Charles Smith-Ryland

Sir Charles Mortimer Tollemache Smith-Ryland KCVO (May 24, 1927 – 1989) was Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire from 1968 to 1989.

The son of Captain Charles Ivor Phipson Smith-Ryland, he was educated at Eton College and married Jeryl Marcia Sarah Gurdon, daughter of the Honorable Robert Brampton Gurdon and sister of the third Baron Cranworth, in 1952.

He was a member of Warwickshire County Council from 1949, being Vice-Chairman in 1963 and Chairman from 1964 to 1967.

Appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Warwickshire in 1954 and High Sheriff of Warwickshire for 1967–68, he became Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire in 1968.

He was a landowner and farmer, a member of the Royal Agricultural Society, and was, for some time, chairman of the Warwickshire and Coventry Police Authority.

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Honorary titles
Preceded by
Victor William Oubridge
High Sheriff of Warwickshire
1967–1968
Succeeded by
Frederick Devereux Muntz
Preceded by
The Lord Willoughby de Broke
Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire
1968–1989
Succeeded by
The Viscount Daventry