Henry Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough explained

Honorific Prefix:Major The Right Honourable
The Lord Ellenborough
Office1:Member of the House of Lords
Status1:Lord Temporal
Term Start1:1931
Predecessor1:The 6th Baron Ellenborough
Term End1:19 May 1945
Term Label1:as a hereditary peer
Successor1:The 8th Baron Ellenborough
Birth Date:11 July 1889
Profession:Military officer, peer and politician
Spouse:Helen Dorothy Lovatt
Education:Eton College
Alma Mater:RMC Sandhurst
Rank:Major

Major Henry Astell Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough, (11 July 1889 – 19 May 1945), was a member of the House of Lords.

Law was educated at Eton College where he was in the Eton Shooting VIII and at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[1] On the death of his father, Cecil Law, 6th Baron Ellenborough, in 1931, he succeeded to the peerage.

He was commissioned as an officer into the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1909 and served in World War I. Law was awarded the Military Cross[2] and mentioned in despatches twice for gallantry.[3] He was promoted to the rank of major. He was appointed one of His Majesty's Bodyguard of Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms in 1934 and a Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset.[4] Lord Ellenborough took a prominent part in the local affairs of Dorset and he did good work as Chairman to the Council for the Preservation of Rural England for the county.

Henry Astell Law married Helen Dorothy Lovatt in 1923, the only daughter of H. W. Lovatt. They had two sons: Richard Edward Cecil Law, 8th Baron Ellenborough (1926–2013), and the Hon. Cecil Towry Henry Law (1931–2005). He died in 1945.

Notes and References

  1. News: The Times, May 21, 1945.
  2. Kidd, Charles, (editor). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (2015 edition), p. 419.
  3. News: The Times, Obituary, May 21, 1945.
  4. Web site: Ellenborough, Baron (UK, 1802). live. https://web.archive.org/web/20151208150124/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/ellenborough1802.htm. 2015-12-08.