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| Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean [CFT #15018] Born: 1911-Mar-11 Died: 1966-Jun-15 |
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| b Cairo d Hertford Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean, 1st baronet was a Scottish soldier, writer and politician. He was a Unionist MP from 1941 to 1974 and was one of only two men who during the Second World War enlisted in the British Army as a private and rose to the rank of brigadier, the other being future fellow Conservative MP Enoch Powell. Maclean wrote many books, including Eastern Approaches in which he recounted three extraordinary series of adventures: travelling, often incognito, into Soviet Central Asia; fighting in the Western Desert campaign, where he specialised in commando raids behind enemy lines; and living rough with Josip Broz Tito while commanding the Maclean Mission there. It has been widely speculated that Ian Fleming used Maclean as one of his inspirations for James Bond. His military and political lives are well documented elsewhere so we concentrate on his family. In 1946 he married Veronica Nell Fraser-Phipps (1920-2005), a Roman Catholic. She was the daughter of Lord Lovat and widow of naval hero Lt. Alan Phipps, who was killed ashore at Leros in 1943. Sir Fitzroy and Lady Maclean had two sons: Charles Edward (born 1946) and Alexander James (Jamie) Simon Aeneas (born 1949), who were brought up in their mother?s faith. Charles is an author, well known for dark thrillers, including the cult classic The Watcher. Jamie became an art dealer and founded the Erotic Review. Maclean was also stepfather to his wife?s children from her first marriage, Susan Rose (Sukie) Phipps (born 1941) and Jeremy Julian Phipps (born 1942), who were not brought up Catholic. Sukie married Richard St. Clair de la Mare, grandson of poet Walter de la Mare in 1959, then writer Derek Marlowe in 1968 and finally Captain Nicolas Paravicini in 1986. She had five children, and is stepmother to autistic savant Derek Paravicini. Jeremy became a Major General in the Army having served in the SAS. |
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