Miscellaneous - Petition of Lord Willoughby de Eresby [1950]

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TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

THE HUMBLE PETITION of
The Honourable Gilbert James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby
commonly called Lord
Willoughby de Eresby

SHEWETH:-

    THAT the Office of Lord Great Chamberlain of England is vested in (1) George Horatio Charles Marquess of Cholmondeley (2) the issue of the late Charles Robert Marquess of Lincolnshire K.G. (namely his surviving daughters Marjorie Cecilia Dowager Baroness Nunburnholme Widow of the late Charles Henry Wellesley Second Baron Nunburnholme The Honourable Alexandra Augusta Palmer wife of William Llewellyn Palmer Esquire Rupertia Countess of Dartmouth wife of William Earl of Dartmouth G.C.V.O. and The Honourable Victoria Alexandrina Weld-Forester wife of Major The Honourable Edric Alfred Cecil Weld-Forester and Lieutenant-Colonel The Honourable Derek William Charles Keppel commonly called Viscount Bury the eldest son and heir of The Honourable Judith Sydney Myra Viscountess Bury the deceased wife of The Honourable Walter Egerton George Lucian Keppel now the Earl of Albemarle) and (3) Gilbert Earl of Ancaster who therefore have the right of selecting a Deputy to exercise the said Office such Deputy not being under the degree of Knight and to be approved by Your Majesty────────────────────

    THAT by an Instrument under their hands and seals bearing date the Thirty first day of December One thousand Nine hundred and Thirty six the said parties appointed the Earl of Ancaster

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to be their Deputy during the reign of His Majesty King George VI ────────────────────

    THAT the Earl of Ancaster is desirous of relinquishing his said office of Deputy by reason of age and infirmity ──────────────

    THAT by further Instruments under their hands and seals bearing date the fourth and sixth days of February One thousand nine hundred and fifty the said George Horatio Charles Marquess of Cholmondeley Marjorie Cecilia Dowager Baroness Nunburnholme Alexandra Augusta Palmer Rupertia Countess of Dartmouth Victoria Alexandrina Weld-Forester Viscount Bury and Gilbert Earl of Ancaster nominated substituted and appointed Your Petitioner in the place of The Earl of Ancaster to be during Your Majesty’s Reign their sufficient Deputy to perform and execute the said Office and to exercise and enjoy all such rights and privileges and do all such acts and perform all such duties and services as to the said Office belong and appertain –

YOUR PETITIONER THEREFORE HUMBLY PRAYS
that Your Majesty may be pleased to approve him so nominated substituted and appointed by the said Instrument to be the sufficient Deputy of the parties thereto and to perform and execute the Office of Lord Great Chamberlain of England as before mentioned ────────────

AND YOUR PETITIONER WILL EVER PRAY etc.

(signed) WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY.