DILHORNE, Rt Hon 2nd Viscount 1932-2022
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He was s of 1st Viscount DILHORNE 1905-80 and Lady Mary Lilian LINDSAY d of 27th Earl of CRAWFORD & [10th of] BALCARRES 1871-1940 and Constance Lilian 1874-1947 d of Sir Henry Carstairs PELLY 3rd Bt 1844-77 and gd of 10th Earl of WEMYSS & [7th of] MARCH 1818-1914 etc etc. He m 1st 1955 (div 1981) Gillian b 1936 reg Q3 London d of Col George Cochrane STOCKWELL 1902-93 and Evelyn Dorothy 1909-96 d of Richard HEYWOOD 1868-1950 sometime head of that gentry family of Pentney House and Helen Grace WOOD 1878-1950, and had a son and two daus. He m 2nd 1981 as her 2nd h (her 1st was Colin Gilchrist) Susannah Jane b 1937 reg Q4 London d of Cdr William Canning EYKYN 1901-72 by his 1936 m reg Q2 Sussex to as her 2nd h (she was widow of Mr Grahm) Mary Joyce Lewis 1905-46 d of Rev Frederick Reginald EVANS 1870-1943 by his 1903 m reg Q2 Somerset to Kate Olivia DAVEY 1879-1945. His elder son succeeds him:
Capt [Rt Hon] JAMES EDWARD MANNINGHAM-BULLER [3rd Viscount DILHORNE] (has yet to establish claim) b 20 Aug 1956. He m 1985 Nicola Marion d of Sven MACKIE d 29 July 1986 (Times 31 July) of Ballydugan House, Downpatrick, co Down and Simone _, and has issue living,
SON LIVING
Hon EDWARD JOHN Manningham-Buller b 25 Jan 1990
DAUGHTER LIVING
Hon Camilla Mary b 1992, eng 16 Nov 2021 DT Alistair J. s of late Walter GALLOWAY and Monica _ of Millisle, co Down.
OTHERS IN LINE OF SUCCESSION TO THE TITLE
2. Hon Mervyn Reginald Manningham-Buller b 1962 (bro of the new Viscount) married to a scion of the HARROWBY earls and has two sons by that m:
3. Ludovic Johnnie b 2001 (son of 2)
4. Cosmo James b 2003 (son of 2)
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Sir Francis Buller [son of James Buller of Morval], cr Baronet 1789 (17 Mar 1746-5 Jun 1800); m.5 Dec 1763 Susanna Yarde (bap 24 Jul 1740-21 Jun 1810)
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Sir Francis, ca 1782 BULLER-YARDE, 1800 BULLER-YARDE-BULLER, 2nd Bt. (28 Sep 1767-17 Apr 1833); m.2 Jun 1791 Eliza Lydia Halliday (d.1 Nov 1851); his younger son:
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Sir Edward, 1866 MANNINGHAM-BULLER, of Dilhorne Hall, cr Baronet 1866 (19 Jul 1800-22 Sep 1882); m.1st 12 Aug 1824 Mary Anne Manningham (d.20 Jun 1860); m.2nd 2 Jun 1863 Mrs Georgina Charlotte Bankes, née Nugent (d.7 Dec 1875)
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Edmund Manningham MANNINGHAM-BULLER (1 Jun 1828-14 Feb 1897); m.16 Jan 1874 Lady Anne Coke (11 Dec 1845-23 Jan 1876)
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Sir Mervyn Edward, 3rd Bt. (16 Jan 1876-22 Aug 1956); m.8 Jul 1903 Hon. Lilah Constance Cavendish (d.27 Apr 1944)
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Sir Reginald Edward, 4th Bt., cr 1962 Baron Dilhorne, of Towcester, cr 1964 Viscount Dilhorne, of Greens Norton (1 Aug 1905-1980); m.18 Dec 1930 Lady Mary Lindsay (27 Sep 1910-25 Mar 2004), dau of 27th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres
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John Mervyn, 2nd Viscount Dilhorne (28 Feb 1932-25 Jun 2022)
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He sang solo basso profundo parts in concerts and operas and once issued a self-financed CD of Russian songs
The 2nd Viscount Dilhorne, who has died aged 90, was, variously, a soldier, a keen sportsman, an accountant and a barrister, and he could probably have made a career as a professional opera singer....
John Mervyn Manningham-Buller was born on February 28 1932, one of four children and the only son of Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, Bt, and his wife Lady Mary, née Lindsay, the fourth of six daughters of the 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres. His sister Eliza (now Baroness) Manningham-Buller, would serve as Director General of MI5 from 2002 to 2007.
His father served in the governments of Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home, first as Attorney General and then, after being given a peerage in 1962, as Lord Chancellor.
His mother Mary made her own contribution to the security of the realm during the Second World War by performing secret work for the Government, training carrier pigeons to return to her loft in a small Oxfordshire village. The birds were then dropped by parachute in wicker baskets to agents and resistance fighters in occupied Europe, who used them to communicate with London. One of her pigeons was awarded the PDSA Dickin Medal....
On his father’s death in 1980, he took his seat on the Conservative benches of the House of Lords, where he did his bit serving on scrutiny committees, though as he explained in 1994: “One doesn’t always agree with what the Government is doing, and that is a very good safety valve.”....
In 1955 he married Gillian Stockwell, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. The marriage was dissolved and in 1981 he married, secondly, Professor Susannah Eykyn, a clinical microbiologist, who survives him with the children of his first marriage.
He is succeeded in the viscountcy by his elder son James Manningham-Buller, born in 1956.
Viscount Dilhorne, born February 28 1932, died June 25 2022
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6ft 9in tall former Coldstream Guard turned accountant, lawyer and amateur opera singer known as the ‘singing barrister’
...John Mervyn Manningham-Buller was born in 1932, one of four children to Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, 4th Baronet. His mother, Lady Mary (née Lindsay), was the daughter of the 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres. As the only son he became the heir to his father’s baronetcy and subsequently to the peerage, after his father was elevated to the House of Lords as Lord Dilhorne in 1962 on his promotion from attorney-general to lord chancellor.
When the Conservative Party lost power at the 1964 general election after 13 years in office, his father was elevated again to viscount and became the deputy leader of the Conservatives in the House of Lords. He was named in 1969 as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, a position he held until his death in 1980.
John’s sister Eliza (now Baroness) Manningham-Buller became director general of MI5 in 2002, a post in which she served until 2007. Her role kept up a family connection with the security services. During the Second World War their mother, Mary, had trained carrier pigeons that were then dropped in wicker baskets to agents and resistance movements in Europe.
He grew up in Northamptonshire, for the family seat of Dilhorne Hall in Staffordshire had passed to an heiress ineligible for the baronetcy...
...He is survived by his second wife, Professor Susannah Eykyn, a clinical microbiologist who he married in 1981, and by three children — James, an insurance broker and former soldier, Mervyn, a honey producer, and Minnie (Mary), a doctor — from his first marriage in 1955 to Gillian Stockwell, which was later dissolved.
His son James, a former captain in the Welsh Guards, succeeds in the viscountcy, a role for which he trained by riding pillion as his father toured Europe on his cherished collection of motorcycles, which included a Ducati and a 1955 Vincent Black Prince.
John Manningham-Buller, 2nd Viscount Dilhorne, accountant, barrister and opera singer, was born on February 28, 1932. He died on June 25, 2022, aged 90
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/viscount-dilhorne-obituary-cgb0lwpph