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Peter Francis Walter Kerr 12th Marquess of Lothian
Peter Francis Walter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, was invested as a Knight Commander, Royal Victorian Order. He was father of Conservative MP, Michael Ancram (Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian)
Dame Antonella Newland O.B.E, Marchioness of Lothian
Obituary from The Telegraph - 26 Jan 2007:
Tony, Lady Lothian The Dowager Marchioness of Lothian, who died on January 6 aged 84, was an energetic president of the Woman of the Year Lunch at the Savoy Hotel in London for more than 40 years. Strikingly attractive, she usually dressed in black, white and red. She wore her hair dyed jet-black and sported a patch over her right eye (the legacy of a cancer operation in 1970). Characteristically, Tony Lothian made light of this distinction: when she first wore it in public, at the wedding of her daughter Lady Mary Kerr to the banker Charles von Westenholz, she declared: "All I need now is the parrot." In 1973, when her son, the Conservative MP Michael Ancram, held his first public political meeting, she appeared in the hall with a white rosette bearing the words "Vote for God". When a colleague inquired about the identity of "that extraordinary woman", an embarrassed Ancram muttered that he had no idea. A devout, ecumenically-minded Roman Catholic, Tony Lothian began each day with Mass at 8am, joking that she could no more miss this than give up her black hair dye. Antonella Newland was born in Rome on May 22 1922, the only child of Major-General Sir Foster Newland, director of the Middle East Medical Services. The family lived in Cairo until her father retired, and his marriage to Donna Nennella Salazar (the daughter of an Italian general) ended in divorce in 1928; her mother subsequently married Brigadier William Carr. Proud of both her Italian blood and middle-class origins, she described herself as a "doctor's daughter". A kinswoman of the Kerr family, she met her husband, Peter, the future 12th marquis, when they were teenagers. They married aged 21, when he was serving in the Scots Guards, and enjoyed a serenely happy partnership. While he was a placid man who liked playing jazz on the piano, she was feisty and provocative. From 1944, when their first daughter was born, until 1957, which saw the birth of their youngest son, Tony Lothian was busy raising her family. Identifying herself as a Christian feminist, she strongly believed that a mother's central role was in the home, bringing up her children. As chatelaine of the Lothian houses in Roxburghshire and Derbyshire she was involved in charitable works, and edited the magazine Catholic Mother before becoming a campaigning columnist for the Scottish Daily Express in 1965. Despite her husband's family's Tory links, Lady Lothian remained a floating voter deeply concerned about human rights issues. Occasionally she sailed close to red-blooded Socialism, once declaring: "I don't really believe in capitalism. I learnt when I was eight and living in Tuscany that rich people aren't better than poor people." When Mikki Doyle, a spirited American Communist who had been woman's editor of the Morning Star, came to stay, Lady Lothian would wave at the Van Dykes on the walls saying: "We're just caretakers." In 1955 she, Odette Hallowes, GC, and Lady Georgina Coleridge conceived the Woman of the Year Lunch, the annual autumn event over which she presided until the 1990s. Guests included Dame Edith Evans, Dame Alicia Markova, Elisabeth Frink, Mary Wilson, and Princess Margaret as well as academics, archaeologists, nuns and nurses. She had a passionate, if sometimes naive, idea that if women ruled the world there would be more co-operation and peace. But even when surrounded by formidable feminists, she never flinched from voicing her opposition to abortion, telling them that feminism should be "inclusive" of all opinions. One close associate was Coretta King, widow of Martin Luther King. Another was the Soviet astronaut Valentina Tereshkova, who spoke at the Savoy in 1984 about "seeing the world in space like a jewel and thinking we must not destroy it". On many occasions Lady Lothian visited Moscow, where she supported Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost policy but also attended Russian Orthodox services. Lady Lothian was presented with the UK Templeton award in 1992 for her "long-sustained commitment to inter-faith endeavour", and appointed OBE "for services to women and blind people" in 1997. Her husband died in 2004. Despite her political radicalism, Lady Lothian's offspring made some brilliant aristocratic matches. Her son Michael, now the 13th marquis, is married to the daughter of the Duke of Norfolk; her daughter Cecil is married to the clan chief Cameron of Lochiel; her daughter Clare is the wife of the Earl of Euston, heir to the Duke of Grafton; and another daughter, Elizabeth, is married to the Earl of Dalkeith, heir to the Duke of Buccleuch.