Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe

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 was the maternal grandfather of Queen Camilla.


The Lord Ashcombe

BornRoland Calvert Cubitt
(1899-01-26)26 January 1899
London, England
Died28 October 1962(1962-10-28) (aged 63)
Surrey, England
Spouse(s)
(m. 1920; div. 1947)
Idina Joan Mills
(m. 1948; died 1954)
Jean Baylis
(m. 1959)
IssueRosalind Shand
Henry Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe
Jeremy Cubitt
ParentsHenry Cubitt, 2nd Baron Ashcombe
Maud Calvert

Education and career

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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

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

m. Virginia Carington (daughter of Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington)
m. Mary Elizabeth Dent-Brocklehurst (née Chipps) (widow of late Mark Dent-Brocklehurst)
  • Jeremy John Cubitt (1927–1958) m. Diana Edith Du Cane and had a child:
    • Sarah Victoria Cubitt (b. 1953)

Roland 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 Myddelton, 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).

Death and burial

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

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

References

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  1. ^ "No. 34730". The London Gazette. 10 November 1939. p. 7573.
  2. ^ "Roland Calvert Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe". The Peerage. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron Ashcombe
1947–1962
Succeeded by