Major
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Ralph George Campbell Glyn, 1st Baron Glyn,
Bt,
MC,
DL (3 March 1884 – 1 May 1960), known as Sir Ralph Glyn, 1st Baronet, from 1934 to 1953, was a soldier and
Conservative Party
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politician in the
United Kingdom
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. He was a
Member of Parliament
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(MP) from 1918 to 1922, and from 1924 to 1953.
Early life
Glyn was born on 3 March 1884 to
Edward Glyn
Edward Carr Glyn (21 November 184314 November 1928) was an Anglican bishop in England in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. He was the Bishop of Peterborough from 1897 to 1916.
Life
Glyn was a younger son of George Glyn, 1st Ba ...
,
Bishop of Peterborough and Lady Emma Mary, daughter of
George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
George John Douglas Campbell, 8th and 1st Duke of Argyll (30 April 1823 – 24 April 1900; styled Marquess of Lorne until 1847), was a Scottish polymath and Liberal statesman. He made a significant geological discovery in the 1850s when his ten ...
. His father was the younger son of
George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton
George Carr Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton (27 March 1797 – 24 July 1873) was a banker with interests in the railways, a partner in the family firm of Glyn, Mills & Co., which was reputed to be the largest private bank in London.
Background
He was ...
. He was educated at
Wixenford,
Harrow, and the
Royal Military College, Sandhurst
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.
Career
Military service
Glyn fought in the
First World War
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, during which he was
mentioned in despatches
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and was awarded the
Military Cross
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The MC i ...
.
Political career
At the
1918 general election, Glyn was elected as Unionist MP for the Scottish constituency of
Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire. However he lost the seat at the
1922 general election, coming third with 28% of the votes. The following year, at the
1923 general election, Glyn stood in the Conservative-held seat of
Abingdon, where the MP
Arthur Loyd
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Early life
Born in Northampton, Loyd belonged to a Welsh family, several members of which settled in Berkshire. His uncle, Archie Kirkman L ...
was not standing again. Lloyd's majority in 1922 had been only 640 votes, and Glyn lost by 254 votes (1.2% of the total) to the
Liberal
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candidate
Edward Lessing
Edward Albert Lessing OBE (28 July 1890 – 25 August 1964) was a British corn trader, Liberal Party politician and an early authority on Soviet Russia.
Background
He was born in Mayfair, London the son of Albert and Augusta Lessing. He was ed ...
.
However, at the
1924 general election, Glyn substantially increased his vote, and won the seat with a majority of over 4,000 votes. He represented the constituency for nearly thirty years, and was returned unopposed at the
1931 election and at the
1935 election. He was made a baronet 21 January 1934, of Farnborough Downs, in the County of
Berkshire
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, and in 1953 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Glyn, of Farnborough in the County of Berkshire.
Personal life
Lord Glyn married Sibell Vanden Bempde-Johnstone, daughter of Francis Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baron Derwent and widow of Brigadier-General
Walter Long, in 1921. She was the mother of
Walter Long, 2nd Viscount Long. There were no children from the marriage. Lady Glyn died in 1958. Lord Glyn survived her by two years and died in
Oxfordshire
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in 1960, aged 75, when the baronetcy and barony became extinct.
Glyn was on the governing body of
Abingdon School
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from 1924 to 1952 and again from 1955 to 1960 in addition to be the vice-chairman of the Governors from 1958 until his death in 1960. and the
Mayor
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of Abingdon.
Arms
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serving alongside
John Worthington (1931–1935)
and
Frank Markham
Sir Sydney Frank Markham (19 October 1897 – 13 October 1975) was a British politician who represented three constituencies, each on behalf of a different party, in Parliament.
Born in Stony Stratford, he left school at the age of fourteen. ...
(1931–1932)
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Ralph
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Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs
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