FRENCH / Wadham-Smith marriage

[Richard R]

From the Times of 30 May 2022: LADY S. M. E. FRENCH AND MR D. B. WADHAM-SMITH The marriage took place on 21st May 2022, at Camborne Registry Office, between Lady SME French and Mr DB Wadham-Smith.

Lady Sarah Mary Essex FRENCH b 1953 d of the 3rd & final Earl of YPRES 1921-88 and his former w Maureen Helena b 1922 reg Q3 London d of Henry John Piers KELLY 1897-1969 of Attleborough, Norfolk by his 1921 m reg Q3 London to Emma Mary 1897-1973 d of Charles Jerome WOOLLETT 1853-1932 by his 1888 m reg Q4 London to Dorothy MACKAY c1858-1917.

A "David B WADHAM-SMITH" of Redruth, Cornwall appears as an elector on 192.com

[S R Eglesfield]

David WADHAM-SMITH (born 1944) would appear at one time to have been a motor racing driver. He is the son of Walter Mervyn WADHAM-SMITH, CBE (1910 - ?), who was an Assistant Solicitor in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and his wife (marriage registered Q1 1942 - Kensington), Frances Dolores D'ALBANI (1912 - ?), a daughter of Arthur James Louis Francis D'ALBANI (2 IV 1856 - 9 X 1928) and his second wife (married 1907), Elizabeth FLETCHER.

Captain and Hon Major Arthur James Louis Francis D'ALBANI was a solicitor in Newmarket, Suffolk. He was the son of Rinaldo Carlo Luigi Ferdinando DI LARA, Count D'Albani, who was naturalised as a British subject on 11 January 1859, and there is some suggestion that he may have been a descendant of the Young Pretender, Prince Charles Edward Stuart (see http://www.newmarketshops.info/No.85_High_Street.html.