Peter John Meynell

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• Residence: 1984, Framlingham, Suffolk

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Son of Lt. Col. Francis Hugo Lindley Meynell, DSO (see E. Halifax colls.). Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.

Ordained 21 Sep 1941 at St Albans Abbey. Retired 1979. Canon Theologian Emeritus of Coventry Cathedral. Director of Ordination Training for Coventry Diocese. Held livings at St. Albans; Folkington, Sussex; Marlesford, Suffolk; Cogenloe, Northans; Leamington-Hastings, Warwicks.



Obituary Yorkshire Post 29 April 2006:

A MEMBER of the family which owned the Temple Newsam estate in Leeds has died at the age of 92 Canon Mark Meynell, nephew of Emily Meynell Ingram of Temple Newsam, died 11 days after the death of his wife of 65 years, Diana. Mark Meynell was born on February 19, 1914, third son of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Hugo Lindley Meynell and the former Lady Dorothy Legge, OBE, daughter of the 6th Earl of Dartmouth. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he was ordained in 1941, serving as Canon Theologian of Coventry Cathedral from 1973 to 1978. Retiring in 1979, he spent his latter years at Framlingham, Suffolk. He married Diana Ponsonby in 1940 and they had three sons and a daughter. The Temple Newsam estate was sold by the family to Leeds City Council in 1922.

Mark married Diana Mary Ponsonby on 4 Jul 1940 in Wootton, Oxfordshire. Diana (daughter of Sir Charles Edward Ponsonby, TD and The Hon. Winifred Marian Gibbs, JP) was born on 8 Apr 1916 in 9 Portman Square, St. Marylebone, London; died on 25 Mar 2006 in Framlingham, Suffolk. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 5 May 1916, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire

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2nd daughter. Baptised 5 May 1916 at Hunsdon aforesaid. Educated Southover Manor School, Lewes.

3 sons, 1 daughter. Christopher Mark, Merchant Banker, born 1941, married Elizabeth Gretton, 2 sons; Andrew Francis Parish Priest, born 1943, married Caroline Hobson, 1 son, 1 daughter; Peter John, Biochemist, born 1947, married Judith Marten, 1 son, 1 daughter; Anna Mary Barbara, born 1960, a Photographer for the Courtauld Institute.

Died:
Death Age (est): 90

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• Residence: Hoar Cross Hall, Lichfield, Staffordshire
• Baptism: 6 May 1880, St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, London

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Colonel in the Royal Field Artillery, awarded DSO, MiD, wounded at Arras.

Francis married Dorothy Legge on 3 Oct 1907 in St George Hanover Square, London. Dorothy (daughter of William Heneage Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth and Mary Coke, Countess of Dartmouth) was born on 24 Jun 1883 in Marylebone, Middlesex; died on 28 Jul 1974 in Braintree, Essex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Arrival: 1952, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Age: 73

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1st Baronet (created 1956). 1st son of Hon. Edwin Charles William Ponsonby (born 1851), for whom see 'The Ponsonby Family', by Sir John Ponsonby (1929), and de Mauley in 'Burke's Peerage', by his 1st wife Emily Dora (died 1897), daughter of Octavius E. Coope, MP. Born in Grosvenor Street, Westminster. Educated at Eton College 1893-8, matric: Oxford (Balliol College), 1898, BA 1901.

Admitted a solicitor 1904. Joined West Kent (Queen's Own) Yeomanry 1910 - subsequently The 97th (Kent Yeo.) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery Territorial Army - Lieut. April 1914; Capt. 1917; Major 1920; Lieut-Col. 1930. Served in the Great War in Gallipoli and Egypt with West Kent (Q.O.) Yeomanry which became, January 1917-June 1919, the 10th (Yeo.) Battalion of The Buffs, with whom he served in Palestine and France. Temporary Lieut-Col. 1919 (?Jan). Croix de Guerre (avec palme), May, 1918. British War Medal; Allies' (Victory) Medal. Territorial Decoration 1925. Managing Director of British Central Africa, Ld., 1922-32; Director of The Uganda Co., Ld.; On the Council of the Joint East African Board, the Africa Society, etc.; Dep. Chairman of the East African section of London Chamber of Commerce. Hon. Member of the House Committee of the London Hospital. In Masonry, Past Provincial Guard Swordbearer of Oxfordshire.

Lieut-Col. and Brevet Col. 97th (Kent Yeo.) Field Brig. R.A. 1930-36, and Hon. Col. 297th (Kent Yeo.) Light Anti-Aircraft Regt. RA 1942-9; Deputy Leiutenant for Oxon; appointed Parliamentary Private Sec. to Sec. of State for War 1940, and to Sec. of State for Foreign Affairs 1941. Chairman of Council of Royal Commonwealth Society 1954-57; President of Royal African Society 1963-70; MP for Sevenoaks Division of Kent (C) July 1935-February 1950. Author of West Kent (QO) 'Yeomanry 1914-19; Woodstock, the History of an Oxfordshire Parish, 1946; 'Wootton, The Anatomy of an Oxfordshire Village, 1968'; and 'Ponsonby Remembers'. Awarded medal of Royal Society of Arts for a paper on Nyasaland, 1914.

Charles married The Hon. Winifred Marian Gibbs, JP on 23 Jul 1912 in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire. Winifred (daughter of The Hon. Herbert Cokayne Gibbs, 1st Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon and Anna Maria Durant, Lady Hunsdon) was born on 29 Mar 1886 in 34 York Terrace, St Marylebone, Middlesex; died on 11 Mar 1984 in Garrett's House, Woodstock; was buried in Wootton, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 8 May 1886, Aldenham, Hertfordshire; Parish Church
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 25; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter

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1st daughter of Herbert Cokayne (Gibbs) Lord Hunsdon. Baptised 8 may 1886 at Aldenham.

Justice of the Peace, 1942-51. A director of Southover Manor School, Lewes. She and her husband lived from 1925-1939 at Cobbe Place, Beddingham, Sussex, and from 1940-1976 at Woodleys, Woodstock, Oxon.

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• Residence: Hoar Cross Hall, Lichfield, Staffordshire

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Changed his name from Wood to Meynell on 8 February 1905
He was High Sheriff of Staffordshire, 1910.

Frederick married Mary Susan Felicia Lindsay on 9 May 1878 in St Paul’s, Knightsbridge, London. Mary was born in 1852 in France; died on 27 Nov 1937 in Cuckfield, Sussex; was buried on 30 Nov 1937 in Hoar Cross, Staffordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William Heneage Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth GCVO KCB VD TD JP (6 May 1851 – 11 March 1936), styled Viscount Lewisham between 1853 and 1891, was a British peer and Conservative politician. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household between 1885 and 1886 and again between 1886 and 1891.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Legge,_6th_Earl_of_Dartmouth

William married Mary Coke, Countess of Dartmouth on 18 Dec 1879 in Holkham, Norfolk. Mary was born on 18 Dec 1849 in Holkham Hall, Norfolk; died on 28 Dec 1929 in St George Hanover Square, London; was buried on 2 Jan 1930 in Patshull, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edwin married Emily Dora Coope. Emily died on 28 Jan 1976. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Departure: Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Residence: Shenley, Hertfordshire
• Baptism: 23 Jun 1854, St John's, Hampstead
• Residence: 1861, St Marylebone, London
• Residence: 1871, Hampshire
• Residence: 1891, London
• Residence: 1901, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 56; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Arrival: 17 Dec 1921, Southampton, Hampshire

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4th son of Henry Hucks (Gibbs) Lord Aldenham, of Briggens, Herts. Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon (created 1923). born at Frognall in Hampstead, London and baptised 23 June 1854 at St. John's Hampstead. Educated at Winchester College, 1868-71. Matric. Cambridge (Trinity College) 1873; B.A. 1877, M.A. 1884. Died 22 May 1935 at Briggens and was buried 25 May 1935 at St. Dunstan's, Hunsdon.

After a course of training (1877-9) in the offices of Wallace Bros. London; Ventura Marco del Pont, Paris; Gibbs Bright & Co., Liverpool; and Henry Bath & Son, Swansea; he joined Antony Gibbs & Sons 1879; was with their Chilean Branch, Gibbs & Co., 1880-1, and a manager thereof 1881: a manager of the London firm 1881 and a partner thereof from 1882. Original Chairman of the Alianza (Nitrate) Co. Ld., 1895-1928, and of the Pan de Azucar Nitrate Co., Ld., 1901-26; Director of the Rio de Janeiro City Improvements Co. Ld. from 1884 and Chairman from 1905: Director of the Australian Mutual Provdent Soc. from 1908: and sometime Director of other public companies. Chairman of the City of London Conservative Association Sep. 1912 to 1932. On the Public Works Loan Board from July 1884 (dep. Chairman 1908-21, Chairman from 1921). Justice of the Peace for Herts, from 1916. High Sheriff of Herts. for 1913. He was a member of the Deputation sent by the British Government to Russia in the winter of 1912-13 to return the visit of the Duma to England. In the Great War he was director of Purchases of Nitrate of Soda for the Allies (see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs p.389). Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (?1918). Created Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon 24 July 1923. First speech in the House of Lords 7 July 1924, the subject being 'Trade and Unemployment'. Chairman of the City of London Club 1928-31; Member of the Carlton Club, Pall Mall, from 1910. Author of 'History of Gibbs of Fenton' in Dartington (1925), 'The Parish Registers of Hunsdon (1915)', several pamphlets on Bimetallism and the Currency, 1894-5, including 'A Bimetallic Primer' 1894 (rd ed. 1896), and one on 'The Incidence of Income Tax and Wasting Securities (1904)'. His evidence on 'Wasting Assets Abroad' before the Royal Comn. on Income Tax of 1920 is in an appendix to their Report.

He bought Biggens in the parish of Hunsdon and the lordship of the Manor of Hunsdon in 1908. His successive London residences from 1885 were 34 York Terrace, 17 Portman Street, 9 Portman Square (1898-1923), all in St. Marylebone.

Portraits: Drawing by W.E. Miller, 1882, another by E.U. Eddis in a group with his mother and brother Vicary, 1860, both in possession of Lord Aldenham. Oil, three quarter length, 1891, by W. Ouless, R.A., at Briggens (copy by Miss Richardson in possession of A.Gibbs & Sons). Crayon by John Hay, presentation from City of London Conservative Association, 1932, in possession of Antony D. Gibbs, 5th Lord Aldenham.

Herbert married Anna Maria Durant, Lady Hunsdon on 12 Feb 1885 in Shenley, Hertfordshire. Anna (daughter of Richard Durant and Charlotte Still Dashwood) was born on 8 May 1862 in High Canons; died on 30 Dec 1938 in Ware, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Shenley, Hertfordshire
• Birth: 8 May 1862, Shenley, Hertfordshire
• Residence: 1871, Shenley, Hertfordshire; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• Residence: 1881, Shenley, Hertfordshire; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• Residence: 1891, London; Age: 28; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: 1901, London; Age: 38; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 48; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife

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4th and youngest daughter and coheir of Richard Durant of High Canon, Shenley, Herts., and Sharpham, Devon, for whom see Parker of Sharpham in Burke's 'Landed Gentry', by Charlotte Still, daughter of Lieut. Colonel Alexander Wilton Dashwood, for whom see Dashwood (Bart.) of Oxfordshire in 'Burke's Peerage'. Born at High Canons 8 May 1862 and baptised at Shenley Church. Married at Shenley 12 February 1885. Died 30 December 1938.

Lady Hunsdon. President of the Herts. Federation of Women's Institutes and of the Women's Branch of the City of London Conservative Association.

Portrait: oil, three quarter length, 1891, by Sir John Millais, P.R.A., a companion to the Ouless of her husband at the Manor House, Clifton Hampden in possession of Stephen C. Gibbs.