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

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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 Surrey in 1940.

Family

On 16 November 1920 he married Sonia Rosemary Keppel, daughter of George Keppel (British Army officer, born 1865), the hon. George Keppel and his wife Alice Keppel, at the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London, Wellington Barracks, in London. They were divorced in 1947 after having three children: *Rosalind Shand, Rosalind Maud Cubitt (1921–1994) m. Major Bruce Shand, Bruce Middleton Hope Shand and had three children: ** Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla Rosemary Shand (b. 17 July 1947), later The Queen Consort ** Annabel Elliot, Sonia Annabel Shand (b. 2 February 1949) ** Mark Shand, Mark Roland Shand (28 June 1951 – 23 April 2014) * Henry Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe, Henry Edward Cubitt (1924–2013) (who succeeded as the 4th Baron Ashcombe on the death of his father) m. Ghislaine Alexander (''née'' Dresselhuys, ex-wife of Denis Alexander, 6th Earl of Caledon later The Baroness Foley) :: m. Virginia Carington (daughter of Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington) :: m. Mary Elizabeth Dent-Brocklehurst (née Chipps) (widow of late Mark Dent-Brocklehurst) *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, Ranmore Common, Surrey.

References

1899 births 1962 deaths Barons Ashcombe, 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