 1882 - 31 I 1956), better known as A A Milne, the author of Winnie the Pooh. Their only child, Christopher Robin MILNE (21 VIII 1920 - 20 IV 1996), was the husband (married 24 VII 1948) of his first cousin, Lesley Elizabeth DE SELINCOURT (6 V 1925 - 3 X 2014; the younger daughter of his mother's brother Aubrey DE SELINCOURT (7 VI 1894 - 20 XII 1962) and his wife (married 1919), Irene Rutherford McLEOD (21 VIII 1891 - 2 XII 1968)), by whom he had an only child, Clare MILNE (1956 - 27 X 2012).
 
Mrs Nancy Hunter-Gray, MBE, née Brown, formerly de Selincourt, was a sister of John Falcon BROWN (17 IX 1913 - 7 V 2007), who was the husband (married 3 VI 1939) of Anstice AWDRY (8 V 1914 - 14 VIII 1999), of that landed gentry family, who was a first cousin once removed downwards of the Rev Wilbert Vere AWDRY, OBE (15 VI 1911 - 21 III 1997), the author of Thomas the Tank Engine and other works in his railway series of books for children.
 
The late baronet's father-in-law, Keith CAMERON (4 V 1913 - 30 XII 1980), was the husband (married 1939) of Anne Penelope MATURIN (1918 - 24 III 2016), who was the daughter of Lt-Col Reginald George MATURIN, DSO (13 XI 1877 - 20 VIII 1952) and his wife (married 21 I 1917), Ella Jane MATURIN-BAIRD (23 II 1891 - 1981), of that family, which, per Burke's Family Index, last appeared in Burke's Landed Gentry in the 1952 edition (a more up to date account of the family can be found at https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2018/05/330-maturin-baird-of-boom-hall-and.html). Lt-Col Maturin and his wife were second cousins, both being great-grandchildren of the Rev Henry MATURIN (17 IX 1771 - 3 I 1842) and his wife (married 25 V 1802), Elizabeth JOHNSTON (1777 - 8 IV 1826).
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