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Richard Francis Ponsonby Blennerhassett

Richard Francis Ponsonby Blennerhassett,
Dick, born 1879, London.
He was educ Eton.
He mar 1914 to Silvia Myers [or Sylvia].
She was dau of the classicist and psychical researcher Frederic William Henry Myers by his wife, the photographer Eveleen Tennant.
Richard inherited Ponsonby portraits.
He died 1938.
Silvia died 1957.
They had issue:

1. Diana Blennerhassett,
   born 1916, London,
   known as Deenagh.
   See thepeerage.
   She was an author.
   She mar 1939 to Richard Goold-Adams [born 1916, son of Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams by his wife Elsie Riordan].
   (todo) See mar of Dianna M P Blennerhassett and Richard J M Goold-Adams, 1st qr 1939, Chelsea [GRO.UK]. Volume Number: 1a Page Number: 619.
   He died 1995. Death registered in Bath district, Mar 1995.
   See obituary, Daily Telegraph, 1 May 1995, p.21.
   Diana lived 33 Great Pulteney St, Bath, Avon BA2 4BX.
   She apparently died 2000.
   Her death was registered in Bath district, Nov 2000.

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References

• Auction of 7 Nov 2001 at Phillips, London.
  • Including items from family of Richard Francis Blennerhassett. (Probably because of Diana's death.)

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Sources yet to be consulted

• Society for Psychical Research archive. GBR/0012/MS SPR in [CUL].
  • Notes and Various Correspondence, 1932 - 1961. Including Silvia Blennerhassett. MS SPR/42/61/3/1-187.
  • Mrs S. Blennerhassett and WHS, 1946. MS SPR/50/B/76-78.
  • File 10/1. Silvia Blennerhassett research fund (1940-1970). MS SPR/95/4/1.
  • File 10/2. Silvia Blennerhassett research fund (1971-1980). MS SPR/95/4/2.

• Obituary of Richard Francis Ponsonby Blennerhassett, on p.7 of [Co.Kerry Soc. annual report 1937-38].
• Obituary of Richard Goold-Adams, The Times, 7 Apr 1995.