Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe

The 3rd Baron Ashcombe
Roland Cubitt
Spouse(s)	1. Sonia Rosemary Keppel 2. Idina Joan Mills (née Myddleton) 3. Jean Baylis (née Garland)
Father	Henry Cubitt, 2nd Baron Ashcombe
Mother	Maud Calvert
Born	26 January 1899(1899-01-26)
Died	28 October 1962(1962-10-28) (aged 63)

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 in 1947.

Education and career

Cubitt was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College Sandhurst. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant in the service of the Coldstream Guards. He held office as Deputy Lieutenant, and later Vice-Lord-Lieutenant, of Surrey.

Family

On 16 November 1920 he married Sonia Keppel, daughter of Hon. George Keppel and his wife Alice Keppel (mistress of King Edward VII), at the Guard's Chapel, Wellington Barracks in London. They divorced in 1947 after having three children:

• Hon. Rosalind Maud Cubitt (b. 11 August 1921 – 14 July 1994), who married Bruce Shand and whose daughter is Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
• Henry Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe (b. 31 March 1924)
• Hon. Jeremy John Cubitt (b. 7 May 1927 – 12 January 1958)

He married secondly, on 6 August 1948, Idina Joan Mills (former wife of Lieut. John Charles Trueman Mills), daughter of Col. Robert Edward Myddleton, and his wife Lady Violet Wellesley.

He married thirdly, on 2 July 1959, Jean Baylis (former wife of Greville Pollard Bylis), daughter of Charles Tuller Garland.

Death and burial

He died on 28 October 1962 is buried in the churchyard of St Barnabas Church, Ranmore Common, Surrey.

Roland Cubitt funerary monument, St Barnabas Church, Ranmore Common, Surrey

References

Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe at thepeerage.com

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Henry Cubitt	Baron Ashcombe 1947–1962	Succeeded by Henry Cubitt