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Name: LUARD, Richard Lestocq Erskine
Nee: son of Captain Sandford William Luard
Birth Date: 12 July 1905 Binfield Manor, Berks
Death Date: 15 July 1979 Ludlow
First Date: 1927
Profession: Remittance man
Area: Thika, Kiambu
Married: 1. In Thika 22 June 1927 Ursula Mary Bankes Hawtrey, b. 1905, d. 2000 Malta (div.) (dau of Seymour Henry Coleridge Hawtrey of Thika); 2. In Warwick 1950 Kathleen 'Kay' Richardson Davies b. 27 Oct 1919 Solihull, d. 16 Dec 1977 Ludlow
Children: John Anthony Hawtrey (10 May 1928-17 Mar 2003); Anne; Jane
Book Reference: Wed, Burke, David Luard, East Africa
School: Clifton
General Information:
David Luard - Remittance Man - met and married Miss Hawtrey - they ended up in Outeemachund (sic) in India before she left him in 1935 and went to live with her parents in Cyprus
East Africa - 30 June 1927 - The marriage arranged between Richard Lestocq Erskine Luard (late Coldstream Guards), elder son of the late Captain S.W. Luard, of Binfield Manor, Bracknell, and Mrs S.W. Luard, of Wardes, Otham, and Ursula Mary Bankes, second daughter of Mr & Mrs Hawtrey, of Kyambu, took place in Kenya on June 22.