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William
Ormsby-Gore
William George Arthur
4
th
Baron Harlech (1938 - 1964)
Born on April 11, 1885
Deceased on February 14, 1964, at the age of 78 years
Parents
George Ormsby-Gore
(1855 - 1938), Baron Harlech, Member of Parliament for Oswestry, lord-lieutenant of Merionethshire
Margaret Ethel Gordon
(1858 - 1950)
Family
Married on April 12, 1913, with
Beatrice Gascoyne-Cecil
(1891 - 1980), issuing
Katharine
(1921 - 2017)
Occupations
Member of Parliament
for Denbigh Boroughs January (1910 - 1918)
Member of Parliament
for Stafford (1918 - 1938)
undersecretary of State for the Colonies (1922 - 1929)
postmaster general (1931 - )
First Commissioner of Works
(1931 - 1936)
secretary of State
for the Colonies (1936 - 1938)
high Commissioner to South Africa (1941 - 1944)
lord-lieutenant of Merionethshire (1938 - 1957)
privy counsellor
Distinctions
most noble order of the Garter
order of Saint Michael and Saint George
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