Arnold Silverstone, Baron Ashdown (28 September 1911 24 July 1977) was a British

life peer In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers. In modern times, life peerages, always created at the rank of baron, are created under the Life Peerages ...

. Arnold Ashdown was a property developer and developed Ashdown House, on Victoria Street,

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SW1. He was also involved with the

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under

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. Having been

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in 1964, Silverstone was created Baron Ashdown, ''of

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in the County of

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'' on 3 January 1975. He was the brother of

Lord Stone Joseph Ellis Stone, Baron Stone (born Silverstone; 27 May 1903 – 17 June 1986) was a British general practitioner, most notably to Harold Wilson. Career Stone was born in Llanelli in Wales, and after qualifying as a doctor at Cardiff Univers ...

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