On 24th April 1909 Nigel Trevithick Tangye was born to Richard Trevithick Gilbertstone Tangye [aged 33].
On 3rd August 1934 Claud Dobree Strickland [aged 25] and [his future wife] Marguerite Rose Bligh aka Tangye [aged 21] were married. She the daughter of [his future father-in-law] Esme Ivo Bligh 9th Earl of Darnley [aged 47] and Daphne Rachel Mulholland [aged 44].
On 27th October 1939 Nigel Trevithick Tangye [aged 30] and Ann Todd [aged 32] were married.
In February 1941 Claud Dobree Strickland [aged 31] and [his future wife] Marguerite Rose Bligh aka Tangye [aged 27] were married. She the daughter of [his future father-in-law] Esme Ivo Bligh 9th Earl of Darnley [aged 54] and Daphne Rachel Mulholland [aged 50].
On 30th April 1942 Gordon Stanley Keith Haywood and [his future wife] Marguerite Rose Bligh aka Tangye [aged 29] were married. She the daughter of [his future father-in-law] Esme Ivo Bligh 9th Earl of Darnley [aged 55] and Daphne Rachel Mulholland [aged 51].
On 12th June 1944 [his father] Richard Trevithick Gilbertstone Tangye [aged 68] died.
1946. Percy Wyndham Lewis [aged 63]. Portrait of Nigel Trevithick Tangye [aged 36].
On 12th March 1949 Nigel Trevithick Tangye [aged 39] and Ann Todd [aged 42] were divorced.
On 21st May 1949 David Lean [aged 41] and [his former wife] Ann Todd [aged 42] were married. Both third weddings. She had divorced her second husband Nigel Trevithick Tangye [aged 40], his second cousin1, ten weeks before.
Note 1. Her first husband Nigel Trevithick Tangye was a great grandson of Joseph Tangye who was a grandfather of David Lean's mother Helena Tangye [aged 77].
In 1951 Gordon Stanley Keith Haywood and [his future wife] Marguerite Rose Bligh aka Tangye [aged 37] were divorced.
On 3rd May 1951 Nigel Trevithick Tangye [aged 42] and Marguerite Rose Bligh aka Tangye [aged 38] were married. She the daughter of Esme Ivo Bligh 9th Earl of Darnley [aged 64] and Daphne Rachel Mulholland.
On 29th May 1955 [his father-in-law] Esme Ivo Bligh 9th Earl of Darnley [aged 68] died. His son [his brother-in-law] Peter [aged 39] succeeded 10th Earl Darnley, 19th Baron Clifton of Leighton Bromswold in Huntingdonshire.
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In 1957 David Lean [aged 48] and [his former wife] Ann Todd [aged 49] were divorced.
In 1964 Nigel Trevithick Tangye [aged 54] and Marguerite Rose Bligh aka Tangye [aged 50] were divorced.
On 15th June 1980 [his former brother-in-law] Major Peter Stuart Bligh 10th Earl of Darnley [aged 64] died. His half brother Adam [aged 38] succeeded 11th Earl Darnley, 20th Baron Clifton of Leighton Bromswold in Huntingdonshire.
In 1988 Nigel Trevithick Tangye [aged 78] died.
On 6th May 1993 [his former wife] Ann Todd [aged 86] died.
On 10th October 2002 [his former wife] Marguerite Rose Bligh aka Tangye [aged 89] died.
Great x 1 Grandfather: Joseph Tangye
Grandfather: Richard Tangye
father: Richard Trevithick Gilbertstone Tangye