Stanley Muttlebury - Family

Family

Stanley Duff Muttlebury married Christina Augusta Parkinson on 30 April 1902 in an Anglican ceremony at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, London, England. The bride's birth was registered in the Fylde division of Lancashire in the March quarter of 1875. She was the elder daughter of Major General C.F. Parkinson of Bays Hill Court, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and granddaughter of Mrs Nicholson, of Lancaster Gate. The children of the marriage were Ralph Stanley Muttlebury, who was born in 1903 in Paddington, London, England, and Eileen Joyce Muttlebury (from 1935, Joyce, Mrs William Dalrymple Tennant), who was born in 1905 in Paddington, London, England. Ralph Muttlebury continued with the family tradition of being educated at Cambridge University and was on the committee of the Cambridge Footlights. In 1926, Ralph married Gwen Parsons (from the Parsons Shipbuilding family), of Melcombe court, Dorset Square, London. Gwen Muttlebury (nee Parsons) worked in the Admiralty Operations Room Whitehall during the Second World War. A letter to Gwen Muttlebury from Captain Angus Nicholl (HMS Duke of York) who was present on board the USS Missouri to witness the Japanese Surrender, is in the Muttlebury family's possession today. Gwen was fluent in French along with her sister Betty. Betty, was firstly married to Michel Castillon du Perron who undertook the dangerous task of being a leading French Resistance operative during World War II and the newly married pair were extracted by a British warship as the Germans arrived to capture Guernsey. Michel died shortly after being in England and Betty married again. Her second marriage was to Baron Loch (3rd Baron Loch) George Henry Compton,(see also Marquess of Northampton) where she became Baroness Loch and they resided in Stoke-by-Clare, Suffolk. Gwen and Ralph meanwhile, had a son, Peter George Stanley Muttlebury, born on 3 June 1929 (died at home in Yorkshire, 24 August 1975). In 1952, Peter married Gillian Joan Hoare, daughter of W.D.N. Hoare (a descendant of the banking profession's Henry Hoare II). Peter Muttlebury enjoyed a successful advertising career in partnership (MCR Advertising) with John Ritchie, father to Guy Ritchie. Peter and Gillian had a son, Edward Stanley Muttlebury, who was born in 1953, and died in April 2008. The youngest scion of Stanley's descendants to bear his surname is Rebecca Gwendolen Adele Muttlebury whose birth was registered in November 1988 in the Plymouth registration district of Devon. She is the only daughter of Edward Stanley Muttlebury and his wife, the former Ruth E. Snell (Ruth Muttlebury BA (Hons) President of Plymouth Proprietary Library), whose marriage was registered in August 1987 in the St Germans registration district, Cornwall, England.