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Ancaster, Earl of (UK, 1892 - 1983)

Creation: let.pat. 22 Aug 1892

Extinct: 29 Mar 1983

Family name: Heathcote later Heathcote-Willoughby-Drummond

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Arms:

Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Or fretty Azure (Willoughby);  2nd, Or three Bars wavy Gules (Drummond);  3rd, Ermine three Pomeis each charged with a Cross Or (Heathcote)

Crests:

1st:  A Saracen's Head affrontée couped at the shoulders proper ducally crowned Or (Willoughby);  2nd:  On a Ducal Coronet Or a Sleuth Hound Argent collared and leashed Gules (Drummond);  3rd:  On a Mural Crown Azure a Pomeis as in the arms between two Wings displayed Ermine (Heathcote)

Supporters:

Dexter: A Friar vested in russet proper with Staff and Rosary Or;  Sinister: A Savage wreathed round the temples and loins with Oak proper

Motto:

Loyauté Me Oblige

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Gilbert Henry [Heathcote later Heathcote-Willoughby-Drummond], 2nd Baron Aveland later 25th Baron Willoughby de Eresby later 1st Earl of Ancaster, PC

1st son and heir son and heir of Gilbert John [Heathcote], 1st Baron Aveland, by his wife Hon Clementina Elizabeth Drummond-Willoughby, suo jure Baroness Willoughby de Eresby

born

1 Oct 1830

mar.

14 Jul 1863 Lady Evelyn Elizabeth Gordon (b. 12 Mar 1846; d. 16 Mar 1921), 2nd dau. of Charles [Gordon], 10th Marquess of Huntly, by his second wife Maria Antoinetta Pegus, only surv. dau. of Rev William Peter Pegus

children

1. Hon Gilbert Heathcote-Willoughby-Drummond, later 2nd Earl of Ancaster

2. Lt Col Hon Charles Strathavon Heathcote-Willoughby-Drummond CB CMG (b. 18 May 1870; d. 15 Dec 1949), mar. 7 Jan 1903 Lady Muriel Agnes Erskine (b. 15 Apr 1879; d. 23 Oct 1967), 1st dau. of Shipley Gordon Stuart [Erskine], 14th Earl of Buchan, and had issue

3. Lt Col Hon Claud Heathcote-Willoughby-Drummond. Member of Parliament for Stamford 1910-18 and for Rutland and Stamford 1919-22 (b. 15 Oct 1872; dsp. 24 Feb 1950), mar. 17 Jun 1905 Lady Florence Frankland-Russell-Astley (widow of Bertram Frankland-Russell-Astley, of Chequers Court, co. Buckingham; d. 28 Jan 1946), 5th dau. of George Henry [Conyngham], 3rd Marquess Conyngham

4. Lt Cdr Hon Peter Robert Heathcote-Willoughby-Drummond RN (b. 2 Nov 1885; d. 1 Nov 1914), mar. 4 Jun 1913 Pamela May Ross (mar. (2) 31 Jul 1917 Capt William Duncan Phipps CVO RN), 1st dau. of Brig Gen Sir Walter Charteris Ross KBE CB CMG, of Cromarty, Ross-shire, and had issue

1. Lady Evelyn Clementina Heathcote-Willoughby-Drummond (b. 26 Aug 1864; d. 15 Jan 1924), mar. 3 Nov 1888 Maj Gen Sir Henry Peter Ewart, 1st Bt., GCVO KCB (d. 16 Apr 1928), and had issue

2. Lady Margaret Mary Heathcote-Willoughby-Drummond (b. 23 Mar 1866; d. 15 Nov 1956), mar. 5 Jun 1902 Gideon Macpherson Rutherford (d. 31 Jul 1907), and had issue

died

24 Dec 1910

created

22 Aug 1892 Earl of Ancaster

suc. by

son

note

Member of Parliament for Boston 1852-56 and for Rutland 1856-57; suc. his father 6 Sep 1867 as 2nd Baron Aveland and his mother 13 Nov 1888 as 25th Baron Willoughby de Eresby; Deputy Lord Great Chamberlain for his mother and his aunt (Lady Carrington) 1871-1901; Privy Councillor 1880

Gilbert [Heathcote-Willoughby-Drummond], 2nd Earl of Ancaster, GCVO

born

20 Jul 1867

mar.

6 Dec 1905 Eloise Laurence Breese OBE (d. 12 Dec 1953), 1st dau. of William Lawrence Breese, of New York, USA, by his wife ..... Higgins, dau. of H V Higgins

children

1. Hon (Gilbert) James Heathcote-Willoughby-Drummond, later 27th Baron Willoughby de Eresby later 3rd Earl of Ancaster

2. Hon John Heathcote-Willoughby-Drummond, of Brooklyn House, Kingsclere, co. Hampshire (b. 14 Mar 1914; d. unm. 1 Mar 1970)

1. Lady Catherine Mary Clementina Heathcote-Willoughby-Drummond (b. 25 Sep 1906; d. 19 Feb 1996), mar. (1) 20 Feb 1935 (div. 1947; ka. 1948) John St Maur Ramsden, 1st son and heir ap. of Sir John Frescheville Ramsden, 6th Bt., and (2) 8 Apr 1948 Charles Wedderburn Hume (d. 1947), 2nd son of Thomas Levi Hume, of Washington DC, USA, and had issue by her first husband:

1a. Carola Eloise Ramsden (b. 26 Oct 1938; d. 2 Aug 2009), mar. (1) 5 Apr 1961 George Filmore Miller III, son of George Filmore, Jr, of Princeton, Massachusetts, USA, and had issue:

1b. Capt Sebastian St Maur Miller, coheir presumptive to the Barony of Willoughby de Eresby (b. 7 Feb 1965), mar. 1991 Emma Caroline Harries, dau. of John Harries, of Esher, co. Surrey

Mrs Carola Eloise Miller mar. (2) 4 Jul 1974 Robert Ernest James Philippi, of The Mains of Drummond, Crieff, co. Perth, son of Col George Philippi, of Madrid, Spain, and had further issue:

2b. James Jeremy George Philippi (b. 10 Jun 1975)

2. Lady Priscilla Heathcote-Willoughby-Drummond (b. 29 Oct 1909; d. Dec 2002), mar. 26 Apr 1939 Col Sir John Renton Aird, 3rd Bt., and has issue:

1a. Sir (George) John Aird, 4th Bt., coheir presumptive to the Barony of Willoughby de Eresby (b. 30 Jan 1940), mar. 31 Aug 1968 Margaret Elizabeth Muir, 2nd dau. of Sir John Harling Muir, 3rd Bt., by his wife Elizabeth Mary Dundas, 1st dau. of Frederick James Dundas, and has issue:

1b. James John Aird (b. 12 Jun 1978)

1b. Rebecca Aird (b. 22 Jul 1970)

2b. Belinda Elizabeth Aird (b. 14 May 1972)

1a. Susan Priscilla Aird (b. 26 Aug 1942)

2a. Petra Daphne Aird (b. 24 Sep 1944), mar. 1 May 1965 (div. 1989) (Leopold) David [Verney], 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke, and has issue:

1b. Hon Rupert Greville Verney (b. 4 Mar 1966)

2b. Hon John Mark Verney (b. 9 Oct 1967)

3b. Hon Edmund Peyto Verney (b. 1973)

1b. Hon ..... Verney (b. and d. 6 Dec 1971)

3a. Amanda Alecia Aird (b. 27 Aug 1946)

died

19 Sep 1951

suc. by

son

note

Member of Parliament for Horncastle 1894-1910; Lord Great Chamberlain 1937-50; GCVO 1937

(Gilbert) James [Heathcote-Willoughby-Drummond], 27th Baron Willoughby de Eresby later 3rd Earl of Ancaster

born

8 Dec 1907

mar.

27 Jul 1933 Hon Nancy Phyllis Louise Astor (b. 22 Mar 1909; d. 2 Mar 1975), only dau. of Waldorf [Astor], 2nd Viscount Astor, by his wife Nancy Witcher Shaw CH MP, former wife of Robert Gould Shaw II and 3rd dau. of Col Chiswell Dabney Langhorne, of Mirador, Greenwood, Virginia, USA

children

1. Hon Timothy Gilbert Heathcote-Willoughby-Drummond, styled Lord Willoughby de Eresby (b. 19 Mar 1936; dvp. 19 Aug 1963)

1. Lady (Nancy) Jane Marie Heathcote-Willoughby-Drummond, later suo jure Baroness Willoughby de Eresby

died

29 Mar 1983

note

Member of Parliament for Rutland and Stamford 1933-50; Lord Great Chamberlain 1950-52 in succession to his father; Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Lincolnshire 1950-75; sum. v.p. to the House of Lords 16 Jan 1951 in his father's Barony of Willoughby de Eresby

On his death the Earldom of Ancaster and the Barony of Aveland became extinct and his only daughter succeeded him in the Barony of Willoughby de Eresby.

 Last updated 18 Aug 2009

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