Modern Kincaids
John Lennox Kincaid Lennox had one son, John, and three daughters, Margaret, Cecilia, and Fanny. John joined the 12th Lancers and went on service to South Africa, but took ill. His doctors recommended that he live abroad. However, he died in Egypt in 1857, aged only 27. His father was heartbroken and died two years later, in 1859.
J. L. K. Lennox was succeeded as Laird by his daughter Margaret, who was by that time the widowed Viscountess Strangford. She became the seventeenth Laird of Balcorrach, twelfth of Woodhead and second of Lennox Castle. She married again in 1861, waiving the title Viscountess and elected to be called the Hon. Mrs. Hanbury Kincaid Lennox. She had no children, so on her death she was succeeded by her sister Cecilia who had married William Peareth of Usworth in 1856.
Their eldest son was William George Peareth Kincaid, who in 1888, married, Anna Lilly Frances, eldest daughter of Andrew Johnes Rouse Boughton of Downtown Castle, Herefordshire. They had two sons, William Mandeville and Alwyne Cecil, and three daughters. In 1916 William Mandeville Peareth Kincaid Lennox married Eva St. Clair, eldest daughter of Archibald Hamilton Donald of Lynedoch Street, Glasgow.
They had a daughter, Heather Veronica (born 1918), who became Chief of Clan Kincaid, succeeding her uncle, Alwyne Cecil, and served her people from 1988 till August 2, 1999, when she died. She was succeeded by her granddaughter, Arabella Jane, who became Madam Arabella Kincaid of Kincaid, December 11, 2000.
Madam Arabella was born August 1965 in Downton, Shropshire, England, the eldest daughter of Denis Hornell Lennox (later Chief of Clan Lennox) and Jane Logan Batters Lennox.
She married March 1995 to the former Major Giles Inglis-Jones, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards. Madam Arabella has four children, John Angus, Jessie Jemima Faith, Isabella (Ella) Hermione Grace and Dominic Alexander.
Madam Arabella now lives in Downton, Shropshire, in a house in the meadow below Downtown Castle. She and her husband are wonderful people, whom many of us met on our trip to Scotland 2003.
