Roger Harvey Explained
| Honorific Prefix: | Captain |
| Roger Harvey |
| Honorific Suffix: | DL JP |
| Office: | High Sheriff of Wiltshire |
| Term Start: | 1970 |
| Term End: | 1970 |
| Predecessor: | Edward Lancelot Luce |
| Successor: | James Ian Morrison |
| Birth Name: | Roger Edward Lennox Harvey |
| Birth Date: | 6 April 1913 |
| Birth Place: | Horsham, West Sussex |
| Death Place: | London |
| Parents: | Edward Douglas Lennox Harvey
Emma Rawson Thornton |
| Children: | Carola Zara Lennox Harvey
Joanna Lennox Harvey
Fiona Diana Lennox Harvey |
Captain Roger Edward Lennox Harvey DL JP (6 April 1913 – 10 October 1976) was an English soldier and public official.
Early life
Harvey was born on 6 April 1913 in Horsham, West Sussex.[1] He was the youngest of four sons of the Rev. Edward Douglas Lennox Harvey (1839–1938), OBE, of Beedingwood House, Horsham, and his second wife,[2] Emma Jessie (Rawson) Thornton (1867–1943), the younger daughter of Philip Rawson of Woodhurst, Crawley and widow of Sir Edward Thornton, 3rd Count of Cacilhas.[3] All three of his elder half-brothers died early and tragic deaths.[2]
His father was the youngest of seven sons of William James Harvey of Carnousie, and Isobel Barclay (a daughter of Charles Barclay of Inchbrown, County of Moray).[3]
Career
Harvey was commissioned in the Scots Guards in 1933, eventually becoming Captain. During World War II, he served in Egypt from 1939 to 1945.[4] He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire in 1963, and High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1970, and Justice of the Peace.
Personal life
On 6 July 1938, Harvey was married to Diana Eira Claude Mainwaring (1914–1992) at Westminster, London. Diana was a daughter of Sir Harry Mainwaring, 5th Baronet, and the former Generis Alma Windham Williams-Bulkeley (a daughter of Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet and Lady Magdalen Yorke). He lived at Parliament Piece,[5] located on the edge of the village of Ramsbury, which sits in the Kennet Valley in the North Wessex close to the Wiltshire and Berkshire border.[6] They were the parents of two daughters:[1]
- Carola Zara Lennox Harvey (b. 1941),[7] who married John Gerald Robertson Williams, only son of Gerald Williams, of Crockham House, Westerham, in 1962.[8] They divorced in 1980.
- Joanna Lennox Harvey (1946–2022), who married Frederick Minshull Stockdale, son of Sir Edmund Stockdale, 1st Baronet and Hon. Louise Fermor-Hesketh (a daughter of Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh), in 1970. They divorced in 1989.[9]
- Fiona Diana Lennox Harvey (b. 1949), who married John Jacob Astor VIII, eldest son of Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever, and Lady Irene Haig (a daughter of Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig), in 1970. Before their divorce in 1990,[10] Astor succeeded his father as the 3rd Baron Astor of Hever in 1984.[11]
Captain Harvey died in London on 10 October 1976.[4] His widow died in 1992 at Salisbury, Wiltshire.
References
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Notes and References
- Hammond, Peter W. editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 817.
- Web site: Beedingwood House . Medium.com . Medium . 27 July 2023 . en . 11 May 2021.
- Book: Burke . Sir Bernard . A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain . 1921 . Burke Publishing Company . 858 . 27 July 2023 . en.
- News: Capt. Roger Edward Lennox Harvey . 27 July 2023 . . 12 Oct 1976 . 14.
- Web site: PARLIAMENT PIECE, Ramsbury - 1183680 . historicengland.org.uk . . 27 July 2023 . en.
- Web site: PARLIAMENT PIECE RAMSBURY • WILTSHIRE . savills.com . . 27 July 2023.
- Book: Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage . 1973 . Kelly's Directories . 1779 . 27 July 2023 . en.
- Miss Carola Harvey, Country Life, Portrait February 1, 1962 Vol. CXXXI No. 3387
- News: Freddie Stockdale obituary Colourful aristocrat who created his own country-house opera company . 27 July 2023 . . 14 December 2018 . en.
- Book: Morris . Susan . Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019 . 20 April 2020 . eBook Partnership . 978-1-9997670-5-1 . 1606, 1700 . 27 July 2023 . en.
- News: John J. Astor Weds Fiona Harvey . 27 July 2023 . . 19 July 1970 . en.
