Peerage Record – 66177

     John Richard Lavender was born in 1998 at Beverly, Yorkshire, England.¹ He is the son of Nicholas C. Lavender and Rosamund Mary Hare.¹

     Henry George Lavender was born in 1999 at Beverly, Yorkshire, England.¹ He is the son of Nicholas C. Lavender and Rosamund Mary Hare.¹

     Thomas Charles Lavender was born in 2002 at Beverly, Yorkshire, England.¹ He is the son of Nicholas C. Lavender and Rosamund Mary Hare.¹

     Juliet Mary Lavender was born in 2006 at Yorkshire, England.¹ She is the daughter of Nicholas C. Lavender and Rosamund Mary Hare.¹

     Nicole A. McDavid married William Richard Hare, son of Rt. Rev. Thomas Richard Hare and Sara Mary Spedding, in 2003 at Cockermouth, Cumberland, England.¹
     From 2003, her married name became Hare.¹

     Thomas Richard Hare was born in 2005 at Westminster, London, England.¹ He is the son of William Richard Hare and Nicole A. McDavid.¹

     Peter Minshall is the son of Merlin Theodore Minshall and Christina Majorie Zambra.^1,2 He married Amanda May Coats, daughter of James Alexander Pountney Coats and Sarah Margaret Pizey, on 18 May 1991.¹

     James Merlin Thomas Minshall was born on 1 September 1992.¹ He is the son of Peter Minshall and Amanda May Coats.¹

     William Arthur Edward Minshall was born on 28 June 1994.¹ He is the son of Peter Minshall and Amanda May Coats.¹

     Merlin Theodore Minshall was born on 21 December 1906.² He was the son of Colonel Thomas Herbert Minshall and Theodora Wigham-Richardson.¹ He married, fourthly, Christina Majorie Zambra, daughter of Colonel William Warren Shaw Zambra.² He married, firstly, Elizabeth Dorothy Magdalene Loveday.² He married, secondly, Isolde Llewellyn.² He married, thirdly, Janine Paulette Sergent.² He and Elizabeth Dorothy Magdalene Loveday were divorced in 1935.² He died on 3 September 1987 at age 80.²
     He was educated at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, England.² He was educated at Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.² He was awarded the Italian Foreign Challenge Trophy in 1937 a 3 day car race from Rome to Sicily.² He gained the rank of officer in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.² He fought in the Second World War.² He wrote the book Guilt-Edged, published 1975.² He has an extensive biographical entry in the A foreword by Len Deighton ‘His mother was a spy in World War I. Ian Fleming was his boss throughout the Second World War. Unwittingly sucked into the world of Nazi espionage during an innocent sailing trip, he was seduced by a lovely but lethal German agent and met Field Marshal Göring face to face. He was the first man to cross the Sahara on a motorcycle and while travelling through the Congo, he accidentally discovered a secret German army. But Romania set the scene for the height of espionage activity – when he single handedly pirated a ship from under Nazi eyes and blew up a vital link in German tanker communications. The man is Merlin Minshall and this is his unique story.²‘