1. X 1850 Mary Charlotte de Bunsen

1. x 1847 Henry de Bunsen  

 

A marble memorial to Rev Battersby was placed inside the church very shortly after he died. The text reads:

In memory of
The Rev T. D. Harford Battersby, M.A., Oxon.
For two years curate
and thirty-two years vicar of this parish,
Who died 23 July 1884, aged 60 years,
Revered and loved.
Well done thou good and faithful servant.

1. Mary Forbes x 1854 

the following children were born of this union:

Married 1st 1932: Countess Thelma Alberta Louisa Evelyne Metaxà, who died 1934. They had issue: Giles Harford.

Married 2ndly 1937: Lilias Madeline Campbell. They had issue: 2 daughters.

Obituary, The Times, 29/12/1993

Sir James Harford, KBE, CMG, former Governor of St Helena, died on November 26 aged 94. He was born on January 7, 1899.
JAMES HARFORD belonged to that generation of young veterans who, returning from the horror of the First World War, found their own peace amid Oxford's dreaming spires. When his grandson went up to Balliol 70 years on, he wrote him an affectionate letter, quoting Ovid: ``Ille terrarum mihi praeter omnes angulus ridet'' (that corner of the earth which among all others makes me smile).
A second lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment, James Dundas Harford had gone into the trenches straight from Repton. Wounded in the closing stages of the fighting, he had ended the war in Belgium, in charge of prisoners-of-war at the age of 19. At Oxford he was awarded an honorary scholarship, at that time given to those who were considered to be scholarship material but whose chances of winning one had been spoilt by the war. He read Greats.
He was a founder member of the 1919 Club, formed by those who had gone up after the war, and relished the glittering company he found there. His contemporaries at Balliol included the writers, Nevil Shute, Beverley Nichols, and L.P. Hartley, the film director Anthony Asquith and the politicians, David Maxwell Fyfe, Christopher Hollis and Frank Soskice.
Harford's father was an Anglican clergyman at Great Yarmouth and had cherished hopes that his son would follow him into the ministry. At Repton Harford came under the successive headmasterships of William Temple and Geoffrey Fisher, both later to become archbishops of Canterbury. He wrote in his private memoirs before he died: ``It would be difficult to estimate my debt to the chance of intimate and maintained association with these two men so contrasting in their nature and quality of achievement but each with the quality of greatness.''
Another master who inspired him was the young publisher-to-be Victor Gollancz who taught English (before being dismissed by Fisher). After Oxford, where he also played hockey for Balliol and captained the college at football, Harford found himself with few ideas for a career. A friend who was a housemaster at Eton persuaded him to try teaching there for a while with the prospect of one day getting his own house. But after three years as an assistant master, he could stand no more of it and entered the colonial service.
In 1926 he joined the Nigerian administration where he soon found himself, with little training for the job, in charge of an area the size of Wales. But he was to spend eight years working in Nigeria, eventually becoming assistant secretary in the central secretariat and clerk to the executive and legislative councils a post usually awarded to high fliers. Then, after two years in Whitehall, he was dispatched to the West Indies in 1936, initially as the administrator on Antigua and federal secretary of the Leeward Islands government. From there in 1940 he moved to become administrator on St Nevis, where he remained throughout the war.
One of Harford's chief concerns was to ensure that the people in his charge had enough to eat. Food convoys ran the gauntlet of U-boats during the war, transporting food to a distribution centre in Barbados, from where smaller boats ferried supplies round the Caribbean islands. But Barbadians were tempted to fill up the small boats with rum (which they had in excess) instead of swordfish and rice which were most needed.
After 12 months in Whitehall Harford was next posted to Mauritius, as colonial secretary for five years at a time when the island was preparing for universal suffrage. He went to St Helena as governor in 1954 and stayed there until 1958.
After retirement he worked as conference organiser for the Commonwealth Institute until 1964.
James Harford was a kind and courteous man, who was frequently described by that old-fashioned word "a gentleman''. Months alone in the African night had given him a deep love of nature and the stars and in old age he was happiest in his garden, in the company of young people and the birds.
His first wife, Thelma, a count's daughter whom he met while skiing, died within a few years of their marriage and he is survived by his second wife, Lilias, a son from his first marriage and two daughters from his second.

1. Sheryl Anne Dundas Bartolucci x Saturday 16 May 1981 

the following children were born of this union:
1. Elizabeth Kiefer Beardsley o Friday 30 September 1983 

1.  Marion Louley Dundas Bartolucci  x Thursday 21 June 1928 

the following children were born of this union:
1. David William Best o Wednesday 1 January 1930 
2. John Vincent Welland Best o Sunday 5 February 1933 

1. Linda Randall x March 1968 

 

1. Patricia Anne Hobbes x Friday 13 September 1957 

 

1. Luigi Vincenzo Dundas Bartolucci x 1934