George Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech

George Ralph Charles Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech, KCB TD (21 January 1855 – 8 May 1938), was a British soldier and Conservative Member of Parliament.

Biography

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]

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.^[2] He was Chairman of the Salop Territorial Army Association. He was elected to the House of Commons for Oswestry in a by-election in May 1901,^[3] a seat he held until 1904 when he succeeded his father as third Baron Harlech and entered the House of Lords.

He was a Justice of the Peace for both County Leitrim and Shropshire and High Sheriff of Leitrim for 1885. Lord Harlech also served as Lord Lieutenant of Leitrim from 1904 to 1922 and as Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire from 1927 to 1938, as well as Constable of Harlech Castle from 1927 until his death. He was a Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1910 and made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.^[2] From 1926 to 1938 he 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.

Marriage & Children

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

William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech (born 11 April 1885, died 14 February 1964)

Harlech died in May 1938, aged 83, and was succeeded in the barony by his son. Lady Harlech died in 1950. The couple are buried in the parish churchyard of Selattyn near Oswestry. Their southern English home was Tetworth Hall at Ascot in Berkshire.

Coat of arms

Arms of George Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech
Notes Coat of arms of the Ormsby-Gore family Coronet A coronet of a Baron Crest 1st: an Heraldic Tiger rampant Argent; 2nd: a Dexter Arm embowed in armour proper holding in the hand a Man's Leg also in armour couped at the thigh Escutcheon Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Gules a Fess between three Cross Crosslets fitchy Or (Gore); 2nd and 3rd, Gules a Bend between six Cross Crosslets Or (Ormsby) Supporters Dexter: an Heraldic Tiger Argent maned and tufted Sable ducally gorged Or; Sinister: a Lion Or Motto In Hoc Signo Vinces (Under this sign thou shalt conquer)

Notes

↑ Mate, Charles H. (1907). Shropshire, Historical, Descriptive, Biographical. Part II - Biographical. Mate. p. 16.
1 2 Kelly's Handbook of Distinguished People 1938. Kelly. p. 877.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 27319. p. 3697. 31 May 1901.

References

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
Lundy, Darryl. "FAQ". The Peerage. External link in |publisher= (help)

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by George Ormsby-Gore

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Stanley Leighton	Member of Parliament for Oswestry 1901–1904	Succeeded by Allan Heywood Bright
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Lord Harlech	Lord Lieutenant of Leitrim 1904–1922	Office abolished
Preceded by Sir Arthur Williams	Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire 1927–1938	Succeeded by The Lord Harlech
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Richard Ormsby-Gore	Baron Harlech 1904–1938	Succeeded by William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore

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