Diana Neave, Baroness Airey of Abingdon

Who was Diana Neave, Baroness Airey of Abingdon?

Diana Josceline Barbara Neave, Baroness Airey of Abingdon, born Diana Josceline Barbara Giffard, was a Conservative member of the House of Lords after receiving a life peerage in August 1979.

Diana Giffard was daughter of Thomas Arthur Walter Giffard, MBE, DL for Staffordshire, of Chillington Hall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire and his wife Angela Erskine Trollope, elder daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Henry Trollope, 10th Bt. She married Airey Neave, elder son and first child of Sheffield Airey Neave, himself a grandson of Sir Thomas Neave, 2nd Baronet, of the Neave baronets, and his first wife Dorothy Middleton, on 29 December 1942. They had three children:

⁕Hon. Marigold Elizabeth Cassandra Neave, now Hon. Mrs William Webb; married 8 June 1968 William Richard Broughton Webb, son of Lt.-Cdr. William Frank Broughton Webb, and has issue, one son and one daughter.

⁕Hon. Richard Patrick Sheffield Neave; married 1980 Elizabeth Mary Catherine Riddell, daughter of Cuthbert Edward Alphonso Riddell, and had issue, three sons, whose common second last name is Airey.

⁕Hon. William Robert Sheffield Neave; married 1986 Joanna Mary Stuart Paton, daughter of James Stuart Paton, and has issue, two sons, Richard Digby Stuart Neave; Sebastian Airey Stuart Neave.