Roland Calvert Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe, (26 January 1899 – 28 October 1962) was a member of the British aristocracy. He became Baron Ashcombe on the death of his father

Henry Cubitt, 2nd Baron Ashcombe Henry Edward Cubitt, 2nd Baron Ashcombe (14 March 1867 – 27 October 1947), was a British politician and peer, the son of George Cubitt, 1st Baron Ashcombe, and his wife Laura Joyce. He is also the great-grandfather of Queen Camilla. Educatio ...

, in 1947. He was the maternal grandfather of

Queen Camilla Camilla (born Camilla Rosemary Shand, later Parker Bowles, 17 July 1947) is Queen Consort of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms as the wife of King Charles III. She became queen consort on 8 September 2022, upon the acc ...

Education and career

Cubitt was educated at

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and the

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. He was a

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in the

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, and was appointed to be a Deputy Lieutenant in 1939 and held office as Vice-Lord Lieutenant of

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in 1940.

Family

On 16 November 1920 he married

Sonia Rosemary Keppel Sonia Rosemary Cubitt, (''née'' Keppel, previously The Hon. Mrs. Cubitt; 24 May 1900 – 16 August 1986) was a British socialite, author and aristocrat. She was the first wife of Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe and through her only daughter R ...

, daughter of the hon. George Keppel and his wife

Alice Keppel Alice Frederica Keppel (''née'' Edmonstone; 29 April 1868 – 11 September 1947) was an aristocrat, british society hostess and a long-time mistress of King Edward VII. Keppel grew up at Duntreath Castle, the family seat of the Edmonstone baro ...

, at the

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, in London. They were divorced in 1947 after having three children: *

Rosalind Maud Cubitt Rosalind Maud Shand (' Cubitt; 11 August 1921 – 14 July 1994) was a British charity worker and aristocrat, daughter of Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe. She was the wife of army officer Major Bruce Shand and the mother of Queen Camilla. Chil ...

(1921–1994) m.

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Bruce Middleton Hope Shand and had three children: ** Camilla Rosemary Shand (b. 17 July 1947), later The Queen Consort ** Sonia Annabel Shand (b. 2 February 1949) ** Mark Roland Shand (28 June 1951 – 23 April 2014) * Henry Edward Cubitt (1924–2013) (who succeeded as the 4th Baron Ashcombe on the death of his father) m.

Ghislaine Alexander Ghislaine Marie-Rose Edith Alexander (''née'' Dresselhuys; 7 January 1922 – 25 April 2000) was a wealthy heiress and British socialite who was a panelist on the British version of ''What's My Line?''. Life and times Alexander was the only da ...

(''née'' Dresselhuys, ex-wife of

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later The Baroness Foley) :: m. Virginia Carington (daughter of

Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton, (6 June 1919 – 9July 2018), was a British Conservative Party politician and hereditary peer who served as Defence Secretary from 1970 to 1974, Foreign Secretary ...

) :: m. Mary Elizabeth Dent-Brocklehurst (née Chipps) (widow of late

Mark Dent-Brocklehurst Geoffrey Mark Dent-Brocklehurst (25 April 1932 – 9 September 1972) was a British stockbroker and the heir to Sudeley Castle. He was the son of Major John Henry Dent-Brocklehurst and his wife, Mary (''née'' Morrison). Via his paternal grandmot ...

) *Jeremy John Cubitt (1927–1958) m. Diana Edith Du Cane and had a child: ** Sarah Victoria Cubitt (b. 1953) Roland married secondly, on 6 August 1948, Idina Joan Mills who died in 1954 (former wife of Lieut. John Charles Trueman Mills), daughter of Col. Robert Edward Myddelton, and his wife Lady Violet Wellesley. He married thirdly, on 2 July 1959, Jean Baylis (former wife of Greville Pollard Baylis), daughter of Charles Tuller Garland (d.1973).

Death and burial

He died on 28 October 1962 is buried in the churchyard of St Barnabas's Church,

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, Surrey.

References

1899 births 1962 deaths 3 Deputy Lieutenants of Surrey Coldstream Guards officers Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst People educated at Eton College Cubitt family {{UK-baron-stub