SCHELLENBERG, (Clifford) Keith Wain 1929-2019

[Richard R]

From the Times of 30 October 2019: SCHELLENBERG Keith. Peacefully at home in Richmond, North Yorkshire, on 28th October 2019, in his 91st year. Adored husband of Jilly, loving father to Sophie, Serena, Nicholas, Amy and Rosie, and devoted uncle to Charles and Alexander Ward-Jackson. Greatly loved by his ten grandchildren. He brought a spirit of fun, love and adventure to so many. Private family funeral. Service of Thanksgiving in March 2020, details to be announced.

He was b March 1929 and was s of Clifford Robertshaw SCHELLENBERG (1898-1971) of The Grove, Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire by his 1926 m (reg Q3 Durham) to Doris Ann (1900-93) d of Samuel Elleker/Elerker RICHARDSON and Harriet (Helty) Maud _ (c1873-1968). He m 1st 1964 (div 1981) Hon Margaret de Hauteville HAMILTON (b 1939, m 2nd 1983 Frank Williams) d of Lt-Col 11th Lord BELHAVEN & STENTON CIE (1871-1950) and his 2nd w Sheila de Hauteville (1916-1962) d of Maj Algernon George PEARSON DSO (1889-1962) of East Brabourne House, Ashford, Kent, and his 1st w (m 1915 reg Q2 Sunderland) Edith Sylvia CRAVEN (1896-1947), and had a son and a dau. He m 2nd Jilly _ and had two daus as above.

[G. Willis]

Keith Schellenberg m. 1st, 1957, Jan Hagenbach (by whom he had Sophie J. and Serena L., b. 1958 and 1961); m. 2nd, Margaret Hamilton as above; m. 3rd [seemingly 1970s] Susan Minette ('Suki'), dau. of Maj.-Gen. Robert Elliott ('Roy') Urquhart, C.B., D.S.O., General officer commanding, 1st Airborne Division at the Battle of Arnhem (1944), and evidently m. 4th Jilly, by whom he is survived.

Clifford R. Schellenberg, per his probate record, of Woodlands, The Grove; he second s. of Allen Edgar Schellenberg (1872-1940), of Neuholme, Marton-in-Cleveland, tallow refiner, and (m. 1893) Annie (1872-1956; per her probate of '33, Holbeck Avenue, Scarborough' but resident at a nursing home), dau. of William Robertshaw, of Wellington Street, Allerton, Bradford, Yorks., stone delver.

A. E. Schellenberg s. of John Frederick Schellenberg (1848-1896), of 52, Thurnscoe Road, formerly of 180, Lumb Lane, Bradford, pork butcher and Elizabeth (1851-1912), dau. of -, of Bradford [couldn't locate a marriage].

J. F. Schellenberg b. in Germany; a Frederick Schellenberg appears in Yorkshire records as son of Ludwick Schellenberg of Wurttemberg, Germany; the 1896 death record gives 'Frederick Schellemberg', but probate provides 'John' also. Possibly this John Frederick and Frederick are the same individual, although there are marriage records for Frederick and a Mary (can't recall her surname offhand) which muddy the waters.

[colinp]

Telegraph obit 6 November 2019 here - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/11/05/keith-schellenberg-businessman-olympic-bobsleigher-whose-20/

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Keith Schellenberg, who has died aged 90, was a rambunctious Yorkshire-born heir to a glue-making fortune, a motoring magnate, former Olympic bobsleigher, powerboat racer, amateur aviator, vintage car collector, two-times Liberal Party candidate, socialite and, according to the Daily Express, the inventor of ice cricket.

He became best known, however, as the controversial owner for 20 years of the Hebridean island of Eigg.

Schellenberg bought the run-down island (with Margaret, née de Hauteville Hamilton, daughter of the 11th Lord Belhaven and Stenton and the second of his four wives) in the mid-1970s for £270,000 from Bernard Farnham-Smith, a self-styled naval commander whose regime was described by the island’s retired GP as “living under enemy occupation, without the satisfaction of being able to shoot the bugger”. It turned out that the most Farnham-Smith had ever commanded was a fire brigade.

Clifford Keith Wain Schellenberg was born on March 13 1929 in Middlesbrough, where his grandfather, Alan Edgar Schellenberg, had founded Cleveland Products, known locally as Schellenberg’s glue and hide factory, manufacturers of ossein gelatin. 

Schellenberg’s first three marriages – to Jan Hagenbach, Margaret de Hauteville Hamilton and the garden designer Susan (“Suki”) Urquhart – were all dissolved. Subsequently he married Jilly Miller.

In 2001, after years in Scotland, he and Jilly returned to Richmond, Yorkshire, and bought St Nicholas, a 16th century house and adjoining gardens, formerly occupied by Lady Serena James and overlooking the River Swale, where Jilly devoted her energies to restoring the gardens to their full glory. 

“I’d done 40 years on the north-west frontier, trying to tame the Scots,” Schellenberg explained. The house was put up for sale in 2017.

Jilly survives him with two daughters from his first marriage and two daughters and a son from his second marriage.

Keith Schellenberg, born March 13 1929, died October 28 2019

On Wednesday, 30 October 2019 11:23:33 UTC, Richard R wrote:

[Jelena JS]

Susan Minette Urquhart was the daughter of Maj.-Gen. Robert Elliott Urquhart of Gairdrew. She married Sir David Oliphant Kinloch of Kinloch, 5th Bt., son of Sir John Kinloch of Kinloch, 4th Bt. and Doris Ellaline Head, on 27 January 1968. She and Sir David Oliphant Kinloch of Kinloch, 5th Bt. were divorced in 1979.

http://thepeerage.com/p49134.htm#i491337

Obituary: Suki Urquhart, garden designer - The Scotsman https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-suki-urquhart-garden-designer-1-3465995

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Born: 20 December, 1944, in Devon. Died: 14 June, 2014, in Dull, Perthshire, aged 69

Susan Minette Urquhart was the youngest of three daughters of Major General Robert Urquhart, who commanded the 1st Airborne Division at the Battle of Arnhem in 1944, and his wife Pamela. Perhaps inevitably, her military father was rarely at home during Suki’s early childhood, which was spent at her grandparents’ home at Hurst Vew, near Chudleigh in Devon.

Suki and her sister Judy attended Laurel Bank School in Glasgow, while the third sister, Elspeth – later married to Sir Menzies Campbell MP – went to a convent school in Devon.

[Elspeth married 1st (div.) Sir George Philip Grant-Suttie, 8th Bt.]

In 1967 she married David Kinloch, whose father had worked for most of his life in the Far East. The couple moved to Hong Kong, where Suki started a clothes boutique, and renovated their house on the Peak. It was there that she started her first garden, learned Cantonese and became interested in Eastern thought and philosophy. Her first daughter, Kate, was born there. Two others, Poppy and Nicola followed.

Ten years on, the family returned to Scotland... The marriage came to an end when her husband returned to Hong Kong.

She then married Keith Schellenberg, a buccaneering businessman from the north of England, who owned the island of Eigg. Suki moved with him to Eigg in 1978.

The marriage to Schellenberg, however, began to founder. Suki was the third of his four wives and used to claim that she had lasted longer than most.

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