Walter Rhys, 7th Baron Dynevor

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Walter FitzUryan Rhys, 7th Baron Dynevor (born August 17, 1873 in Dursley , † June 8, 1956 ) was a British nobleman and politician .

Rhys came from the ancient Welsh Rhys family . Since the family had Anglicized the family name to Rice in the 16th century, he was named Walter FitzUryan Rice as the only son of Arthur de Cardonnel FitzUryan Rice, 6th Baron of Dynevor and his wife Selina Lascelles, a granddaughter of the 2nd Earl of Harewood , born. He attended Eton and Christ Church College , Oxford . From 1898 he took over the management of the family estates in Wales, in addition he took on several offices, including from 1899 to 1903 that of the private secretary of George Francis Hamilton , the Secretary of State for India and from 1903 to 1905 that of the private secretary of Frederick Campbell, 3. Earl Cawdor , First Lord of the Admiralty . In 1910 Rhys was elected MP for Brighton and Hove to the House of Commons , but after his father's death in June 1911 he inherited the title of Baron Dynevor , so that he resigned in favor of his seat in the House of Lords . During the First World War he worked in the Ministry of Munitions from 1916 to 1918 . His other offices included that of Representative in Carmarthenshire County Council from 1919 to 1935 and from 1938 to 1948 that of Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire . From the Great Depression , the embossed by mining and steel industry South Wales hit hard, and job creation and various other measures were undertaken to Rhys to alleviate the plight of the population. With the outbreak of World War II, he made his residence Newton House available to the military. In 1946 he sold his stake in the Neath Abbey industrial complex .

In 1898 he married Margaret Child-Villiers , the eldest daughter of Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey . The couple had four children:

Rhys was considered to be tradition- conscious and was always aware of his Welsh ancestry from Rhys ap Thomas . With the approval of the king, he changed the spelling of his surname to Rhys in 1916. He promoted the preservation of the old White Park Cattle breed , on which a herd lived in Dynevor Park near his Newton House estate, and wrote two books:

  • Trees at Dynevor Castle. A summary list with notes . Spurrell, Carmarthen 1934.
  • My Reminiscences . Spurrell, Carmarthen 1937

He was buried in the Church of St Tyfi by Llandyfeisant in Dynevor Park.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Library of Wales: Dynevor Estate Records. Archived from the original on May 23, 2012 ; accessed on August 31, 2014 .
  2. ^ Llandeilo through the ages: The Dynevoor Peerage. Archived from the original on October 7, 2014 ; accessed on August 31, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Rhys, Walter, 7th Baron Dynevor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rice, Walter FitzUryan, 7th Baron Dynevor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman and politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Dursley
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1956