Tony and Marjorie Powell Edwards
Tony and Marjorie Powell Edwards at Novington Manor with Annette and Patrick and Pat Tetley Marjorie and Tony Powell Edwards lived at Novington Manor , Plumpton, Near Lewes, East Sussex. The Powell Edwards family had owned the estate since 1885. On 15 October 1946 Captain Ivor Howell Powell-Edwards, known as Tony, who was born in 1909, married Marjorie Raphael of the Raphael banking family. He had previously married Vivien Nicoll in 1933 and had two daughters with her. He died in the Brighton area on 30 September 1979 aged 70. Like his father he was a soldier. He served in the Irish Guards from 1928 to 1932. He retired in 1932 as a Second Lieutenant. Then he went on to the Reserve Officers list and was promoted to Major. In WWII he served in Norway, North Africa and Italy. He was wounded twice. In 1956 Marjorie organised dances for her two step-daughters; Antonia who married Ian Joicy Dickinson in 1957, and Virgina who married Alec William Gordon in 1960 (ref: The Times). Tony’s father...