Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe

The Lord Ashcombe
Spouse(s)	1. Sonia Rosemary Keppel 2. Idina Joan Mills (née Myddleton) 3. Jean Baylis (née Garland)
Father	Henry Cubitt, 2nd Baron Ashcombe
Mother	Maud Calvert
Born	26 January 1899
Died	28 October 1962 (aged 63)

Roland Calvert Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe DL (26 January 1899 – 28 October 1962) was a member of the British aristocracy. He became Baron Ashcombe on the death of his father Henry Cubitt, 2nd Baron Ashcombe, in 1947. He is also the maternal grandfather of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (born Camilla Shand), now the wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.

Education and career

Cubitt was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was a Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards, and was appointed to be a Deputy Lieutenant in 1939^[1] and held office as Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Surrey in 1940.^[2]

Family

On 16 November 1920 he married Sonia Rosemary Keppel, daughter of Hon. George Keppel and his wife Alice Keppel, at the Guard's Chapel, Wellington Barracks in London. They divorced in 1947 after having three children:

• The Hon. Rosalind Maud Cubitt (1921–1994) m. Major Bruce Middleton Hope Shand and had three children:
  • Camilla Rosemary Shand (b. 17 July 1947), later, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
  • Sonia Annabel Shand (b. 2 February 1949)
  • Mark Roland Shand (b. 28 June 1951 – 23 April 2014)
• The Hon. Henry Edward Cubitt (1924–2013) (who succeeded as the 4th Baron Ashcombe on the death of his father) m. Ghislaine Alexander (née Dresselhuys, later the Rt. Hon. The Baroness Foley) (ex-wife of Denis Alexander, 6th Earl of Caledon)

m. The Hon. Virginia Carington (daughter of Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington)

m. Mary Elizabeth Dent-Brocklehurst (née Chipps) (widow of late Mark Dent-Brocklehurst)

• The Hon. Jeremy John Cubitt (1927–1958) m. Diana Edith Du Cane and had a child:
  • Sarah Victoria Cubitt (b. 1953)

He married secondly, on 6 August 1948, Idina Joan Mills who died in 1954. (former wife of Lieut. John Charles Trueman Mills), daughter of Col. Robert Edward Middleton, and his wife Lady Violet Wellesley.

He married thirdly, on 2 July 1959, Jean Baylis (former wife of Greville Pollard Baylis), daughter of Charles Tuller Garland (d.1973)

Styles of address

• 1899–1917: Mr Roland Cubitt
• 1917–1939: The Honourable Roland Cubitt
• 1939–1947: The Honourable Roland Cubitt DL
• 1947–1962: The Right Honourable The Lord Ashcombe DL

Death and burial

Roland Cubitt funerary monument, St Barnabas Church, Ranmore Common, Surrey

He died on 28 October 1962 is buried in the churchyard of St Barnabas Church, Ranmore Common, Surrey.

References

1. The London Gazette: no. 34730. p. 7573. 10 November 1939.
2. "Roland Calvert Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe". The Peerage. Retrieved 15 October 2016.

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