Shropshire Yeomanry Officers - David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech, Gerald Bridgeman, 6th Earl of Bradford, Gavin Campbell (Paperback)

Chapters: David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech, Gerald Bridgeman, 6th Earl of Bradford, Gavin Campbell, 1st Marquess of Breadalbane, George Bridgeman, 4th Earl of Bradford, Oswald Cawley, Charles Dallas, Henry Cockayne-Cust, Michael Lambart, 12th Earl of Cavan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hon. Jane Teresa Denyse Ormsby-Gore (b. 1942) Hon. Victoria Mary Ormsby-Gore (b. 1946) Alice Magdalen Sarah Ormsby-Gore (1952-1995) Francis David Ormsby-Gore (b. 1954) Hon. Pandora Ormsby-Gore (b. 1972) William David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech KCMG PC (20 May 1918 26 January 1985), known as David Ormsby-Gore until 1964, was a British diplomat and Conservative Party politician. Ormsby-Gore was the second son of William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech, a Conservative politician, and Lady Beatrice Edith Mildred Cecil. Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, was his maternal great-grandfather. He was educated at St Cyprian's School, Eton College and Oxford University. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1939, served in the 'Phantom' reconnaissance unit and worked with airborne and other special units. He ended the war as a Major. After the war, his father handed over all his land and Ormsby-Gore farmed the 400 acres (1.6 km ) of the Woodhill Estate, Oswestry, Shropshire. In 1948 he was commissioned a Major in the Shropshire Yeomanry, but left in 1950. At the 1950 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament for Oswestry, which he remained until 1961. He served briefly under Anthony Eden as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from November 1956 to January 1957, and was Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 1957 to 1961 under Harold Macmillan. After the election of U.S. President John...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=59400