Thursday 22 April 2021

Out of King Edward's Tree: Part 2

Here is the second part of the list of lgbt descendants of King Edward III, who made St. George the patron saint of England, and his father, the gay King Edward II. See yesterday’s article for the chart which shows which of Edward III’s grandchildren the following people descend. Again, the numbers after their occupation are the total known lines of descent of that person from the two Edwards.

List 4 – descendants of John and Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset
James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater (1750-1811), architect (22 lines)
Rt. Rev. Percy Jocelyn (1764-1843), Bishop of Clogher (24 lines)
Julia Pell (1953-2006), civil rights advocate (1 line)
Myles Hildyard (1914-2005), landowner (18 lines)
Philip Streatfield (1879-1915), artist (48 lines)
Lady Anna Gordon (b.1988), 1st same-sex engagement announced in the Daily Telegraph (504 lines)
Lord Alfred Douglas (1870-1945), partner of Oscar Wilde (70 lines)
Stephen Tennant (1906-1987), socialite (69 lines)
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986), author (6 lines)
Una, Lady Troubridge (1887-1963), sculptor and author (13 lines)
Judith Furse (1912-1974), actor and director (13 lines)
Rupert Barneby (1911-2000), botanical scientist (2 lines)
Olive Custance (1874-1944), poet (20 lines)
Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (1593-1631), rapist (1 line)

List 5 – Descendants of Lady Joan Beaufort (1407-1445)

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), First Lady of America (1 line)
Joseph Alsop (1910-1989), journalist (1 line)
Alan Turing (1912-1954), codebreaker and mathematician (20 lines)
Miranda Ponsonby (b.1933), author, transgender (7 lines)
Robert Boothby, 1st Baron Boothby (1900-1986), politician (19 lines)
Dennis Price (1915-1973) actor (41 lines)
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), author (20 lines)
Alexander Hamilton (c.1756-1804), Founding Father of America (1 line)
Jasper Conran (b.1959), designer (16 lines)
Francilia Agar (b.1975), Olympic swimmer (50 lines)
Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), author (3 lines)
Duncan Grant (1885-1978), artist (3 lines)
Michael Pitt-Rivers (1919-2000), activist (499 lines)
Lord Arthur Pelham-Clinton (1840-1870); politician (260 lines)
Prince Egon von Furstenberg (1946-2004), fashion designer (146 lines)
William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (1872-1938), colonial governor (48 lines)
Bram Stoker (1847-1912), author (2 lines)
Simon Fanshawe (b.1956), broadcaster (220 lines)
John Hervey, Lord Hervey (1696-1743), politician (15 lines)
Tamsin Ormond (b.1984), environmental activist and journalist (15 lines)
Norman Douglas (1868-1952), author (12 lines)
Ursula Bethell (1874-1945), poet and social worker (8 lines)
George Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824), poet (16 lines)
Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), composer (1 line)
Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Bt., (1912-1991), 1st transgender knight (20 lines)
Eileen Gray (1878-1976), architect (29 lines)
Francis Turville-Petre (1901-1941), archaeologist (73 lines)
Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Bt. (1874-1944), oriental scholar (16 lines)
Sir Peter Pears (1910-1986), classical singer (13 lines)
Hon. Edward Adeane (1939-2015), civil servant (33 lines)
Sir Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley (1545-1567), husband of Mary, Queen of Scots (7 lines)
King James I Stewart of Great-Britain (1566-1625) (13 lines)
Lord Ivar Mountbatten (b.1963), cousin of the Prince of Wales (26 lines)
Prince Philipp von Hessen (1896-1980), Landgrave of Hesse (13 lines)
King Friedrich II the Great of Prussia (1712-1786) (13 lines)
King Gustav III of Sweden (1746-1792) (13 lines)
King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886) (13 lines)
Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon (1902-1977), politician (2 lines)
Sir Noël Coward (1899-1973), actor, author, songwriter (1 line)
Daniel Veatch (b.1965), Olympic swimmer (1 line)

List 6 – descendants of Cardinal Henry Beaufort (c.1375-1447)

Martha Eliot (1891-1978), Assistant Director of WHO (1 line)
Charles Adams (1770-1800), lawyer (1 line)
Sally Ride (1951-2012), astronaut (4 lines)
Rosamund Grosvenor (1888-1940), socialite (8 lines)
Will Young (b.1979), singer and actor (6 lines)
Sarah Ponsonby (1755-1831), one of the Ladies of Llangollen (4 lines)
Violet Martin (1862-1915), author (15 lines)
Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington (1885-1972), diplomat (32 lines)
Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu (d.1762), author, traveller (15 lines)
June Millington (b.1948), musician and songwriter (1 line)

List 7 – descendants of Lady Joan Beaufort (c.1379-1440) through the Ferrers family

Prince Edmond de Polignac (1834-1901), composer (2 lines)
Montgomery Clift (1920-1966), actor (1 line)

Tomorrow I give the third and last group of lgbt descendants with royal blood.

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