The 7th Earl Cowley 1934-2016

[Michael Rhodes]

_. The 7th Earl Cowley (Peerage of the UK, cr 1857), died 17 June, 2016. He was 81.

Garret Graham Wellesley was born 30 July, 1934, a son of the 4th Earl Cowley (1890-1962), by his second wife Mrs Mary Elsie May Himes, of San Francisco, California, United States. The family descend from the Wellesley Earls of Mornington ~ as do the Dukes of Wellington.

He succeeded to the family honours following the sudden death of his nephew, the 6th Earl, who collapsed and died on the squash court, 13 Dec, 1975. The peerage was in fact in abeyance for several months until the birth of the 6th Earl's posthumous daughter, Lady Caroline Wellesley, who was born 11 May, 1976.

Lord Cowley was four times married. Firstly in 1960 (div 1966) to Elizabeth Suzanne Lennon, dau of Haynes Lennon, of South Carolina, USA; secondly, 1968 (div 1981) to Isabelle O'Bready, of Sherbrooke, Quebec; 3rdly, 1981 (deceased) to Paige Deming, dau of Joseph Grove Deming, of Reno, Nevada, USA; fourthly, in 2012, to Carola Marion, widow of Capt Robin Andrew Stormonth Darling, scion of that landed family, & daughter of Sir Robert Erskine-Hill, 2nd Baronet.

Earl Cowley is survived by his fourth countess, and by a son and daughter from his first marriage, and a daughter from the third marriage.

A Memorial Requiem Mass takes place at the Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer & St Thomas More, Cheyne Row, London SW3, on Thurs 7 July.

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[Netty]

 Who is the daughter from the third marriage?

Op woensdag 22 juni 2016 09:13:19 UTC+2 schreef Michael Rhodes:

[Harry Merritt]

My copy of Burke's Peerage (106th edition, 1999) says a daughter "by either 2nd or 3rd marriage" Sarah Paige, who m. Aug. 10, 1996 -- Frank Mosier, son of Frank Mosier, Saratoga Springs, New York. Cracroft's Peerage, online, says Sarah Paige is daughter of 3rd marriage, did not see a date of birth. Judging from her name, Sarah Paige would be a daughter of 3rd marriage. (Paige Deming Countess Cowley was daughter of Joseph & Sarah Paige Deming.) The earls Cowley have a very tangled marital history, I must say.

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[Dennis Cunniff]

On Jun 22, 2016, at 2:50 PM, Harry Merritt <harryw...@gmail.com> wrote:

My copy of Burke's Peerage (106th edition, 1999) says a daughter "by either 2nd or 3rd marriage" Sarah Paige, who m. Aug. 10, 1996 -- Frank Mosier, son of Frank Mosier, Saratoga Springs, New York. Cracroft's Peerage, online, says Sarah Paige is daughter of 3rd marriage, did not see a date of birth. Judging from her name, Sarah Paige would be a daughter of 3rd marriage. (Paige Deming Countess Cowley was daughter of Joseph & Sarah Paige Deming.) The earls Cowley have a very tangled marital history, I must say.

FWIW, Burke's 107th edition omits any mention of her, and gives only the two children from the 1st marriage.

This interchange <http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.talk.royalty/2014-10/msg00021.html> includes a message from someone purporting to be Sarah Mosier, saying she is in fact an adopted step-daughter of Earl Cowley, her mother being Paige Deming.

Again, FWIW. 

[marquess]

What is the current order of succession to the earldom of Cowley? My Debretts 2011 says that in the collaterals there is a Welsley born in 1970 who has a child called Jay Fabian born in 2001 is that a boy or a girl and has this Welsely or his brother had any other issue? If not then there are only 3 other males in remainder to the earldom excluding the Welsely born in 70 and his brother.

[Richard R]

I am going to address the point about Sarah Paige and set out what I think is the current line of succession to the earldom and barony in my post about the death of the 7th Earl Cowley: 

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/peerage-news/aPjuNagNlCY