Edward Herbert Jessel, 2nd Baron Jessel

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(25 March 1904 – 13 June 1990), was a British politician. Jessel was the only son of

Herbert Jessel, 1st Baron Jessel Colonel Herbert Merton Jessel, 1st Baron Jessel CB, CMG, TD, DL, JP (27 October 1866 – 1 November 1950), known as Sir Herbert Jessel, Bt, between 1917 and 1924, was a British soldier and Liberal Unionist, later Conservative politician. Bi ...

, by Maud Goldsmid, daughter of

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. He was educated at

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and

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, and was

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. He succeeded his father in the barony in 1950.thepeerage.com Edward Herbert Jessel, 2nd Baron Jessel
/ref> He was Chairman of the Association of Independent Unionist Peers from 1959 to 1964 and a Deputy Speaker of the

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from 1963 to 1977.Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. In 1963 he was appointed a Commander of the

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. Lord Jessel married Lady Helen Maglona Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1911-1986), daughter of

Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, (13 May 1878 – 10 February 1949), styled Lord Stewart until 1884 and Viscount Castlereagh between 1884 and 1915, was a British peerage, peer and politician. He is best ...

and the Honourable Edith Chaplin, in 1935. They had one son and two daughters but were divorced in 1960. Jessel married as his second wife Jessica Marian Taylor, daughter of H. Taylor, in 1960. There were no children from this marriage. His only son by his first wife, the Honourable Timothy Edward Jessel (1935–1969), predeceased him, leaving a daughter. Lord Jessel died in June 1990, aged 86, when the barony became extinct.

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