Paternal Family Tree: Stewart
On 10th November 1868 [her father] Charles Gordon-Lennox 7th Duke Richmond [aged 22] and [her mother] Amy Mary Ricardo [aged 21] were married. He the son of [her grandfather] Charles Gordon-Lennox 6th Duke Richmond [aged 50] and [her grandmother] Frances Harriett Greville Duchess Richmond [aged 44].
In 1872 Violet Mary Gordon Lennox Baroness Brassey was born to Charles Gordon-Lennox 7th Duke Richmond [aged 26] and Amy Mary Ricardo [aged 24].
On 23rd August 1873 [her mother] Amy Mary Ricardo [aged 26] died.
In 1882 [her father] Charles Gordon-Lennox 7th Duke Richmond [aged 36] and [her step-mother] Isabel Sophie Craven [aged 18] were married. He the son of [her grandfather] Charles Gordon-Lennox 6th Duke Richmond [aged 63] and [her grandmother] Frances Harriett Greville Duchess Richmond [aged 57]. They were fifth cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 8th June 1893 [her brother] Charles Gordon-Lennox 8th Duke Richmond [aged 22] and [her sister-in-law] Hilda Madeline Brassey Duchess Richmond [aged 20] were married. He the son of [her father] Charles Gordon-Lennox 7th Duke Richmond [aged 47] and [her mother] Amy Mary Ricardo.
In 1894 Henry Brassey 1st Baron Apethorpe [aged 23] and Violet Mary Gordon Lennox Baroness Brassey [aged 22] were married. She the daughter of Charles Gordon-Lennox 7th Duke Richmond [aged 48] and Amy Mary Ricardo.
On 27th September 1903 [her grandfather] Charles Gordon-Lennox 6th Duke Richmond [aged 85] died. His son [her father] Charles [aged 57] succeeded 7th Duke Richmond, 2nd Duke Gordon, 7th Earl March, 7th Baron Settrington.
On 15th February 1905 [her son] Bernard Brassey 2nd Baron Brassey was born to [her husband] Henry Brassey 1st Baron Apethorpe [aged 34] and Violet Mary Gordon Lennox Baroness Brassey [aged 33].
New York Times 19 May 1910. 19th May 1910. DE CRESPIGNY A SUICIDE.
British Officer Who Recently Played Polo in America Self-Slain.
Special Cable to the New York Trans.
LONDON, May 18. Capt. Claude Champion De Crespigny [deceased]; D. S. O., who was recently in New. York, where he had many friends, was found dead today, by the roadside at Kingscliffe, Northamptonshire. He was shot through the head, and a revolver was in his hand.
Capt. Champion De Crespigny arrived at Kingscliffe Station from London at 10:30 last night and set oùt to walk In the direction of Apethorpe Hall, the residence of [her husband] Leonard Brassey [aged 40] and Lady Violet Brassey [aged 38], where he had been an occasional visitor. At 5 o’clock this morning a workman came across his body.
The dead officer was the eldest son and heir of Sir Claude Champion De Crespigny, the well-KInown sportsman, of whom ft has been said that he can ‘hunt like a hound, swim like a fish, run like à hare, and box like Jeffries.
Capt. Champion De Crespigny was in the Second Life Guards.
Capt. Claude Champion De Crespigny wvas a member of the Hurlingsham Club polo team that recently visited the United States.
The Captain was 37 years of age. He served with the British Army in South Africa in 1899 and 1900, and with the West African frontier force in 1903. He wass twice wounded, and was twice recommended by his commanding officers for the Victoria Cross because of deeds of conspicuous gallantry.
Capt. Champion De Crespigny was made a member of the Distinguished Service Order in 1900, and in that year became an aid de camp to the Viceroy of India, returning to England in 1002. He was educated at Eon, and entered the army in 1895.
The Champion De Crespignys are a very old Norman family who fought in the first crusade under St. Louis and took the name "Champion"' from ths circumstance that the head of the family was hereditary champion of the Dukes of Normandy and Brittany.
Claude Chammplon De Crespigny, Escuier, Sieur De Crespigny, was an officer of high rank in the French army, but after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes went with all his family to England, where he was received by the Pierponts, being alllied bv marriage with that noble house. He obtained a Colonel’s commission in the Englisn army. His great-grandson was created a baronet In 1800 after receiving the Prince Regent at his home, Champion Lodge.
The present baronet, Sir Ciaude Champion De Chespigny, has five sons, each of whom is named Claude. Capt. De Crespigny, who has committed suicide, bore no other Christian name, while each of the others has two Christian names. The heir is now Claude Raoul Champion De Crespigny [aged 32], an officer of the Grenadier Guards.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback format.
On 18th November 1911 [her brother-in-law] Alan Ian Percy 8th Duke Northumberland [aged 31] and [her half-sister] Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 24] were married. She the daughter of [her father] Charles Gordon-Lennox 7th Duke Richmond [aged 65] and [her step-mother] Isabel Sophie Craven. He the son of Henry George Percy 7th Duke Northumberland [aged 65] and Edith Campbell Duchess Northumberland [aged 62]. They were fifth cousins.
On 14th May 1918 Henry George Percy 7th Duke Northumberland [aged 71] died. He was buried at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Lesbury [Map]. His son [her brother-in-law] Alan [aged 38] succeeded 8th Duke Northumberland, 5th Earl Beverley, 11th Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire. [her half-sister] Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 31] by marriage Duchess Northumberland.
In 1922 [her husband] Henry Brassey 1st Baron Apethorpe [aged 51] was created 1st Baronet Brassey of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire. Violet Mary Gordon Lennox Baroness Brassey [aged 50] by marriage Lady Brassey of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire.
On 18th January 1928 [her father] Charles Gordon-Lennox 7th Duke Richmond [aged 82] died. His son [her brother] Charles [aged 57] succeeded 8th Duke Richmond, 3rd Duke Gordon, 8th Earl March, 8th Baron Settrington. [her sister-in-law] Hilda Madeline Brassey Duchess Richmond [aged 55] by marriage Duchess Richmond, Duchess Gordon.
On 7th May 1935 [her brother] Charles Gordon-Lennox 8th Duke Richmond [aged 64] died. His son [her nephew] Frederick [aged 31] succeeded 9th Duke Richmond, 4th Duke Gordon, 9th Earl March, 9th Baron Settrington.
In 1938 [her husband] Henry Brassey 1st Baron Apethorpe [aged 67] was created 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire. Violet Mary Gordon Lennox Baroness Brassey [aged 66] by marriage Baroness Brassey of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire.
In 1946 Violet Mary Gordon Lennox Baroness Brassey [aged 74] died.
On 22nd October 1958 [her former husband] Henry Brassey 1st Baron Apethorpe [aged 88] died. His son Bernard [aged 53] succeeded 2nd Baron Brassey of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire, 2nd Baronet Brassey of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire.
Kings Wessex: Great x 25 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 22 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 28 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 24 Grand Daughter of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 6 Grand Daughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Kings Scotland: Great x 6 Grand Daughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Kings France: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of Henry IV King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 29 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of John II King Aragon
Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Lennox 2nd Duke Richmond 
Grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Lennox Great Grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Sarah Cadogan Duchess Richmond 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Lennox 4th Duke Richmond 2 x Great Grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Henry Kerr 4th Marquess Lothian 6 x Great Grandson of King James V of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Louisa Kerr 4 x Great Granddaughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Caroline Darcy Marchioness Lothian 
3 x Great Granddaughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles Gordon-Lennox 5th Duke Richmond 3 x Great Grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Cosmo George Gordon 3rd Duke Gordon 7 x Great Grandson of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: Alexander Gordon 4th Duke Gordon 8 x Great Grandson of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Gordon Duchess Gordon 7 x Great Granddaughter of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Charlotte Gordon Duchess Richmond 9 x Great Granddaughter of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Maxwell 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Maxwell Duchess Gordon
Grandfather: Charles Gordon-Lennox 6th Duke Richmond 4 x Great Grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Bayly 2nd Baronet Bayly of Plas Newydd in Anglesey 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Bayly-Paget 1st Earl Uxbridge 12 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Caroline Paget Lady Plas Newydd Anglesey 11 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry William Paget 1st Marquess Anglesey 13 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Very Reverend Arthur Champagné
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Champagné Countess Uxbridge
Great x 1 Grandmother: Caroline Paget Duchess Richmond 10 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Villiers 3rd Earl Jersey 
12 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Bussy Villiers 4th Earl Jersey 8 x Great Grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Egerton Duchess Bedford 
7 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Caroline Elizabeth Villiers Duchess Argyll 9 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Bishop Philip Twysden 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Twysden
father: Charles Gordon-Lennox 7th Duke Richmond 5 x Great Grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Algernon Greville 
10 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Fulke Greville 11 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Somerset 
11 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Greville 12 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Algernon Frederick Greville 10 x Great Grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Bentinck 2nd Duke Portland 
11 x Great Grandson of King Henry IV of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cavendish-Bentinck 3rd Duke Portland 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward IV of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Cavendish Harley 2nd Duchess Portland 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward IV of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Charlotte Cavendish-Bentinck 9 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire 
11 x Great Grandson of King Henry IV of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothy Cavendish 3rd Duchess Portland 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle Marchioness Hartington 
7 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Grandmother: Frances Harriett Greville Duchess Richmond 11 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 1 Grandmother: Charlotte Maria Cox
Violet Mary Gordon Lennox Baroness Brassey 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Grandfather: Percy Ricardo
mother: Amy Mary Ricardo