Peerage Record – 3480

     Major Anthony Windham Normand Brabazon, 14th Earl of Meath was born on 3 November 1910.¹ He was the son of Brig.-Gen. Reginald le Normand Brabazon, 13th Earl of Meath and Lady Aileen May Wyndham-Quin.¹ He married Elizabeth Mary Bowlby, daughter of Captain Geoffrey Vaux Salvin Bowlby and Hon. Lettice Annesley, on 30 July 1940 at Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London, England^G.² He died on 19 December 1998 at age 88.¹
     He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England^G.¹ He was educated at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Berkshire, England^G.¹ He was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Bengal in 1936.¹ He gained the rank of Major in the Grenadier Guards.¹ He fought in the Second World War, where he was wounded.¹ He succeeded as the 15th Lord Brabazon, Baron of Ardee, co. Louth [I., 1616] on 10 March 1949.³ He succeeded as the 14th Earl of Meath [I., 1627] on 10 March 1949.³ He succeeded as the 5th Baron Chaworth of Eaton Hall, co. Hereford [U.K., 1831] on 10 March 1949.³

     Elizabeth Mary Bowlby was born on 3 February 1913.¹ She was the daughter of Captain Geoffrey Vaux Salvin Bowlby and Hon. Lettice Annesley.¹ She married Major Anthony Windham Normand Brabazon, 14th Earl of Meath, son of Brig.-Gen. Reginald le Normand Brabazon, 13th Earl of Meath and Lady Aileen May Wyndham-Quin, on 30 July 1940 at Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London, England^G.¹ She died on 26 January 2009 at age 95.²
     Elizabeth Mary Bowlby also went by the nick-name of Betty. Her married name became Brabazon. After her marriage, Elizabeth Mary Bowlby was styled as Countess of Meath on 10 March 1949.

     Maj.-Gen. Frederick Chenevix Trench was born on 10 October 1837.¹ He was the son of Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Richard Chenevix Trench and Hon. Frances Mary Trench.¹ He married Mary Frederica Blanche Mulville, daughter of Captain Charles Blood Mulville and Frederica Blood, on 17 July 1873.¹ He died on 18 April 1894 at age 56.¹
     He was given the name of Frederick Trench at birth. He gained the rank of Major-General in the 20th Hussars.¹ He was appointed Companion, Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.)¹ In 1873 his name was legally changed to Frederick Chenevix Trench.¹ He held the office of Military Attaché to St. Petersburg between 1883 and 1886.¹

     John Anthony Brabazon, 15th Earl of Meath was born on 11 May 1941.¹ He is the son of Major Anthony Windham Normand Brabazon, 14th Earl of Meath and Elizabeth Mary Bowlby.¹ He married Xenia Goudime-Levkovitsch, daughter of Paul Goudime-Levkovitsch and Sheila Violet McNeill, on 12 May 1973.¹
     He was educated at Harrow School, Harrow, London, England^G.¹ He held the office of Page of Honour to HM Queen Elizabeth II between 1956 and 1958.¹ He gained the rank of Subaltern between 1959 and 1963 in the Grenadier Guards.¹ He succeeded as the 16th Lord Brabazon, Baron of Ardee, co. Louth [I., 1616] on 19 December 1998.² He succeeded as the 15th Earl of Meath [I., 1627] on 19 December 1998.² He succeeded as the 6th Baron Chaworth of Eaton Hall, co. Hereford [U.K., 1831] on 19 December 1998.² He lived in 2003 at Killruddery, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland^G.¹

     Lady Lavinia Anne Brabazon was born on 12 September 1945.¹ She is the daughter of Major Anthony Windham Normand Brabazon, 14th Earl of Meath and Elizabeth Mary Bowlby.¹ She married John Ernest Baron Jobson, son of Robert Ralph Baron Jobson, on 1 June 1969.¹
     From 1 June 1969, her married name became Jobson.

     Lady Meriel Aileen Brabazon was born on 23 January 1913.¹ She was the daughter of Brig.-Gen. Reginald le Normand Brabazon, 13th Earl of Meath and Lady Aileen May Wyndham-Quin.¹ She married Ernest Gerald Howarth on 10 September 1947.¹ She died on 16 March 2002 at age 89.¹
     Her married name became Howarth.

     Ernest Gerald Howarth married Lady Meriel Aileen Brabazon, daughter of Brig.-Gen. Reginald le Normand Brabazon, 13th Earl of Meath and Lady Aileen May Wyndham-Quin, on 10 September 1947.¹ He died on 24 June 1967.¹
     He was appointed Member, Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.)¹ He lived at Whittingdon Hall, Carnforth, Lancashire, England^G.¹

     Lady Noreen Browne was born on 16 May 1910.¹ She was the daughter of Lt.-Col. Lord Alfred Eden Browne and Cicely Wormald.¹ She married Clive Ali Chimmo Branson, son of Lionel Hugh Branson and Emily Winnifred Chimmo, on 1 June 1931.¹ She died in 2003.²
     Her married name became Branson. On 2 May 1953 she was granted the rank of a marquess’s daughter.¹ She lived in 2003 at 46 Southwood Avenue, London, England.¹

     Clive Ali Chimmo Branson was born on 8 September 1907 at Ahmednagar, Bombay, India.^2,3 He was the son of Lionel Hugh Branson and Emily Winnifred Chimmo.² He married Lady Noreen Browne, daughter of Lt.-Col. Lord Alfred Eden Browne and Cicely Wormald, on 1 June 1931.¹ He died on 25 February 1944 at age 36 at Arakan, Burma, killed in action in the Far East.²
     He fought in the Second World War.²

     Catherine Elizabeth Browne was born circa 1857.¹ She was the daughter of Henry Ulick Browne, 5th Marquess of Sligo and Catherine Henrietta Dicken.² She died on 13 February 1874.¹