Biography of Captain Percy Lyulph Wyndham 1887-1914

Before 19th March 1879 Victor Alexander Grosvenor [aged 25] and [his mother] Sibell Mary Lumley [aged 23] were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Richard Lumley 9th Earl Scarborough [aged 65] and [his grandmother] Adeliza Drummond Countess Scarborough. He the son of Hugh Lupus Grosvenor 1st Duke Westminster [aged 53] and Constance Leveson-Gower Duchess Westminster [aged 44]. They were third cousins.

In 1887 [his father] George Wyndham [aged 23] and [his mother] Sibell Mary Lumley [aged 31] were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Richard Lumley 9th Earl Scarborough and [his grandmother] Adeliza Drummond Countess Scarborough. They were half fifth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 5th December 1887 Captain Percy Lyulph Wyndham was born to [his father] George Wyndham [aged 24] and [his mother] Sibell Mary Lumley [aged 32] at Saighton Grange, Cheshire.

On 15th July 1899 [his brother-in-law] Anthony Ashley-Cooper 9th Earl of Shaftesbury [aged 29] and [his half-sister] Constance Grosvenor Countess of Shaftesbury [aged 23] were married. She by marriage Countess Shaftesbury. He the son of Anthony Ashley-Cooper 8th Earl Shaftesbury and Harriet Augusta Anna Seymourina Chichester Countess Shaftesbury. They were fifth cousins.

On 22nd December 1899 Hugh Lupus Grosvenor 1st Duke Westminster [aged 74] died. His grandson [his half-brother] Hugh [aged 20] succeeded 2nd Duke Westminster, 4th Marquess Westminster, 5th Earl Grosvenor, 11th Baronet Grosvenor of Eaton in Cheshire. Monument in Grosvenor Chapel, St Mary's Church, Eccleston [Map] sculpted by Leon Joseph Chavalliaud [aged 41].

On 16th February 1901 [his half-brother] Hugh "Bendor" Grosvenor 2nd Duke Westminster [aged 21] and [his sister-in-law] Constance Edwina "Shelagh" Cornwallis-West Duchess Westminster [aged 25] were married. She by marriage Duchess Westminster.

On 1902 [his brother-in-law] William Lygon 7th Earl Beauchamp [aged 29] and [his half-sister] Lettice Mary Elizabeth Grosvenor Countess Beauchamp [aged 25] were married. She by marriage Countess Beauchamp. He the son of Frederick Lygon 6th Earl Beauchamp and Mary Catherine Stanhope Countess Beauchamp. They were half third cousin once removed.

In 1909 Captain Percy Lyulph Wyndham [aged 21] enlisted in the Coldstream Guards. He was commissioned as Lieutenant in May 1910.

On 2nd April 1911 Captain Percy Lyulph Wyndham [aged 23] was recorded in the 1911 Census as living at 35 Park Lane.

On 17th April 1913 Captain Percy Lyulph Wyndham [aged 25] and Diana Lister Countess of Westmoreland [aged 20] were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 8th June 1913 [his father] George Wyndham [aged 49] died in Paris [Map].

On 18th September 1914 the Western Gazette reported...

East Knoyle - Death of Mr Percy Wyndham [deceased]

The inhabitants of this village were grief-stricken on Wednesday when the news arrived that Lt Percy Wyndham of the Coldstream Guards had died on the battlefield. It was only some two years ago that the deceased gentleman was married to a daughter [aged 21] of Lord Ribblesdale [aged 59], and a niece of Mrs Asquith [aged 50], wife of the Prime Minister [aged 62]. Like his father (the Rt Hon George Wyndham), and his grandfather (the Hon Percy Wyndham), the deceased officer had greatly endeared himself to the parishioners, with all of whom he was on intimate terms. The greatest sympathy is felt with Mrs Wyndham in her sad loss.

In 1918 Captain Arthur Edward "Boy" Capel [aged 36] and [his former wife] Diana Lister Countess of Westmoreland [aged 25] were married.

In 1923 Vere Fane 14th Earl of Westmoreland [aged 29] and [his former wife] Diana Lister Countess of Westmoreland [aged 30] were married. She by marriage Countess of Westmoreland. He the son of Anthony Fane 13th Earl of Westmoreland and Sybil Mary St Clair-Erskine Countess of Westmorland.

In 1983 [his former wife] Diana Lister Countess of Westmoreland [aged 90] died.