Sir
Timothy Daunt
KCMG
26th Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man
In office
27 October 1995 – 1 September 2000
MonarchElizabeth II
Preceded bySir Laurence Jones
Succeeded bySir Ian Macfadyen
Personal details
Born
Timothy Lewis Achilles Daunt

(1935-10-11)11 October 1935
Died5 August 2023(2023-08-05) (aged 87)
London, England[1]
NationalityBritish
SpousePatricia Susan Knight
ChildrenJames Daunt
RelativesAchilles Daunt (great grandfather)
Alma materSt Catharine's College, Cambridge
Military service
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch/service British Army
Years of service1955–1957
RankLieutenant
Viceregal styles of
Sir Timothy Daunt
(1995–2000)
Reference styleHis Excellency
Spoken styleYour Excellency

Sir Timothy Lewis Achilles Daunt KCMG (11 October 1935 – 5 August 2023) was a British diplomat and Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man.

Early life

Daunt was educated at Sherborne School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge.[2]

Career

Daunt was commissioned into the Royal Armoured Corps in 1955[3] and posted to the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars. After completing national service, he joined the diplomatic service and, after a series of postings, became Permanent Representative to NATO in Brussels in 1982[4] and then British Ambassador to Turkey from 1986 to his retirement in 1992.[5]

In retirement he became Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man.[6] He later became chairman of the Ottoman Fund, a business established to provide mortgages for properties in Turkey.[7]

Personal life and death

In 1962 he married Patricia Susan Knight (1938-2023), second daughter of Major Claude Thorburn Knight (1910-1993) by his wife Priscilla (1914-1995), only daughter of John William Dodson, 2nd Baron Monk Bretton.[8][9] Lady Daunt grew up mostly on a farm in East Sussex, just north of Lewes, and was educated at Langford Grove School, Barcombe and Southover Manor School, Lewes.[10] Both Daunts were involved with The Friends of Aphrodisias Trust. Lady Daunt's inclinations towards Asia Minor seem to have been further boosted by her having been a five-times great-niece of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, not that she knew of the connection. Similarly, through her organisational and social flare and general energy Lady Daunt showed signs of being a throw back to her ancestor Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.[11] In October 2017 a selection of Lady Daunt's 25 years' worth of essays written for Cornucopia Magazine was published as The Palace Lady's Summerhouse and other inside stories from a vanishing Turkey.[12]

Daunt died of the effects of cerebral vasculitis on 5 August 2023, at the age of 87.[13][14] Lady Daunt died on 2 October 2023, at the age of 84.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Former Lieutenant Governor Sir Timothy Daunt has died". Isle of Man. 8 August 2023.
  2. ↑ Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke's Irish Family Records. London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976.
  3. ↑ "No. 40422". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1955. p. 1315.
  4. ↑ Birthdays: 11-12 October The Times, 11 October 2008
  5. ↑ Diplomatic Secrets Cornucopia, various issues
  6. ↑ Governor says farewell IOM today, 1 September 2000
  7. ↑ Ottoman Fund launch enables investors to talk Turkey Wealth Manager, 22 December 2005
  8. ↑ Burke's Peerage, etc.
  9. ↑ "Genealogy of Daunt of Owlpen". Archived from the original on 12 September 2015.
  10. ↑ Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979, 2017.
  11. ↑ Burke's Peerage. Descent from Georgiana was via Eliza Courtney, Georgiana's natural daughter by Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey.
  12. ↑ Foreword by John Julius Norwich. Photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg, Simon Upton, Cemal Emden, Jürgen Frank, Jean Marie del Moral, Brian McKee (1977–2017), Berrin Torolsan. Published by Cornucopia Books, October 2017. ISBN 978-09957566-0-1
  13. ↑ "Timothy Lewis Achilles Daunt". The Times. 8 August 2023. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
  14. ↑ "Sir Timothy Daunt obituary". The Times. 16 September 2023. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
  15. ↑ "Lady Patricia Susan Daunt (née Knight)". The Times. 10 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
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