Ian Bowater - Marriage and Issue

Marriage and Issue

On 10 December 1927 he married The Hon. Ursula Margaret Dawson (1907 - 16 November 1999), a daughter of the Doctor to the British Royal Family, Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn and Minnie Ethel Yarrow, and they had four children:

• Julia Bowater (d. 1932)
• Susan Vansittart Bowater (b. 26 August 1929), who lived in 2003 at 60 Clonmel Road, London, married on 5 May 1956 George Crofton Addison Doughty (b. before 1941), and had issue, one daughter and one adopted son
• Michael Ian Vansittart Bowater (b. 26 November 1934), who was educated at Eton and at Sandhurst, gained the rank of Major in the service of the Scots Guards, was head of communications for Bowater Group and lived in 2003 at 16 Rocky Point Road, Rowayton, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut, married on 22 June 1960 Camilla Caroline Straight, and had four daughters:
  • Arabella Charlotte Bowater (b. 13 July 1961), married in 1990 Carl W. Wend, Jr., son of Carl W. Wend, Sr., of White Plains, Westchester County, New York
  • Katherine Elizabeth Bowater (b. 2 March 1963), married in 1998 Mark Beaumont, son of Michael Beaumont, and had issue
  • Caroline Mary Bowater (b. 2 January 1965)
  • Sophia Melissa Bowater (b. 26 November 1970)
• Charlotte Mary Bowater (b. 17 July 1937), married on 27 September 1961 Denis Anthony Russell (d. 30 July 1966), son of Major Denis Leslie Russell, of Burdenshot House, Burdenshot Hill, Guildford, Surrey, had Amanda Charlotte Russell (b. 4 June 1963) and William Russell. Decorated with the award of the Territorial Decoration (TD) and invested as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), without issue, and married secondly in 1970 J. Watcyn Lewis, son of John Lewis, of Denison House, Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, and had issue (actor Damian Lewis and Gareth Hugh Bowater Lewis (b. 25 January 1973))