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• Hij is geboren op 10 juni 1956 in Southport, Sefton, UK.Bron 3
• Woonachtig: England.Bron 2
• Hij is overleden op 14 november 2004 in Fosbury Manor, Wiltshire, hij was toen 48 jaar oud.Bron 3
• Een kind van Lt Colonel Roger Fleetwood Fleetwood-Hesketh (born Roger Bibby-Hesketh) en Mary Constance Lumley

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Zij zijn getrouwd op 26 september 1990 te Westminster, Greater London, United Kingdom, hij was toen 34 jaar oud.Bronnen 1, 2

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Return of the curse
Last updated at 09:52 17 November 2004

The curse of the Guinnesses, which has cut such a large swathe through the brewery clan, has claimed yet another victim. For I can reveal that wealthy landowner Rob Hesketh, whose wife Catherine is the daughter of Guinness heir Lord Moyne, has been found dead at the tragically early age of 48.
A generous bon viveur, he died as he lived with a glass of fine wine in one hand and a cigar in the other after apparently suffering a heart attack during a family celebration.

His body was only discovered when his wife's uncle, Erskine Guinness, broke into his bedroom through a window.

The death is a devastating blow for Catherine, 52, Rob's second wife and mother of their four children - 13-year-old twin daughters, a younger daughter and a son.

"It's a huge loss, Rob was a great chap who simply adored children," says a friend.

"Catherine's two older children (by her first marriage to Lord Neidpath) were all part of the family and everyone got on very well."

The Guinness clan are no strangers to tragedy and misfortune throughout their 200-year dynasty. In recent years, Catherine's father lost his long-time mistress, Shoe Taylor, an eccentric former hippy.

Catherine's half sister, Olivia Channon, - daughter of former Tory minister Paul Channon - died of a drugs overdose at Oxford.

Rob Hesketh, son of a former Conservative MP for Southport and cousin of Tory grandee Lord Hesketh, had one of the finest wine cellars in the country.

"He took enormous interest in it and it seems appropriate that he should have been sipping from a glass at the end."

Yesterday, a post-mortem was carried out into his death. Rob was certified dead on Sunday, the day after a family party at Erskine Guinness's historic home, Fosbury Manor in Wiltshire.

The party was to mark the 18th birthday of one of Erskine and Louise Guinness's children. At some stage, during the evening Mr Hesketh decided to retire. I am told: "He went upstairs, sat on the bed with a glass of wine in one hand and a cigar in the other. Then he simply keeled over backwards."

But no one discovered what had happened until the following morning because his wife slept in another room after Rob had locked the bedroom door. "There wasn't anything sinister in that," says a source. "It was simply the kind of party which was extremely jolly. So you can picture the scene - lots of merry youngsters running around having a good time. So in an attempt to have a little peace and quiet, he had locked the door behind him."

Erskine Guinness tells me: "We do not know the cause as yet. It is all very upsetting. I was the person who found him and it's very sad indeed. His wife is obviously very, very distressed."

Robert Fleetwood Hesketh, who died suddenly at Fosbury Manor,
Wiltshire, on Sunday 14 November, 2004, aged 48, was the only son of
Roger Fleetwood Hesketh, MP (b. 28 July, 1902, d. 14 Nov, 1987), of
Meols Hall, Southport, Lancashire, by his wife Lady Mary Constance
Lumley, OBE, DStJ (1923-98), daughter of the 11th Earl of Scarbrough,
KG, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, PC (1896-1969).
Robert was born in 1956. His father, in 1956, abandoned the surname of
Fleetwood-Hesketh and assumed the surname of Hesketh only. He was Tory
MP for Southport from 1952 to 1959.

Robert had two sisters, Laura (b. 1953), married to the publisher
Anthony Blond, and the late Sarah (1954-84), who married Patrick
Bellville.

Robert Hesketh married in 1990, as her second husband, the Hon Catherne
Ingrid Guinness, elder daughter of the 3rd Baron Moyne and formerly the
wife of James Dnald Charteris, styled Lord Neidpath (heir to the Earl
of Wemyss & March).

He was the father of twin daughters, Anna & Violet, born in 1991, and a
son born in 1992. He is survived also by his step-children, Richard and
Mary Charteris.

Source: Daily Mail 17 Nov, 2004.

Obituary from The Telegraph -
Robert Hesketh

12:01AM GMT 27 Dec 2004
Robert Hesketh, who has died aged 48, was a leading supporter of the ancient sport of coursing; he died on November 14, less than a week after the passing of the Act of Parliament banning hunting with dogs.

Rob Hesketh was a member of the committee of the Waterloo Cup, once the country's biggest sporting event, which is held every February at Altcar only six miles away from Meols, the Hesketh estate on the outskirts of Southport. Hesketh ran his greyhounds at the famous meeting for most of his adult life.

He never won coursing's blue riband but he once "ran up", or came second, for the Cup and twice won the Purse (for dogs knocked out in the first round). His pup Right Hook (coursing dogs are traditionally often named with their owners' initials) will run in his nomination for what, if the ban is implemented, may be the last Cup meeting in February.

Robert Fleetwood Hesketh was born on June 10 1956, the son of Colonel Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh and his wife Lady Mary Lumley, eldest daughter of the 11th Earl of Scarbrough.

Roger Hesketh, who dropped the Fleetwood from his name in the year of his son's birth, was the mastermind behind Operation Fortitude, which persuaded Hitler that the Allies were going to invade Europe via the Pas de Calais and not Normandy. Kim Philby called it "one of the most creative intelligence operations of all time". Rob Hesketh succeeded in having his father's official history of the operation, Fortitude, The D-Day Deception Campaign, published in 1999, 50 years after it had been written.

Meols has been in the Hesketh family, albeit at times passing through the female line, for 25 generations (including two centuries of brave Catholic recusancy); and a house has stood on the site since the reign of King John. In the early 1960s Roger Hesketh designed extensive alterations to the main house, as well as the addition of two gazebos to frame the view to the distant Pennines.

The judgment of The Daily Telegraph's obituary for Roger Hesketh – "the beau ideal of an English country squire" – might equally fit his son, whose courage was exemplified by the stoicism with which he bore the permanent effects of a shattering car crash in his early twenties; while his wry humour, erudition and passion for sport and the chase were typified by his arriving for a country weekend in his youth with a bleakly comic novel by Samuel Beckett in one pocket and the latest issue of Trout and Salmon in the other.

His pranks as a boy, first learned as a willing accomplice of his equally mischievous older sisters Laura and Sarah, made him prepared for anything, as did having been raised in what was often referred to as the most haunted house in England. The Hesketh children were familiar from the earliest age with unruly poltergeists and saw ghosts so frequently they referred to them as "the television people" - television was then still in black and white.

The poltergeists were eventually exorcised and not the least of Rob and Catherine Hesketh's achievements was to turn Meols, with its stygian bedrooms and spooky priest-hole - which housed St Edmund Campion on his last visit to Lancashire - into the sunniest of houses.

Perhaps Hesketh's most successful joke as a boy at prep school was when he stapled his entire dormitory to their beds while they were asleep - and then let off the fire alarm. He found Eton no more congenial and ran away after he had been beaten by the notorious thrasher Chenevix-Trench, for arriving late back to school through no fault of his own.

Rob Hesketh succeeded his father in 1987 and duly proved an exemplary landowner. He was, for all his old world charm and taste, extremely savvy. Like his uncle Dickon, 12th Earl of Scarbrough, whose wise advice he often took, he successfully fought the decline of the country estate, updating the operation of Meols while further beautifying it for the benefit of his descendents.

He was a private man of great courtesy and modesty, as attentive to the young as he was respectful of age. Like his father he was a keen amateur architect, historian and authority on trees and wine, as well as a first-class fisherman and shot. Among several architectural improvements, he conserved and re-designed the Meols Hall Tithe Barn, today popular far beyond Southport as a venue for weddings and ceremonials.

He planted an exceptional arboretum, and laid down a cellar that can have few equals, sharing it with princely generosity; while shunning publicity, he nonetheless supported and defended all he considered best in his countryside and community - from the waterways, wildlife, fishing club, church, hospice, and nursing association to the Scouts and beauty pageant.

Rob Hesketh found great happiness in his marriage to Catherine Guinness, eldest daughter of Lord Moyne and formerly wife of Lord Neidpath, his three children (two daughters and a son), and two stepchildren.

Shortly before he died his wife took their son Frank, aged 11, on an architectural tour of Chicago and later, off Long Island with his father, he caught a fish as big as himself.

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