Lord Hussey of North Bradley

The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh were represented by Lord Moore of Wolvercote at a service of thanksgiving for the life of Lord Hussey of North Bradley held yesterday in the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks.

The Prince of Wales attended.

The Duke of York was represented by Mrs Jeremy Thirsk, the Earl and Countess of Wessex by Lieutenant-Colonel Alastair Bruce of Crionaich and the Princess Royal by Rear-Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence.

The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah and Mr Daniel Chatto were present.

Prince and Princess Michael of Kent were represented by Mrs Julian Kitchener-Fellowes and Princess Alexandra by Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Macfarlane.

The Earl of St Andrews, also representing the Duke and Duchess of Kent, Lord and Lady Nicholas Windsor, Lady Helen Taylor were present.

The Rev Patrick Irwin, chaplain to the Household Division, officiated, assisted by the Right Rev Dr Richard Chartres, Bishop of London, and Prebendary William Scott, chaplain of the Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy.

The Hon James Hussey, son, read the lesson and George Brooke, grandson, read Success by Bessie Stanley.

Lord Rees-Mogg and the Marquess of Lothian gave addresses.

Lady Susan Hussey (widow), Sir Francis and the Hon Lady Brooke (son-in-law and daughter), the Hon Mrs James Hussey (daughter-in-law), Rose, Arthur and Helena Hussey and Olivia and Sarah Brooke (grandchildren) attended with other members of the family.

Also present were: the Duke of Fife, the Duchess of Grafton, the Duchess of Wellington, the Marchioness of Douro, the Marchioness of Lothian, the Marchioness of Salisbury, the Countess of Airlie, Earl and Countess Alexander of Tunis, Earl and Countess Cadogan, the Dowager Countess of Cromer, the Earl and Countess of Dalkeith, the Earl and Countess of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, the Countess of Euston.

Earl Ferrers, the Earl and Countess of Home, Miranda Countess of Iveagh, Sylvia Countess of Limerick, Earl Waldegrave, Viscount Bridgeman, Viscount and Viscountess De L’Isle, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Viscount Slim, Viscount Tamworth, Viscount Tenby, Lord and Lady Ralph Kerr, Lord and Lady Charles Cecil, Lady Nicholas Gordon Lennox, Lady Rupert Nevill.

Lord and Lady Armstrong of Ilminster, Lord and Lady Ashburton, Lord Barnett, Field Marshal Lord Bramall, KG, and Lady Bramall, Lord Butler of Brockwell, KG, Lord Carrington, KG, CH, Lord Chadlington, Lord Chorley, Lord Corbett of Castle Vale, Marshal of the RAF Lord and Lady Craig of Radley, Baroness Cumberlege, Lord Dear, Lord and Lady Elton.

Lord Faringdon, Diana Lady Farnham, Lord and Lady Fellowes, Lord Forteviot, Ivry Lady Freyberg, Lord Goodlad, Lord Grenfell, General Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, Baroness Hayman, Lady Henniker, Lady Holderness, Lord Hurd of Westwell, CH, and Lady Hurd, Lord Hylton, Field Marshal Lord and Lady Inge, Baroness James of Holland Park, Lady Kelvedon.

Lord King of Bridgwater, CH, Lord Kingsdown, KG, and Lady Kingsdown, Lady Lever of Manchester, Baroness Linklater of Butterstone, Lord Lipsey, Lord and Lady Lloyd of Berwick, Lord and Lady Luce, Lord McColl of Dulwich, Lord Neill of Bladen, QC, Lord Palmer, Cordelia Lady Palmer, Baroness Rawlings, Lady Rees-Mogg, Lady Runcie, Lady Saltoun.

Lord Sharman, Lord Shaw of Northstead, Lady Shawcross, Lord and Lady Sheldon, Lady Soames, Lord Sterling of Plaistow, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, Lord Thomson of Monifieth, Baroness Trumpington, Lord Wakeham, Lord Waldegrave of North Hill, Lord Williamson of Horton, Lord Wolfson, Lord and Lady Wright of Richmond.

Sir Jeremy Hanley, Sir Robin Janvrin, Sir Michael Palliser, Lady Jane Howard, Lady Annunziata Asquith, Lady Melissa Brooke, Lady Meriel Darby, Lady Caroline Douglas-Home, Lady Angela Ellis, Lady Rose Monson, Lady Penelope Robson, Lady Diana Wolfe-Murray, Lady Mary von Westenholz, Lady Ana Wyndham-Quin, the Hon Edward Adeane, the Hon Nicholas Assheton, the Hon Michael Beloff, QC, (Trinity College, Oxford), the Hon Lady de Zulueta, the Hon Mrs Gibbs, the Hon Diana Makgill, the Hon Mary Morrison.

The Hon Anthony and Mrs Montagu, the Hon Mary Morrison, the Hon Hume Shawcross, the Hon William Shawcross, the Hon Mrs Jane Spring, the Hon Caroline Thomson, the Hon Lady Wakefield, the Hon Katie Waldegrave, the Hon Liza Waldegrave, Lady Carew Pole, Sir Geoffrey Errington, Sir Francis and Lady Newman, Sir John and the Hon Lady Riddell, Sir Hugh and the Hon Lady Roberts.

Sir Antony and Lady Acland, Lady Agnew, Sir Nicholas Barrington, Dame Jocelyn Barrow, Lady Bayliss, Sir William Benyon, Sir Christopher Bland (BT Group), Dame Frances Campbell-Preston, Lady Chetwood, Lady Child, Sir George Christie, Major-General Sir Simon Cooper, Sir Patrick Cormack, MP, Sir Bill Cotton, Sir Geoffrey and Lady de Bellaigue, Sir Philip and Lady Dowson.

Sir Ewan and Lady Fergusson, Sir Malcolm Field, Dame Elizabeth Forgan, Sir Paul Fox, Rear-Admiral Sir John and Lady Garnier, Lady Gass, Sir Ronald Grierson, Lady Grylls, Dame Patricia Hodgson, Sir Martin Jacomb, Lady Kennard, Sir John and Lady Lowther, Lady Macpherson of Biallid, Sir Alan McLintock, Lady Merrison, Sir Alan Munro, Sir Michael and Lady Angela Oswald.

Sir Philip Otton, Dame Shirley Oxenbury, Sir Hayden Phillips, Sir Robert Phillis, Sir Ivor Roberts, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Malcolm Ross, Admiral Sir Jock Slater, Sir Robert and Lady Smith, Lady Stephenson, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson, Sir Peter Stothard (also representing the chairman and chief executive, News Corporation).

Lady Tickell, Lady Villiers, General Sir Richard and the Hon Lady Worsley, Mr Peter Bottomley, MP, and Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, Mr Donald and Lady Cecil Cameron of Lochiel, Mr Nicholas and Lady Anne Boles, Mr George and Lady Rose Clowes, Mr Frank and Lady Katharine Giles, Mr and the Hon Mrs Nigel Morris-Jones, Major and the Hon Mrs Raymond Seymour.

Mrs Patricia Abel, Miss Anna Acland, Mr Charles Anson, Mrs June Anstey, Mrs Valerie Arnold, Mr Matthew Arnoldi, Miss Jane Astell, Dr Richard Bailey, Mr and Mrs John Barclay, Mrs Helen Beard, Mr and Mrs James Benson, Mrs Thomas Birch-Reynardson, Mr and Mrs Jonathan Bird, Councillor Frances Bouchier, Mr Gerald Bowden, Mrs Sandra Bull.

Mrs Andrew Caldecott, Miss Fiona Campbell, Miss Lucy Campbell, Mr and Mrs Robert Campbell-Preston, Mr and Mrs Colin Campbell-Preston, Mr and Mrs Peter Caroe, Mr Stanley Carter, Mr W. S. Cave, Miss E. Christie, Lieutenant-Colonel Jerome Church, Mr John Clevely, Mr and Mrs Brian Clifford, Mr Maurice Conroy, Mr Matthew Conroy, Mrs J. Cripps.

Professor and Mrs C. F. Cullis, Mr Peter Cunard, Miss Caroline Dawnay, Mr and Mrs Eric de Bellaigue, Lieutenant-Commander Robert de Pass, Ms Anne Dempster, Mrs John Denman, Mr John Dixey, Mr P. Dixon, Mr Denis Doble, Mr and Mrs Edward Dugdale, Miss Alice Dugdale, Colonel Andrew Duncan, Mr Philip Dunne, Mr James Evans, Miss Barbara Fleming, Mr and Mrs Gordon Franklin.

Mr and Mrs Alexander Galitzine, Miss Louisa Garnier, Major-General Bernard Gordon Lennox, Miss Jean Gray, Mr Graham C. Greene, Mr Keith Griffiths, Mrs John Grigg, Mr John Grogan, Mr J. Dundas Hamilton, Mrs David Hart Dyke, Miss Diana Hawkins, Mrs M. Hernandez, Mr Mark Hichens, Mrs Robert Holden, Mr Frank Holland, Mr Stuart Holmes.

Colonel Henry Hugh Smith, Mr A. B. V. Hughes, Mrs Michael Hughes-Hallett, Mrs Neil Hughes-Onslow, Mr Brian Iverson, Mr Gareth Jones, Mr J. H. Judd, Mr M. Kenyon, Mrs William Kerr, Mr Jonathan King, Mr Christopher Lawrence-Price, Miss Victoria Legge Bourke, Mr and Mrs Allan Mabbs, Mrs E. V. Macdonald-Buchanan, Mr S. P. Mailer, Mr C. B. Mailer.

Mr and Mrs Peter Maitland, Mr Michael Mander, Mr and Mrs Harry Mansell, Mrs John McKeever, Mr and Mrs Kenneth Morgan, Miss Melissa Morris, Mrs William Morrison, Mr Owen Mostyn-Owen, Mr Ronald Neil, Mr and Mrs Sebastian Neville-Clarke, Mr and Mrs Brian Nicholson, Mr Dugal Nisbet-Smith, Mr and Mrs Frank Owen.

Mrs Edward Pearce, Mr Rupert Pennant-Rea, Major R. Peters, Mr Richard Pilkington, Mr and Mr George Pope, Mr Christopher Prideaux, Mrs Edward Pugh, Mr and Mrs Timothy Raikes, Mr and Mrs John Raisman, Mr Robin Reynolds, Mr and Mrs Kenneth Rice, Miss Anne Riddell, Major Simon Robinson, Mr Kenneth Rose, Mr Jonathan Ruffer, Mr Peter Ryan.

Mr and Mrs Michael Sanders, Mr and Mrs Jonathan Savill, Mr and Mrs David Sawyer, Mr Harold Sebag-Montefiore, Mrs Adrian Secker, Mrs Marion Shaw, Mr and Mrs John Shelley, Miss Jo Sherrard, Mr Ned Sherrin, Mrs Fiona Shufflebottam, Mr Michael Skinner, Mrs Robin Spicer, Dr Margaret Spurr, Mrs Berkeley Stafford, Dr Nicholas Sturridge, Mr and Mrs Raman Subba Row.

Mr and Mrs Hugh Sutton, Mr John Sykes, Mr William Tallon, Mrs Mark Thistlethwayte, Miss Joan Thomas, Mr and Mrs Charles Thompson, Prebendary C. E. Leighton Thomson, Mr and Mrs Jay Tidmarsh, Mr and Mrs Rob Tillard, Mrs D. C. Tudway Quilter, Miss Jane Tufnell, Mr Russell Twisk, Mr John Tydeman, Mr John Udal, Colonel and Mrs Anthony Uloth, Mr Justin Wadham.

Mr Julian Wadham, Mr and Mrs Dan Wagner, Mr Edward Wake, Mrs Peter Wake, Mr Edward Wallington, Mr Colin Webb, Mr and Mrs Peter Wilmot-Sitwell, Mrs Micheal Wilmott, Mr Barry Winkleman, Mr and Mrs John Winnington-Ingram, Mr Mark Worthington, Mrs Noreen Wray, Mr David Wright, Mr Thomas Wright, Mr William Wyatt, Mr John Wynne-Williams, Mr Philip Ziegler.

Mr Mark Thompson (Director-General, BBC), Mr Mark Byford (deputy director-general), Mr Alan Yentob (creative director), Miss Jenny Abramsky (BBC Radio and Music), Ms Sarah Duggan (heritage) and Ms Sue McGregor, with past and present members of staff.

Mr Peter Berners-Price (Rugbeian Society), Mrs E. Cairncross (Wells Cathedral School), Miss Fiona Soutar (Royal Academy of Arts), Mr David Thomas (Garrards) and representatives of Christie’s, Mediawatch-UK, Draycott Nursing, the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Wireless for the Bedridden, Ruffer LLP, Venda, Brewin Dolphin Security and ASA Mid City, with many other friends, former colleagues and representatives of other organisations having connection with Lord Hussey.