The 11th Earl of Coventry, (1934-2002)
Michael Rhodes
holder of the peerage, died at Malaga, Spain, 14 June, 2002, aged 68.
Because of the premature demise of the peer's only son and heir, the
earldom and subsidiary peerage of Viscount Deerhurst now pass to a
distant cousin, Francis Henry Coventry, who is in his 90th year.
George William Coventry was born 25 January, 1934, the fourth child,
but only son of the 10th Earl of Coventry (1900-40), by his wife the
former Hon. Nesta Donne Philipps, eldest daughter of the 1st & last
Baron Kylsant.
The peerage title is derived from the family surname and not the town
of that name, but unusually, the 1st peer, Thomas Coventry, was styled
Earl of Coventry and not Earl Coventry.
Thomas Coventry was raised to the peerage in 1697 as 1st Earl of
Coventry, with limitation in case of failure of his own male issue, to
the sons of Walter Coventry, a cousin.
The second, third and fourth earls all descended from the 1st earl,
but in 1719, with the death of the childless fourth Earl, the peerages
devolved on William, son of the abovementioned Walter Coventry.
George William Coventry was educated at Eton and the Royal Military
College Sandhurst. He inherited the family honours at the age of six,
in May, 1940, when his father was killed in action at Givenchy.
His widowed mother married secondly, in 1953, Maj Terrance Vincent
Fisher-Hoch, of the Royal Artillery.
The 11th Earl was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Grenadier
Guards. He married firstly, 1955 (divorced 1963), Marie Farquhar,
daughter of William Sherman Medart, of St Louis, United States. There
was one son of the marriage, Edward George William Omar Coventry,
styled Viscount Deerhurst, born in 1957, who sadly predeceased his
father.
Lord Coventry married secondly, 1969 (divorced 1975), Ann, daughter of
Frederick William James Cripps, of Bickley, Kent. There were no
children from the union.
He married thirdly, 1980 (divorced 1988), Valerie Anne Birch, and
fourthly, in 1992, Rachel Wynne, daughter of Jack Mason, who survives
him.
There were no more children from succeeding marriages.
Unless I have missed a recent death notice, the Viscountcy of
Deerhurst and Earldom of Coventry now devolve on a first cousin of the
10th Earl, Lt-Cdr Francis Henry Coventry, who was born 27 September,
1912; married 1945, Yolande Lucienne di Benedetto, of Alexandria, has
one daughter, and lives in Switzerland.
The funeral service takes place at the Church of St Peter & St Paul,
Upton upon Severn, Wednesday 26 June, 2002, at 12 noon, followed by
interment at Earls Croome Church.
Michael Rhodes
> The Earl of Coventry, of Earls Crooms Court, Worcester, eleventh
> holder of the peerage, died at Malaga, Spain, 14 June, 2002, aged 68.
Earls Croome, sorry.
Louis Epstein
: The Earl of Coventry, of Earls Crooms Court, Worcester, eleventh
: holder of the peerage, died at Malaga, Spain, 14 June, 2002, aged 68.
: Because of the premature demise of the peer's only son and heir, the
: earldom and subsidiary peerage of Viscount Deerhurst now pass to a
: distant cousin, Francis Henry Coventry, who is in his 90th year.
: George William Coventry was born 25 January, 1934, the fourth child,
: but only son of the 10th Earl of Coventry (1900-40), by his wife the
: former Hon. Nesta Donne Philipps, eldest daughter of the 1st & last
: Baron Kylsant.
That Lord Kylsant being the man who built and lost an empire
including ownership of the White Star Line and Harland & Wolff;
those Philippses including the Viscounts St. Davids and Lords Milford
in other closely related branches(different sons of the 12th Baronet
[created 1621] by his wife,sister of the 5th Baron Wynford).
The 10th Earl's tenure of the peerage was cut short prematurely,
but his grandfather the 9th Earl made it into Ripley's Believe it
or Not...born May 9th 1838,succeeded his own grandfather May 15th
1843,and did not die until March 13th 1930,after close to 87 years
as Earl.
: The peerage title is derived from the family surname and not the town
: of that name, but unusually, the 1st peer, Thomas Coventry, was styled
: Earl of Coventry and not Earl Coventry.
Although it is unusual by current practice,there are no older
surviving Earldoms that are not "of",I believe...the idea of
"Earl [Surname]" may not yet have emerged.
: Thomas Coventry was raised to the peerage in 1697 as 1st Earl of
: Coventry, with limitation in case of failure of his own male issue, to
: the sons of Walter Coventry, a cousin.
: The second, third and fourth earls all descended from the 1st earl,
: but in 1719, with the death of the childless fourth Earl, the peerages
: devolved on William, son of the abovementioned Walter Coventry.
: George William Coventry was educated at Eton and the Royal Military
: College Sandhurst. He inherited the family honours at the age of six,
: in May, 1940, when his father was killed in action at Givenchy.
: His widowed mother married secondly, in 1953, Maj Terrance Vincent
: Fisher-Hoch, of the Royal Artillery.
: The 11th Earl was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Grenadier
: Guards. He married firstly, 1955 (divorced 1963), Marie Farquhar,
: daughter of William Sherman Medart, of St Louis, United States. There
: was one son of the marriage, Edward George William Omar Coventry,
: styled Viscount Deerhurst, born in 1957, who sadly predeceased his
: father.
I recall posting on his death a few years ago,
I believe he was a surfer who lived on a Hawaii
or California beach,and never married.
Viscounts Deerhurst seem to have often died prematurely...
the 8th Earl's son,father of the 9th,lived 1808-1838,
and the 9th Earl's son,father of the 10th,died in 1928,
already in his 60s but before his father.
: Lord Coventry married secondly, 1969 (divorced 1975), Ann, daughter of
: Frederick William James Cripps, of Bickley, Kent. There were no
: children from the union.
Would these Crippses be related to the Barons Parmoor?
Or the town of Bickley to Benjamin Bickley,the Bristol
merchant whose daughter Mary Anne was the mother of the
aforementioned 12th Philipps Baronet?
(she died rather young,at a time when the cousin her
husband would succeed as 11th baronet decades later
had not even been born).
: He married thirdly, 1980 (divorced 1988), Valerie Anne Birch, and
: fourthly, in 1992, Rachel Wynne, daughter of Jack Mason, who survives
: him.
: There were no more children from succeeding marriages.
: Unless I have missed a recent death notice, the Viscountcy of
: Deerhurst and Earldom of Coventry now devolve on a first cousin of the
: 10th Earl, Lt-Cdr Francis Henry Coventry, who was born 27 September,
: 1912; married 1945, Yolande Lucienne di Benedetto, of Alexandria, has
: one daughter, and lives in Switzerland.
And the next person in line,son of the 9th Earl's sixth son while
Francis Coventry is son of his second,is a Canadian,Gerald Coventry
(whose two elder brothers killed in action in WW II would thus join
my Noble War Dead list if he succeeds),whose only son died young
and unmarried years ago.Born 1917,he is unlikely to have another son.
So the title may pass before long to a scion of the second son of
the 7th Earl.
: The funeral service takes place at the Church of St Peter & St Paul,
: Upton upon Severn, Wednesday 26 June, 2002, at 12 noon, followed by
: interment at Earls Croome Church.
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"Louis Epstein" <lep...@PUF.FCC.NET> wrote in message
news:rwoQ8.346948$Oa1.26...@bin8.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com...
> In alt.obituaries Michael Rhodes <michaellawr...@btinternet.com>
wrote:
> : The Earl of Coventry, of Earls Crooms Court, Worcester, eleventh
> : holder of the peerage, died at Malaga, Spain, 14 June, 2002, aged 68.
>
> : Because of the premature demise of the peer's only son and heir, the
> : earldom and subsidiary peerage of Viscount Deerhurst now pass to a
> : distant cousin, Francis Henry Coventry, who is in his 90th year.
>
> : George William Coventry was born 25 January, 1934, the fourth child,
> : but only son of the 10th Earl of Coventry (1900-40), by his wife the
> : former Hon. Nesta Donne Philipps, eldest daughter of the 1st & last
> : Baron Kylsant.
>
> That Lord Kylsant being the man who built and lost an empire
> including ownership of the White Star Line and Harland & Wolff;
> those Philippses including the Viscounts St. Davids and Lords Milford
> in other closely related branches(different sons of the 12th Baronet
> [created 1621] by his wife,sister of the 5th Baron Wynford).
>
Just out of curiosity, how close is the present Viscount St. Davids (Colwyn
Philipps) related to the Earls of Coventry and how close is the present
Viscount St. Davids in line to inherite the title of Earl of Coventry, if at
all ?
Which other titles have the Earls of Coventry ... as many as the Viscounts
St. Davids ? As far as I remember the St. Davids have quite a few, five
altogether I believe and some very ancient one amongst them.
Felix v. B.
Michael Rhodes
(...snip)
There
> : was one son of the marriage, Edward George William Omar Coventry,
> : styled Viscount Deerhurst, born in 1957, who sadly predeceased his
> : father.
>
> I recall posting on his death a few years ago,
> I believe he was a surfer who lived on a Hawaii
> or California beach,and never married.
From the Daily Telegraph death notices, Oct. 15, 1997: *DEERHURST.-The
Viscount Edward Omar (Ted), suddenly on October 4, in Hawaii. Much
loved son of the Earl of Coventry and Mrs Mimi Blankenhorn. Private
cremation. Service for family and friends on Wednesday October 15 at
North Shore, Sunset Beach, Oahu, Hawaii.*
--
Michael
Louis Epstein
: "Louis Epstein" <lep...@PUF.FCC.NET> wrote in message
: news:rwoQ8.346948$Oa1.26...@bin8.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com...
:> In alt.obituaries Michael Rhodes <michaellawr...@btinternet.com>
:> wrote:
:> : The Earl of Coventry, of Earls Crooms Court, Worcester, eleventh
:> : holder of the peerage, died at Malaga, Spain, 14 June, 2002, aged 68.
:>
:> : Because of the premature demise of the peer's only son and heir, the
:> : earldom and subsidiary peerage of Viscount Deerhurst now pass to a
:> : distant cousin, Francis Henry Coventry, who is in his 90th year.
:>
:> : George William Coventry was born 25 January, 1934, the fourth child,
:> : but only son of the 10th Earl of Coventry (1900-40), by his wife the
:> : former Hon. Nesta Donne Philipps, eldest daughter of the 1st & last
:> : Baron Kylsant.
:>
:> That Lord Kylsant being the man who built and lost an empire
:> including ownership of the White Star Line and Harland & Wolff;
:> those Philippses including the Viscounts St. Davids and Lords Milford
:> in other closely related branches(different sons of the 12th Baronet
:> [created 1621] by his wife,sister of the 5th Baron Wynford).
: Just out of curiosity, how close is the present Viscount St. Davids (Colwyn
: Philipps) related to the Earls of Coventry and how close is the present
: Viscount St. Davids in line to inherite the title of Earl of Coventry, if at
: all ?
No...the kinship is a maternal cousinship...not shared with
the newly succeeded or any future Earl of Coventry anyway!
Philipps Baronets
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Lords St. Davids Lord Kylsant Lords Milford
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Lord St. Davids who Hon. Nesta,married late Communist)
inherited ancient 10th Earl of Coventry
baronies from 1st |
Lord's wife 11th Earl,deceased
: Which other titles have the Earls of Coventry ... as many as the Viscounts
: St. Davids ?
The only ones they have are the Earldom of Coventry and Viscounty
of Deerhurst.Their earlier Barony of Coventry of Aylesborough
(created 1628) died with the 4th Earl in 1719,when the special
remainder for the 1697 creations kicked in in favor of a cousin
not descended from the 1st Baron.
The Lords St. Davids have the Viscounty and four baronies.
: As far as I remember the St. Davids have quite a few, five
: altogether I believe and some very ancient one amongst them.
The 1st Viscount married a lady who had the baronies of
Strange of Knokin(created 1299),Hungerford,and de Moleyns
called out of abeyance in her favor while those of Botreaux,
Stanley,and Hastings were called out of abeyance in favor of
her elder sister the Countess of Loudoun.These have passed to
their son and grandson.
The Strange of Knokin title had passed through the 16th century
Earls of Derby,and after it had fallen into abeyance between an
Earl's daughters it was wrongly assumed that it had passed with
the Earldom to his younger brother,and a 1628 clerical error
created the Barony of Strange in an attempt to call up the then
Earl's son to the House of Lords via writ in acceleration.
: Felix v. B.
Shinjinee
*DEERHURST.-The
> Viscount Edward Omar (Ted), suddenly on October 4, in Hawaii. Much
> loved son of the Earl of Coventry and Mrs Mimi Blankenhorn. Private
> cremation. Service for family and friends on Wednesday October 15 at
> North Shore, Sunset Beach, Oahu, Hawaii.*
There was also an obit for the late Viscount Deerhurst, discussing the
unhappy custody dispute. He and Viscount Villiers (father of the
present Earl of Jersey) had their own obits in the Daily Telegraph. I
don't know which other heirs apparent to peerages have had their
obituaries printed.
Shinjinee
Michael Rhodes
> holder of the peerage, died at Malaga, Spain, 14 June, 2002, aged 68.
> Unless I have missed a recent death notice, the Viscountcy of
> Deerhurst and Earldom of Coventry now devolve on a first cousin of the
> 10th Earl, Lt-Cdr Francis Henry Coventry, who was born 27 September,
> 1912; married 1945, Yolande Lucienne di Benedetto, of Alexandria, has
> one daughter, and lives in Switzerland.
Is Francis Coventry a record breaker? Who has been the oldest person
to succeed to a peerage? I think the oldest age at which a man was
raised to the peerage was 94 in the case of Sir William Francis Kyffin
Taylor, GBE, KC, (b. 9 July, 1854) created Baron Maenan in 1948, and
died aged 97, 22 September, 1951.
The 12th Earl of Coventry is weeks away from his 90th birthday.
--
Michael Rhodes
Louis Epstein
The Hon. Frederick Heyworth Cripps,D.S.O.,
was born July 4th 1885
and succeeded to the Barony of Parmoor March 12th 1977
at the age of 91 years 251 days.
Lady Ethel Sydney Keith-Falconer,by marriage Viscountess Stonehaven,
was born September 20th 1874
and succeeded to the Earldom of Kintore May 25th 1966
at the age of 91 years 247 days.
Not sure what the record is,though.