BAYLISS, Hon Mrs Mary CVO (Mary Selina nee BRIDGEMAN) 1940-2019

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 4 April 2019: BAYLISS Mary Selina (née Bridgeman), peacefully but  unexpectedly on Saturday March 30th. Very much loved and loving wife, mother, mother-in-law and grandmother. Family funeral. Thanksgiving service at Reading Minster, details to follow.

She was d of 2nd Viscount BRIDGEMAN (1896-1982) and Hon Mary Kathleen LANE-FOX (1905-81, d of 1st & last Baron BINGLEY (1870-1947) by his w, d of 2nd Viscount HALIFAX and gd of 11th Earl of DEVON and gt gd of 1st Earl FORTESCUE etc etc). She m 1962 Jeremy David Bagot (b 1937 reg Q2 Shropshire) s of Edmund BAYLISS (1903-?) of Guernsey by his 1931 m (reg Q3 Worcestershire) to Marjorie Clare THOMPSON (1904-83), and had three sons.

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph and Times of 27 April 2019: BAYLISS Mary Selina, Former Lord Lieutenant Of Berkshire, a service of Thanksgiving will be held at Reading Minister of St Mary the Virgin, Chain Street, Reading... at 2.30pm, on 7th June 2019.

[colinp]

Obituary in Daily Telegraph 1 May 2019 - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/04/30/mary-bayliss-magistrate-served-lord-lieutenant-berkshire-obituary/

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Mary Bayliss, who has died aged 79, was Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire from 2008 to 2015, and a magistrate in Reading for 32 years.

The youngest of three daughters of 2nd Viscount Bridgeman, KBE, CB, DSO, MC, and his wife, Mary Lane Fox, Mary Selina Bridgeman was born on January 14 1940 at Bramham Park, West Yorkshire, her mother’s family’s 18th century Palladian manor, and brought up at Leigh Manor, Minsterley, Shropshire, owned by the Bridgemans.

Mary was educated at Francis Holland School and St Mary’s, Wantage, before learning shorthand, typing and law at the local tech. After a stint at Salop County Council, she worked as her father’s secretary. Presently she escaped to London, taking on various jobs, including working with General Sir Oliver Leese on his cactus stand at the Chelsea Flower Show. She returned home at weekends to be organist at Hope Church.

Mary was brought out with a small dance at Leigh Manor in 1959 and married Jeremy Bayliss, a chartered surveyor, in 1962. They moved to Swallowfield on the Berkshire/Hampshire border, and had three sons.

On retirement in 2015, at 75, she was appointed CVO and a Member of the Order of St Frideswide, founded in 2001 by the Bishop of Oxford for lay people who had given exceptional service to the Church.

Her last years were saddened by the death after a long illness of her son, Richard, shortly after she retired in 2015. She is survived by her husband and two other sons.

On Thursday, 4 April 2019 10:19:31 UTC+1, Richard R wrote: