Charles Arthur Uryan Rhys, 8th Baron Dynevor
CBE
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(21 September 1899 – 15 December 1962), was a British
peer and
politician
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. He was the son of
Walter FitzUryan Rice, 7th Baron Dynevor
Walter FitzUryan Rice, 7th Baron Dynevor (17 August 1873 – 8 June 1956) was a British military officer, civil servant and Conservative politician. He was the only son and heir of the 6th Baron Dynevor.
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.
Rhys was educated at
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and the
Royal Military College, Sandhurst
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, and was commissioned into the
Grenadier Guards
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. In 1919 he was awarded the
Order of St. Anne of
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. He resigned his commission as a
Lieutenant
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in 1920. He was appointed
deputy lieutenant for
Carmarthenshire
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in 1925 and a
justice of the peace
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in 1931.
Rhys served as a
Conservative
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Member of Parliament
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for
Romford
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from 1923 until 1929, when defeated by
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's
H.T. Muggeridge. He returned to the
House of Commons
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two years later, when he was elected at an
unopposed by-election in 1931 as MP for
Guildford
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, holding the seat until he stood down at the
1935 United Kingdom general election
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. He was
Parliamentary Private Secretary
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to
Stanley Baldwin
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from 1927 to 1929.
On 29 September 1934 he married Hope Mary Woodbine who had formerly been the wife of Captain
Arthur Granville Soames
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,
OBE, of the
Coldstream Guards
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.
Rhys served as Deputy Chairman of the Sun Insurance Company and as Chairman of the Cities of London and Westminster Conservative Association from 1948 until 1960. He was also the Governor of the
National Museum of Wales
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From 1950 until 1962 Rhys was President of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, (now called
Cardiff University
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).
When he died at the age of 63,
death duties
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previously incurred by the 7th Baron had not been paid, placing an intolerable financial burden on the next in line of descent, his son
Richard Charles Uryan Rhys, 9th Baron Dynevor
Richard Charles Uryan Rhys, 9th Baron Dynevor (19 June 1935 – 12 November 2008) was a British peer.
He was educated at Eton and at Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1959 he married Lucy Catherine King, the only daughter of Sir John Knewstub M ...
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