Jasset David Cody Ormsby-Gore, 7th Baron Harlech (born 1 July 1986), is a British hereditary peer and

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member of the

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. He has been serving as a

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since September 2022.

Personal life

Harlech is a great-great-great-grandson of

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (; 3 February 183022 August 1903) was a British statesman and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times for a ...

, who served as British prime minister. His father was

Francis Ormsby-Gore, 6th Baron Harlech Francis David Ormsby-Gore, 6th Baron Harlech (13 March 1954 – 1 February 2016), was a peer in the United Kingdom. Early life Lord Harlech was born in 1954, the fifth child and second son of David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech, and his wife Sy ...

, a Conservative peer, and his mother was Amanda Ormsby-Gore (née Grieve), a creative consultant and writer. Due to his father's mental health issues, he describes his mother raising him and his sister "essentially as a single parent". Harlech was educated at

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, an all-boys

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(an

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boarding school) in Berkshire, England. He studied graphic design at

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, graduating with a

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(BA) degree in 2008.

House of Lords

Harlech sought election as a

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peer in 2017 "in order to stand for equality and progress". Harlech became a member of the House in July 2021, being elected in a hereditary peers' by-election by the whole House. He took the oath on 22 July 2021. He made his maiden speech on 28 October 2021 during a debate on the Land Use Framework; talking about his father, being an army reservist, his life before joining the Lords and his love of the countryside. , he is the youngest member of the House of Lords; the

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Titles

* 1 July 1986 – 1 February 2016:

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Jasset David Cody Ormsby-Gore * 1 February 2016 – present:

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The Lord Harlech

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Harlech, Jasset Ormsby-Gore, 7th Baron 1986 births Living people People from Gwynedd British people of Irish descent British people of Scottish descent Gore family (Anglo-Irish aristocracy) 7 People educated at Eton College Alumni of Central Saint Martins Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers Hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act Welsh landowners