CAMPBELL / Leese engagement

[Richard R]

From the Times of 1 June 2024: MR F. J. M. CAMPBELL AND MISS M. C. LEESE - The engagement is announced between Ferdy, elder son of the late Colonel the Hon Alastair Campbell and Mrs Campbell of Ferne, Wiltshire, and Mimi, eldest daughter of the late Mr Julian Leese and Mrs Nicola Plunket, and stepdaughter of Mr Piers Plunket, of Chilhampton, Wiltshire.

Ferdinand (Ferdy) James Marc b 1994 elder s of Col Hon Alastair James Calthrop CAMPBELL 1952-2021 (s of LP Baron Baron CAMPBELL OF CROY 1921-2005) and Primrose Felicia b 1960 d of William Henry Tugwell PALMER and (Horatia Mary) Felicia LAMB b 1933 (gd of 5th Earl of LONGFORD 1864-1915, gt gd of 7th Earl of JERSEY 1845-1915, 2xgt gd of 2nd Baron LEIGH 1824-1905, 3xgt gd of 2nd Marquess of WESTMINSTER 1795-1869 etc etc).

Tara (?Mimi) Constance b 1995 reg Q3 London d of Julian S LEESE m 1989 reg Q3 London as her 1^st h Nichola Mimi d of John VESTBIRK and _ GRAY

[S R Eglesfield]

The prospective bride's stepfather, Piers Robert Conyngham  PLUNKET (born 27 VI 1959) is a great-great-grandson of the 4th Baron Plunket, Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland.

[S R Eglesfield]

I am not entirely convinced that the prospective  bride, Mimi Leese, and Tara Leese are one and the same person, although the only issue of the marriage of the late Julian S LEESE (1965 - ?) and Nichola Mimi VESTBIRK (born c.1966/7) that I can find on the GRO birth index are Tara and her younger sister, Perdita Isobel Constance LEESE (born 1997). If Mimi and Tara are not the same person, it may, of course, be that Mimi's birth took place abroad.

 

The announcement of the engagement of Mimi Leese's first cousin, Marina C LEESE (born 1985), was noted in Richard's posting of 16 May 2015 at https://groups.google.com/g/peerage-news/c/SFYeiJ-2nBk/m/3r4jxc2BJyIJ. Marina Leese is the daughter of the late Julian Leese's elder brother, Nicholas Sims LEESE (born 1956), by his 1978 marriage to (as her first husband) Alexandra Caroline MUIR (born 5 IX 1959), the youngest daughter of Colonel Thomas Wemyss MUIR (1923 - 2004) and his wife (married 30 XII 1952), Caroline Egeria Malise GRAHAM (born 14 VIII 1929), of the Graham of Esk baronets. Marina Leese has two brothers, James (born 1988) and Hubert (born 1993).

 

Nicholas and Julian Leese were the sons of Douglas Sims LEESE (IV 1927 - 2011) and his wife (married 1951), Jane (or Jean) Primrose HANKS (born XI 1931), who was herself the daughter of Reginald Frederick HANKS (27 IV 1896 - 15 XII 1976), who rose to become the effective head of the Nuffield Organisation, second only to William Richard MORRIS, 1st and last Viscount Nuffield (10 X 1877 - 22 VIII 1963). Mr Hanks was subsequently the chairman of the Western Region Board, later British Rail Western Region, from 1955 to 1960.