Charles FitzRoy, 6th Baron Southampton

Charles James FitzRoy, 6th Baron Southampton ( August 12, 1928 - January 10, 2015 ) was a British peer and politician .

Life

He was born the son of Charles FitzRoy, 5th Baron Southampton (1904-1989) and his first wife Margaret Drake († 1931). His father waived his title on March 16, 1964 due to the possibility introduced by the Peerage Act 1963 . The title of Baron Southampton was thus initially suspended. With the death of his father in 1989, Charles James FitzRoy inherited the title of 6th Baron Southampton in the Peerage of Great Britain . The first Baron Southampton was a male grandson of the Duke of Grafton ; the descent of FitzRoy goes back to Charles II .

FitzRoy attended the Stowe School in Buckinghamshire . In 1968 he was a Master of the Easton Harriers British Hunting Society . 1971–1972 he was a Master of the Blankney Hunt Hunting Society (MFH Blankney).

Membership in the House of Lords

On inheriting the title of Baron Southampton, Fitzroy became an official member of the House of Lords in 1989 . He was a formal member of the House of Lords until November 11, 1999. In the House of Lords he sat for the Conservative Party . He was not present during the 1997/98 session.

His membership in the House of Lords ended on November 11, 1999 by the House of Lords Act 1999 . He did not run for any of the remaining seats. He was not listed in the Register of Hereditary Peers, which are available for by-election.

Private

FitzRoy was married twice. On May 29, 1951 he married Pamela Anne Henniker († February 1997), the daughter of Edward Percy Henniker, who was just 17 years old. His first wife died of ovarian cancer in 1997 . In October 1997 he married Mrs. Alma Pasqual Slater, b. Perez (born 1961).

Alma Pasqual, the daughter of a shopkeeper from a small village near Tarlac near Manila , had married the British electrician Bryan Slater after eighteen months of correspondence . After the breakdown of the marriage, she worked as a cleaning lady . In 1992 she was hired by then Lady Southampton as a housekeeper and cleaner for the Stone Cross House estate. Pasqual then worked for the Southamptons for five years without a break. After Lady Southampton's death, Pasqual helped Fitzroy, who was clumsy in everyday life, with shopping and errands, from which a closer acquaintance developed. Fitzroy made his marriage proposal over dinner in a Chinese restaurant in Taunton . One month after the marriage, Pasqual was already pregnant by FitzRoy .

His first marriage had four children, two sons Charles and Edward and daughters Isabelle and Geraldine. His older son, the Hon. Charles FitzRoy (* 1954), died in a traffic accident in 1975. Heir to the title of "Baron Southampton" is FitzRoy's younger son Edward Charles FitzRoy, 7th Baron Southampton (* 1955).

His second marriage resulted in two more children: Charles James Fitzroy (* 1998) and Isabelle Elidia Margaret Fitzroy (* 1999).

In 2003, he lived on the estate Stone Cross House, a country house in Chagford in the county of Devon . FitzRoy died in January 2015 at the age of 86. The funeral service will take place on January 26, 2015 in the Holy Trinity Church in Drewsteignton .

Web links

• Charles James Fitzroy, 6th Baron Southampton on thepeerage.com , accessed August 20, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 6th Baron Southampton 1928-2015 death report in: Peerage News from January 20, 2015. Google Groups. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
2. ↑ The 6th Baron Southampton 1928-2015 death report in: Peerage News from January 20, 2015.
3. ↑ Peers who have disclaimed since the passing of the 1963 Peerage Act: - in: Forum von Peerage News of April 18, 2008. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
4. ↑ Number of sitting days in the session 1997-98: 228 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Attendance list 1997/98. Official website of the House of Lords . Retrieved January 21, 2015.  
5. ^ House of Lords Act: Hereditary Peers Elections website Election Demon , accessed January 21, 2015
6. ↑ Register of Hereditary Peers session 2014/2015. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} The Baron and the cleaner - if not a fairy tale, what? in: The Independent of December 5, 1997
8. ↑ ^{a b} Dust to dust for the peer who married his cleaner in: Daily Mail from January 23, 2015

predecessor	Office	successor
Charles FitzRoy	Baron Southampton 1989-2015	Edward FitzRoy