Who is nigel havers daughter
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Episode Synopsis
Nigel Havers was born in 1951. He has homes in London and Wiltshire and his wife's name is Georgiana. His parents were Sir Michael Havers, lawyer, MP, Attorney General and then Lord Chancellor, and Carol Lay. Sir Michael died over 20 years ago. Nigel's grandfather was Sir Cecil Robert Havers, the judge who sentenced Ruth Ellis to hang.
Nigel went to visit his father's older brother Tony Havers who is about 95 years old and lives in Hampshire. Tony had a family tree to show Nigel. Cecil Havers' parents were Daniel Havers and Agnes Sophia Buckingham. Agnes' parents were George S Buckingham and Elizabeth Hamblion, a couple who had 17 children, 14 of whom survived infancy. Tony showed Nigel a photo of Salisbury House, Unthank Road, Norwich, where the Buckingham family lived.
Nigel ordered a copy of Elizabeth Hamblion's birth certificate and found that she was born in Colchester on the 8th April 1841. Her parents were Henry Hamblion and Elizabeth Ann Ransome. Henry's occupation on the birth certificate was Driver. Nigel looked a
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A high society actor with humble origins...
Well known film and television actor, Nigel Havers, who has made a career playing upper class characters, was born Nigel Allan Havers on the 6 November 1951 in Edmonton, Middlesex. Star of TV series such as Nicholas Nickleby and Downton Abbey and films such as Chariots of Fire and Empire of the Sun, he has been a well-known actor for almost 40 years.
The legal line of his family is well known, but there is also a long line of hard working ancestors who ran their own businesses in professions far removed from acting or the law.
Here we find a copy of his birth record on TheGenealogist.
Nigel’s parents were Michael Havers and Carol Lay. Michael Havers followed his father in a successful legal career. He successfully defended Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on drugs charges and prosecuted Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. Michael Havers became Lord Chancellor in 1987. Here is a copy of the marriage record for Michael Havers and Carol Lay.
Nigel Havers was the youngest son of Michael and Ca
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Nigel Havers on Who Do You Think You Are?: Everything you need to know
As a younger man, actor Nigel Havers lived in the moment, but now he’s “gone beyond the halfway point” he’s become much more reflective and looking forward to tracing his family tree on his episode of Who Do You Think You Are? In particular, for all his reputation as a “posh guy”, he hopes to find humbler roots...
It’s a search hampered by his own parents’ lack of interest in looking back beyond grandfather Sir Cecil Havers, the judge who presided over the trial of Ruth Ellis, the last woman in the UK to be executed.
However, Tony Havers, the nonagenarian brother of Nigel’s late father Michael (a distinguished lawyer who rose to become Lord Chancellor) has compiled a partial family tree that goes back to Nigel’s great great grandmother, Elizabeth Buckingham (née Hamblion), who had 17 children.
An old photograph of Elizabeth reveals a formidable-looking woman, which chimes with Tony’s childhood memories. Nigel’s keen to learn more and he orders up Elizabeth’s birth record, which reveals that she was born
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