Captain
Roger Harvey
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| High Sheriff of Wiltshire | |
| In office 1970–1970 | |
| Preceded by | Edward Lancelot Luce |
| Succeeded by | James Ian Morrison |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Roger Edward Lennox Harvey (1913-04-06)6 April 1913 Horsham, West Sussex |
| Died | 10 October 1976(1976-10-10) (aged 63) London |
| Spouse |
Diana Eira Claude Mainwaring
(m. 1938; died 1976) |
| Children | Carola Zara Lennox Harvey Joanna Lennox Harvey Fiona Diana Lennox Harvey |
| Parent(s) | Edward Douglas Lennox Harvey Emma Rawson Thornton |
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Captain Roger Edward Lennox Harvey[a] DL JP (6 April 1913 – 10 October 1976) was an English soldier and public official.
Harvey was born on 6 April 1913 in Horsham, West Sussex.[2] He was the youngest of four sons of the Rev. Edward Douglas Lennox Harvey (1839–1938), OBE, of Beedingwood House, Horsham, and his second wife,[3] Emma Jessie (née Rawson) Thornton (1867–1943), the younger daughter of Philip Rawson of Woodhurst, Crawley and widow of Sir Edward Thornton, 3rd Count of Cacilhas.[4] All three of his elder half-brothers died early and tragic deaths.[3]
His father was the youngest of seven sons of William James Harvey of Carnousie, and Isobel Barclay (a daughter of Charles Barclay of Inchbrown, County of Moray).[4]
Harvey was commissioned in the Scots Guards in 1933, eventually becoming Captain.[5] During World War II, he served in Egypt from 1939 to 1945.[6] He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire in 1963, and High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1970, and Justice of the Peace.[1]
On 6 July 1938, Harvey was married to Diana Eira Claude Mainwaring (1914–1992) at Westminster, London. Diana was a daughter of Sir Harry Mainwaring, 5th Baronet, and the former Generis Alma Windham Williams-Bulkeley (a daughter of Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet and Lady Magdalen Yorke). He lived at Parliament Piece,[7] located on the edge of the village of Ramsbury, which sits in the Kennet Valley in the North Wessex close to the Wiltshire and Berkshire border.[8] They were the parents of two daughters:[2]
Captain Harvey died in London on 10 October 1976.[6] His widow died in 1992 at Salisbury, Wiltshire.[1]
