Jasset David Cody Ormsby-Gore, 7th Baron Harlech (born 1 July 1986), is a British

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and

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member of the

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. He has been serving as a

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since September 2022.

Personal life

Harlech is a great-great-great-grandson of

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (; 3 February 183022 August 1903), known as Lord Salisbury, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times for ...

, who served as British prime minister. His father was Francis Ormsby-Gore, 6th Baron Harlech, a Conservative peer, and his mother is Amanda Ormsby-Gore (née Grieve), a creative consultant and writer. Due to his father's mental health issues, he describes his mother raising him and his sister "essentially as a single parent". Harlech was educated at

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. He studied

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, graduating with a

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(BA) degree in 2008. Harlech married Canadian Ida Lai in August 2024 at

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House of Lords

Harlech sought election as a

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peer in 2017 "in order to stand for equality and progress". Harlech became a member of the House in July 2021, being elected in a hereditary peers' by-election by the whole House. He took the oath on 22 July 2021. He made his maiden speech on 28 October 2021 during a debate on the Land Use Framework; talking about his father, being an army reservist, his life before joining the Lords and his love of the countryside. He was the youngest member of the House of Lords from July 2021 to July 2023.

Titles

* 1 July 1986 – 1 February 2016:

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Jasset David Cody Ormsby-Gore * 1 February 2016 – present:

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The Lord Harlech

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Harlech, Jasset Ormsby-Gore, 7th Baron 1986 births Living people People from Gwynedd British people of Irish descent British people of Scottish descent Gore family (Anglo-Irish aristocracy) 7 People educated at Eton College Alumni of Central Saint Martins Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers Conservative Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting Hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999 21st-century Welsh landowners Coldstream Guards officers