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     Geoffrey Bonham Morris was born on 23 July 1900 at Gwydir, Winchester Road, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England^G.¹ He was the son of Herbert Francis Morris and Mary Alice Bonham.¹ He died on 8 June 1983 at age 82 at Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa^G.¹

     Vice-Admiral Leslie Haliburton Ashmore was born in 1893.² He married Tamara Vasilevna Schutt.¹ He died in 1974.²
     He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.)¹ He was appointed Companion, Order of the Bath (C.B.) in 1947.

     Tamara Vasilevna Schutt was born in 1896.² She married Vice-Admiral Leslie Haliburton Ashmore.¹ She died in 1972.²
     She lived at St. Petersburg, Russia^G.¹ Her married name became Ashmore.¹

     Vice-Admiral Sir Peter William Beckwith Ashmore was born on 4 December 1921.² He was the son of Vice-Admiral Leslie Haliburton Ashmore and Tamara Vasilevna Schutt.³ He married Patricia Moray Buller, daughter of Admiral Sir Henry Tritton Buller and Lady Hermione Moray Stuart, on 18 October 1952.¹ He died on 31 July 2002 at age 80 at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England.^1,2
     He was appointed Knight Commander, Order of the Bath (K.C.B.)¹ He was appointed Knight Commander, Royal Victorian Order (K.C.V.O.)¹ He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (D.S.C.)¹

     Elizabeth Mary Doveton Sturdee was born on 21 September 1919.² She was the daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir Lionel Arthur Doveton Sturdee, 2nd Bt. and Dorothy Mary Mowbray Sayer.^1,3 She married Admiral Sir Edward Beckwith Ashmore, son of Vice-Admiral Leslie Haliburton Ashmore and Tamara Vasilevna Schutt, on 11 December 1942.¹ She died on 26 April 2014 at age 94.³
     She gained the rank of 2nd Officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service, during teh Second World War.² From 11 December 1942, her married name became Ashmore.¹

     Rear-Admiral Sir Lionel Arthur Doveton Sturdee, 2nd Bt. was born on 3 September 1884.² He was the son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1st Bt. and Marion Adela Andrews.³ He married Dorothy Mary Mowbray Sayer, daughter of William Feetham Sayer and Edith Alexandra Bell, on 3 February 1910.² He died on 19 December 1970 at age 86.^3,4
     He was educated at Stanmore Park School.² He was commissioned in 1899, in the service of the Royal Navy.² He was educated at H.M.S. Britannia, England^G.² He gained the rank of Lieutenant in 1906.² He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Commander in 1914.² He fought in the First World War.² He gained the rank of Commander in 1918.² He gained the title of 2nd Baronet Sturdee, of the Falkland islands [U.K., 1916] on 7 May 1925.⁵ He gained the rank of Captain in 1926.² He gained the rank of Rear-Admiral in 1938.² He was Chief Telecommunications Censor between 1940 and 1945.² He was appointed Commander, Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in 1946.⁵ On his death his baronetcy became extinct.³

     Reginald Sydney Falkner married Grace S. Baker.¹

     Grace S. Baker married Reginald Sydney Falkner.¹
     Her married name became Falkner.¹

     Betty Mary Ormsby is the daughter of Reverend Thomas Ormsby and Lucy Mary Thomson.^1,2 She married Sir William Lindsay Murphy, son of Canon R. W. Murphy, in 1922.¹
     From 1922, her married name became Murphy.¹

     Isobel Violet Leonore Gardiner was born in 1895.¹ She married Lt.-Col. Richard Lionel Barton.¹
     Her married name became Barton.¹