Francis Ormsby-Gore, 6th Baron Harlech

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Francis David Ormsby-Gore, 6th Baron Harlech (born March 13, 1954 , † February 1, 2016 in Talsarnau near Harlech , North Wales ) was a British peer and politician of the Conservative Party .

Life

Francis David Ormsby-Gore, 6th Baron Harlech was born as the younger son of William David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech (1918–1985) and his wife Sylvia Thomas († 1967). He had four older siblings, a brother and three sisters. His father was British Ambassador to the United States from 1961 to 1965 and died in a traffic accident; his mother was also killed in a traffic accident.

Ormsby-Gore attended Worth School at Turners Hill, Sussex . He worked at times as a sheep farmer and truck driver. In 1985 he inherited from his father the title of Baron Harlech , of Harlech, in the County of Merioneth in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1876). His older brother, the Hon. Julian Hugh Ormsby-Gore (1940–1974) had committed suicide in November 1974, so that the title of father passed to the younger son. His older sister, Alice Magdalen Sarah, a lover of Eric Clapton , had died of a heroin overdose in 1995 .

In 1986 he married Amanda Jane Grieve, the daughter of wealthy solicitor Alan Thomas Grieve and his wife Anne Dulake, from London . The marriage resulted in two children, a son (* 1986) and a daughter (* 1988). The family lived in Shropshire and on the family estate at Glyn-Cywarch in North Wales. The marriage was overshadowed by Ormsby-Gore's longstanding alcohol and drug use . The marriage ended in divorce in August 1998 after Ormsby-Gore was surprised by his wife while having sex outside of marriage . His ex-wife later met with actor Ralph Fiennes at times . Ormsby-Gore was fined several times in the following years, 1999 for drug possession and 2001 for drunk driving. In 2003 Ormsby-Gore was registered at The Mount, Racecourse Road, Oswestry, Shropshire. In the summer of 2010, Ormsby-Gore and his daughter Tallulah were involved in a traffic accident that his daughter negligently caused at the wheel of the car during an argument with her father while driving. In March 2011 it became known that Ormsby-Gore had been forcibly admitted due to his poor health.

He died on February 1, 2016 at the age of 61 in his home in Talsarnau near Harlech in Gwynedd, North Wales . An inquest revealed that Ormsby-Gore had died of natural causes. Heir to the title is his son, the Hon. Jasset David Cody Ormsby-Gore.

Membership in the House of Lords

With the death of his father Ormsby-Gore inherited the title of Baron Harlech and the then associated seat in the House of Lords . He had been a formal member of the House of Lords since January 26, 1985. In the House of Lords he sat for the Conservative Party. Ormsby-Gore was an active member of the House of Lords. A total of 36 verbal contributions by him between 1987 and 1999 are documented in Hansard . He spoke for the first time in July 1987 in the context of a debate on trucking at the presentation of the Innovation in Surface Transport report by a special committee of the House of Lords. In the 1997/98 session it was present on 111 days. His last contribution was a brief objection to the House of Lords Bill in April 1999.

He was a member of the House of Lords until November 11, 1999. Its membership ended by the House of Lords Act 1999 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Popular and colorful Lord Harlech dies aged 6 obituary on BBC News on February 4, 2016 (English). Retrieved February 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d Tributes paid after death of Lord Harlech obituary in: Cambrian News of February 4, 2016 (English). Retrieved February 5, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Francis David Ormsby-Gore, 6th Baron Harlech on thepeerage.com , accessed September 17, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Curse of Harlechs hits again in: Daily Mail, March 11, 2011. Retrieved February 5, 2016
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g The glamorous aristocrat who has won Ralph Fiennes' heart in: Daily Mail, September 15, 2007. Retrieved February 5, 2016
  6. ↑ Innovation in Surface Transport: Select Committee Report Text of the speech of July 7, 1987
  7. ↑ ALPHABETICAL LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Alphabetical attendance list for the 1997/98 session. Retrieved February 5, 2016
predecessor Office successor
William Ormsby-Gore Baron Harlech
1985-2016 		Jasset Ormsby-Gore
personal data
SURNAME Ormsby-Gore, Francis, 6th Baron Harlech
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ormsby-Gore, Francis David, 6th Baron Harlech (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British peer and politician (Conservative Party)
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1954
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 2016
Place of death Talsarnau at Harlech , North Wales , United Kingdom