Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe

Roland Calvert Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe, (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 was the maternal grandfather of Queen Camilla.

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 the hon. George Keppel and his wife Alice Keppel, at the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, in London. They were divorced in 1947 after having three children:

• Rosalind Maud Cubitt (1921–1994) m. Major Bruce Middleton Hope Shand and had three children:
  • Camilla Rosemary Shand (b. 17 July 1947), later Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom
  • Sonia Annabel Shand (b. 2 February 1949)
  • Mark Roland Shand (28 June 1951 – 23 April 2014)
• Henry Edward Cubitt (1924–2013) (who succeeded as the 4th Baron Ashcombe on the death of his father) m. Ghislaine Alexander (née Dresselhuys, ex-wife of Denis Alexander, 6th Earl of Caledon later The Baroness Foley)

m. Virginia Carington (daughter of Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington)

m. Mary Elizabeth Dent-Brocklehurst (née Chipps) (widow of late Mark Dent-Brocklehurst)

• Jeremy John Cubitt (1927–1958) m. Diana Edith Du Cane and had a child:
  • Sarah Victoria Cubitt (b. 1953)

Roland 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 Myddelton, 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).

Death and burial

He died on 28 October 1962 is buried in the churchyard of St Barnabas's Church, Ranmore Common, Surrey.

References

1. Henry Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe
2. Baron Ashcombe
3. Rosalind Shand
4. Henry Cubitt, 2nd Baron Ashcombe
5. Sonia Rosemary Keppel
6. Cubitt
7. Queen Camilla
8. Bruce Shand
9. List of alumni of Sandhurst
10. Bron-y-de
11. Henry Wellesley, 3rd Earl Cowley
12. Ririd Myddelton
13. Charles Shaughnessy
14. List of barons in the peerages of Britain and Ireland
15. Colin Moynihan, 4th Baron Moynihan
16. Mark Shand
17. Peerage of the United Kingdom
18. Humble Duty
19. John Robinson, 2nd Baron Martonmere
20. Edith Marguerite Harrington