Peerage Record – 5456

     Phoebe Rachel Gosling was born on 8 November 1925. She is the daughter of Major George Edward Gosling and Helen Violet St. Maur.

     Diana Audley Gosling was born on 23 October 1927. She is the daughter of Major George Edward Gosling and Helen Violet St. Maur.

     Lord Ernest St. Maur was born on 11 November 1847.¹ He was the son of Algernon Percy Banks St. Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset and Horatia Isabella Harriet Morier.¹ He married Dora Constable, daughter of Reverend John Constable, on 9 November 1907.¹ He died on 21 May 1922 at age 74.¹

     Dora Constable is the daughter of Reverend John Constable.¹ She married Lord Ernest St. Maur, son of Algernon Percy Banks St. Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset and Horatia Isabella Harriet Morier, on 9 November 1907.¹
     Her married name became St. Maur.

     Reverend John Constable was the Rector at Marston Biggott, Somerset, England^G.¹

     Lord Edward St. Maur was born on 7 February 1849.¹ He was the son of Algernon Percy Banks St. Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset and Horatia Isabella Harriet Morier.¹ He married Lilian Stanhope, daughter of John Stanhope, on 20 August 1879.¹ He died on 15 September 1920 at age 71.¹
     He gained the rank of Lieutenant in the 60th Rifles.¹

     Lilian Stanhope was the daughter of John Stanhope.¹ She married Lord Edward St. Maur, son of Algernon Percy Banks St. Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset and Horatia Isabella Harriet Morier, on 20 August 1879.¹ She died on 21 September 1910, without issue.¹
     Her married name became St. Maur.

     Lionel Seymour William Dawson-Damer, 4th Earl of Portarlington was born on 7 April 1832.¹ He was the son of Colonel Rt. Hon. George Lionel Dawson-Damer and Mary Georgiana Emma Seymour.¹ He married Hon. Harriet Lydia Montagu, daughter of General Henry Montagu, 6th Baron Rokeby and Magdalen Hurley, on 19 April 1855.¹ He died on 17 December 1892 at age 60.¹
     He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England.¹ He gained the rank of officer between 1849 and 1856 in the Scots Fusilier Guards.¹ He fought in the Crimean War.¹ He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) (Conservative) for Portarlington between 1857 and 1865.¹ He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) (Conservative) for Portarlington between 1868 and 1880.¹ He succeeded as the 4th Earl of Portarlington, in the Queen’s County [I., 1785] on 1 March 1889.¹ He succeeded as the 5th Lord Dawson, Baron Dawson of Dawson’s Court, in the Queen’s County [I., 1770] on 1 March 1889.¹ He succeeded as the 5th Viscount Carlow, co. Carlow [I., 1776] on 1 March 1889.¹ He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.)¹

     Lady Christian Norah Dawson-Damer was born on 7 August 1890.¹ She was the daughter of Lionel George Henry Seymour Dawson-Damer, 5th Earl of Portarlington and Emma Andalusia Frere Kennedy.² She married, firstly, Captain Hon. Fergus Bowes-Lyon, son of Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Nina Cecilie Cavendish-Bentinck, on 17 September 1914.¹ She married, secondly, Captain William Frederick Martin, son of Charles William Wall Martin, on 4 June 1919.¹ She died on 29 March 1959 at age 68.¹
     From 17 September 1914, her married name became Bowes-Lyon. From 4 June 1919, her married name became Martin.