Biography of Stewart Graham Menzies 1890-1968

In 1890 Stewart Graham Menzies was born.

On 28th November 1918 Stewart Graham Menzies (age 28) and Avice Ela Murial Sackville (age 21) were married. She the daughter of Gilbert Sackville 8th Earl De La Warr and Muriel Agnes Brassey Countess De La Warr.

On 12th July 1921 Henry Birkin 3rd Baronet (age 24) and [his future wife] Audrey Latham (age 22) were married.

Before 5th July 1928 Henry Birkin 3rd Baronet and [his future wife] Audrey Latham (age 29) were divorced.

On 5th July 1928 Edward Hay (age 39) and [his future wife] Audrey Latham (age 29) were married. He the son of William Hay 10th Marquess of Tweeddale.

In 1931 Stewart Graham Menzies (age 41) and Avice Ela Murial Sackville (age 33) were divorced.

On 13th December 1932 Stewart Graham Menzies (age 42) and Pamela Thetis Beckett were married.

On 28th February 1948 Niall Greville Chaplin (age 39) and [his future wife] Audrey Latham (age 48) were married.

Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke

Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.

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On 13th March 1951 [his wife] Pamela Thetis Beckett died.

In 1952 Niall Greville Chaplin (age 43) and [his future wife] Audrey Latham (age 52) were divorced.

On 12th December 1952 Stewart Graham Menzies (age 62) and Audrey Latham (age 53) were married.

On 29th May 1968 Stewart Graham Menzies (age 78) died.

Around 1985 [his former wife] Audrey Latham (age 85) died.