Dorothy Emily Probyn

Notes:

2nd daughter of Sir Leslie Probyn, KCMG, colonial Governor, for whom see 'Probyn of Huntly Manor' in Burke's 'Landed Gentry', by Emily (OBE), daughter of George Davies, Contractor, of Bristol. Baptised 7 April 1889 at Acton.

Her father (born 1862) was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) 1884: Governor of Sierra Leone, 1904-10; Governor of Barbados, 1910-18; living at Folkestone, 1929. One of his sisters, Blanche Probyn, was the 2nd wife (m. 1904) of Antony Page Crawley-Boevey, 1st cousin of Antony Gibbs of Tyntesfield born 1842.

Oil portrait by Albert H. Collins, 1911, last in her husband's possession.

Dorothy married Francis Stewart Cokayne on 30 Dec 1909 in Exeter House, Roehampton, Surrey. Francis (son of George Edward Adams Cokayne and Mary Dorothea Gibbs) was born on 7 Aug 1871 in Ashbourne House, Putney, London; died on 31 Mar 1945 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Thomas Probyn Cokayne was born on 27 Apr 1920 in Marylebone, London; died on 6 Oct 1943 in Italy; was buried in Bolsena, Provincia di Viterbo, Lazio, Italy.
2. Elizabeth Cokayne was born in 12 sep1913 in Marylebone, London; died on 3 Aug 1990 in Kensington and Chelsea, London.
3. Anne Cokayne was born on 2 Aug 1916 in Marylebone, London; died on 19 May 2002 in Horsham, Sussex.
4. Susan Cokayne was born on 14 Sep 1923 in London; died on 15 Dec 2012.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1918-1924, Jamaica; Governor of Jamaica

Leslie married Emily Rosalie Davis in 1885. Emily was born in 1865 in Bristol, Gloucestershire; died on 19 Jul 1926 in Folkestone, Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]