Headstone of William Malcolm Mount at Wasing church- 2013-08-04 21-42

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Sir William Malcolm Mount, 2nd Baronet, TD (28 December 1904 – 22 June 1993), was a

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officer,

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and maternal grandfather to

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, former UK Prime Minister and leader of the

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Personal life

Eldest son of

Sir William Mount, 1st Baronet Sir William Arthur Mount, 1st Baronet CBE DL (Hartley, Hampshire, 3 August 1866 – 8 December 1930) was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for the Newbury constituency. He is the great-grandfather of Conservative ...

, and wife Hilda Lucy Adelaide Low, Mount was born on 28 December 1904. He was educated at

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and

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. On 17 October 1929 at St. John the Baptist,

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, Berkshire (now

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), Mount married Elizabeth Nance Llewellyn (

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, Staffordshire, 22 December 1904 – 5 December 1994). His eldest daughter Cecilia Mary (1931–2018) married

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, a Warwickshire landowner and former chairman of

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football club, and was the mother of the documentary filmmaker

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. His second daughter, Mary Fleur (b. 1934), married Ian Donald Cameron and is the mother of

leader from 2005 to 2016,

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from 2010 to 2016. His youngest daughter, Viola Clare (b. 1938), married Dr. John Robert Blyth Currie.

Baronetcy

He inherited the Mount baronetcy of

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along with the Mount family estates on 8 December 1930 on the death of his father.

Career

Military

On 25 February 1924, he was commissioned in the 99th (Bucks and Berks Yeomanry), a Territorial Army (TA) unit of the

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, a

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. His

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was 28268. He was promoted to

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on 25 February 1926. He was promoted to

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on 1 March 1937, and

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on 17 September 1938. He served in

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during which time he was wounded at D-Day in Normandy. He transferred to the

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on 14 September 1941, and given the service number 28268. He was awarded the

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(TD) on 15 May 1942. He was made

Aviation

Mount had interest in aviation, being a director of the

Miles Aircraft Miles was the name used between 1943 and 1947 to market the aircraft of British engineer Frederick George Miles, who, with his wife – aviator and draughtswoman Maxine "Blossom" Miles (née Forbes-Robertson) – and his brother George Herbert ...

Company. In 1950 he stood trial with F.G. Miles on 24 charges of making false and reckless statements in connection with the 1946 Miles share prospectus. Mount went on to develop Brimpton Airfield.

Berkshire appointments

Mount was appointed as High Sheriff of Berkshire, and Vice-Lieutenant for

in 1960.

Death

He died at the age of 88 in 1993. At the time of his death, he had three daughters but no surviving sons so his baronetcy was inherited by his nephew

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References

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