William Ormsby-Gore

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• Né le 11 avril 1885
• Décédé le 14 février 1964, à l'âge de 78 ans

Parents

• George Ormsby-Gore (1855 - 1938), Baron Harlech, member of parliament for Oswestry, lord-lieutenant of Merionethshire
• Lady Margaret Ethel Gordon

Famille

• Marié le 12 avril 1913, avec Beatrice Gascoyne-Cecil (1891 - 1980), dont
  • 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