Sir Edmund George Felix Paston-Bedingfeld, 9th Baronet (2 June 1915 – 24 May 2011) was a landowner and

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officer.

Early life

Paston-Bedingfield was born on 2 June 1915. He was the third, but eldest surviving, son of Maj. Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfeld, 8th Baronet and Sybil Lyne-Stephens. His paternal grandparents were Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfeld, 7th Baronet and the former Augusta Lucy Clavering, only child and heiress of Edward John Clavering, of

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. His mother was the eldest daughter of Henry Alexander Claremont Lyne-Stephens of

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(son of

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), and Katherine Gregory Walker (who married his grandfather's younger brother, Raoul, after his grandfather's death). He was educated at

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and at

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Career

He was a member of the 5th battalion,

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in the 1930s, before becoming a Major in the

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Regiment, during

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. He served in north-west

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in 1940, and from 1944 to 1945, and was

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. He was a member of the London

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. A major

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landowner and

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, he succeeded to the baronetcy in 1941 upon the death of his father.

Personal life

On 6 June 1942, Paston-Bedingfeld married Joan Lynette Rees (d. 1965), a daughter of Edgar Rees, of Lwyneithin, Llanelly,

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. Before their divorce in 1952, on the grounds of his adultery, they had a son and a daughter: * Sir Henry Edgar Paston-Bedingfeld, 10th Baronet (b. 1943), who married Mary Kathleen Ambrose, a daughter of Brig. Robert Ambrose, in 1968. * Alexandra Winifred Mary Paston-Bedingfeld (b. 1947), who married James Michael Yearsley, son of J. Yearsley, in 1970. They divorced in 1977 and she married Jack Pemberton in 1978. After their divorce, Joan married Richard Dewar Neame and then Hon. John David Coulson Fellowes (a grandson of the 2nd Baron de Ramsey). Five years later, he married Agnes Kathleen Susan Anne Gluck (d. 1974), daughter of Miklos Gluck (of

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), on 31 May 1957. She died in 1974.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 3, page 3067. His third marriage was on 20 November 1975, to Peggy Hannaford-Hill. She died in 1991. His fourth, and last, marriage was to Sheila Douglas, daughter of John Douglas, on 15 February 1992. Sir Edmund he died on 24 May 2011 at age 95 at

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, Suffolk, and was succeeded by his son

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