William George Hervey Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton (2 December 1898 – 14 November 1967), was a British peer and soldier. Hylton was the son of

Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton Hylton George Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton (10 November 1862 – 26 May 1945) was a British peer and Conservative politician. Hylton was the eldest son of Hedworth Jolliffe, 2nd Baron Hylton, and Lady Agnes Mary Byng. Henry Paget, 1st Marq ...

, and Lady Alice Adeliza Hervey. He achieved the rank of

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in the

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and also served as

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from 1949 to 1964. Lord Hylton married Lady Perdita Rose Mary Asquith, daughter of

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and

Raymond Asquith Raymond Herbert Asquith (6 November 1878 – 15 September 1916) was an English barrister and eldest son of British prime minister H. H. Asquith. A distinguished Oxford scholar, he was a member of the fashionable group of intellectuals known as ...

, eldest son of Prime Minister

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, in 1931. He died in November 1967, aged 68. He was succeeded in his titles by his elder son

Raymond Raymond is a male given name. It was borrowed into English from French (older French spellings were Reimund and Raimund, whereas the modern English and French spellings are identical). It originated as the Germanic ᚱᚨᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ ( ...

. The writer (of eg. ''Raymond Asquith: Life and Letters'') John Hedworth Jolliffe is his younger son; his daughter Mary is the wife of John Paget Chancellor, son of

Christopher Chancellor Sir Christopher John Howard Chancellor (29 March 1904 – 9 September 1989) was a British journalist and administrator who was general manager of the news agency Reuters from 1944 to 1959. ''The Daily Telegraph'' credited him for keeping the compa ...

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. Mary and John Chancellor are the parents of the actress

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and the financial historian

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hylton, William George Jolliffe, 4th Baron 1898 births 1967 deaths Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Coldstream Guards officers

William William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...

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