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Michael Sydney Cedric Brudenell-Bruce 1926-1974 Michael was born 31 March 1926, the son of Cedric Brudenell-Bruce, 7th Marquess of Ailesbury styled Viscount Savernake, and, Joan Houlton Salter. He attended Eton College before serving in the Royal Horse Guards. He received an emergency commission as a second lieutenant on 12 August 1945, only three weeks prior to the end of the Second World War. He was promoted to lieutenant on 1 September 1946,[2] and entered the reserves with the same rank on 1 September 1949, with the honorary rank of captain. He relinquished his reserve commission on 1 July 1959, retaining the honorary rank of captain. He became a member of the London |
Stock Exchange in 1954. He joined the stockbrokers Bragg, Stockdale, Hall & Co, founded in 1819, in the City of London, which merged with Fiske & Co in 1975 and he became a partner of Fiske. He became a director of Fiske & Co when it became a limited company, and remained so when it went public as Fiske plc. He succeeded his father as 8th Marquess on the latter's death on 15 July 1974. The family seat is Tottenham House, in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire, but they ceased to live there in 1946 when it became Hawtreys school. The Marquess owned Avebury Manor, also in Wiltshire, from 1976 to 1981. |
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Edwina Sylvia de Winton Wills 1933-2013 Edwina was born on 13 March 1933, the younger daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ernest Edward de Winton Wills, 4th Baronet of Hazelwood, Laird of Meggernie Castle, and Captain of The Royal Guard of Balmoral Castle, and wife Sylvia Margaret Ogden. |
| Sir Michael Sydney Cedric Brudenell-Bruce |
b: 31 Mar 1926 1926 2Q Hungerford 2C 473A Salter son of Sir Chandos Sydney Cedric Brudenell-Bruce, 7th Marquess of Ailesbury and Joan Houlton Salter |
| Edwina Sylvia de Winton Wills |
b: 13 Mar 1933 c: 14 May 1933 1933 1Q St.Geo,H. Sq. 1a 420 Ogden daughter of Ernest Edward de Winton Wills and Sylvia Margaret Ogden In the private chapel of Littlecote, near Hungerford |
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17 Mar 1952 Sir Michael Sydney Cedric Brudenell-Bruce Edwina Sylvia de Winton Wills |
| The list, published today, of divorce causes set down for hearing in London includes a defended suit in which Michael Sydney Cedric Brudenell-Bruce, Viscount Savernake, seeks a divorce from Edwina Sylvia Brudenell-Bruce, Viscountess Savernake. Mr James Robertson Justice is the co-respondent. Messrs Frere, Cholmey & Nicholsons are the solicitors acting for Lord Savernake: Messrs. Summer and Co. act for the co-respondent. |
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Christopher Leslie Leo Bonn (Major, Welsh Guards), Freeman of The City of London.
He is 9th in line of descent from HM King Charles II, and 2nd cousin to HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, the future HRH The Princess Consort. Christopher was born on 18 September 1928, the son of Major Walter Basil Louis Bonn and Lena Theodora Davidson of Inchmarlo, at 22 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair, London. His boyhood home was Common Hill House, Cricklade, which was purchased in 1930's, and later Marsden Manor. He attended Abbotsford RC preparatory school. Christopher attended Eton College, and was President of The Eton Society. He joined the Welsh Guards, rising to Major, after graduating from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He married Edwina Sylvia de Winton Wills, formerly wife of Viscount Savernake, later Earl of Cardigan, now (8th) Marquess of Ailesbury. They initially lived at 7 Neville Terrace. Christopher was an Extra Equerry to HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG KT OM GBE PC, (after whom he named his son and heir - Philip). He was an Adjutant of Eton College, a courtier, countryman and accomplished polo player, and Freeman of The City of London. He was a company director, and had a London house in Chelsea. He lived sometime in Tobago, Kenya, Hong Kong and Penang but retained (1968-2001) a home in Jersey; residing at the 17th Century Manor House of La Maison Marett for some years and afterwards purchasing an 18th Century farm in the rural Parish of St Ouen. Christopher is an 8th Cousin of Lord Ailesbury (his wife's first husband), through Francis, Lord Brudenell, whose |
daughter, Anne, married His Grace Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, KG,the natural son of HM King Charles II, by The Duchess of Portsmouth.
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Christopher Leslie Leo Bonn b: 18 Sep 1928 Mayfair, London
son of Major Walter Basil Louis Bonn and Lena Theodora Davidson, 22 Upper Brook Street |
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23 Feb 1963 Christopher Leslie Leo Bonn Edwina Sylvia de Winton Wills | London |
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| Major Christopher Leslie Leo Bonn | Died 11 Dec 2008 |
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| Edwina Sylvia de Winton (Wills) Bonn | Died 8 Jan 2023, Age 89 Pitlochry, Perth and Kinross, Scotland |
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BONN, Edwina Sylvia, Dame Grand Cross, with Collar, Royal Order of the Drum, of Milton Lodge and formerly of Doverhay
and Jersey, CI, died peacefully, aged 89, at Pitlochry on 8th January. Formerly the Viscountess Savernake (née de Winton-Wills), daughter of
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edward de Winton-Wills, 4th Baronet of Hazelwood, Laird of Meggernie Castle, Scots Guards (commander; Royal Garrison of
HM King George VI at Balmoral Castle; 1943) widow of Major Christopher Leslie Leo Bonn, Welsh Guards; a former extra equerry to HRH The Prince Philip,
Duke of Edinburgh; and adjutant, Eton College; dear sister of Venetia and beloved mother of David, Sylvia, Carina, Philip, Camilla, Melissa and Melanie.
Funeral to be held at Innerwick Church, Glenlyon (inquiries to Gaulds of Crieff). She was the daughter of Lt-Col Sir Ernest Edward DE WINTON WILLS 4th Bt 1903-1983 and Sylvia Marguerite 1901-1946 daughter of William Barker |
OGDEN 1866-1906 by his 1896 marriage to
Margaret SCOTT 1872-1958. She married 1st 1952 (divorced 1961) Viscount Savernake (now the 8th Marquess of AILESBURY b 1926) and had a son (Earl of Cardigan b 1952,
his father's ha) and two daughters. She married 2nd 1963 Maj Christopher Leslie Leo 1928-2008 son of Maj Walter Basil Louis BONN 1885-1973 sometime head of that gentry
family of Oalkland, and Leopoldina Theodora 1894-1974, daughter of Col Leslie DAVIDSON CB 1850-1915 scion of that gentry family of Tillychetley & Dess and
Lady Theodora KEPPEL DJStJ 1860-1945 daughter of 7th Earl of ALBEMARLE 1832-94 and gt gt aunt of Queen CAMILLA, and had a further son and further three daughters. The Royal Order of The Drum of Rwanda: http://royalhouseofrwanda.org/royal-order-of-the-drum-of-rwanda The Order "confers nobility upon the member". |
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1933-2023 | Welsh Guards (1928-2008), scion of that landed family, sometime Equerry to HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, son of Major Walter Basil Louis Bonn (1885-1973), and his wife the former Leopoldina Theodora Davidson (1894-1974), scion of that landed gentry family. From her first marriage she leaves issue, a son, David, styled Earl of Cardigan (born 12 Nov, 1952), and two daughters, Lady Sylvia Brudenell-Bruce (born 19 June 1954), and Lady Carina Brudenell-Bruce (born 13 Jan 1956), and from her second marriage, a son, Philip (born 9 Feb 1964), and three daughters, Melissa, Camilla and Melanie. |
