Christopher Edward Steel

Anthony married Anne Katherine Mott-Radclyffe [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Title Of Nobility: Sir GCMG MVO

Christopher married Catherine Clive. Catherine (daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir George Sidney Clive, GCVO KCB CMG DSO DL JP and Madeline Lawrence Buxton) was born in 1907 in 25 Norfolk Cresent Abbey, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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late Rifle Brigade, RARO of Barningham Hall, Norfolk. Son of Lt. Col. Charles Edwrad Radclyffe, DSO, Rifle Brigade (see Burke's 'Landed Gentry'). Educated at Eton, Balliol College, Oxford.

Married 2ndly 26 September 1956 Stella Constance, eldest daughter of Lionel George Evenson Harisson of Caynham, Ludlow, Salop, see Burke's 'Landed Gentry' and Curtiss Baronet, 'Burke's Peerage').

D.L. 1976. Hon. Attache Diplomatic Service, Athens and Rome, 1936-38. Member Military Mission to Greece, 1940-41; served as Liaison Officer in Syria, 1941 and with Rifle Brigade in Middle East and Italy, 1943-44. M.P. (Conservative) Windsor 1942-1970; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Secretary of State for India (Rt. Hon. L. S. Amery), Dec. 1944-May 1945; Junior Lord of the Treasury, May-July 1945; Conservative Whip Aug. 1945- February 1946; Chairman Conservative Party. Foreign Affairs Committee 1951-59; Member Plowden Committee on Overseas Representational Services 1963-64.

A Governor of Gresham's School, Holt; Member Historic Buildings Council for England, 1962-70; President Country Landowners Association (Norfolk Branch since 1972; Norfolk C.C.C., 1972-74. High Sheriff of Norfolk 1974. Commander Order of Phoenix (Greece). Publications: Foreign Body in the Eye (a memoir of the Foreign Service), 1975.

Recreations: cricket and shooting.

Clubs: Turf, Bucks, Pratt's, M.C.C.

Charled married Diana Anstice Williamina Gibbs on 15 Jun 1940. Diana (daughter of Lieut. Colonel William Gibbs, CVO and Ruby Mabel Brassey) was born on 14 Apr 1914 in 41 Eaton Place, Westminster, London; died on 15 Jun 1955. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 18 May 1914, St Paul's, Westminster, London

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1st daughter. Baptised 18 May 1914 at St. Paul's Knightsbridge, Westminster.

Oil portrait by Melton Fisher, R.A. in possession of her daughter Theresa Caroline Mott-Radclyffe; portrait by Richard Marientrau (1952) in possession of her husband Major Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Title Of Nobility: Colonel CMG CIE
• Residence: 1873, Bengal, India

Richard married Adine Isabel Adams. Adine was born in 1877 in New Zealand; died on 15 Dec 1923 in Wateringbury, Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lieutenant-General Sir George Sidney Clive, GCVO KCB CMG DSO DL JP (16 July 1874 – 7 October 1959) was a British Army officer who subsequently became Military Secretary.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Clive

George married Madeline Lawrence Buxton on 26 Mar 1901 in Chelsea, London. Madeline was born in 1876 in 15 Eaton Place Gdns, London; died in 1957 in Marylebone, Middlesex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 21 Dec 1877, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1881, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset

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7th Hussars. 3rd son of Antony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Baptised at St. Michael's, Paddington. Educated at Eton College 1891-6; matric. Oxford (Magdalen College) 1896; 3rd class law and BA 1899.

2nd Lieut. 7th Hussars, February, and Lieut., November 1900. In the South African (Boer) War, served 1901-2 with 7th Hussars in operations in Cape Colony, Orange River Colony and Transvaal; awarded Queen's Medal, with five clasps. Captain, Ap. 1907. Seconded to be Brigade Major of Eastern Mounted Brigade (Territorial) March 1913-March 1916. In the Great War, served in Gallipoli (Anzac) October-December 1915: in Egypt December 1915-October 1916 (Staff Officer, Western Defence Force; Brigade Major, Coastal Area): in France, October-December 1917, as Major, 12th Battalion Yorkshire Regt.; in Mesopotamia Ap. 1918-Ap. 1919 with 7th Hussars and in command of them from September 1918. Wounded at Shergat, nr. Mosul, 28 October 1918. Awarded 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) War Medal: Croix de Guerre (avec palme): mentioned twice in despatches (1916 and 1919). Lieut.-Colonel 1919, and in the Regular Army Reserve of Officers from 1920. One of the Exons of the King's Bodyguard of Yeomen of the Guard from 1926.

Portrait: In Yeoman of the Guard's Uniform last in possn. of his wife Ruby Mable Brassey.

Birth:
16 Hyde Park Gardens

Died:
Severalls

William married Ruby Mabel Brassey on 22 Jul 1911 in Knightsbridge, London. Ruby (daughter of Henry Arthur Brassey and Anna Harriet Stevenson) was born on 10 Oct 1887 in Preston Hall, Kent; died on 30 Jun 1981. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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7th and youngest daughter of Henry Arthur Brassey of Preston Hall, Kent, MP, by Anna Harriet, daughter of Major George Robert Stevenson of Tongswood, Hawkhurst, Kent. Baptised at Aylesford.