Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet
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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Malcolm Mount of Wasing Place,[1] 2nd Baronet[2] TD (28 December 1904 – 22 June 1993) was a British Army officer, High Sheriff of Berkshire and grandfather to David Cameron, UK Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party.
Eldest son of Sir William Arthur Mount, 1st Baronet and wife Hilda Lucy Adelaide Low, he was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford.[3]
On 17 October 1929 at St. John the Baptist, Moulsford, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), he married Elizabeth Nance Llewellyn (Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, 22 December 1904 - 1997), daughter of Owen John Llewellyn of Moulsford, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) (Burrington, Somerset, 1870 - living 1929) and wife (m. Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 1903) Anna Elizabeth Mann (Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 1877 - living 1929), paternal granddaughter of Evan Henry Llewellyn (Llangyfelach, Swansea, Wales, 25 February 1847 - 27 February 1914) and wife (m. Axbridge, Somerset, 29 October 1868) Mary Blanche Somers (Langford Place, Somerset, baptized in Burrington, Somerset, 1847 - ?), and maternal granddaughter of William John Mann (Bradford-upon-Avon, Wiltshire, 1849 - ?) and wife (m. Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 1876) Julia Brown (Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 1846 - ?).[4]
He did not inherit the baronetcy and the family estate at Wasing Place in Berkshire on 8 December 1930 on the death of his father. He served in World War II (wounded) as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Reconnaissance Corps.
Mount was appointed as High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1947,[5] and Vice-Lieutenant for Berkshire in 1960.[6]
On his death in June 1993 at the age of 88, Mount had no surviving sons his baronetcy was inherited by his nephew Ferdinand. His eldest daughter Cecilia Mary (born 1931) married Sir William Dugdale, Warwickshire landowner and former chairman of Aston Villa football club, and is the mother of the documentary filmmaker Joshua Dugdale. His 2nd daughter, Mary Fleur (b.1934), m. Ian Donald Cameron and is the mother of David Cameron, Conservative MP and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2010-). Viola Clare (b.1938), his youngest daughter, m. John Currie of Capetown, S. Africa.[7]
17 years after his death, his grandson David Cameron became prime minister of the United Kingdom.[8]
[edit] References
- ^ Reading, Berkshire
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968. p.577. Mount.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968. p.577, Mount.
- ^ http://www.wargs.com/noble/cameron.html
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968. p.577, Mount.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968. p.577, Mount
- ^ [2]
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| Preceded by William Mount |
Baronet (of Wasing) |
Succeeded by Ferdinand Mount |
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