In 1953, the new Lord Orkney married Rose Katharine Durk, the younger daughter of J. W. D. Silley, of Brixham, but they had no children.
Born in Torbay and brought up in Brixham, he was educated at Churston Ferrers Grammar School where he developed his taste for history, which he went on to study at University College London where he was awarded the Derby studentship for the best first of 330 candidates.
He was the son of Poole Putt and Ellen Blake Gorley of Brixham, Devon.
Built at the Upham Shipyard in Brixham and financed by private donations in England and the Plimouth Plantation, the ship represented the alliance between the United Kingdom and the USA for collaboration in World War II.
The course was again changed for this edition, this time spanning five legs: Newport, Rhode Island/New York — Brixham, Devon — Cape Town — Tauranga — Salvador, Brazil — Newport.
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Dorothy was the sister of the botanist, Henry Lyte, and the sixth great aunt of Henry Francis Lyte, curate at Brixham and writer of numerous hymns including "Abide with Me".
This would be an extension of the First Great Western service over the Riviera Line from Exeter as far as Churston station on the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, which would then act as a railhead for Brixham.