George Bridges Harley Guest Rodney, 8th Baron Rodney of Rodney Stoke (2 November 1891 – 18 December 1973) was a British soldier and peer, a member of the

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for more than sixty years, from 1912 until his death, but rarely appeared there. The son of George Rodney, 7th Baron Rodney, and his wife Corisande Evelyn Vere Guest, a daughter of

Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, 2nd Baronet, DL (29 August 1835 – 22 February 1914) was a British industrialist and a member of the prominent Guest family. Early life Ivor Bertie Guest was born at Dowlais, near Merthyr Tydfil, the so ...

, he was educated at

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and

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, graduating BA in 1913. On 29 December 1909, while in his first term at the university, he succeeded his father as Baron Rodney in the

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(created in 1782 for his ancestor Admiral Sir George Rodney) and as a

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. In January 1912, Rodney was commissioned as a university candidate into the

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, with his army pay to begin in August 1913, and in December 1914 was promoted to Lieutenant.''The London Gazette'', Supplement 29001, 8 December 1914
p. 10553
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he rose to the rank of Captain, and after it he emigrated to Canada. On 15 September 1917, Rodney married Lady Marjorie Lowther, a daughter of

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and his wife Gwendoline Sophia Alice Sheffield, daughter of Sir Robert Sheffield, 5th Baronet, and they had five children:''

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'', volume 3, 2003, page 3381 *George William Rodney (1918–1942), a

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in the

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who was killed on active service in the Second World War * John Francis Rodney, later 9th Baron Rodney (1920–1992) *Diana Rosemary Rodney (born 1924) *Michael Christopher Rodney (1926–1993) *Sylvia Corisande Rodney (1930–1985) He died on 18 December 1973, aged 82.

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