George Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech

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Ormsby-Gore in 1917

George Ralph Charles Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech, Template:Postnominals (21 January 1855 – 8 May 1938), was a British soldier and Conservative Member of Parliament.[1]

Background and education

Harlech was the son of William Richard Ormsby-Gore, 2nd Baron Harlech, and Lady Emily Charlotte Seymour, and was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.[1][2]

Military career

He served in the regular army as a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards from 1875 to 1883. He later served in the Shropshire Yeomanry, becoming its commanding officer as lieutenant-colonel from 1902 to 1907, and was honorary colonel from 1908. He commanded the Welsh Guards at home during the First World War in 1915.[3] He was chairman of the Salop Territorial Army Association.[1]

Political career

He was elected to the House of Commons for Oswestry in a by-election in May 1901,[4] a seat he held until 1904 when he succeeded his father as third Baron Harlech and entered the House of Lords.[1]

Crown appointments

Lord Harlech was a justice of the peace for both County Leitrim and Shropshire and High Sheriff of Leitrim for 1885. He was appointed to be a deputy lieutenant of Merionethshire in 1896[5] and of Shropshire in 1897.[6]

Harlech also served as Lord Lieutenant of Leitrim from 1904 to 1922 and as Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire from 1927[7] to 1938,[8] as well as Constable of Harlech Castle from 1927 until his death.

Honours and decorations

Harlech was also awarded the Knight of the Order of St John of JerusalemScript error: No such module "Unsubst". From 1926 to 1938 he was served as Provincial Grand Master of Freemasonry in Shropshire and was a member of the Lodge of St. Oswald (No. 1124), which is now also known as the Harlech Lodge of Perfection.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Arms

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Personal life

Lord Harlech married Lady Margaret Ethel Gordon, daughter of Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly, on 25 July 1881. They had one child :[1]

His family seats were Brogyntyn, Oswestry; Derrycarne, County Leitrim, Glyn, Merionethshire.[1]

Harlech died in May 1938, aged 83, and was succeeded in the barony by his son. Lady Harlech died in 1950.[14] The couple are buried in the parish churchyard of Selattyn near Oswestry. Their southern English home was Tetworth Hall at Ascot in Berkshire.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

References

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Work cited

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External links

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