Henry Bolton Graham Eyres-Monsell, 2nd Viscount Monsell (21 November 1905–28 November 1993) served in the Intelligence Corps during the

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, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was

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on 16 September 1943 and recommended for the

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for his services to security during the planning stages of

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. No confirmation of this latter award has been found. However, he was awarded the United States Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm. He was the son of Bolton Eyres Monsell and his wife Sybil (née Eyres). His father, who was

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Member of Parliament for

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from 1910 to 1935, served as Conservative

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from 1923 to 1929, and

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from 1931 to 1936 and became

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in 1935. The second Lord Monsell had three sisters, one of whom,

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was a photographer who married Paddy Leigh Fermor. A homosexual bachelor,Fenwick, Simon, "Joan: Beauty, Rebel, Muse: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor'', Macmillan, London 2017, passim. he died without issue. The title Viscount Monsell is now extinct. The Cotswolds family seat,

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, is now a hotel.

Arms

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Viscounts in the Peerage of the United Kingdom 1905 births 1994 deaths Alumni of Merton College, Oxford LGBT peers {{UK-viscount-stub