A Family History of the Illustrious, Notorious and Eccentric Lloyds of Birmingham, Brigstock and Pipewell Hall - Flipbook - Page 140
MARY LLOYD Aunt Mary
1911 - 1992
Married 17 June 1931 to Harold Newgass
Married 20 August 1938 to John Budd (Jack)
ember Aunt Mary as perhaps the most mischievous and entertaining of all the Lloyd siblings. My
arliest memories of her come from visiting Clapton in Northamptonshire, beyond Wellingborough,
she lived with her first husband, Harold Newgass, and going to parties there with their two
ass children, Miriam and Jennifer. Just after she left Harold Newgass, Miriam and Jennifer came to
ith Pierre's family at Stoke Albany for a while. Sadly Jenny Baillie (Née Newgass) died of a brain
ur in 2014.
d Newgass was one of my godfathers, and for many years after he was divorced from Aunt Mary,
ntinued to send me a £1 note as a Christmas present. Uncle Harold was awarded the St George9s
during the war for risking his life defusing a bomb after an air raid (The Hornet and citation on
210/211).
Mary often came to stay with Billy and Pierre in Scotland after their marriage. She enjoyed behaving
eously, especially shocking Granny Collins. On one occasion when Uncle Ian set off just in time
s quarter-final match in the Scottish Amateur Golf Championship at Royal Troon, he found that all
ooden clubs were missing from his golf bag, and were nowhere to be found at Grey Gables.
heless, he won his match only using his irons, and took Aunt Mary to task when he got back home
ey Gables for having borrowed his wooden clubs. She was insolently unrepentant saying, "Well, I
that your wooden clubs were often your undoing, and if I had not taken them out of your bag
you would have lost your match."
divorcing Harold Newgass, who was such a loyal godfather to me, Aunt Mary married Jack Budd.
ived at Tattingstone, then in Frinton where Uncle Mike had a holiday home. I remember Uncle
udd as being most congenial company. They had a Budd son and daughter, James and Caroline.
ently, son James once took such a strong fancy for Aunt Mary's hat, that he asked her,
