Mother Maud Calvert Died October 28, 1962 | Name Roland Cubitt, | |
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Born 26 January 1899 ( 1899-01-26 ) Parents Henry Cubitt, 2nd Baron Ashcombe Children Rosalind Shand, Henry Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe, Hon. Jeremy John Cubitt Grandchildren Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Mark Shand Similar People Rosalind Shand, Sonia Rosemary Keppel, Camilla - Duchess of Cornwall, Bruce Shand, Philip Morton Shand | ||
Roland Calvert Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe DL (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. He is also the maternal grandfather of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (born Camilla Shand), now the wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.
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Education and career
Cubitt was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was a Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards, 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 Hon. George Keppel and his wife Alice Keppel, at the Guard's Chapel, Wellington Barracks in London. They divorced in 1947 after having three children:
He 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 Middleton, 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)
Styles of address
Death and burial
He died on 28 October 1962 is buried in the churchyard of St Barnabas's Church, Ranmore Common, Surrey.