| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Harlech | |
| Office: | Lord-in-waiting Government Whip |
| Term Start: | 22 September 2022 |
| Primeminister: | Liz Truss Rishi Sunak[1] |
| Term End: | 5 July 2024 |
| Birth Date: | 1 July 1986 |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Occupation: | Politician and peer |
| Office2: | Member of the House of Lords |
| Status2: | Lord Temporal |
| Term Label2: | as an elected hereditary peer |
| Term Start2: | 21 July 2021 |
| Predecessor2: | The 2nd Baron Elton |
Jasset David Cody Ormsby-Gore, 7th Baron Harlech (born 1 July 1986), is a British hereditary peer and Conservative member of the House of Lords.[2] He has been serving as a Lord in Waiting since September 2022.[3]
Harlech is a great-great-great-grandson of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, who served as British prime minister.[4] [5] His father was Francis Ormsby-Gore, 6th Baron Harlech, a Conservative peer, and his mother was Amanda Ormsby-Gore (née Grieve), a creative consultant and writer. Due to his father's mental health issues, he describes his mother raising him and his sister "essentially as a single parent".[6]
Harlech was educated at Eton College. He studied graphic design at Central Saint Martins art school, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 2008.[7]
Harlech sought election as a Liberal Democrat peer in 2017 "in order to stand for equality and progress".[8]
Harlech became a member of the House in July 2021, being elected in a hereditary peers' by-election by the whole House.[9] He took the oath on 22 July 2021.[10] He made his maiden speech on 28 October 2021 during a debate on the Land Use Framework; talking about his father, being an army reservist, his life before joining the Lords and his love of the countryside.
He was the youngest member of the House of Lords from July 2021 to July 2023.[11]