George Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech
George Ralph Charles Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech, KCB TD DL (21 January 1855 – 8 May 1938), was a British soldier and Conservative Member of Parliament.[1]
Background and education
editHarlech 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
editHe 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
editHe 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
editLord 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
edit- DL: Deputy lieutenant of Salop, and County Merioneth.[1]
- TD:
Recipient of the Territorial Decoration, 2 September 1910.[9] - CB: Companion of the Order of the Bath.
- GCB: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath – as a Companion (CB) in the 1923 Birthday Honours.[10][11]
- KCB:
Knight commander in the 1936 New Year Honours.[3][12][13]
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Harlech was also awarded the Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]
Arms
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Personal life
editLord Harlech married Lady Margaret Ethel Gordon, daughter of Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly, on 25 July 1881. They had one child :[1]
- William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech (born 11 April 1885, died 14 February 1964)
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.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h (Hesilrige 1921)
- ^ Mate, Charles H. (1907). Shropshire, Historical, Descriptive, Biographical. Part II – Biographical. Mate. p. 16.
- ^ a b Kelly's Handbook of Distinguished People 1938. Kelly. 1923. p. 877.
- ^ "No. 27319". The London Gazette. 31 May 1901. p. 3697.
- ^ "No. 26722". The London Gazette. 17 March 1896. p. 1747.
- ^ "No. 26859". The London Gazette. 4 June 1897. p. 3131.
- ^ "No. 33251". The London Gazette. 25 February 1927. p. 1252.
- ^ "No. 34526". The London Gazette. 28 June 1938. p. 4169.
- ^ "No. 28412". The London Gazette. 2 September 1910. p. 6336.
- ^ "No. 32830". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 June 1923. p. 3945.
- ^ "No. 13924". The Edinburgh Gazette. 5 June 1923. p. 799.
- ^ "No. 34238". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1935. p. 3.
- ^ "No. 15241". The Edinburgh Gazette. 7 January 1936. p. 15.
- ^ "Ralph Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech". geni.com. 29 April 2022.
Work cited
edit- Hesilrige, Arthur G. M. (1921). Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy. 160A, Fleet street, London, UK: Dean & Son. p. 450.
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