Lucinda Helen Mary Francis Meath-Baker

19 January 1922 to 24 February 2013

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1922

Lucinda Helen Mary Francis Meath-Baker was the daughter of Francis and Susan Baker (BAK00320). She was born on 19 January 1922 and baptised at St George, Hanover Square, London.

1948

Lucinda married Sir John J Wells MP on 31 July 1948 (GRO Volume 7B page 857).

(The Tewkesbury Register and Agricultural Gazette, 7 August 1948)

John Wells was educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MA). He served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War, as a seaman in 1942, commissioned in 1943 and in submarines until 1946. He was a marine engineer, company director and farmer, and was a councillor on Leamington Spa Borough Council.

Sir John Wells

At the 1955 general election, Wells stood unsuccessfully in the Smethwick constituency. At the 1959 general election, he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidstone, following in the footsteps of a nineteenth century ancestor, also John Wells. He held the safe Conservative seat until his retirement at the 1987 general election, when his successor was the future minister Ann Widdecombe.

Sir John Wells outside Parliament on his horse

John Julis Wells (30 March 1925 to 8 February 2017) married Lucinda in 1948, eldest daughter of Francis R Meath Baker, of Hasfield Court, Gloucestershire. In 1958 the family moved to Mere House in Mereworth, Kent. The house had been built in the 18th century by Sir Francis Dashwood, a distant ancestor of Lucinda. The Wells family have themselves had a long association with West Kent dating back to at least the sixteenth century, and were mentioned by Samuel Pepys in his famous diary as owners of a successful shipbuilders on the Thames. John and Lucinda had two sons (WA Andrew, High Sheriff of Kent in 2005–06, and Oliver) and two daughters (the late Julia, Mrs James Luard, and Henrietta, homeopathic practitioner and author). Lady Wells died on 24 February 2013. John Wells was a freemason.

(see “The House”, Mere House, 16 October 2017).

2010

Sir John and Lady Wells

2013

Lucinda Wells died on 24 February 2013.

Wells. Lucina Mary Helen Francis (nee Meath Baker), peacefully at home at Mereworth on 24^th February 2013, beloved wife of Sir John Wells, mother of Andrew, Henrietta, Oliver and the late Julia Luard, grandmother and great grandmother. Funeral at St Lawrence’s church, Mereworth, Kent on Thursday 7^th March at 2pm (The Daily Telegraph, 28 February 2013).

2017

John Julius Wells died on 8 February 2017 aged 91 (see obituary in the Telegraph, 12 February 2017 and obituary in the Scotsman, 1 March 2017).