CALDECOTT / Hector engagement

[Richard R]

From the Times of 15 September 2018: MR E L CALDECOTT AND MISS E S HECTOR  The engagement is announced between Edmund, younger son of Mr and Mrs Andrew Caldecott of Wandsworth, London, and Elkie, youngest daughter of Nicola Bramley of Fordham, Cambridgehire, and Julian Hector of Kingsdown, Bristol.

Edmund Louis (b 1985 reg London) s of Andrew N CALDECOTT by his 1977 m (reg Q2 London) to Rosamond Ashton (b 1953) d of Lt-Col William Preston Ashton SHUTTLEWORTH (1915-94), scion of the gentry family of that name of Hathersage and of the PRESTON Bts, and Hon Idonea Mary Ellice CROSS (1918-94) d of 2nd Viscount CROSS (1882-1932) and Maud Evelyn Indigo JONES (1889-1976, having m 2nd Guy Coldwell, she was scion of many earls etc through her CHARTERIS mother).

Elkie Samantha (b 1987 reg Avon) d of Julian A L HECTOR by his 1983 m (reg Q2 Bedfordshire) to Nicola J KEELING.

[G. Willis]

Some notes:

Julian Alan Lowther Hector b. 1958, Nairobi, educ. Univ. of Bristol (Ph.D. 1981, hon, D.Sc. 2014), head of Natural History Unit, BBC Studios; 2nd wife (m. 1996) Mary (née Colwell) a BBC Radio producer. Their two sons are 'Colwell-Hector'; some sources indicate their father also adopted this surname.

Andrew N. Caldecott seems to be Andrew Hilary Caldecott (1952-), director, Spoken Ink Ltd (publishing). He eldest s. (3 s, 1 dau.) of (John) Andrew Caldecott (1924-1990), of Elmdown Farmhouse, Ramsbury, Wilts., educ. Eton, Trinity Coll., Oxon. (B.A.), merchant banker and solicitor (partner, Druces and Attlee 1954-69), chairman of the M. & G. Group, Lt, King's Royal Rifle Corps, by his wife Zita Ursula Mary (1932-), dau. of Peter Gilbert Marie Sebastian Belloc (1904-1941), Capt., Royal Marines [s. of (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre Rene Swanton Belloc (1870-1953), of King's Land, Shipley, W. Sussex, the famous writer] by his wife Stella (1901-1995), dau. of - Benson.

J. A. Caldecott s. of Sir Andrew Caldecott (1884-1951), of Pier Point, West Itchenor, Sussex, educ. Uppingham, Exeter Coll., Oxon. (B.A. 1907, M.A., Hon. Fellow 1948), Governor of Ceylon 1937-44, Governor of Hong Kong 1935-7, G.C.M.G., C.B.E., K.St.J., F.R.A.S., F.R.S.A, by his first wife (m. 1918) Olive Mary (-1943), of the Ceylon Civil Service, dau. of J. R. Innes, C.M.G.

His father was Rev. Andrew Caldecott (1852-1936), of Hardwicke, 10, Tennyson Road, Worthing, Sussex, educ. Merton Coll., Oxon. (B.A. 1876, M.A. 1879), Wells Theological Coll. (1882), rector of West Chiltington, Sussex 1898-, vicar of Eridge Green, Sussex 1891-8, curate of Boxley, Kent 1883-91, who m. 1883 Isobel Mary, dau. of Rev. Stenning Johnson, rector of Eastergate, Sussex.

Rev. A. Caldecott eldest s. of ANOTHER Andrew Caldecott (1828-1894), of Highcroft, Husbands Bosworth, Leics., formerly of Pishobury Park, Sawbridgeworth, Herts., formerly of Woodford Road, Forest Gate, E.7., landowner, merchant (inc. cotton) 'in Manchester trade', J.P., by his wife Eliza (1831-), dau. of William Charley, of Seymour Hill, Dunmurry, County Antrim (and apparently also of Derriaghy, County Antrim), chairman, J. & W. Charley &  Co., linen manufacturers, and a founder of the Northern Banking Co.

The third son of Andrew Caldecott (1828-1894), Leslie Caldecott (1870-1946), of Boxley Abbey, Maidstone, Kent, was a brewer and company director; he married in 1897 Eleanor Mary, dau. of John Locke Stratton, of Turweston House, Turweston, Brackley, Bucks., J.P. [that family treated in BLG 1921], by his wife Mary (1838-1894), dau. of William Willes (1802-1865), of Astrop House, Northants., J.P., D.L., High Sheriff of Northants. 1837 [Willes formerly of Newbold Comyn in BLG 1969] by his wife Sophia (-1896), dau. of William Ralph Cartwright, of Aynhoe, M.P. for Northants. [Cartwright of Aynhoe in BLG 1952]

Leslie Caldecott's sister Ethel Constance (1862-) m. 1883, Edmund Ethelston (1858-1922), of Hinton Hall, Whitchurch, Salop., s. of Robert Peel Ethelston, of Hinton Hall [Ethelston formerly of Hinton Hall BLG 1972]; their sister Mabel Rose (1864-1952) m. 1891, Sir James Walter Turing, 9th Bt, s. of Sir Robert Fraser Turing, 8th Bt; their sons were the 10th and 11th Baronets, dying s.p.; the title was then inherited by a cousin, the 12th Baronet being nephew of the famous Alan Turing.

Andrew Caldecott (1828-1894) eldest s. of Andrew Caldecott (no surprises there at this point, surely...) 'Esq.', apparently at least sometime of London, that being where his son was born. Second son Edwin (1829-1892) was in business with his brother, and at the time of his death was of Upperton Farm House, Upperton, Eastbourne, Sussex.

There were numerous daughters I didn't research further, nor did I follow every branch to the present day, so there may well potentially be a good number of other connections with the families in which this group is interested.