David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech


The Lord Harlech

KCMG PC DL
British Ambassador to the United States
In office
1961–1965
MonarchElizabeth II
PresidentJohn F. Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Prime MinisterHarold Macmillan
Sir Alec Douglas-Home
Harold Wilson
Preceded bySir Harold Caccia
Succeeded bySir Patrick Dean
Member of Parliament
for Oswestry
In office
23 February 1950 – 1 June 1961
Preceded byOliver Poole
Succeeded byJohn Biffen
Personal details
Born
William David Ormsby-Gore

(1918-05-20)20 May 1918
Westminster, London, England
Died26 January 1985(1985-01-26) (aged 66)
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse(s)
  • Sylvia Lloyd Thomas
    (m. 1940; died 1967)
  • Pamela Colin
    (m. 1969)
Children6, including Alice and Francis
Parents
  • The 4th Baron Harlech
  • Lady Beatrice Edith Mildred Cecil
ResidenceWoodhill Estate, Oswestry, Shropshire
Education
Alma materNew College, Oxford
OccupationAirborne reconnaissance, farmer, politician, diplomat, television executive

William David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech KCMG PC DL (20 May 1918 – 26 January 1985), known as David Ormsby-Gore until June 1961 and as Sir David Ormsby-Gore from then until February 1964, was a British diplomat and Conservative politician. From 1950 until 1961, he was a member of the Member of Parliament.

He died in a car crash in 1985. Senator Edward Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and other Kennedy family members attended his funeral in Llanfihangel-y-traethau.[1]

References

  1. Hughes, Robert (30 October 2007), The Parish Church Llanfihangel-y-Traethau Ynys (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 10 April 2016, retrieved 24 March 2016