GODWIN-AUSTEN, Lt-Col Robert (Robin) Haversham 1932-2026

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 9 March 2026:  GODWIN-AUSTEN Robin Haversham Lt Col (Retd) SWB, DL Surrey, died peacefully on 13th February 2026. Beloved father of Claire, Stephen, Diana and Susan, and grandfather to 12 grandchildren. Private family cremation. A Service of Thanksgiving will be held on Friday 10th April 2026 at 2.30 p.m. at St Mary's Church, Shalford, Surrey…

He was s of Robert Annesley GODWIN-AUSTEN 1885-1977 sometime head of that gentry family of Pirbright Manor and Kathleen Beryl 1901-95 d of Arthur ODLING c1847-1937 of London NW3 and Elizabeth Lucy MORGAN c1864-1905. He m 1959 Katherine (Kate) Eliot 1938-2015 d of Eliot Kingsmill POWER, and had a son and three daus:

1. Stephen R b 1962, succeeds his father as family head

1. Claire R b 1960: m 1988 reg Q3 Surrey John N WILSON and had issue

1.1 Michael Peter WILSON b 1992 reg Q4 Surrey

1.1 Holly Katharine WILSON b 1990 reg Q1 Huntingdon

1.2 Margaret Elizabeth WILSON b 1995 reg Q4 Surrey

2. Diana K b 1965: m 1997 reg Q3 Surrey Alexander J R s of Jeremy CULLEN of Montou, France and had issue

2.1 Cosmo Alexander Austen CULLEN b 2000 reg Q1 W Surrey

2.2 Xan Robert Austen CULLEN b 2003 reg Q2 W Surrey

2.1 Jocasta Katharine Reventlow CULLEN b 1998 reg Q3 Ken&Chelsea

2.2 Ottilie Diana Austen CULLEN b 2001 reg Q3 W Surrey

3. Susan Frances b 1969: ?m c1996 Angus J F SIM and had issue

3.1 Georgina Katharine SIM b 8 July 2000 (Times 19 July) reg Q3 W Surrey

3.2 Jessica Louisa SIM b 2003 reg Q1 W Surrey

3.3 Frances Margaret SIM b 2004 reg Q3 W Surrey

[S R Eglesfield]

From his death notice, the late Lt-Col Godwin-Austen had twelve grandchildren, two more than are named in Richard's posting. The only possible additional grandchild that I have been able to (tentatively) identify is Rollo Robert Eliot GODWIN-AUSTEN (birth registered Q3 2009 - Chichester).

 

Eliot Kingsmill POWER (15 XII 1898 - 1969), who appears in Ruvigny's Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, was the younger son of Kingsmill Henry POWER (1862 - 12 IV 1937) and his wife (married 18 II 1897), Mary Harriet MANGLES (c.1863/4 - 21  III 1935), the youngest daughter of Ross Lowis MANGLES, VC (14 IV 1833 - 28 II 1905), one of only five civilians to have been awarded the Victoria Cross, and his wife (married 19 VII 1860), Henrietta Anne MORE-MOLYNEUX (19 X 1836 - 1 V 1918), the younger daughter of James MORE-MOLYNEUX (6 V 1805 - 9 IV 1874), of that landed gentry (LG) family, and his wife (married 19 VII 1832), Caroline Isabella LOWNDES (c.1813/14 - 5 IX 1888).

 

Caroline Isabella LOWNDES was the daughter of William Francis LOWNDES-STONE (27 X 1783 - 1 XII 1858), for whom see the pedigree of Lowndes-Stone-Norton of Brightwell Baldwin in the 1952 edition of Burke's LG, and his wife (married 3 X 1811), Caroline STRICKLAND (c.1780/1 - 11 IV 1867), the second daughter of Sir William STRICKLAND, 6th Bt (12 III 1753 - 8 I 1834).

 

Alexander J R CULLEN (born 1963) is the elder son of Jeremy Tom CULLEN (21 XII 1931 - 30 XI 2023) and his former wife (married 24 VI 1959), Tove Antonia REVENTLOW (26 III 1930 - 2004), of that Danish noble family.

 

Angus John Frederic SIM (born XI 1966) is the son of Campbell Gerald SIM (born 6 IX 1936) and his first wife (married 1963), Louisa S HARMER (born 1939). His sister, Arabella Laura SIM (born 1969), is the wife (married 26 IX 1998) of the Hon Alistair Benedict CAIRNS (born 16 V 1969), the youngest son of the 6th Earl Cairns.

 

Campbell Sim is the younger son of John Chatterton Coysgarne SIM (1 III 1910 - 13 IX 1987) and his first wife (married 1932, as her second husband), Avice Mary WHITFORD-TURNER (17 VI 1907 - 17 VIII 1993). John Sim's second wife (married 12 XII 1947, as her second husband; divorced 1962) was Beatrix Pamela BELLINGHAM, later BELLINGHAM-KIGGELL (28 VII 1918 -  ?), a great-great-granddaughter of Sir Alan BELLINGHAM, 2nd Bt (2 II 1776 - 26 VIII 1827).

 

Mrs Louisa Sim is the eldest daughter of Sir Frederic Evelyn HARMER, CMG (3 XI 1905 - 24 II 1995) and his first wife (married 1931), Barbara Susan HAMILTON (2 II 1904 - 1972), of that family, of Fyne Court, Bridgwater, Somerset, which, per Burke's Family Index, last appeared in BLG in the 1952 edition.

 

Sir Frederic Harmer was himself the younger son of Sir Sidney Frederic HARMER, KBE, FRS (9 III 1862 - 22 X 1950) and his wife (married 1891), Laura Russell HOWELL (29 I 1867 - 23 V 1956).