Honorific Prefix: | Major The Right Honourable |
The Lord Terrington | |
Birth Date: | 30 December 1915 |
Spouse: | Suzanne Irwin (m. 1942) |
Children: | Lavinia Harrisson Georgina Leatham Davinia Alexander, Countess Alexander of Tunis |
Education: | Winchester College |
Alma Mater: | Royal Military Academy Sandhurst |
Major James Allen David Woodhouse, 4th Baron Terrington (30 December 1915 – 6 May 1998[1]) was a Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and Deputy Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords. He was a member of the London Stock Exchange and a director of S J Carr and County (Gunmakers) Ltd. He served in the Royal Norfolk Regiment and Queen's Westminster Rifles and was wounded in World War II.
Woodhouse was the son of Horace Martin Woodhouse, 3rd Baron Terrington and Valerie Phillips, and was educated at Winchester College and then at Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He married Suzanne Irwin, daughter of Colonel Thomas Strutt Irwin, on 7 November 1942. They had three daughters.
On his death in 1998, having no male heirs, was succeeded by his brother, Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington.[2] James is depicted in three glass-plate negative photographs held by the National Portrait Gallery, two of which show him as a child.[3]
Escutcheon: | Per fess Or and Azure a hurst of oak trees issuant in chief Proper and two bars wavy in base Argent. |
Crest: | Issuant out of a wreath of roses Argent barbed and seeded Proper a demi-woodman also Proper supporting in the dexter hand an axe Or. |
Supporters: | On either side an Airedale terrier Proper gorged with a ducal coronet Or. |
Motto: | Labor Omnia Vincit[4] |