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On this Day in History ... 5th December

05 Dec is in December.

1290 Eleanor Crosses

1559 Death and Funeral of Frances Brandon

1560 Death of Francis II King France Charles IX Succeeds

1603 Main and Bye Plots

1533 Buggery Act

1683 Indemnity and Oblivion Act

1702 Battle of Vigo Bay

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Events on the 5th December

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 1067. This year came the king (age 39) back again to England on St. Nicholas's day; and the same day was burned the church of Christ at Canterbury [Map]. Bishop Wulfwy also died, and is buried at his see in Dorchester [Map].

On 04 or 05 Dec 1270 Theobald "Young" II King Navarre (age 30) died at Trapani returning from the Eighth Crusade. His brother Henry I King Navarre (age 26) succeeded I King Navarre, III Count Champagne. Blanche Capet Queen Navarre (age 22) by marriage Queen Navarre, Countess Champagne.

On 05 Dec 1290 Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (deceased) body rested at Queen's Cross, Stamford.

Source Stamford Local History Society, Ken Coles 1980.

Stamford’s cross stood for approximately 350 years, and to confirm this we have two eye-witnesses. The first was Captain Richard Symonds of the Royalist army, who visited Stamford briefly on his way from Newark to Huntingdon on Saturday August 22nd 1645. He wrote the following in his diary, "In the hill before ye into the towne stands a lofty large cross, built by Edward I in memory of Eleanor whose corps rested there coming from the north. Upon the top of this cross these three shields shields are often carved: England; three bends sinister; a bordure (Ponthieu); Quarterly Castile and Leon".

The second eye-witness is Richard Butcher, Town Clerk. In his survey of Stamford of 1646 he says the following: "Near unto the York highway and about twelve score paces from the town gate which is called Clement Gate, stands an ancient crosse of freestone of very considerable fabric, having many ancient scrutcheons or arms insculped in the stone about it as the arms of Castille and Leon quartered being the paternal coat of the King of Spain and divers other hatchments belonging to that crown which envious time hath so defaced that only the ruins appear to my eye and therefore not to be described by my pen"

Later Evidence On January 16th 1745 William Stukeley wrote to a fellow antiquarian: "Our surveyor of the turnpike road opened up a tumulus half a mile north of Stamford on the brow of a hill by the roadside and there discovered the foundations of the Queen’s Cross, the lower most tier of the steps in tact and part of the second, tis of Barnack stone, hexagonal, the measure of each side thirteen feet so the diameter was thirty feet. It stood on a grassy heath called by the towns people Queens Cross."

In another letter dated 21st December 1754 he wrote that Mr Wying surveyor of the turnpike, was opening a quarry on the left hand side of the road from Stamford to Great Casterton and that he took away a carved stone from part of the pinnacle and other pieces which he put in his Barnhill garden. He says the cross ‘stood on a delicate eminence called Anemone Hill’. He also wrote to the Mercury quite soon after this, on December 26th 1745, reporting the discovery of the remains of a cross ‘on a grassy cliff on the left hand from Stamford to Brigcasterton’.

In 1993 a fragment of Purbeck marble with a rose carved on one of its surfaces was found in the garden of Stukeley House, 9 Barn Hill, Stamford, the home in the 1740s of noted antiquary, William Stukeley. The appearance of this fragment accorded with a description of the upper shaft of the Stamford Eleanor Cross Stukeley claimed to have found in December 1745 on Anemone Hill (upper Casterton Road). Further research confirmed the fragment to be part of Stukeley’s find and that he had almost certainly discovered the site of the Stamford Eleanor Cross. This discovery places the Stamford Eleanor Cross in the Foxdale area of Casterton Road, map reference TF01910758 +/- 20 m. and not at the junction of Empingham and Casterton Roads as previously thought.

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On 05 Nov 1376 or 05 Dec 1376 John Arundell (age 40) was drowned on the journey to Brittany. See Adam of Usk.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 05 Dec 1558. The v day here Grace (age 25) removyd by water undur the bryge unto Somersett plase [Map], with trumpetes playng, and melody and joye and comfortt to all truw Englys-men and women, and to all pepulle.

On 05 Dec 1559 Frances Brandon Duchess of Suffolk (deceased) was buried in St Edmund's Chapel in Westminster Abbey [Map] at a ceremony conducted by Bishop John Jewel (age 37). Her daughter Catherine Grey Countess Hertford (age 19) was Chief Mourner. Mary Grey (age 14) was present. Her effigy, possibly designed by Cornelius Cure, was paid for by her husband Adrian Stokes (age 40): recumbent effigy dressed in Ermine robes signifying she was a duchess with a pendant around her neck. She lies on mattress with a lion at her feet and her coronet has been repaired and gilded.

The inscription on her grave reads in Latin:

Nor grace, nor splendor, nor a royal name,

Nor widespread fame can aught avail;

All, all have vanished here.

True worth alone Survives the funeral pyre and silent tomb.

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Dirge for the most noble Lady Frances, onetime Duchess of Suffolk: naught avails glory or splendour, naught avail titles of kings; naught profits a magnificent abode, resplendent with wealth. All, all are passed away: the glory of virtue alone remained, impervious to the funeral pyres of Tartarus [part of Hades or the Underworld]. She was married first to the Duke, and after was wife to Mr Stock, Esq. Now, in death, may you fare well, united to God.

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Here lieth the ladie Francis, Duches of Southfolke, daughter to Charles Brandon, Duke of Southfolke, and Marie the Frenche Quene: first wife to Henrie Duke of Southfolke and after to Adrian Stock Esquier.

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Henry Machyn's Diary. 05 Dec 1559. The v day (of) Dessember was bered in Westmynster abbay [Map] my lade Frances (deceased) the wyff of Hare duke of Suffolke, with a gret baner of armes and viij banar-rolles, and a hersse and a viij dosen penselles, and a viij dosen skockyons, and ij haroldes of armes, master Garter (age 49) and master Clarenshux (age 49), and mony morners.

Note. P. 217. Funeral of Frances duchess of Suffolk. Daughter of Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk, and Mary queen dowager of France, daughter of king Henry VII. She was first married to Henry Grey, marquess of Dorset, who was created duke of Suffolk in 1551 (see p. 10); by whom she was mother of queen Jane: and afterwards accepted the hand of Adrian Stokes (age 40) esquire, who erected her monument in Westminster abbey. Their portraits together are engraved by Vertue. Her style by our Diarist as "my lady Frances" did not arise either from ignorance or accident. The title "lady" was then equivalent to the modern title "princess;" and the duchess usually bore it, as her daughter "the lady Jane" had done, as distinctive of her being a member of the Blood Royal.—The heralds' account of her funeral is preserved in the College of Arms, I. 9, f. 153–4, and I. 14, f. 154–157.

On 05 Dec 1560 Francis II King France King Consort Scotland (age 16) died. His brother Charles IX King France (age 10) succeeded IX King France: Capet Valois Angoulême. Mary Queen of Scots (age 17) no longer Queen of France she returned to Scotland arriving at Leith 19 Aug 1561 after having been in France for thirteen years.

On 05 Dec 1603 George Brooke (age 35) was executed for his part in the Main and Bye Plots.

On 05 Dec 1640 Bishop John Atherton (age 42) was hanged at St Stephen's Green, Dublin for offences against the 1533 Buggery Act a law he had pushed for in Ireland.

John Evelyn's Diary. 05 Dec 1643. The Earl of Norwich (age 58) came as Ambassador extraordinary: I went to meet him in a coach and six horses, at the palace of Monsieur de Bassompière, where I saw that gallant person, his gardens, terraces, and rare prospects. My lord was waited on by the master of the ceremonies, and a very great cavalcade of men of quality, to the Palais Cardinal, where on the 23d he had audience of the French king (age 5), and the queen Regent his mother (age 42), in the golden chamber of presence. From thence, I conducted him to his lodgings in Rue St. Denis, and so took my leave.

On 05 Dec 1657 John Reynolds (age 32) was drowned when the ship on which he was sailing was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands [Map] when travelling to England from Mardyke Fort.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 05 Dec 1663. We staid till night, and then Mr. Coventry (age 35) away, and by and by I home to my office till 9 or 10 at night, and so home to supper and to bed after some talke and Arithmetique with my poor wife, with whom now-a-days I live with great content, out of all trouble of mind by jealousy (for which God forgive me), or any other distraction more than my fear of my Lord Sandwich's (age 38) displeasure.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 05 Dec 1664. Thence up and down the gallery, and got my Lord of Albemarle's (age 55) hand to my bill for Povy (age 50), but afterwards was asked some scurvy questions by Povy about my demands, which troubled [me], but will do no great hurt I think.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 05 Dec 1665. Then was I to go home by water this weather and darke, and to write letters by the post, besides keeping the East India officers there so late. I sent for him again; at last he comes, and says he cannot find the paper (which is a pretty thing to lay orders for £100,000 no better). I was angry; he told me I ought to give people ease at night, and all business was to be done by day. I answered him sharply, that I did [not] make, nor any honest man, any difference between night and day in the King's business, and this was such, and my Lord Ashley (age 44) should know. He answered me short. I told him I knew the time (meaning the Rump's time) when he did other men's business with more diligence. He cried, "Nay, say not so", and stopped his mouth, not one word after. We then did our business without the order in less than eight minutes, which he made me to no purpose stay above two hours for the doing. This made him mad, and so we exchanged notes, and I had notes for £14,000 of the Treasurer of the Company, and so away and by water to Greenwich, Kent [Map] and wrote my letters, and so home late to bed.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 05 Dec 1665. In the afternoon by water, calling Mr. Stevens (who is with great trouble paying of seamen of their tickets at Deptford, Kent [Map]) and to London, to look for Captain Kingdom whom we found at home about 5 o'clock. I tried him, and he promised to follow us presently to the East India House to sign papers to-night in order to the settling the business of my receiving money for Tangier [Map]. We went and stopt the officer there to shut up. He made us stay above an houre. I sent for him; he comes, but was not found at home, but abroad on other business, and brings a paper saying that he had been this houre looking for the Lord Ashley's (age 44) order. When he looks for it, that is not the paper. He would go again to look; kept us waiting till almost 8 at night.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 05 Dec 1668. Up, after a little talk with my wife, which troubled me, she being ever since our late difference mighty watchful of sleep and dreams, and will not be persuaded but I do dream of Deb., and do tell me that I speak in my dreams and that this night I did cry, Huzzy, and it must be she, and now and then I start otherwise than I used to do, she says, which I know not, for I do not know that I dream of her more than usual, though I cannot deny that my thoughts waking do run now and then against my will and judgment upon her, for that only is wanting to undo me, being now in every other thing as to my mind most happy, and may still be so but for my own fault, if I be catched loving any body but my wife again. So up and to the office, and at noon to dinner, and thence to office, where late, mighty busy, and despatching much business, settling papers in my own office, and so home to supper, and to bed. No news stirring, but that my Lord of Ormond (age 58) is likely to go to Ireland again, which do shew that the Duke of Buckingham (age 40) do not rule all so absolutely; and that, however, we shall speedily have more changes in the Navy: and it is certain that the Nonconformists do now preach openly in houses, in many places, and among others the house that was heretofore Sir G. Carteret's (age 58), in Leadenhall Street [Map]e, and have ready access to the King (age 38). And now the great dispute is, whether this Parliament or another; and my great design, if I continue in the Navy, is to get myself to be a Parliament-man.

John Evelyn's Diary. 05 Dec 1683. The Duke of Monmouth (age 34), now having his pardon, refuses to acknowledge there was any treasonable plot; for which he is banished Whitehall. This is a great disappointment to some who had prosecuted Trenchard, Hampden, etc., that for want of a second witness were come out of the Tower upon their habeas corpus.

John Evelyn's Diary. 05 Dec 1683. I was this day invited to a wedding of one Mrs. Castle, to whom I had some obligation, and it was to her fifth husband, a lieutenant-colonel of the city. She was the daughter of one Burton, a broom-man, by his wife, who sold kitchen stuff in Kent Street, whom God so blessed that the father became a very rich, and was a very honest man; he was Sheriff of Surrey, where I have sat on the bench with him. Another of his daughters was married to Sir John Bowles; and this daughter was a jolly friendly woman. There was at the wedding the Lord Mayor, the Sheriff, several Aldermen and persons of quality; above all, Sir George Jeffreys (age 38), newly made Lord Chief Justice of England, with Mr. Justice Withings, danced with the bride, and were exceedingly merry. These great men spent the rest of the afternoon, till eleven at night, in drinking healths, taking tobacco, and talking much beneath the gravity of judges, who had but a day or two before condemned Mr. Algernon Sidney (age 60), who was executed the 7th on Tower Hill [Map], on the single witness of that monster of a man, Lord Howard of Escrick, and some sheets of paper taken in Mr. Sidney's study, pretended to be written by him, but not fully proved, nor the time when, but appearing to have been written before his Majesty's (age 53) Restoration, and then pardoned by the Act of Oblivion; so that though Mr. Sidney was known to be a person obstinately averse to government by a monarch (the subject of the paper was in answer to one by Sir E. Filmer), yet it was thought he had very hard measure. There is this yet observable, that he had been an inveterate enemy to the last king, and in actual rebellion against him; a man of great courage, great sense, great parts, which he showed both at his trial and death; for, when he came on the scaffold, instead of a speech, he told them only that he had made his peace with God, that he came not thither to talk, but to die; put a paper into the sheriff's hand, and another into a friend's; said one prayer as short as a grace, laid down his neck, and bid the executioner do his office.

John Evelyn's Diary. 05 Dec 1686. I dined at my Lady Arlington's (age 52), Groom of the Stole to the Queen Dowager (age 48) at Somerset House [Map], where dined divers French noblemen, driven out of their country by the persecution.

John Evelyn's Diary. 01 Dec 1702. The expectation now is, what treasure will be found on breaking bulk of the galleon brought from Vigo by Sir George Rooke (age 52), which being made up in an extraordinary manner in the hold, was not begun to be opened till the fifth of this month, before two of the Privy Council, two of the chief magistrates of the city, and the Lord Treasurer (age 57).

On 05 Dec 1703 Humphrey Winch 1st Baronet (age 81) died. He was buried at All Saints' Church, Branston [Map]. Baronet Winch of Hawnes in Bedfordshire extinct although his nephew Humphrey Winch of Branston, Lincolnshire, erroneously assumed the title.

On 05 Dec 1793 Prince Augustus Frederick Hanover 1st Duke Sussex (age 20) and Augusta Murray Duchess Sussex (age 25) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square. Their second marriage; again contrary to the Royal Marriages Act.

On 05 Dec 1821 David Brook died in a railway accident. David Brook, a carpenter, was walking home from Leeds, England, along the Middleton Railway in a blinding sleet storm. He failed to see or hear an approaching train of coal wagons drawn by one of the Blenkinsop/Murray engines and was fatally injured.

Births on the 5th December

On 05 Dec 1529 Frederick Albert Hohenzollern was born to Albert "The Elder" Hohenzollern I Duke Prussia (age 39) and Dorothea Oldenburg (age 25). Coefficient of inbreeding 1.98%.

On 05 Dec 1536 Santi di Tito was born.

In 1589 John Fleming 2nd Earl Wigtown was born to John Fleming 1st Earl Wigtown (age 22) and Lilias Graham Countess Graham. He was baptised on 05 Dec 1589 at Kincardine Castle - Ludovic Stewart 2nd Duke Lennox 1st Duke Richmond (age 14) and Francis Stewart 5th Earl Bothwell (age 26) attended. Coefficient of inbreeding 3.25%.

Before 05 Dec 1675 William Kemp of Antingham in Norfolk was born to Robert Kemp 2nd Baronet (age 47) and Mary Sone Lady Kemp.

On 05 Dec 1743 Louisa Augusta Lennox was born to Charles Lennox 2nd Duke Richmond (age 42) and Sarah Cadogan Duchess Richmond (age 38). She a great granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 05 Dec 1750 Nicholas Ward 2nd Viscount Bangor was born to Bernard Ward 1st Viscount Bangor (age 31) and Ann Bligh Viscountess Bangor.

On 05 Dec 1758 George Beauclerk 4th Duke St Albans was born to Charles Beauclerk (age 32) and Elizabeth Jones. He a great x 2 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 05 Dec 1764 Charles Duncombe 1st Baron Feversham was born to Charles Slingsby Duncombe (age 34).

On 05 Dec 1774 Thomas Edward Clifford was born to Hugh Clifford 4th Baron Clifford Chudleigh (age 48) and Anne Lee Baroness Clifford Chudleigh (age 43). He a great x 2 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 05 Dec 1808 Thomas Trevor 22nd Baron Dacre 21st Baron Multon was born to General Henry Otway Trevor 21st Baron Dacre 20th Baron Multon (age 31) and Pyne Crosbie Lady of the Bedchamber (age 28).

On 05 Dec 1825 Johann Glücksburg was born to Friedrich Wilhelm Glücksburg Duke Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg (age 40) and Louise Caroline Hesse-Kassel Duchess Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg (age 36). He a great x 2 grandson of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland.

On 05 Dec 1833 Rowland Hill aka Clegg-Hill 3rd Viscount Hill was born to Rowland Hill 2nd Viscount Hill (age 33) and Anne Clegg Viscoutess Hill (age 18).

On 05 Dec 1857 Edward Wheler 12th Baronet was born to Trevor Wheler 11th Baronet (age 29) and Cordelia Mary Jane Scott Lady Wheler.

On 05 Dec 1865 Everard Baring was born to Edward Baring 1st Baron Revelstoke (age 37) and Louisa Emily Charlotte Bulteel Baroness Revelstoke (age 26) at Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey [Map].

On 05 Dec 1866 John Beresford 5th Baron Decies was born to William Horsley-Beresford 3rd Baron Decies (age 55) and Catherine Anne Dent Baroness Decies (age 26).

On 05 Dec 1908 Blanche Mary Arundell was born to Gerald Arthur Arundell 15th Baron Arundel (age 46) and Ivy Florence Mary Segrave Baroness Arundel Wardour (age 33).

On 05 Dec 1932 Richard Lumley 12th Earl of Scarbrough was born to Roger Lumley 11th Earl of Scarbrough (age 36) and Katherine Isobel McEwen Countess Scarborough (age 33).

Marriages on the 5th December

Before 05 Dec 1657 John Reynolds (age 32) and Sarah Russell Countess Thomond (age 19) were married.

On 05 Dec 1661 George Bingham 2nd Baronet (age 36) and Rebecca Myddelton (age 24) were married.

On 05 Dec 1716 William Milner 1st Baronet (age 20) and Elizabeth Dawes Lady Milner were married.

On 05 Dec 1769 Robert King 2nd Earl Kingston (age 15) and Caroline Fitzgerald were married. He the son of Edward King 1st Earl Kingston (age 43).

On 05 Dec 1804 Charles Edmonstone 2nd Baronet (age 41) and Louisa Hotham October (age 26) were married.

On 05 Dec 1809 George Denys 1st Baronet (age 21) and Elizabeth Lind were married.

On 05 Dec 1881 John Lister-Kaye 3rd Baronet (age 28) and Maria de la Natividad "Natica" Yznaga were married at Grace Church Manhattan.

In Oct 1914 or on 05 Dec 1914 Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (age 23) and Anaïs Melisande Folin were married in Chelsea. She became his model for most of his early etchings of young womanhood from 1920 till 1934.

Deaths on the 5th December

On 05 Dec 1244 Joan I Countess Flanders (age 45) died. Her sister Margaret II Countess Flanders (age 42) succeeded II Countess Flanders.

On 04 or 05 Dec 1270 Theobald "Young" II King Navarre (age 30) died at Trapani returning from the Eighth Crusade. His brother Henry I King Navarre (age 26) succeeded I King Navarre, III Count Champagne. Blanche Capet Queen Navarre (age 22) by marriage Queen Navarre, Countess Champagne.

On 05 Dec 1355 John Brabant III Duke Brabant (age 55) died. His daughter Joanna Reginar Duchess Brabant (age 33) succeeded as Duchess Brabant.

On 05 Dec 1419 Edward "Blind Earl" Courtenay 11th Earl Devon (age 62) died. His son Hugh Courtenay 12th Earl Devon (age 30) succeeded 12th Earl Devon, 7th Baron Okehampton, 5th Baron Courtenay. Anne Talbot Countess Devon (age 26) by marriage Countess Devon.

After 05 Dec 1485 Margaret Kerdeston Countess Foix (deceased) died.

On 05 Dec 1560 Francis II King France King Consort Scotland (age 16) died. His brother Charles IX King France (age 10) succeeded IX King France: Capet Valois Angoulême. Mary Queen of Scots (age 17) no longer Queen of France she returned to Scotland arriving at Leith 19 Aug 1561 after having been in France for thirteen years.

On 05 Dec 1703 Humphrey Winch 1st Baronet (age 81) died. He was buried at All Saints' Church, Branston [Map]. Baronet Winch of Hawnes in Bedfordshire extinct although his nephew Humphrey Winch of Branston, Lincolnshire, erroneously assumed the title.

On 05 Dec 1705 Martha Betteson Lady Bendish died. She was buried at St Mary's Church, Steeple Bumstead on 20 Dec 1705.

On 05 Dec 1754 Henry Nassau 1st Earl Grantham (age 81) died without surviving male issue. Earl Grantham extinct. On 12 Dec 1754 Henry Nassau 1st Earl Grantham was buried at St James' Church, Piccadilly.

On 05 Dec 1767 Anne Vaughan Lady Prideaux (age 70) died.

On 05 Dec 1772 Quaile Somerville 2nd Baronet (age 58) died. His son James Quaile Somerville 3rd Baronet succeeded 3rd Baronet Somerville of Somerville in County Meath.

On 05 Dec 1776 Elizabeth Seymour Duchess Northumberland (age 60) died. Her son Hugh Percy 2nd Duke Northumberland (age 34) succeeded 3rd Baron Percy

On 05 Dec 1801 John Parnell 2nd Baronet (age 56) died. His son John Augustus Parnell 3rd Baronet (age 26) succeeded 3rd Baronet Parnell of Rathleague Queen's County.

On 05 Dec 1804 Nathaniel Curzon 1st Baron Scarsdale (age 78) died. His son Nathaniel Curzon 2nd Baron Scarsdale (age 52) succeeded 2nd Baron Scarsdale. Félicité Anne Josephe de Wattines Lady Scarsdale (age 39) by marriage Baroness Scarsdale.

On 05 Dec 1846 Charles Gould aka Morgan 2nd Baronet (age 86) died. His son Charles Morgan 1st Baron Tredegar (age 54) succeeded 3rd Baronet Morgan of Tredegar.

On 05 Dec 1848 Ann Louisa Bingham Baroness Ashburton (age 66) died.

On 05 Dec 1850 Louisa Gordon Marchioness Cornwallis (age 73) died.

On 05 Dec 1851 Caroline Mary Dawson-Damer died probably from the effects of childbirth having given birth to her son Dudley Gordon Alan Duckworth-King 5th one week before.

On 05 Dec 1864 George Howard 7th Earl Carlisle (age 62) died unmarried. His brother William George Howard 8th Earl Carlisle (age 56) succeeded 8th Earl Carlisle.

On 05 Dec 1884 Richard Lumley 9th Earl Scarborough (age 71) died. On 05 Dec 1884 His son Aldred Beresford Lumley 10th Earl Scarborough (age 27) succeeded 10th Earl Scarborough, 11th Viscount Lumley.

On 05 Dec 1899 Henry Tate 1st Baronet (age 80) died. His son William Tate 2nd Baronet (age 57) succeeded 2nd Baronet Tate of Park Hill in Streatham in London.

On 05 Dec 1908 Ernest Hébert (age 91) died.

On 05 Dec 1922 Louisa Brownlow Lady Rowley (age 61) died.

On 05 Dec 1936 Ferdinando Dudley William Lea Smith 12th Baron Dudley (age 64) died. His son Ferdinando Lea Smith 13th Baron Dudley (age 26) succeeded 13th Baron Dudley.

On 05 Dec 1945 Archibishop Cosmo Gordon Lang (age 81) died.

On 05 Dec 1952 Arthur Robert Mills 3rd Baron Hillingdon (age 61) died. His son Charles Hedworth Mills 4th Baron Hillingdon (age 30) succeeded 4th Baron Hillingdon, 5th Baronet Mills of Hillingdon.

On 05 Dec 1997 Daphne Vivian Marchioness Bath (age 93) died.