Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby

Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby
Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby
Title Baroness Willoughby de Eresby
Term 29 March 1983 - present
(&1000000000000002800000028 years, &10000000000000225000000225 days)
Parents Gilbert James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 3rd Earl of Ancaster
Nancy Astor

Nancy Jane Marie Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby PC (born 1 December 1934) is the daughter of the late Gilbert James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 3rd Earl of Ancaster and Nancy née Astor.

Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby served as a train bearer and Maid of Honour to Elizabeth II during the 1953 coronation. Her brother Timothy Gilbert, born 19 March 1936, heir apparent of the Earldom of Ancaster, went missing at sea in 1963, never to be seen again.

Lady Willoughby succeeded as 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby upon the death of her father in 1983, at which time the Earldom of Ancaster became extinct. She inherited 75,000 acres (300 km2) in Lincolnshire, England and Perthshire in Scotland and is listed at the 1572nd position on the Sunday Times Rich List 2008 with a wealth of £48 million in finance. She is a joint hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain and sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.

She is unmarried and without issue. The co-heirs presumptive are Sebastian St Maur Miller (b. 1965) and Sir John Aird, 4th Baronet (b. 1940).

References

  • Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th Edition, edited by Charles Mosley, Wilmington, Delaware, 2003, vol III, p. 4196, ISBN 0-9711966-2-1

See also

Peerage of England
Preceded by
Gilbert James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby
Baroness Willoughby de Eresby
1983–
Succeeded by
Current Incumbent



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