The von Dieskau Genealogy
1a August von Dieskau (29.2.1756-14.3.1837)
Wilhelmina Wilke (8.12.1772-23.4.1835)
2a August von Dieskau (8.12.1797-19.8.1876)
Bertha Mentz (22.3.1805-28.9.1864
3a Gertrud von Dieskau
3b Dorothea von Dieskau
Gustav Jahn
4a Konrad Jahn
Carolina Going
5a Dorothea Jahn
Justinus Von Fange
6a Erich von Fange
Esther Ziegelbein
7a Paul von Fange
3c Hedwig von Dieskau
Richard Wilke
3d Emma von Dieskau
Albert Fischer
4a Martin Fischer
4b Heinrich August Fischer
4c Albert Fischer
4d Friedrich Fischer
4e Clara Fischer
4f Hermann Fischer
4g Luisa Fischer
4h Sophie Fischer
4i Hedwig Fischer
4j ?
4k Margarethe Fischer
4l Christian Fischer
3e Auguste von Dieskau
3f Johanna von Dieskau
3g Konrad von Dieskau
Anna von Pfuel
4a Wolf von Dieskau
Frieda von Rhaden
4b Otto von Dieskau
Luise Surmann
3h Ulrich von Dieskau
Alice Rodewald
4a Edith von Dieskau (6.1.1875)
Waldemar von Wussow (29.9.1835)
4b Hedwig von Dieskau (25.1.1876)
Henry Bligh Forde (1.3.1910)
5a Sylvia Bligh Forde (15.8.1902)
Henry Welshman
6a Purwien (Pamela Helen) Forde (13.7.1928)
Syed Abid Shah
7a Pervaiz
7b Yasmin (17.10.1963)
5b Ivo Bligh Forde (24.9.1906)
5c Feodora Bligh Forde (9.9.1909)
4c Friedrch von Dieskau (27.4.1878)
Gertrud Lippmann
4d Ulrich von Dieskau (8.1.1881)
Ehrengard Graefin Westarp (2.7.1890)
3i Margarethe von Dieskau
Gustav Schulze
2b Wilhelmine von Dieskau (8.10.1799-8.1.1870)
2c Luise von Dieskau (14.4.1804-2.12.1888)
Georg Schwinck
2d Amalie von Dieskau (2.3.1811-14.1.1894)
Heinrich von Poyda (-4.1867)
9-17-1996
LONDON -- Actress Jane Baxter, who starred in the first
stage production of the popular thriller "Dial M for Murder" during a career
that spanned 53 years, has died, a family friend said Monday. She was 87. Miss Baxter died at her south London home on Friday night of
stomach cancer, Michael Thornton said. Miss Baxter, who was acclaimed for her elegance, ended an
affair with actor Ronald Colman in the mid-1930s rather than move to Hollywood.
Her performance in the 1941 film, "Ships with Wings"
prompted Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill to describe her as "that charming
lady whose grace personifies all that is best in British womanhood." She occasionally appeared in the British TV sitcom
"Upstairs, Downstairs" in the 1970s, playing a mischievous viscountess. Born Feodora Forde in Bremen, Germany, Miss Baxter was the
younger daughter of Irish engineer Henry Bligh Forde and his German wife, Hedwig
von Dieskau, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria's granddaughter, Princess
Charlotte. At age 15, she made her stage debut in 1925 with a small
part in the musical "Love's Prisoner" at London's Adelphi Theatre. She went on to perform in dozens of plays and 29 films. Her
co-stars included John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave, Charles Laughton, John
Clements, Donald Sinden, Margaret Rutherford and Anna Neagle. She played Viola when Alec Guinness made his stage directing
debut in 1948 with Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." She appeared in "Dial M for
Murder" in 1952. After an acclaimed performance in the 1934 musical "Blossom
Time" with tenor Richard Tauber, she went to Hollywood and made two movies, "We
Live Again" and "The Enchanted April." It was there she began a relationship with the British-born
Colman. But Miss Baxter disliked Hollywood and the couple parted. Colman said
later she was the love of his life. Miss Baxter first married in 1930 to British racing driver
Clive Dunfee, who was killed in an auto wreck two years later. In 1939, she
married businessman Arthur Montgomery, who died in 1978. Miss Baxter is survived by two daughters and a son from her
marriage to Montgomery. Funeral details were not announced.
paul@vonfange.com
