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Frederick Fermor-Hesketh, 2nd Baron Hesketh

British peer and soldier (1916–1955)

Summary

British peer and soldier (1916–1955)

Field	Value
name	Frederick Fermor-Hesketh
honorific_suffix	2nd Baron Hesketh
birth_date
death_date
education	Eton College
alma_mater	Magdalene College, Cambridge
father	Thomas Fermor-Hesketh
mother	Florence Louise Breckinridge
spouse
module	{{infobox military person
embed	yes
allegiance	United Kingdom
branch
unit	Scots Guards
rank	Major
battles	World War II

Frederick Fermor-Hesketh, 2nd Baron Hesketh DL (8 April 1916 – 10 June 1955), was a British peer and soldier.

Background and education

Hesketh was the son of Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh, and Florence Louise Breckinridge, of Kentucky, daughter of John Witherspoon Breckinridge, and granddaughter of General (CSA) John C. Breckinridge, Vice-President of the United States of America and Secretary of War for the Confederate States of America, in 1909. He was educated from 1926 at Eton and later Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Military service

Hesketh was a major in the Scots Guards. He succeeded in the barony on the death of his father on 20 July 1944. In 1950 he became a Deputy Lieutenant of Northamptonshire.

Family life

On 22 November 1949 he married Christian Mary McEwen (known as Christian Lady Hesketh) (17 July 1929 – 7 April 2006), daughter of Captain Sir John Helias Finnie McEwen and had three children:

Thomas Alexander (known as Alexander), 3rd Baron Hesketh (b. 28 October 1950)
Robert (1 November 1951 – 2 February 1997, car accident)
John (15 March 1953 – 2 November 2008)

Hesketh was a collector of top-end books in the early 1950s. The trustees of his will sold some of his books, manuscripts and letters in 2010 at Sotheby's. The four volumes of John James Audubon's Birds of America were bought by renowned London book dealer Michael Tollemache for a record £7,321,250.

Arms

References

{{Rayment. (February 2012)
[http://www.thepeerage.com/p5670.htm#i56698 The Peerage website]
[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1515446/The-Dowager-Lady-Hesketh.html "The Dowager Lady Hesketh" ''The Daily Telegraph'', 12 April 2006, accessed 14 April 2011]
[https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Robert-Fermor-Hesketh-2855501.php Traffic accident in California]
[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3393349/Johnny-Hesketh.html Johnny Hesketh obituary in ''The Daily Telegraph'']
(8 December 2010). "World record as book sells for £7m". [[Daily Telegraph]].
(1949). "Burke's Peerage".

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