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James Allen David Woodhouse, 4th Baron Terrington (30 December 1915 – 6 May 1998) was a

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in the

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and Deputy Chairman of Committees in the

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. He was a member of the

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and a director of S J Carr and County (Gunmakers) Ltd. He served in the

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and

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and was wounded in

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. Woodhouse was the son of Horace Martin Woodhouse, 3rd Baron Terrington and Valerie Phillips, and was educated at

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and then at

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. He married Suzanne Irwin, daughter of Colonel Thomas Strutt Irwin, on 7 November 1942. They had three daughters. On his death in 1998, having no male heirs, was succeeded by his brother,

Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington Christopher Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington, (11 May 1917 – 13 February 2001) was a British Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford from 1959 to 1966 and again from 1970 to 1974. He was also a visitin ...

. James is depicted in three glass-plate negative photographs held by the National Portrait Gallery, two of which show him as a child.

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References

* Charles Mosley, editor ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage''; 107th edition, 3 vols. (Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), vol. 3, p. 3874. {{DEFAULTSORT:Terrington, James Woodhouse, 4th Baron 1915 births 1998 deaths 4 Royal Norfolk Regiment officers King's Royal Rifle Corps officers British Army personnel of World War II People educated at Winchester College Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Queen's Westminsters officers