BRISCOE / Simpson engagement

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 3 Feb 2024: Sir John Briscoe, Bt, and Miss C.H. Simpson - The engagement is announced between John Geoffrey James, son of the late Sir John Briscoe, Bt, and of Mrs Christopher Whitley and stepson of Mr Christopher Whitley, of Swardeston, Norfolk, and Charlotte, daughter of Mr and Mrs Roderick Simpson, of Thruxton, Herefordshire.

Sir JOHN GEOFFREY JAMES 6^th Bt b 4 Nov 1994 s of Sir John James BRISCOE 5^th Bt 1951-94 and as her 1^st h Felicity Mary (Mrs Christopher Whitley) b 1960 reg Q2 Wilts d of David Melville WATKINSON 1930-2011 of Gowthorpe Manor, Norfolk by his c1956 m to Rosemary Margaret b Oct 1933 d of Maj John Geoffrey STEWARD 1901-80 sometime head of that gentry family of Gowthorpe Manor and Mary Louise 1901-84 d of Rev Henry Meyrick Elliott [DRAKE-]BRISCOE 1870-1935 sometime head of that gentry family f/o Penley Hall and Louise Mary ROBINSON c1868-1959.

[S R Eglesfield]

The bride-to-be would appear to be Charlotte Henryetta SIMPSON (birth registered Q4 1993 - Kensington and Chelsea, mother's maiden name KEOWN-BOYD), daughter of Roderick Nicholas Priestley SIMPSON (born 20 IV 1960) and his wife (marriage registered September 1987 - Ross, Herefordshire), Henryetta Gillian KEOWN-BOYD (born 1960), of that family of Ballydugan, which, per Burke's Family Index (BFI), last appeared in Burke's Landed Gentry (BLG) in the 1886 edition, which can be viewed online at https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/UOQzwBX7NckC?gbpv=1.

 

Mrs Henryetta Simpson is the eldest child of David Alexander KEOWN-BOYD (27 I 1928 - 14 V 2007) and his wife (married 29 X 1959), Gillian Jean ("Gillie") BARCLAY (born 19 IX 1935), of that landed gentry family, of Higham.

 

David Keown-Boyd was the second son of Sir Alexander William KEOWN-BOYD, KBE, CMG (19 VI 1884 - 26 XII 1954), and was Sir Alexander's elder son by his second wife (married 1921), Joan Mary PARTRIDGE, MBE (24 I 1899 - 8 IX 1974), the youngest daughter of John Croker PARTRIDGE (1851 - 14 IX 1917) and his wife (married 22 IV 1885), Geraldine Harriet Colleton RENNIE (1864 - 1953), whose paternal grandfather was the civil engineer Sir John RENNIE, FRSA (30 VIII 1794 - 3 IX 1874).

 

John Croker Partridge was himself the eldest child of Frederick John PARTRIDGE (21 XI 1821 - 30 XII 1896), of that family, late of Bishop's Wood, Hereford, which, per BFI, last appeared in BLG in the 1921 edition, and his first wife, Henryetta CROKER (1823 - 1886), of that landed gentry family of Ballynagarde, County Limerick. 

 

Sir Alexander Keown-Boyd was himself the eldest son of William KEOWN-BOYD (c.1853/4 - 7 II 1938) and his wife (married 1883), Isabella CAMPBELL (25 III 1857 - 26 IX 1937), and his father was the second son of William KEOWN-BOYD (1816 - 19 I 1877), MP (Conservative) for Downpatrick 1867-74, and his wife (married 1845), Mary ALEXANDER, whose great-grandfather, Robert ALEXANDER (died 27 III 1790) was a brother of the 1st Earl of Caledon.