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Rachel Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre
Rachel Leila Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre (née Brand, 24
October 1929 – 25 December 2012) was an English peeress, daughter of
Thomas Brand, 4th Viscount Hampden & 26th Baron Dacre by his wife
Leila Emily Seely, a granddaughter of Sir Charles Seely, 1st
Baronet, and a great-great granddaughter of John Russell, 6th Duke
of Bedford.
Lady Dacre was a great-granddaughter of
William
Montagu Douglas Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch and through him a
direct descendant of Charles II of England.
The ancient English
barony, created by writ of summons, fell into abeyance between her
and her younger surviving sister (The Hon Mrs Ogilvie Thompson) upon
her father's death in 1965 and was called out of abeyance in 1970 in
favour of The Hon Mrs Douglas-Home, whilst the Hampden viscountcy
passed to her uncle.
She married on 26 July 1951 The
Hon
William Douglas-Home, 3rd son of the 13th Earl of Home, and a
younger brother of the 14th Earl of Home, better known as
Sir Alec
Douglas-Home, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Lady Dacre and her husband (who d. 1992) lived in Hampshire had four
children, all of whom and their descendants are in remainder to the
Dacre barony:
The Hon James Thomas Archibald Douglas-Home (16 May
1952-8 May 2014), 28th Baron Dacre, who married in 1979 Christine
Stephenson. On his death their only child, Emily (b. 7 Feb 1983),
became 29th Baroness Dacre.The Hon Sarah Douglas-Home (b. 4 July
1954), married in 1977 Nicholas Dent and has issue.The Hon Gian
Leila Douglas-Home (b. 23 June 1958).The Hon Dinah Lilian
Douglas-Home (b. 22 Jan 1964), married in 1989 Harry Marriott and
has issue.
Notes:
1. Ralph (or Ranulph) Dacre, 1st
Baron Dacre (ca. 1290 – April 1339) was the son of Sir
William Dacre of Cumberland. In 1321 he was summoned to the
House of Lords as Lord Dacre. In 1331 he was appointed High
Sheriff of Cumberland and Governor of Carlisle.
2. Thee
have ben several baronesses, so a direct descent from the
1st Baron seems unlikley. I havenot traced this.
3. Henry
Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden, became the twenty-third Baron
Dacre. The barony remained a subsidiary title of the
viscountcy until the death of his great-grandson, the fourth
Viscount and twenty-sixth Baron, in 1965. The late Viscount
was succeeded in the viscountcy by his younger brother while
the barony fell into abeyance between his two surviving
daughters the Hon. Rachel Leila Douglas-Home and the Hon.
Tessa Mary Thompson. The abeyance was terminated in 1970 in
favour of the elder daughter, the twenty-seventh holder of
the title. She married the Hon. William Douglas-Home, second
son of Charles Cospatrick Archibald Douglas-Home, 13th Earl
of Home and younger brother of Prime Minister Sir Alec
Douglas-Home. She died in 2012 and was succeeded by her son,
Emily's father.
Any contributions will be
gratefully accepted
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