Name Index    HOME  


Lieut. Colonel the Hon. George Keppel       1865-1947
George was born on 14 October 1865, the son of Sir William Coutts Keppel and Sophia Mary MacNab, in London.
He married Alice Frederica Edmonstone.
Alice Frederica Edmonstone                1869-1947
Alice was born about 1869, the daughter of Admiral Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Bt. and Mary Elizabeth Parsons, at London.
I have identified the following children.
Violet Born 6 Jun 1894   London Married Major Denys Robert Trefusis,
Sonia Rosemary Born 24 May 1900   London Married Roland Calvert Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe
Birth of Parents
George Keppel b: 14 Oct 1865           London, Middlesex       1865 4Q Westminster St Margaret 1a 344
son of Sir William Coutts Keppel and Sophia Mary MacNab

Alice Frederica Edmonstone b: abt 1869         Duntreath Castle, Loch Lomond, Scotland.
daughter of Admiral Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Bt. and Mary Elizabeth Parsons

Marriage
1 Jun 1891
George Keppel
Alice Frederica Edmonstone 		London       1891 2Q St George Hanover Square 1a 723

Children
Violet Keppel b: 6 Jun 1894               London       1894 3Q St George Hanover Square 1a 417
daughter of George Keppel and Alice Frederica Edmonstone
Sonia Rosemary Keppel b: 24 May 1900               London       1894 3Q Marylebone 1a 542
daughter of George Keppel and Alice Frederica Edmonstone

1901 Census RG13-110 1 April 1901 St Marylebone, St Mary, London
30 Portman Square
Alice Keppel (Wife)
Violet
Sonia
Plus 11 Servants 		Age 31
Age 6
Age 10 Mon. 		  Duntreath Scotland
London
London 		abt 1869
6 Jun 1894
24 May 1900

1911 Census RG14-105 3 April 1911 St George Hanover Square, London
16 Grosvenor Street   (34 Rooms)
George Keppel (M)
Plus7 Servants 		Age 45 Gentleman London 14 Oct 1865

Death
Alice Frederica (Edmonstone) Keppel Died 11 Sep 1947   at Villa Bellosquardo, near Firenze, Italy

Read her Obituary

LONDON   8 Mar 1948                         Probate
KEPPEL, Alice Frederica, of The Villa Ombrellino Bellosguardo, Florence, Italy, died 11 September 1947 (wife of the honourable George Keppel M.V.O.) Probate London 8 March, to Midland Bank Executor and Trust Company Limited, and John Reginald Frederick Williams, bank manager.
  Effects £177,637 14s in England

Death
George Keppel Died 22 Nov 1947, Age 82       1847 4Q Westminster 5c 395

The Times, Tuesday, Nov 25, 1947                   DEATHS
COL. THE HON. GEORGE KEPPEL
  Inevitably when we lose an older friend we feel another link with the past has been broken.   This was especially true when we who belong to a younger generation heard of the death of George Keppel.   To us, who had loved and could remember him since childhood, he seemed somehow to grow no older with the passing years; perhaps it was his sympathy with the young which gave him this strange quality of agelessness,   From his varied interests and wide experience, his love of sport and travel, and his close acquaintance with the art Galleries of Florence he had absorbed a fund of knowledge from which it was fascinating to hear him draw.   There were moreover few distinguished men and women of his time whom he had not met and could not vividly describe.   His splendid looks, his exquisite manners, his benign geniality, and his sense of fun belonged intrinsically to the comparatively carefree life enjoyed by our parents.   Admiring as we do in him so many of the characteristics of the generation which he personified, we may well question whether we have not something more to learn from its gentle courtesy and code of behaviour than in these perplexing times it is the fashion to admit.
LONDON   26 Apr 1948                         Probate
KEPPEL, the honourable George,, of The Villa Ombrellino Bellosguardo, Florence, Italy, died 22 November 1947, at The Ritz Hotel, Piccadily, London W.1 Administration London, 26 April, to Midland Bank Executor and Trust Company Limited.
  Effects £3,055 13s. 10d in England