She was the former Helena Olivia Adeane (8 October
1902 - 1985), fifth and youngest daughter of Charles
Robert Whorwood Adeane (Adeane LG) (1863-1943). She
married the then Viscount Folkestone, later 7th Earl
of Radnor (1895-1968) on 11 October 1922 (aged 20),
and had six children, including two sons, with him.
Her first son was born 1928. In 1930, her
father-in-law died, and she became Countess of Radnor
(her husband becoming 7th Earl of Radnor, etc). The
Radnors divorced in 1942. He married 2ndly 9 October
1943 (Anne) Isobel Graham Sowerby nee Oakley, daughter
of Lt.-Col. Richard Oakley, and widow of Richard
Thomas Reynolds Sowerby. (She has since died in 1998).
They had further issue, one son. Helena, Countess of
Radnor married 2ndly
25 January 1943 Brigadier Montacute William Worrall
Selby-Lowndes (1896-1972), eldest son of Henry William
Selby-Lowndes, of Eltham, Kent, by his wife Blanche
Frederica, daughter of Alfred Milne. Her second
husband was descended from George [Plantagenet], Duke
of Clarence. There was no issue of the 2nd marriage,
as far as I know.
Helena Selby-Lowndes died in 1985, no exact date
available immediately. Burke's or Debrett's might have
more, as she is the mother of the present 8th Earl of
Radnor.
Her children were
1. Lady Jane Pleydell-Bouverie+ b. 14 Sep 1923, d. 21
Jul 2006; whom md 1945 Richard Anthony Bethell, son of
Captain William Adrian Vincent Bethell and Cicely
Violet Cotterell; they had issue (the eldest daughter
died 10 August 2006 aged only 60).
2. Lady Belinda Pleydell-Bouverie (15 Jan 1925 - 29
July 1961); she married 13 December 1952 Sir William
Stratford Dugdale, 2nd Bt., son of Sir William Francis
Stratford Dugdale, 1st Bt. and Margaret Gilmour. They
had issue, including a son (William) Matthew. Sir
William has remarried, and has further issue.
3. Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 8th Earl of Radnor+ b. 10
Nov 1927; he married firstly 8 July 1953 (div 1962),
as Viscount Folkestone Anne Garden Farquaharson
Seth-Smith, daughter of Donald Farquaharson
Seth-Smith, by whom he has two sons, the present
Viscount Folkestone (b. 1955) [who married late in
life in 1996, but has five children, including three
sons] and the Hon. (Peter) John Pleydell-Bouverie (b.
1958) who is High Sheriff for Wiltshire 2007-2008.
John married Jane Gilmour, granddaughter of the Duke
of Buccleuch, and has four children (two sons and two
daughters). Folkestone md 2ndly 1962 (div 1985)
Margaret Robin Fleming, daughter of Robin Fleming, by
whom he has issue 4 daughters. Their third daughter
(b. 1966) is named for his late sister Belinda, and
lost her newly married husband Anthony Berkeley Paget
(of ANGLESEY M) recently. (Incidentally, there are
lots of twins among the descendants of the 7th Earl of
Radnor and Helena Adeane). Folkestone became 8th Earl
of Radnor in 1968. In 1986 he married 3rdly Mary
Jillean Gwenellan Eddy, daughter of William Edward
Montague Eddy. They have no issue.
4. Hon. Reuben Pleydell-Bouverie+ b. 30 Dec 1930; he
md 28 January 1956 Bridget Jane Buxton, daughter of
John Fowell Buxton and Katherine Mary Bacon, and has
issue 2 sons and 1 daughter.
5. Lady Phoebe (not Pheobe) Pleydell-Bouverie+ b. 25
Jan 1932; she married 8 January 1955 (div 1963) Hubert
Beaumont Phipps, son of John Shaffer Phipps (of the
very rich American Phipps) and had issue 1 son and 1
daughter.
6. Lady Harriot Pleydell-Bouverie+ b. 18 Dec 1935; she
married Mark Iain Tennant (b. 1932), son of John
Tennant (son of Harold Tennant, and grandson of Sir
Charles Tennant, 1st Bt -see GLENCONNER B) and his
former wife Hon. Antonia Mary Roby Benson the daughter
of Godfrey Rathbone Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood
(extinct) and since 1939 wife of Cyril Radcliffe,
later 1st Viscount Radcliffe (of Partition of India
fame), another extinct title. They have issue 1 son
and 1 daughter.
Genealogy:
She was the former Helena Olivia Adeane (8 October
1902 - 1985), fifth and youngest daughter of Charles
Robert Whorwood Adeane (Adeane LG) (1863-1943) by his
wife the former Madeline Pamela Constance Blanche
Wyndham (d. 1941), hersef second daughter of Hon.
Percy Scawen Wyndham (1835-1911; himself 2nd son of
the 1st Baron Leconfield, eldest acknowledged
illegitimate son of the 3rd Earl of Egremont) by his
wife Madeline Caroline Frances Eden Campbell, daughter
of Maj.Gen. Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Bt. This Madeline
Campbell is descended from Lord Edward Fitzgerald
(Irish rebel 1798, a yr son of the 1st Duke of
Leinster) by his wife Pamela, a French lady.
Her elder sisters were
(a) Pamela Marie Adeane, + 1975, Md. 1919, Hon. George
William Lyttelton, * 1883, + 1962
(b) Sibell Eleanor Maud Adeane, Md.1) 1914, Hon.
Edward James Kay-Shuttleworth, * 1890, + 1917 killed
in an accident, s. of Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth,
1st Baron Shuttleworth (1902). They had issue,
including the 4th Baron Shuttleworth (father of the
present Baron) and his sister Pamela, who married four
times, and was mother of the present Earl of
Stradbroke (notable for the number of legitimate
children he has) and the present Lord Zouche. Sibell
Kay-Shuttleworth md 2ndly 1920, Rev. Hon. Charles
Frederick Lyttelton, M.C. (1887-1931), third son of
Charles George Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham; they
had two sons, the elder killed in action in the Second
World War, the younger dying the year of birth.
(c) Madeline Mabel Ambrose Adeane (d. 1969), md. 1915,
Capt. Denis Grey Wigan, (1893-1958), a yr son of Sir
Frederick William Wigan, 2nd Bt. They had issue.
(d) Lettice Elisabeth Evelyn Adeane,md. 1919, Capt.
Geoffrey Russell Rees Colman, + 1935; their issue
includes Sir Timothy Colman, husband of
and
(e) our Helena
Her mother's elder sister Mary Constance (1862-1937)
married the 11th Earl of Wemyss in 1883, while the
younger sister Pamela married the 1st Baron Glenconner
(grandfather of the 3rd and present Baron),. [They
were famously painted as the Wyndham sisters in a
painting titled The Three Graces by John Singer
Sargent].
Sources:
The most up-to-date source is Paul Theroff, King James
VI & I Descendants. If you do a search for Theroff
files, you will find a lot more.
http://www.thepeerage.com/p3430.htm#i34295
Helena Olivia Adeane1
F, #34295, b. 8 October 1902
Helena Olivia Adeane|b. 8 Oct
1902|p3430.htm#i34295|Charles Robert Whorwood
Adeane|b. 2 Nov 1863\nd. 11 Feb
1943|p8274.htm#i82740|Madeline Pamela Constance
Blanche Wyndham|d. 31 Jul 1941|p8273.htm#i82721|Henry
J. Adeane|b. 9 Jun 1833\nd. 17 Feb
1870|p2724.htm#i27237|Lady Elizabeth P. Yorke|b. 15
Nov 1834\nd. 13 Jan 1936|p2026.htm#i20255|Hon. Percy
S. Wyndham|b. 30 Jan 1835\nd. 13 Mar
1911|p2601.htm#i26007|Madeline C. F. E. Campbell|d. 8
Mar 1920|p2618.htm#i26177|
Last Edited=17 Feb 2005
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Helena Olivia Adeane was born on 8 October 1902.1
She is the daughter of Charles Robert Whorwood Adeane
and Madeline Pamela Constance Blanche Wyndham.1 She
married Sir William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of
Radnor, son of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of
Radnor and Julian Eleanor Adelaide Balfour, on 11
October 1922.1 She and Sir William Pleydell-Bouverie,
7th Earl of Radnor were divorced in 1942.1 She
married, secondly, Brigadier Montacute William Worrall
Selby-Lowndes, son of Henry William Selby-Lowndes, on
25 January 1943.1
Her married name became Selby-Lowndes.1 Her
married name became Pleydell-Bouverie.
Children of Helena Olivia Adeane and Sir William
Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor
* Lady Jane Pleydell-Bouverie+ b. 14 Sep 1923, d.
21 Jul 2006
* Lady Belinda Pleydell-Bouverie+ b. 15 Jan 1925
* Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 8th Earl of Radnor+ b.
10 Nov 1927;
* Hon. Reuben Pleydell-Bouverie+ b. 30 Dec 1930
* Pheobe Pleydell-Bouverie+ b. 25 Jan 1932
* Harriot Pleydell-Bouverie+ b. 18 Dec 1935