Ralph Glyn, 1st Baron Glyn explained

Honorific Prefix:Major The Right Honourable
The Lord Glyn
Honorific Suffix:MC DL
Office1:Member of Parliament
for Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire
Term Start1:1918
Term End1:1922
Predecessor1:New constituency
Successor1:Lauchlan MacNeill Weir
Office:Member of Parliament
for Abingdon
Term Start:1924
Term End:1953
Predecessor:Edward Lessing
Successor:Airey Neave
Majority:4,000
Office2:Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
Alongside2:John Worthington (1931–1935)
Frank Markham (1931–1932)
Primeminister2:Ramsay McDonald
Predecessor2:Robert Morrison
Successor2:Geoffrey Lloyd
Term Start2:1931
Term End2:1935
Birth Name:Ralph George Campbell Glyn
Birth Date:3 March 1884
Death Place:Oxfordshire
Education:Wixenford, Wokingham
Harrow School
Party:Conservative
Spouse:Sibell Vanden Bempde-Johnstone (m. 1921–1958, her death)
Relatives:Edward Carr Glyn
George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton
Alma Mater:Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Allegiance:United Kingdom
Branch:British Army
Serviceyears:1914–1918
Rank:Major
Battles:First World War
Mawards:Military Cross

Major Ralph George Campbell Glyn, 1st Baron Glyn, Bt, MC, DL (3 March 1884 – 1 May 1960), known as Sir Ralph Glyn, 1st Baronet, from 1934 to 1953, was a soldier and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1918 to 1922, and from 1924 to 1953.

Early life

Glyn was born on 3 March 1884 to Edward Glyn, Bishop of Peterborough and Lady Emma Mary, daughter of George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll. His father was the younger son of George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton. He was educated at Wixenford, Harrow, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.[1]

Career

Military service

Glyn fought in the First World War, during which he was mentioned in despatches and was awarded the Military Cross.

Political career

At the 1918 general election, Glyn was elected as Unionist MP for the Scottish constituency of Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire. However he lost the seat at the 1922 general election, coming third with 28% of the votes. The following year, at the 1923 general election, Glyn stood in the Conservative-held seat of Abingdon, where the MP Arthur Loyd was not standing again. Lloyd's majority in 1922 had been only 640 votes, and Glyn lost by 254 votes (1.2% of the total) to the Liberal candidate Edward Lessing.

However, at the 1924 general election, Glyn substantially increased his vote, and won the seat with a majority of over 4,000 votes. He represented the constituency for nearly thirty years, and was returned unopposed at the 1931 election and at the 1935 election. He was made a baronet 21 January 1934, of Farnborough Downs, in the County of Berkshire, and in 1953 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Glyn, of Farnborough in the County of Berkshire.

Personal life

Lord Glyn married Sibell Vanden Bempde-Johnstone, daughter of Francis Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baron Derwent and widow of Brigadier-General Walter Long, in 1921. She was the mother of Walter Long, 2nd Viscount Long. There were no children from the marriage. Lady Glyn died in 1958. Lord Glyn survived her by two years and died in Oxfordshire in 1960, aged 75, when the baronetcy and barony became extinct.

Glyn was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1924 to 1952 and again from 1955 to 1960 in addition to be the vice-chairman of the Governors from 1958 until his death in 1960.[2] and the Mayor of Abingdon.[3]

Arms

Escutcheon:Argent an eagle displayed with two heads Sable guttee d'Or.
Crest:An eagle's head erased Sable guttee d'Or holding in the beak an escallop Argent.
Motto:Fidei Tenax[4]

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serving alongside John Worthington (1931–1935)
and Frank Markham (1931–1932)

Notes and References

  1. 'Glyn, 1st Baron', in Who Was Who 1951–1960 (A. & C. Black, 1984 reprint,)
  2. Web site: 1942 Summer Abingdonian. Abingdon School.
  3. Web site: History of the FoA. Friends of Abingdon Civic Society.
  4. Book: Burke's Peerage . 1956.