Charles Rhys, 8th Baron Dynevor

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Charles Arthur Uryan Rhys, 8th Baron Dynevor CBE ( September 21, 1899 - December 15, 1962 ) was a British nobleman and politician.

Rhys came from the old Welsh family Rhys , who Anglicized their family name to Rice in the 16th century. He was born Charles Arthur Uryan Rice, the eldest son of Walter FitzUryan Rhys, 7th Baron Dynevor and his wife Margaret Child-Villiers , the eldest daughter of Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey . His father changed the family name to Rhys in 1916 . Charles Rhys attended Eton and the Royal Military College . In 1919 he served as a reserve officer with the rank of captain in the Grenadier Guards in the British Intervention Corps in Russia during the Russian Civil War . For his services he received the Military Cross and the Russian Order of St. Anne . From 1923 to 1929 he was an MP for Romford in the House of Commons , where he was the youngest MP until 1924. In 1924 he became Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury Secretary of the War Office and in 1926 Under-Secretary of State to the Secretary of State for the Colonies . From 1927 to 1929 he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin . After he lost his member of parliament in the general election in 1929 , he took over the management of the family property, especially the industrial facilities of Neath Abbey and the tinplate works in Jersey Marine . From 1931 to 1935 he was again a member of the House of Commons for Guildford . During the Second World War he served in the guard reserve. In the general election in 1945 , he applied unsuccessfully for the mandate for Islington North . After the war he took over again the management of the family estate in Wales, where he began with the reforestation with conifers and had the family seat Newton House modernized. At the same time he tried to reorganize the family finances. After the death of his father in 1956 he became the 8th Baron Dynevor , but had to sell large parts of his property in order to pay the high inheritance taxes.

Rhys was vice chairman of the insurance company Sun Insurance and from 1948 to 1960 chairman and 1962 president of the Cities of London and Westminster Conservative Association . He was also President of the National Museum of Wales and from 1960 to 1962 President of the University College of South Wales .

He married Hope Mary Woodbine in 1934 , the divorced wife of Arthur Granville Soames . With her he had a son, Richard Rhys, who became 9th Baron Dynevor after his death in 1962. Since high inheritance taxes were due again after Charles's death and not all inheritance taxes had yet been paid after the death of the 7th Baron, the 9th Baron had to sell further parts of the family's property and in 1974 also Newton House.

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SURNAME Rhys, Charles, 8th Baron Dynevor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rhys, Charles Arthur Uryan, 8th Baron Dynevor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1899
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1962