In 1866 [his father] Henry Brassey [aged 25] and [his mother] Harriet Stevenson were married.
On 7th March 1870 Henry Brassey 1st Baron Apethorpe was born to Henry Brassey [aged 29] and Harriet Stevenson.
On 13th May 1891 [his father] Henry Brassey [aged 50] died.
On 8th June 1893 [his brother-in-law] Charles Gordon-Lennox 8th Duke Richmond [aged 22] and [his sister] Hilda Madeline Brassey Duchess Richmond [aged 20] were married. He the son of [his future father-in-law] Charles Gordon-Lennox 7th Duke Richmond [aged 47] and 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.
In 1898 [his mother] Harriet Stevenson died.
In 1904 Henry Brassey 1st Baron Apethorpe [aged 33] purchased Apethorpe Hall, Northamptonshire.
On 15th February 1905 [his son] Bernard Brassey 2nd Baron Brassey was born to Henry Brassey 1st Baron Apethorpe [aged 34] and [his wife] Violet Mary Gordon Lennox Baroness Brassey [aged 33].
In 1910 Henry Brassey 1st Baron Apethorpe [aged 39] was elected MP Peterborough North which seat he held until 1918.
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 Leonard Brassey [aged 40] and Lady [his wife] 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.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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On 18th November 1911 Alan Ian Percy 8th Duke Northumberland [aged 31] and [his sister-in-law] Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 24] were married. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] Charles Gordon-Lennox 7th Duke Richmond [aged 65] and 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.
In 1918 Henry Brassey 1st Baron Apethorpe [aged 47] was elected MP Peterborough which seat he held until 1929.
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 Alan [aged 38] succeeded 8th Duke Northumberland, 5th Earl Beverley, 11th Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire. [his sister-in-law] Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 31] by marriage Duchess Northumberland.
In 1922 Henry Brassey 1st Baron Apethorpe [aged 51] was created 1st Baronet Brassey of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire. [his wife] Violet Mary Gordon Lennox Baroness Brassey [aged 50] by marriage Lady Brassey of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire.
On 18th January 1928 [his father-in-law] Charles Gordon-Lennox 7th Duke Richmond [aged 82] died. His son [his brother-in-law] Charles [aged 57] succeeded 8th Duke Richmond, 3rd Duke Gordon, 8th Earl March, 8th Baron Settrington. [his sister] Hilda Madeline Brassey Duchess Richmond [aged 55] by marriage Duchess Richmond, Duchess Gordon.
In 1938 Henry Brassey 1st Baron Apethorpe [aged 67] was created 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire. [his wife] Violet Mary Gordon Lennox Baroness Brassey [aged 66] by marriage Baroness Brassey of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire.
In 1946 [his wife] Violet Mary Gordon Lennox Baroness Brassey [aged 74] died.
On 22nd October 1958 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.
Grandfather: Thomas Brassey 
father: Henry Brassey
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Harrison of Liverpool
Grandmother: Maria Harrison
Henry Brassey 1st Baron Apethorpe
Grandfather: Major George Stevenson of Tongswood, Hawkhurst
mother: Harriet Stevenson