ROWAN-HAMILTON Mrs Denys MBE (Wanda Annette nee WARBURTON) 1930-2022

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 2 April 2022: ROWAN-HAMILTON Wanda Annette, MBE, of Killyleagh, Co Down died peacefully on 30th March 2022, aged 92 years. Much loved widow of Major Ronnie Maxwell (BW; d. 1960) and of Lt Col Denys Rowan Hamilton (BW; d. 2018), mother to David, Linda, Charles (d. 1991), Ronald, Conta, Louisa and Gawn, grandmother and great-grandmother to 29. There will be a private family cremation service on the morning of Monday 11th April, followed by a service of celebration at St John’s The Evangelist, Killyleagh at 14:30 hrs. No flowers. If desired, donations to the Armed Forces family charity SSAFA...

She was d of Lt-Col Rupert Evelyn Law WARBURTON MC 1899-1982 of Baker's Farm, Eversley, Hampshire by his 10 April 1929 m (in Ohio) to Anne Taft INGALLS 1908-76 (a member of the TAFT United States presidential family). She m 1st 1950 reg Q3 Surrey Ronald St George Ralph MAXWELL 1918-60 and had issue. She m 2nd 1961 Lt-Col Denys Archibald MVO 1921-2018 s of Brig Gawain Basil ROWAN HAMILTON MC DSO 1884-1947 scion of that Irish gentry family, and Phyllis Frances 1894- d of Robert Francis Leslie BLACKBURN 1864-1944 (Scots Lord of Session as Lord Blackburn) and Lady Constance Frances BOWES-LYON 1865-1951, d of 13th Earl of STRATHMORE & KINGHORNE and, therefore the late Queen MOTHER's aunt and The QUEEN's great aunt, and had a son and two daus.

[George]

She was also a scion of the gentry family of that name formerly of Garryhinch (see BLGI 1958), also of SNEYD formerly of Keele Hall (see BLG 1969), CRADOCK-HARTOPP baronets of Freathby, co. Leicester, and (like her second husband) of ROWAN-HAMILTON.

Alphonso TAFT (5 Nov. 1810 – 21 May 1891), jurist, diplomat, Attorney General, Secretary of War, U.S.A.,
m. Louise TORREY (1827–1907).
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Charles Phelps TAFT (21 Dec. 1843 – 31 Dec. 1929), lawyer and politician, brother of William Howard TAFT (1857–1930), 27th President of the U.S.A. (1909–13),
m. Anna, dau. of David SINTON, pig-iron industrialist, wealthiest man in Ohio.
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Jane TAFT
m. Albert S. INGALLS, of Cleveland, Ohio, and of New York Central Railroad Company, son of Melville Ezra INGALLS, railroad executive.
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Anne Taft INGALLS (b. 6 Dec. 1908), sister of David Sinton INGALLS, D.S.C., D.F.C., U.S. Navy's only flying ace of W.W.I.,
m. (10 April 1929 at Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio) Lt.-Col. Rupert Evelyn Law WARBURTON (7 June 1899 – 18 March 1982), M.C., of Jakilda, The Green, Frogmore, co. Surrey, formerly of Baker's Farm, Eversley, Hampshire, formerly of The Banks, Frimley Green, Surrey, and Barclays Bank (D.C. and O.), Ltd., Jerusalem.
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Wanda Annette WARBURTON (5 March 1930 – 30 March 2022) m. (1st, 1950) Major Ronald St. George Ralph MAXWELL (18 Oct. 1918 – 17 July 1960), of Baldovan House, by Dundee, co. Forfar; m. (2ndly, 16 Nov. 1961) Lt.-Col. Denys Archibald ROWAN-HAMILTON (1921–2018), M.V.O., D.L., of Killyleagh Castle, High Sheriff of Co. Down, for whom see above.


Sir Edmund CRADOCK-HARTOPP (1749–1833), 1st Baronet, M.P.,
m. Anne, dau. of Joseph HURLOCK (d. 1793), director of the East India Company, by Anne, dau. of Sir John HARTOPP, 4th Baronet.
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Emilia Bunney CRADOCK-HARTOPP (b. 26 May 1783, bapt. 27 June 1783 at Upton Pyne, co. Devon, d. 9 Jan. 1861 at Shenstone Park)
m.  (9 May 1809 at Sutton Coldfield, co. Warwick) Edward GROVE, of Shenstone Park, Shenstone, co. Stafford, son of William GROVE (son of William GROVE (1702–67), M.P. for Coventry 1741–61) by Lucy, dau. of Edward SNEYD, of Lichfield, co. Stafford (of the family formerly of Keele Hall), by Susanna, dau. of Rev. Moses Cook(e), of Sible Hedingham, co. Essex.
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Matilda Jane GROVE (25 Dec. 1819 – 23 Oct. 1861)
m. (1st, 11 Jan. 1848 at St. James's, Westminster, co. Middlesex) (Bartholomew) Eliot George WARBURTON (1810–52), the novelist, who died aboard R.M.S. Amazon; m. (2ndly, 6 Aug. 1857 at St. George's, Hanover Square, co. Middlesex) Henry Salusbury MILMAN (1821 – 22 Dec. 1893), M.A. (Oxon.), barrister-at-law, of 1, Cranley Place, Onslow Square, South Kensington, co. Middlesex, son of Lt.-Gen. Francis Miles MILMAN (son of Sir Francis MILMAN (1746–1821), 1st Baronet, physician to King George III), by Maria Margaretta, dau. of Lt.-Col. Sir Charles Gould MORGAN (1760–1846), 2nd Baronet, M.P., of Tredegar House, Coedkernew, co. Monmouth, and sister of the 1st Baron TREDEGAR.
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Piers Eliot WARBURTON (1850–1927)
m. Winifred Anne (1865–1954), dau. of Charles Askew HODGSON (1832–1901), by Elizabeth Maria, dau. of Michael LAW, by Sarah Anne, dau. of Crofton Vandeleur FITZGERALD by Harriet, dau. of Archibald ROWAN-HAMILTON (1751–1834).
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Lt.-Col. Rupert Evelyn Law WARBURTON (7 June 1899 – 18 March 1982), M.C., for whom see above.

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George, thank you so much for including her TAFT ancestry.  As an American, I can really appreciate this.  The TAFT family is one of the most well known political families in American history.

It should be noted that Willliam Howard TAFT was not only President of the United States, but he also was the 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1921-1930), the only man to ever hold both jobs.

Brooke