On 30 June 1863, Noel was married to Lady Augusta Mary, the second daughter of Lady Lucy Eleanor Sherard (eldest daughter of
Philip Sherard, 5th Earl of Harborough) and Col.
Henry Cecil Lowther of Barleythorpe Hall (the second son of
William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale). She was the also sister of
Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale. At his home,
Catmose House, in
Oakham,
Rutland, he developed a fine garden which employed 15 gardeners. Together, they were the parents of: • Gerard Cecil Noel (1864–1925), who married his cousin Madeline Edith Clifton, a daughter of
Thomas Henry Clifton, MP for
North Lancashire (a son of
John Talbot Clifton and grandson of
Henry Lowther, MP for
Westmorland), and Madeline Diana Elizabeth Agnew (a daughter of
Sir Andrew Agnew, Bt, MP for
Wigtownshire), in 1897. • Henry Cecil Noel (1868–1931), who married Frances Mary Cockerell, a daughter of Frederick Pepys Cockerell, in 1902. After their divorce in 1926, he married, secondly, Janet Muriel Baird, daughter of William Baird (a son of
William Baird MP for
Falkirk Burghs) and Caroline Muriel Burn-Callander (a descendant of the
8th Earl of Coventry), in August 1926. Noel died at Oakham in May 1911, aged 87. Augusta Noel died in January 1916. ==References==