Diana Neave, Baroness Airey of Abingdon
Diana Josceline Barbara Neave, Baroness Airey of Abingdon (7 July 1919 – 27 November 1992), born Diana Josceline Barbara Giffard,[1] was a Conservative member of the House of Lords after receiving a life peerage in August 1979.[2]
Diana Giffard was daughter of Thomas Arthur Walter Giffard,[3] MBE, DL for Staffordshire, of Chillington Hall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire and his wife Angela Erskine Trollope, elder daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Henry Trollope, 10th Bt.
She married Airey Neave (23 January 1916 – 30 March 1979), elder son and first child of Sheffield Airey Neave, himself a grandson of Sir Thomas Neave, 2nd Baronet,[4] of the Neave baronets, and his first wife Dorothy Middleton, on 29 December 1942. They had three children:
- Hon. Marigold Elizabeth Cassandra Neave, now Hon. Mrs William Webb (born 5 May 1944); married 8 June 1968 William Richard Broughton Webb, son of Lt.-Cdr. William Frank Broughton Webb, and has issue, one son and one daughter.
- Hon. Richard Patrick Sheffield Neave (born 12 Nov 1947); married 1980 Elizabeth Mary Catherine Riddell, daughter of Cuthbert Edward Alphonso Riddell, and had issue, three sons, whose common second last name is Airey.
- Hon. William Robert Sheffield Neave (born 13 Aug 1953); married 1986 Joanna Mary Stuart Paton, daughter of James Stuart Paton, and has issue, two sons, Richard Digby Stuart Neave (born 21 May 1987); Sebastian Airey Stuart Neave (born 11 May 1989).
Diana Neave was created Baroness Airey of Abingdon, of Abingdon in the County of Oxford, on 6 August 1979,[5] a few months after her husband - a British Tory Member of Parliament - was killed in an attack by the Irish National Liberation Army using a car-bomb in the Palace of Westminster on 30 March 1979.[1]
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References
- 1 2 Cosgrave, Patrick (1 Dec 1992). "Obituary: Baroness Airey of Abingdon - People - News - The Independent". The Independent. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ↑ "House of Lords (Hansard, 23 July 1987)". Hansard. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ↑ Lundy, Darryl. "Thomas Arthur Walter Giffard". The Peerage.
- ↑ Lundy, Darryl. "Sir Thomas Neave, 2nd Baronet". The Peerage.
- ↑ "No. 47922". The London Gazette. 9 August 1979. p. 10099.
External links
- Lundy, Darryl (19 October 2008). "Diana Neave, Baroness Airey of Abingdon". The Peerage. Retrieved 17 November 2008. . Photograph of Diana Neave from the same site.