Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe


Roland Calvert Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe, was a member of the British aristocracy. He became Baron Ashcombe on the death of his father Henry Cubitt, 2nd Baron Ashcombe, in 1947. He is also the maternal grandfather of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, now the wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.

Education and career

Cubitt was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was a Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards, and was appointed to be a Deputy Lieutenant in 1939 and held office as Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Surrey in 1940.

Family

On 16 November 1920 he married Sonia Rosemary Keppel, daughter of Hon. George Keppel and his wife Alice Keppel, at the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks in London. They were divorced in 1947 after having three children:
He married secondly, on 6 August 1948, Idina Joan Mills who died in 1954., daughter of Col. Robert Edward Myddelton, and his wife Lady Violet Wellesley.
He married thirdly, on 2 July 1959, Jean Baylis, daughter of Charles Tuller Garland

Death and burial

He died on 28 October 1962 is buried in the churchyard of St Barnabas's Church, Ranmore Common, Surrey.