WHITEHEAD, (Robert) Nicholas Bovill (c1935-2020)

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 27 April 2020:WHITEHEAD Robert Nicholas Bovill died peacefully on 17th April after a long illness, aged 84. Much loved husband, father and grandfather. Private cremation. No flowers but donations, if wished, to Alzheimer's Society c/o Dianne MacKinder, Wagon Yard, Marlborough...

He was s of T B WHITEHEAD. He m 1985 Grania Jane (b 1952) d of John Alexander SUTTON (1915-81), scion of the Bts of that name (descended from 4th Bt), and Violet Deirdre (1915-94) d of James Sheringham SHEPHERD, and had two sons and a dau.

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Charles Moore, Marquess of Drogheda (29 Jun 1730-Dublin 22 Dec 1822); m.15 Feb 1766 Lady Anne Seymour-Conway (1 Aug 1744-4 Nov 1784)

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Lady Frances Moore, d.5 Oct 1833; m.17 Nov 1800 Rt Hon John Ormsby Vandeleur (d.28 Nov 1828)

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Alice Vandeleur, d.21 Dec 1884; m.1st 1830 Rev Charles Moore Stewart (5 Mar 1799-Feb 1831); m.2d John Vandeleur

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Rosetta Anne Vandeleur, d.1911; m.4 May 1864 John Lecky Phelps, of Waterpark and Broadford (15 Oct 1815-28 May 1881)

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Rosalie Emily Phelps (Clonlara, Clare 28 Aug 1872-4 Feb 1941); m.9 Oct 1895 Robert Bovill Whitehead (b.Hungary, aged 43 in 1911, d.19 Dec 1945)

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Thomas Bovill Whitehead (Shrivenham, Berks 13 Dec 1903-1989); m.14 Jan 1933 Christine Margaret Dixon (26 Dec 1911-2002)

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Robert Nicholas Bovill Whitehead (London 26 Sep 1935-17 Apr 2020); m.1st 28 Sep 1962 Juliet Margaret Pennington Legh (LG Family); m.2nd 1985 Grania Jane Sutton (b.31 Jan 1952), of the Baronets

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He also had a son by his first marriage.

On Monday, April 27, 2020 at 3:55:27 AM UTC-5, Richard R wrote:

...and had two sons and a dau.

[G. Willis]

Per Mr Theroff's post (and his provision of descent for Nicholas Whitehead's brother Christopher- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/peerage-news/bovill%7Csort:date/peerage-news/w9OKwv-WZ44/dIeRdaiKCgAJ), Robert Bovill Whitehead b. c. 1867-1945 would appear to be son of Robert Whitehead (1823-1905), inventor of self-propelled Naval torpedoes (see https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Whitehead,_Robert_(DNB12) which mentions the third son, Robert Bovill Whitehead; the second son, Sir James Beethom Whitehead, being b. 1858 makes a c. 1867 birth year plausible)

Robert Whitehead s. of James Whitehead (1788-1872), of Mount Pleasant, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancs., owner of a cotton-bleaching business.

EDIT: Robert Bovill Whitehead's dates given as 1867-1946 in the Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists, along with his birthplace at Fiume and the fact that he had a "garden at Piddletrenthide, Dorset". Wikipedia has the engineer Robert Whitehead's son Robert Bovill Whitehead as b. 1877 d. 1946, but it's noted this isn't sourced, and given that his mother would have been 56 at this point this seems more likely to be an error.

This site- https://www.boltonschool.org/flipbooks/Sound%20Of%20Music/files/assets/basic-html/page-10-11.html# - offers a few further generations back from James Whitehead, but needs to be enlarged to be clearly viewed. It also indicates the Robert Bovill Whitehead who married Rosalie Emily Phelps to be the son of the engineer Robert Whitehead, as above.

[G. Willis]

Also, BFI lists Whitehead families of Amberley Court (BLG 1875), Barming House (BLG 1914), and Deighton Grove (BLG 1952); I can't get to my BLG 1952 at the moment, but at least the Amberley Court family appears not to be linked to these Whiteheads.

[Henry W]

My copy of BLG 1952 gives the following for the WHITEHEAD, formerly of Deighton Grove family:

1. Matthias WHITEHEAD of Park House, Selby (died 1848), leaving, with other issue (not listed), a 3rd son:

1.3 George WHITEHEAD of Deighton Grove (1833 - 1904) leaving 6 sons (below) & 4 daus

1.3.1 James Andus, b 1864 dvp

1.3.2 George Talbot (1870 - 1950), 2 sons, 2 dau

1.3.3 Ernest Threlfall (b 1873). No issue listed

1.3.4 Vice Admiral Frederic Aubrey, CB (b 1874), 2 sons, 2 dau. See http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Frederic_Aubrey_Whitehead

1.3.5 Lionel Digby (1877 - 1938) 2 sons, 2 dau

1.3.6 Alan Octavius (b 1882), 1 dau.

I don't see any obvious connection here, but can provide more details from BLG 1952 if its helpful

[G. Willis]

Thanks for looking into that, Henry- I think you're quite right, there's no link as far as I can see (unless perhaps one looked back through records etc)! I had a bit of a dig re: Barming House, which seems to be at Maidstone, Kent, and there doesn't seem to be any obvious connection there either, the notable figure in that family seeming to be Capt. Charles Whitehead (1834-1912), late West Kent Queen's Own Yeomanry, F.L.S., F.S.A., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., J.P. and D.L., who m. Catherine Laetitia, dau. of Richard Elliston Phillips Balston, of Thornhills, Maidstone, and had issue [some details here- http://tonbridgeatwar.daisy.websds.net/Authenticated/ViewDets.aspx?RecID=405&TableName=ta_factfile ]

Of course, the details in the tree on the Bolton School site are rather limited with regard to the earlier generations, so it's not impossible there's some more distant connection I suppose!

EDIT: my eye caught "Sir" in another source as I was typing, which on closer examination doesn't seem to apply to Charles Whitehead; additionally, Walford's County Families 1886 gives Charles as "son of the late John Whitehead, Esq., of Barnjet, Kent (who d. 1879) by his 2nd wife Mary, who d. 1884, eldest dau. of the late Thomas Milles, Esq.". "Barnjet" allowed for a search in BLG 1898 (from which came the above details of Charles Whitehead), giving the following lineage down to John Whitehead (as above), which, being I recognise only tangentially related to the topic of this thread, I include more for completeness's sake than relevance:

"The Rev. Charles Whitehead, M.A., formerly Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, Vicar of East Grinstead, m. 1754, and d. 1792, leaving issue:

1. Charles, of whom presently.

2. Gervase (Rev.), B.D., Fellow of Jesus Coll., Camb., Vicar of All Saints, Cambridge, and of Seal, Kent, Chaplain to the Duke of Dorset, b. 1763, d. 1838.

The elder son,

Charles Whitehead, of Ash Place, Kent; m. 1791, Mary Miller, and d. 1833, leaving by her (who d. 1820) a son,

John Whitehead, of Barnjet, Maidstone; m. 1833, Mary, dau. of Thomas Milles, of Buston, Kent"