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Airey of Abingdon, Baroness (UK, 1979 - 1992)

Creation: let.pat. 6 Aug 1979

Extinct: 27 Nov 1992

Family name: Airey

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Arms:

Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Argent on a Cross Sable five Fleurs-de-lys Or and on a Canton Azure a Lion rampant Or gorge with a Mural Crown Gules (Airey); 2nd and 3rd, Azure three Stirrups with Leathers two and one Or (Giffard)

Supporters:

On either side a Panther rampant and in trian aspect Or spotted of various colours and breathing Flames proper gorged with a Coronet of a Baroness proper and standing on a Grassy Mount growing therefrom a Branch of two Roses Gules barbed and seeded slipped and leaved and two Thistles all proper

Motto:

Sola Proba Quae Honesta

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Diana Josceline Barbara Neave [Airey], Baroness Airey of Abingdon

1st dau. of Thomas Arthur Walter Giffard MBE DL, of Chillington Hall, Wolverhampton, co. Stafford, by his wife Angela Erskine Trollope, 1st dau. of Sir William Henry Trollope, 10th Bt.

born

7 Jul 1919

mar.

29 Dec 1942 Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave DSO OBE MC TD, Member of Parliament (Conservative) for Abingdon 1953-79, assassinated by the INLA in the House of Commons car park (b. 23 Jan 1916; d. 1979), 1st son of Sheffield Airey Neave CMG OBE, of Mill Green Park, Ingatestone, co. Essex, by his first wife Dorothy Middleton, dau. of Lt Col Arthur Thomson Middleton, of Ayshe Court, Horsham, co. Sussex

children

1. Hon (Richard) Patrick Sheffield Neave, of 16 Maze Road, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, b 1947, mar 1980 Elizabeth Mary Catherine Riddell, 2nd dau. of Cuthbert Edward Riddell, of Hermeston Hall, Worksop, co. Nottingham, by his wife Estelle Mary Nash, yst. dau. of Sir Vincent Nash KCSG DL, of Shannon View House, Kilmurry, co. Limerick, and has issue

2. Hon William Robert Sheffield Neave, of 20 Kirkstall Road, London SW2, b 1953, mar 1986 Joanna Mary Stuart Paton, 2nd dau. of James Stuart Paton, of The Old Vicarage, Great Hockham, co. Norfolk, and has issue

1. Hon Marigold Elizabeth Cassandra Neave, b 1944, mar 1968 William Richard Broughton Webb, of Barbers, Martley, co. Worcester, and has issue

died

27 Nov 1992

created

6 Aug 1979 Baroness Airey of Abingdon, of Abingdon in the County of Oxford

note

assumed by deed poll 1979 the forename of Neave and the surname of Airey in lieu of Neave

Trustee: National Heritage Memorial Fund, Imperial War Museum, Dorneywood and Stansted Park Foundation

 First written 2 Oct 2007

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