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  1. 1.  Dr. Guy Francis Meynell

    Guy married Anna Lily Latham [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Elsa Mary Meynell
    2. Poppy Sophia Meynell
    3. Katharine Esther Meynell

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Christopher Mark Meynell

    Christopher married The Hon. Elizabeth Margaret Gretton [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  The Hon. Elizabeth Margaret Gretton
    Children:
    1. Rev. Mark John Henrik Meynell
    2. 1. Dr. Guy Francis Meynell


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Rev. Canon Mark MeynellRev. Canon Mark Meynell was born on 19 Feb 1914 in Portman Square, Marylebone, London (son of Lt. Col. Francis Hugo Lindley Meynell, DSO and Dorothy Legge); died on 5 Apr 2006 in Framlingham, Suffolk.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: 1984, Framlingham, Suffolk

    Notes:

    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]


  2. 5.  Diana Mary PonsonbyDiana Mary Ponsonby was born on 8 Apr 1916 in 9 Portman Square, St. Marylebone, London (daughter of Sir Charles Edward Ponsonby, TD and The Hon. Winifred Marian Gibbs, JP); died on 25 Mar 2006 in Framlingham, Suffolk.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Baptism: 5 May 1916, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire

    Notes:

    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

    Children:
    1. 2. Christopher Mark Meynell
    2. Andrew Francis Meynell
    3. Peter John Meynell
    4. Anna Mary Barbara Meynell

  3. 6.  Lord John Frederic Gretton, 2nd Baron Gretton, OBE was born on 15 Aug 1902 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (son of Lord John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton and The Hon. Maud Helen Eveleigh de Moleyns); died on 26 Mar 1982 in Leicestershire.

    Notes:

    John Frederic Gretton, 2nd Baron Gretton OBE (15 August 1902 – 26 March 1982), was a British peer and Conservative Member of Parliament. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gretton,_2nd_Baron_Gretton

    John married Anna Helena Margaret Loeffler on 6 May 1930 in St George Hanover Square, London. Anna was born on 30 Aug 1906 in Kensington, London; died in Nov 1999 in Westminster, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Anna Helena Margaret Loeffler was born on 30 Aug 1906 in Kensington, London; died in Nov 1999 in Westminster, London.
    Children:
    1. 3. The Hon. Elizabeth Margaret Gretton


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Lt. Col. Francis Hugo Lindley Meynell, DSO was born on 14 Apr 1880 in Marylebone, London (son of Hon. Frederick George Lindley Meynell Wood and Mary Susan Felicia Lindsay); died on 16 Dec 1941 in Hoar Cross Hall, Lichfield, Staffordshire.

    Other Events and Attributes:

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

    Notes:

    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]


  2. 9.  Dorothy Legge was born on 24 Jun 1883 in Marylebone, Middlesex (daughter of William Heneage Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth and Mary Coke, Countess of Dartmouth); died on 28 Jul 1974 in Braintree, Essex.
    Children:
    1. Hugo Meynell was born on 1 Nov 1909 in Chelsea, London; died on 26 Jun 1960 in Cheadle, Staffordshire.
    2. 4. Rev. Canon Mark Meynell was born on 19 Feb 1914 in Portman Square, Marylebone, London; died on 5 Apr 2006 in Framlingham, Suffolk.

  3. 10.  Sir Charles Edward Ponsonby, TDSir Charles Edward Ponsonby, TD was born on 2 Sep 1879 in Grosvenor Street, Westminster, London (son of Edwin Charles William Ponsonby, Hon and Emily Dora Coope, son of Emily Dora Ponsonby); died on 28 Jan 1976 in England; was buried in Wootton, Oxfordshire.

    Other Events and Attributes:

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

    Notes:

    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]


  4. 11.  The Hon. Winifred Marian Gibbs, JPThe Hon. Winifred Marian Gibbs, JP was born on 29 Mar 1886 in 34 York Terrace, St Marylebone, Middlesex (daughter of The Hon. Herbert Cokayne Gibbs, 1st Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon and Anna Maria Durant, Lady Hunsdon); died on 11 Mar 1984 in Garrett's House, Woodstock; was buried in Wootton, Oxfordshire.

    Other Events and Attributes:

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

    Notes:

    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.

    Children:
    1. Priscilla Dora Ponsonby was born in 1913 in 9 Portman Square, St. Marylebone, London; died in 2000.
    2. 5. Diana Mary Ponsonby was born on 8 Apr 1916 in 9 Portman Square, St. Marylebone, London; died on 25 Mar 2006 in Framlingham, Suffolk.
    3. Lavinia Rosalind Ponsonby was born on 28 Jul 1919 in 9 Portman Square, St. Marylebone, London; died on 21 Feb 2005 in Chichester, Sussex.
    4. Sir Ashley Charles Gibbs Ponsonby, 2Bt. KCVO, MC, DL was born on 21 Feb 1921 in 2 Gloucester Place, St. Marylebone, London; died on 15 Jun 2010 in Grim's Dyke Farm, Woodleys, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1HJ; was buried in Wootton, Oxfordshire.
    5. Juliet Barbara Anna Ponsonby was born in 1923 in 2 Gloucester Place, St. Marylebone, London; died on 21 Nov 2019.

  5. 12.  Lord John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton was born on 1 Sep 1867; died on 2 Jun 1947 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

    Notes:

    John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton, CBE, VD, TD, PC, JP, DL (1 September 1867 – 2 June 1947) was a British businessman and Conservative politician. Gretton won two gold medals in the 1900 Olympic Games. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gretton,_1st_Baron_Gretton

    John married The Hon. Maud Helen Eveleigh de Moleyns on 19 Apr 1900. Maud was born on 30 Dec 1862 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; died on 29 Jul 1934 in Westminster, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 13.  The Hon. Maud Helen Eveleigh de Moleyns was born on 30 Dec 1862 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; died on 29 Jul 1934 in Westminster, London.
    Children:
    1. 6. Lord John Frederic Gretton, 2nd Baron Gretton, OBE was born on 15 Aug 1902 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; died on 26 Mar 1982 in Leicestershire.


 

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