Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon, (13 September 1917 - 16 May 1993), was a British

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, member of the

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, and academic administrator. The only son of

Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon, KCVO, TD (5 July 1864 – 30 November 1927), was a British peer and Conservative politician. Family background and education Born in Wilmore Crescent, west London, Kenyon was the son of the Hon. Lloyd Ken ...

, he succeeded to the title of

Baron Kenyon Baron Kenyon, of Gredington, in the County of Flint, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1788 for the lawyer and judge Sir Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baronet. He served as Master of the Rolls and as Lord Chief Justice of England ...

on his father's death in 1927.

Life

Lord Kenyon was educated at

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and then

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. As a peer he was active across many fields of public life including education, museums and health. Lord Kenyon was president of the

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in Bangor (part of the

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), from 1947 to 1982. Through the university he was behind the revival of the Gwasg Gregynog Press, which printed traditional hand-bound books from metal type and woodcuts illustrations, and he was chairman of the press from 1978 to 1991. He was president of the

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from 1952 to 1957, trustee of the National Portrait Gallery from 1953 to 1988 and member of the

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from 1966 to 1993. He was credited with growing the NPG from a small specialist museum to "''one of the great national galleries''". He was chairman of the Wrexham, Powys and Mawddach Hospital Management Committee from 1960 to 1974, and then chairman of the Clwyd Area Health Authority, 1974–1978. As Flintshire county councillor he was appointed to their first records committee and was an active supporter of Flintshire Record Office (later Clwyd Record Office). He was also elected to

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Authority. He was a director of

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. He was a

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in 1944. He was made a Deputy Lieutenant for Flintshire in 1948, an Officer of the

Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem The Order of St John, short for Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (french: l'ordre très vénérable de l'Hôpital de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem) and also known as St John International, is a British royal order of c ...

and a Commander of the

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in 1972. He was a provincial grandmaster for the

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of North Wales. He married Leila Cookson in 1946 and three children - two sons, one of whom pre-deceased him and one daughter. He died in Gredington, Shropshire, on 16 May 1993, aged 75.

References

External links

Kenyon records
Flintshire Record Office
Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery
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