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2151 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Allen, Christopher Nicholas (I2127)
 
2152 Younger son of Dr. Handley Brooke Howell. Educated at Denstone College, Staffs.

1950-52 National Service with the Royal Navy. Midshipman RNR Retired Lieutenant RNR 1963. 1952-58 R.N. Coate & Co., Cider Makers. 1959 with D.R.G. Sacks, manufacturers of Paper Sacks, became Managing Director. 
Howell, John Brooke (I2014)
 
2153 Younger son of Herman Walter de Zoete of The Rookery, Sproughton, Ipswich. Educated at Eton.

Director of Mallets of Bond Street. Retired 1978. Served 1939-45 War in the Derbyshire Yeomanry and 12th Royal Lancers. Mentioned in despatches. 
de Zoete, Rupert Edward (I2440)
 
2154 Younger son of James Gordon Dugdale of The Abbey, Cirencester. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.

Commissioned 17/21st Lancers 1930. Major in Tunis Campaign 1942. Wounded; despatches. Served in Italy. Lt. Col. 1945, P.R.O. Army HQ Vienna. Brigadier and Chief P.R.O. War Office 1952, and until his death.

He was appointed Commander, Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) 
Dugdale, Brigadier Nigel CBE (I2700)
 
2155 Younger son of Mr George A S Cox and the late Mrs Mary Cox. Cox, Ronnie (I2248)
 
2156 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Steel, Anthony Edward William (I2229)
 
2157 Younger twin of Bridget. Baptised at Clifton Hampden 22 September 1907. Educated at St. Helen's School, Abingdon, 1918-25.

Art Student at Lucy Kemp Welsh Art School, Bushey, Herts. Heatherley's Art School, London; and Chelsea Polytechnic. Worked in the Admiralty O.D.5. Division 1941-45.

Interests: Painting.

Died 14 November 1995. 
Gibbs, Joanna Isabel (I355)
 
2158 Younger twin with Anstice Rosa. Baptised 11 January 1905 at Aldenham. Educated at Winchester College 1918-23.

In Baring Brothers Ltd. 1924-6. With Donnison Seal and Co. stockjobbers in the City of London from 1927-39. Member of Stock Exchange 1938-39.

In Second World War with Herts. Yeomanry HAA Regt. and other HAA Units in France and England until 1944. Posted to India and served in India and Burma in Pioneer Corps. Demobilised with rank of Major in 1945, TD 1939-45 Star, Burma Star, Defence Medal, War Medal.

Lived from 1957-78 with his sister Anstice at Blacknest Lodge, Brimpton Common, nr Reading, Berks. From 1978 at The Garden House, Filkins Hall, Lechlade, Glos. with his other sister Doda Goodenough and later together in Barford St Martin, Wiltshire. Following her death in 1987 he stayed there for about 4 years before moving to a home in Devon, where he was looked after by Mary Forbes until his death in 1995

Clubs: Pratt's and MCC

Portrait in oils with his twin sister Anstice by Lucy Kemp Welch in the possession of his nephew John. 
Gibbs, Major Bernard Vicary (I1935)
 
2159 Youngest daughter of Dr. Ernest Alfred Elkington of Newport, Shropshire, by Annie Isabella, daughter of Dr. William Baddeley. Educated at Oxford University (Scholar Lady Margaret Hall) BA, with 1st class honour, Docteur de l'Universite de Paris 1929. Elkington, Margery Elizabeth (I2731)
 
2160 Youngest daughter of Edwin Gruhn of Stettiner-Strasse, Berlin, brewer, by Henriette, daughter of August Rothe. Baptised 26 December 1908 at St. Lazarus, Berlin. Educated in Berlin and Desden.
 
Gruhn, Walda Elfriede E. (I2027)
 
2161 Youngest daughter of Frederick Noel Hamilton Wills, of Misarden Park, Stroud (see Dulverton B).

Educated privately. Served at R.A.F. Records Office 1942-43, then 1943-46 at the Royal Canadian Air Force Overseas H.Q. in London. Is interested in Modern Art and collects paintings and studio pottery. Owns an Art Gallery at St. Ives in Cornwall.

Portraits: by F. Cadogan Cowper (1948) and Eduardo Malta (1956), both at Combend

Died 18.11.13 
Wills, Audrey Mackenzie Hamilton (I2489)
 
2162 Youngest daughter of John Charles Molteno by his wife, Maria Elizabeth Jarvis. Maria married a Cape Town businessman, Tom Anderson, who was a widower. They settled in Kenilworth, but also had a holiday home at Kalk Bay, called Quarterdeck. Tom and Maria had three children – Ernest, Harold and Effie. Maria had a quieter, less forceful character than her elder sisters, Betty and Caroline. She was also much less interested in politics. Sadly, she died prematurely when still in her forties. Her daughter, Effie, took over as the active centre of this branch of the family, despite living far away from the Cape on her husband Elliot Stanford’s farm of Inungi in East Griqualand. Every year, Effie would bring her children down to stay with her father at Kalk Bay during the hottest time of the summer.
 
Molteno, Maria (I84)
 
2163 Youngest daughter of Percy Quilter (see Quilter Baronet). Her marriage to Lancelot Gibbs was annulled in 1945).

She married 2ndly on 16 September 1947 Archibald Tennant, 4th son of the late Rt. Hon. Harold Tennant, PC (see Glenconner B.) and has issue. 
Quilter, Diana Primrose (I1744)
 
2164 Youngest daughter of Richard Budd of Barnstaple, Devon, MD, by Harriet, daughter of Rev. Ralph Carr Rider, Rector of Clannaborough, nr. Crediton, Devon. Baptised 4 July 1848 at Holy Trinity there. Buried at Clifton Hampden, Memorial Inscription in churchyard on the gravestone of Joseph Gibs. Administration London 14 May 1924.

A portrait of her father last in possession of Capt. J. R. Manderson of Pilton, nr. Barnstaple. 
Budd, Mary Rider (I2595)
 
2165 Youngest daughter of William Somerset of Hanover, Cape Colony. Somerset, Frances Grace Mary (I2894)
 
2166 Youngest son of John Curran of Irillia, Ontario by Jennie, daughter of Miller of Crossgar, Ireland.

His family was an offshoot from a Protestant branch of the Irish family to which the Right Hon. John Philpot Curran (1750-1817) K.C., the patriot, belonged. In the Great War he was on the personal staff of the Canadian Overseas War Minister and at one time acting Aide-de-Campe to General Sir Samuel Steele; serious illness prevented his taking up an appointment to Headquarter Staff of Gen. Sir Arthur Currie (Commander of the Canadian Army Corps); he was in the 2nd attack of the Canadian Army at Paschendael. 
Curran, Walter Hilton (I2686)
 
2167 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Harrison, John Antony Austin (I2013)
 
2168 [From Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Third Series, Volume III, 1898-1900, Pages 127-130. Published in 1906. Amended by Volume IV, Pages 155-156, Published in 1907.]

John Insley Blair, born on a farm on the banks of the Delaware river, two miles below Belvidere, new Jersey, August 22, 1802, died at his home in Blairstown, December 2, 1899. He was of Scotch ancestry, his family having come to this country about 1740. He went to work at the age of eleven years in the store of his cousin, Judge Blair, at Hope, Sussex County, now Warren County, where he remained until the death of his father compelled him to return to the farm, but a year later he returned to mercantile life, entering the store of Squire James DeWitt.

At the age of eighteen or nineteen he started out for himself by establishing a store at a place called Gravel Hill, now Blairstown, carrying on business there for forty years, from tine to time extending his trade and establishing stores in several villages in that region. In 1833-4 he became interested with Colonel George W. Scranton and Selden T.Scranton, in the mines at Oxford Furnace.

In 1846 he was one of the organizers of the Lackawanna Coal and Iron Company, afterwards one of the most successful in the country. Then he built a railroad from Owego to Ithaca, New York, which was opened in 1849. A year later he was largely instrumental in the building of the railroad from Scranton to the Delaware Water Gap, securing an outlet for the coal and iron beds of Northeastern Pennsylvania. In 1852, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, so named at his suggestion, was organized, and he remained a large owner in the same until his death, being one of its principal stockholders, and having served as director from the organization until he died. In 1860, when attending the convention at Chicago, Illinois, which nominated Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency, his attention was directed to the great possibilities of Western development, and from that time he became interested in the railroads west of the Mississippi. In 1862 he exerted his influence in building the Union Pacific Railroad by way of Omaha. His operations in the west were extended in succeeding years to Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota, Missouri and Texas. He was at one time President of sixteen different railroads. He laid out sites for more than eighty towns, and owned in those western states lands equal to half the area of his native state. The writer enjoyed many conversations with him in the course of a journey in the same car from New York to Cincinnati, in 1876, in which many of his railroad experiences and reminiscences of his early life were related. He early adopted the plan of planting trees along his western railroads, which served as wind-breaks and protection against snow drifts, and as the trees grew larger and more numerous furnished ties for the railroads in a region where wood was scarce.

When he was eighty-six or eighty-seven years old, the writer had a conversation with him in Jersey City, in which he stated that it had been his custom for many years to travel as much as 40,000 miles a year. The year before, when he was about eighty-five years of age, he had reduced this, and traveled only about 20,000 miles. He was, or course, remarkably vigorous for a man of that advanced age. In his railroad building in Iowa, he conformed to the local sentiment favoring prohibition, and in all his deeds for the sale of lands inserted restrictions against the use of the same for the sale or manufacture of liquor in any way. He felt that this was about as practical a way as any to enforce prohibition, which he also felt was to the best interests of the towns through which his railroads ran.

Mr. Blair was elected a member of this Society January 11, 1882, and served as a member of its Executive Committee from 1884 until 1897, except for the year 1896, and on various special committees. His beneficences were innumerable. He founded the Belvidere Bank in 1830, with a capital of $50,000, subsequently increased to $300,000. In his later years he established the great banking house of Blair & Company, now (1906) in Broad Street, New York. In 1848 he erected a stone building for the Blair Presbyterial Academy. This building still stands (1907) upon the knoll, in the front of the Blair Academy grounds, in its original form and size. It is now being used as the music hall of the school. On April 11, 1870, he deeded the building along with about nine acres of land, to the Presbytery of Newton. Within the next twelve years he established an endowment for fifteen free scholarships for the sons and daughters of ministers within the bounds of Presbytery. In 1883 he added $100,000 to the endowment; two years later he gave several acres more of land, and afterwards several other large buildings, with additional endowments amounting to nearly a million dollars. He gave Lafayette College, at Easton, $50,000, and $20,000 for the erection of the President's house. he gave $70,000 to Princeton College, and $50,000 to Grinnell College, on the line of one of his western railroads. Blair Hall, at Princeton College, is a splendid monument to his liberality. At Blairstown, he built its churches, its water works, bridges and railroads, and in other ways contributed to the prosperity of the town and its people.

He married, September 20, 1826, Ann Locke of Warren County, daughter ofJohn Lock, of Frelinghuysen township, Somerset County, son of Captain Francis Lock, who lost his life in a skirmish at Elizabethtown, September15, 1777. She died several years before him. Mr. Blair's maternal grandfather is said to have fought at the Battle of Princeton. Mr. Blair had four children: 1. Marcus L. Blair, known as the Colonel, who died in1873, unmarried; 2. DeWitt Clinton Blair, who survives him, and continues his numerous business interest; 3. Emma Elizabeth, married Charles Scribner, founder of the well known publishing house now Charles Scribner's Sons; 4. Aurelia Ann, married Clarence Green Mitchell, a lawyer in New York City.
 
Blair, John Insley (I42)
 
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