Ascot. Her telephone numbers were Llanelly 2 and Ascot 37. She was a member of the Ladies' Hyde Park and Bath clubs. She was granted authority, by royal licence, to take additional surname of Stepney in 1922, and died on 8 June 1952. Youngest daughter Margaret Catherine Marged Stepney Howard Stepney (London, 20 January 1913-London, 22 January 1953), of Cilymaenllwyd, Llanelly, and Chase End, Compton Avenue, Hampstead Lane, London, was the daughter of Sir Stafford by his second wife, Alcyone Cowell-Stepney. She married in 1933 Patrick Wyndham Murray-Threipland (1904-1957), only son of Colonel William Murray Threipland, had one son and divorced in 1938. In later life she was a friend and patron of Dylan Thomas. Younger Son Captain Stafford Vaughan Stepney Howard, (3 September 1915 – 1991). Changed his surname from Howard-Stepney to Howard by deed poll in August 1950, on inheriting the family estates in Cumbria, which included Greystoke Castle. He stood, unsuccessfully, twice for Parliament in the Liberal interest, in south Gloucestershire in 1950 and in 1951 the Penrith and the Border constituency. He was however a parish and county councillor, chairman of Penrith and Border Liberal Party, chairman of the Ullswater Outward Bound Trust, served on the Lake District Planning Board and the Ullswater Preservation Society, and was High Sheriff of Cumbria in 1979. He married, firstly, Ursula Priscilla Marie Gabrielle, daughter of Colonel Sir James Nockells Horlick, 4th Bt., on 15 July 1936 (they divorced in 1940), and secondly, Mary Gracia (1913-2004), daughter of George Wilder Neville, of Portsmouth, Virginia and New York City, on 24 October 1940. Gracia became a trustee of the Shrewsbury Hospital in Sheffield in 1965. By his first wife he had the GCHQ operative and mathematician Nicholas Stafford Howard (20 Jul 1937-17 Feb 2008), of Johnby Hall, Penrith, and by his second he had two daughters and a further son Lt.-Col. Murray Bernard Neville Cyprian Howard, OBE (b 1942-), who inherited Greystoke Castle. References External links 1851 births 1916 deaths People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Stafford Howard UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs 1885–1886 Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Inner Temple Deputy Lieutenants of Gloucestershire English justices of the peace Stepney family