David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

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Sir David Ormsby-Gore (1961)

William David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech , KCMG , PC (* 20th May 1918 ; † 26. January 1985 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party , among others 1950-1961 Member of Parliament ( House of Commons ) and from 1957 to 1961 Minister of State at Ministry of foreign Affairs ( foreign Office ) was. He served from 1961 to 1965 as ambassador to the United States , and he inherited in 1964 the title of Baron Harlech , which until his death a member of the Upper House, he ( House of Lords ) was. In addition, between 1965 and his death in 1985 he was President of the BBFC ( British Board of Film Censors ) .

Life

Family background, Member of the House of Commons and Junior Minister

Ormsby-Gore came from the Ormsby-Gore family of politicians and was a great-great-nephew of House of Commons John Ralph Ormsby-Gore , who, when he left the House of Commons in 1876 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, was given the hereditary title of 1st Baron Harlech , of Harlech in the County of Merioneth, as well as a great-grandchild of the House of Commons William Richard Ormsby-Gore , who inherited the title of 2nd Baron Harlech from his brother, who died in 1876. He himself was the third of six children and the second eldest son of the House of Commons William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore , who was among other things Minister of Post, Minister for Public Works and Colonial Minister and inherited the title of 4th Baron Harlech in 1938, and his wife Beatrice Edith Mildred Gascoyne-Cecil, who in turn was a daughter of James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury . His younger sister Katherine Margaret Alice Ormsby-Gore was married to the politician Maurice Macmillan , a son of the future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan . His youngest sister, Elizabeth Jane Ormsby-Gore, was the wife of William Simon Pease, 3rd Baron Wardington .

David Ormsby-Gore completed his education at the renowned Eton College and then studied at the New College of the University of Oxford . During the Second World War he served in the British Army and was last promoted to major . In the election of February 23, 1950 , he was elected to the Conservative Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Oswestry until June 1, 1950 . Right at the beginning of his membership in parliament he was a member of the British delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in 1951 and was also Parliamentary Private Secretary between 1951 and 1954 before he was again a member of the delegation to the UN General Assembly in 1954. From 1956 to 1957 he was first Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs and then from 1957 to 1961 Minister of State for Foreign Affairs . He was also on January 19, 1957 Member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) .

Ambassador to the United States and Member of the House of Lords

After his resignation from the government service in the Foreign Office ( Foreign Office ) Ormsby-Gore succeeded Harold Caccia as Ambassador to the United States in 1961 and held this post until 1965, when he was replaced by Patrick Dean . On June 29, 1961, he was made Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (KCMG) and from then on carried the suffix "Sir". In 1961 he was further Knight of Justice of the Order of Saint John (KStJ) and was also Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Shropshire .

On the death of his father Ormsby-Gore inherited the title of 5th Baron Harlech on February 14, 1964, making him a member of the House of Lords until his death. After the death of Herbert Stanley Morrison, he held the office of President of the BBFC ( British Board of Film Censors ) between 1965 and his death in 1985 , whereupon George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, succeeded him there. He also served from 1966 to 1967 deputy chairman of the faction of the opposition conservative Tories in the upper house (Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords) . In 1967 he became chairman of the board of directors of Harlech TV, which he founded, and in 1976 director of Frost and Reed Holdings .

Marriages and offspring

Ormsby-Gore was married twice, from February 9, 1940 until her death in a car accident on May 30, 1967 with the diplomat's daughter Sylvia Thomas and from December 11, 1969 until his death on January 26, 1985 in a car accident with Pamela Colin, daughter of New York attorney Ralph F. Colin . The first marriage had two sons and three daughters, and the second marriage had another daughter.

The eldest son Julian Hugh Ormsby-Gore committed in 1974 on November 5 suicide . As a result, his second son Francis David Ormsby-Gore inherited the title of 6th Baron Harlech when he died on January 26, 1985 .

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predecessor Office successor
William Ormsby-Gore Baron Harlech
1964–1985 		Francis Ormsby-Gore
personal data
SURNAME Ormsby-Gore, David, 5th Baron Harlech
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ormsby-Gore, William David, 5th Baron Harlech (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, MP and peer
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1918
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1985