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Ronald Collet Norman JP (15 November 1873 – 5 December 1963) was a
, and was chairman from 1935 to April, 1939.
Ronald Collet Norman JP (15 November 1873 – 5 December 1963) was a banker
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, administrator and politician
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.
He was chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC
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from 1935 to 1939 and of the London County Council
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from 1918 to 1919.
Biography
Norman was the son ofFrederick Norman
Frederick Henry Norman (23 January 1839 – 6 October 1916) was an English merchant banker and a director of the merchant bank Brown, Shipley & Co. He was also a first-class cricketer, appearing for Kent, Cambridge University, Cambridge Tow ...
of the Norman family, long prominent in banking. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge
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( MA 1901).
In March 1900, he was appointed an assistant private secretary (unpaid) to the (Conservative
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) Under-Secretary of State for War
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, George Wyndham
George Wyndham, PC (29 August 1863 – 8 June 1913) was a British Conservative politician, statesman, man of letters, and one of The Souls.
Background and education
Wyndham was the elder son of the Honourable Percy Wyndham, third son of Ge ...
.
In 1907 he was elected to the London County Council
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as a Municipal Reformer. From 1918-1919 he served as chairman and was an Alderman
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of the council from 1922-1934. He served as the vice-chairman of the National Trust
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during the 1930s, but he declined the chairmanship, because he was not "a great landowner". He placed the Trust's finance committee on a more professional footing; it subsequently fell to his son Mark Norman to chair that committee through the difficult economic circumstances of the 1970s. From 1933 to 1935 he served as vice-chairman of the BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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...Descendants
Norman married Lady Florence Sibell Bridgeman (1877–1959), a daughter of the 4thEarl of Bradford
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. They had three sons and one daughter:
#Brigadier Hugh Norman (1905–1979); father of
##Patricia Norman (b. 27 May 1940), former wife of Henry Colum Crichton-Stuart and now wife of the 3rd Baron Kindersley;
# Mark Norman (1910–1994), a successful merchant banker;
## David Norman
### Isabella Julia Norman is married to Timothy Nicholas Sean Knatchbull, a descendant of Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 21 ...
through her great-grandson Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family. Mountbatten, who was of German ...
.
#Sibyl Margaret Norman (1908–2010) who married 1stly Archibald Edward Cubitt (16 January 1901 – 13 Feb 1972); they had issue 1 son and 1 surviving daughter.
## (Mark) Robin Cubitt (13 June 1936 – 1991), who was father of three sons, including
### Mark Edward Cubitt, 5th Baron Ashcombe (b. 29 February 1964)Genealogy for Mark Edward Cubitt.
## Priscilla Cubitt (b. 30 May 1941) is the third wife of the 11th Earl of Harrington, and they are parents of
### Lady Isabella Stanhope, wife of the 7th Earl Cawdor.
#Richard Norman (1917–1994) who married an Anglo-Spanish aristocrat, descended from the Bourbon duques de Marchena (Dukes of Marchena) themselves descended morganatic
Morganatic marriage, sometimes called a left-handed marriage, is a marriage between people of unequal social rank, which in the context of royalty or other inherited title prevents the principal's position or privileges being passed to the spous ...
ally from Spanish kings.
Family connections
Through the Bridgemans, the Normans descended from Ronald Collet Norman and Lady Florence are thus related to several prominent English and Scottish aristocrats includingthe Duke of Gloucester
Duke of Gloucester () is a British royal title (after Gloucester), often conferred on one of the sons of the reigning monarch. The first four creations were in the Peerage of England and the last in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; the curren ...
(whose maternal grandmother was a sister of Lady Florence Norman), the 7th Marquess of Salisbury (whose maternal great-grandmother was another sister), the 9th Duke of Buccleuch (whose paternal grandmother, shared with the Duke of Gloucester, was a sister of Lady Florence), and so forth.
His brother Montagu Norman
Montagu Collet Norman, 1st Baron Norman DSO PC (6 September 1871 – 4 February 1950) was an English banker, best known for his role as the Governor of the Bank of England from 1920 to 1944.
Norman led the bank during the toughest period in m ...
, became a long serving Governor of the Bank of England
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and was elevated to the peerage
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Peerages include:
Australia
* Australian peers
Belgium
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as the 1st Baron Norman (but that title is now extinct, Lord Norman having had no issue). Both their grandfathers were directors.
Sources
* is shown for his marriage and some of his descendants. * was the wife of Ronald Collet Norman, and the mother of all his children. * was the youngest son. * shows one of Ronald Collet Norman's granddaughters, formerly wife of the 3rd Baron Kindersley. * is Ronald Collet Norman's great-granddaughter and now The Countess Cawdor. {{DEFAULTSORT:Norman, Ronald Collet 1873 births 1963 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English bankers Chairmen of the BBC General and operations managers British bankers Members of London County Council BBC Governors Municipal Reform Party politicians National Trust people