Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell

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Ronald Gorell Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell (16 April 1884–2 May 1963), was a British peer, Liberal politician and newspaper editor.

Gorell was the second son of John Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell, a Judge of the High Court of Justice. He succeeded as third Baron Gorell in 1917 after his elder brother was killed in the First World War and took his seat on the Liberal benches in the House of Lords. In July 1921 he was appointed Under-Secretary of State for Air in the coalition government of David Lloyd George, an office he held until the government fell in October 1922. He was later Editor of the Cornhill Magazine from 1933 to 1939.

Lord Gorell married Maud Elizabeth Furse Radcliffe (1886-1954), eldest daughter of Alexander Nelson Radcliffe and Isabel Grace Henderson, in 1922. He died in May 1963, aged 77, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Timothy John Radcliffe Barnes.

Political offices
Preceded by The Marquess of Londonderry	Under-Secretary of State for Air 1921–1922	Succeeded by The Duke of Sutherland
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Henry Barnes	Baron Gorell 1917–1963	Succeeded by Timothy John Radcliffe Barnes

[edit] References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page