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Brand, Baron (UK, 1946 - 1963)

Creation: let.pat. 17 Jul 1946

Extinct: 23 Aug 1963

Family name: Brand

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Arms:

Azure two Swords in saltire point upwards Argent Pommels and Hilts Or between three Escallops one in chief and two in fess Or

Crest:

Out of a Crown Vallery Or a Leopard's Head Argent semée of Escallops and gorged with a Collar Gemel Gules

Supporters:

Dexter: A Wolf Argent;  Sinister: A Bull Gules bezanty armed and unguled Or, each gorged with a Collar Or

Motto:

 Pour bien desirer

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Robert Henry [Brand], 1st Baron Brand, CMG

4th son of Henry Robert [Brand], 2nd Viscount Hampden, by his second wife Susan Henrietta Cavendish, 2nd dau. of Lord George Henry Cavendish MP (by his wife Lady Louisa Lascelles, 4th dau. of Henry [Lascelles], 2nd Earl of Harewood), younger brother of William [Cavendish], 2nd Earl of Burlington later 7th Duke of Devonshire

born

30 Oct 1878

mar.

9 Jun 1917 Phyllis Langhorne (d. 20 Jan 1937), sister of Nancy, Lady Astor, and dau. of Chiswell Dabney Langhorne, of Mirador, Greenwood, Virginia, USA

children

1. Lieut Robert James Brand, served in Second World War in Coldstream Guards and killed on active service in Western Europe (b. 16 Jun 1923; dvp. Mar 1945)

1. Hon Virginia Brand (b. 31 Aug 1918; d. 23 Dec 1995), mar. (1) 9 Dec 1939 John Metcalfe Polk (d. 12 Jan 1948), son of Frank Polk, and (2) 1 Dec 1949 Sir Edward William Spencer Ford GCVO KCB DL, of Canal House, 23 Blomfield Road, London W9, Assistant Private Secretary to King George VI 1945-52 and to Queen Elizabeth II 1952-67 (b. 24 Jul 1910), son of Very Rev Lionel George Bridges Justice Ford, Dean of York, by his wife Mary Catherine Chetwynd-Talbot, only dau. of Rt Rev Edward Stuart Chetwynd-Talbot DD, Bishop of Winchester 1911-23, and had issue by both husbands

2. Hon Dinah Brand (b. 8 Sep 1920), mar. (1) 6 Mar 1943 (div. 1950) Cdr Lyttleton Fox USNR, son of Lyttleton Fox, of New York, USA, and (2) 21 Sep 1953 Christopher Charles Cyprian Bridge, son of Brig Charles Edward Dunscombe Bridge CMG DSO MC, of Elmenteita, Kenya, and has issue by both husbands

died

s.p.m.s. 23 Aug 1963

created

17 Jul 1946 Baron Brand, of Eydon in the County of Northampton

note

Secretary, International Colonial Council of South Africa 1902-09; CMG 1910; Member, Imperial Munitions Board of Canada 1916-18; Vice President, International Financial Conference, Brussels 1920; represented South Africa as Economic Adviser at the International Conference, Genoa 1922; Head of the British Food Mission to Washington 1941-44; British Treasury Representative in the USA 1944-46; Chairman, British Supply Council, Washington 1945-46

On the death of the 1st Baron Brand the Barony of Brand became extinct.

 First written 1 Aug 2006

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