Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe

Roland Calvert Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe, DL (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 is also the maternal grandfather of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (born Camilla Shand), now the wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.

The Right Honourable The Lord Ashcombe DL
Born	Roland Calvert Cubitt 26 January 1899 London, England
Died	28 October 1962 (aged 63) Surrey, England
Spouse(s)	Sonia Rosemary Keppel ​ ​ (m. 1920; div. 1947)​ Idina Joan Mills ​ ​ (m. 1948; died 1954)​ Jean Baylis ​ (m. 1959)​
Issue The Hon. Rosalind Cubitt Henry Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe The Hon. Jeremy Cubitt
Parents	Henry Cubitt, 2nd Baron Ashcombe Maud Calvert

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[1] and held office as Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Surrey in 1940.[2]

Family

On 16 November 1920 he married Sonia Rosemary Keppel, daughter of 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:

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

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

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

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

He 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

Roland Cubitt funerary monument, St Barnabas's Church, Ranmore Common, Surrey

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

References

1. "No. 34730". The London Gazette. 10 November 1939. p. 7573.
2. "Roland Calvert Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe". The Peerage. Retrieved 15 October 2016.