The Sandys (Ombersley Court)
Sandys of Ombersley: fragments of nine lives by Martin Davis
No.8 Arthur FitzGerald Sandys Hill
6th Baron Sandys (1876-1961)
No.9 Richard Michael Oliver Hill
7th Baron Sandys (1931-2013)
(Ombersley Court Archivist: Ombersley Archive Publication)
The academic biographies do not give any accounts of Cynthia Sandys or 6th Baron Sandys or 7th Baron Sandys visiting Craignish Castle in the 'inter-war heyday of the life of the Gascoignes’ or in the period of Craignish estate- management. (1)
As implausible as it seems, Cynthia Sandys family members may never have ”viewed” the 1904 Portrait.
Cynthia Sandys Travels
’Cynthia’s investment income made possible annual winter holidays in continental Europe, as well as journeys to and from Donegal each summer’ No.8 Page 85
’inveterate traveller, both before her marriage and afterwards:
Spain Belgium Czechoslovakia Switzerland Malta Cyprus Egypt Italy Russia Afica’: No.8 Page 60
Year 1953
Sir Alvary retired from the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Moscow and returns to Lotherton Hall. Cynthia Sandys attends the Queens coronation in June: No.9 Page 66
Cynthia Sandys visits Sir Alvary and Lorna Gascoigne at Lotherton Hall
Year 1961
Daily Telegraph publishes the official engagement between Richard Michael Oliver and Patricia Hall. Sir Alvary writes to 6th Baron Sandys
’I had a lovely luncheon with the bridal pair’ : No.9 Page 22
(1) 1973 Inheritance
Yvonne Studd Trench-Gascoigne died on 17th January 1973 in Santa Barbara, California. Property in Argyllshire (island of Scarba and Garvellachs) and substantial funds passed to her first cousin, Richard Michael Oliver (7th Baron Sandys)
Sunday Mercury 13th May 1973 ”The great thrill” said Lord Sandys ”is in owning part of the wonderful coastline of Britain”.