Sir Charles Leyshon Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn, 2nd Baronet (29 June 1870 – 24 June 1951) was a Welsh

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member of parliament (MP) who briefly represented

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in the

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and served as

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Personal life

Llewelyn was born in 1870 to Sir John Dillwyn-Llewelyn, 1st Baronet and his wife who was the daughter of Sir Michael Hicks Beach, 8th Baronet. His father was

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, Mayor of Swansea and MP for

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. He married in 1893 Katherine Minna Venables, daughter of Richard Lister Venables. Following this marriage, the Llysdinam estate came into the family and Sir Charles assumed the additional surname of Venables. He established a wildlife centre on the estate, today run by

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. Sir Charles' son, Sir

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set up the Field Centre at Llysdinam in 1970 which was run by Cardiff University until 2010. His daughter, Agnes Barbara Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn, married naval officer

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on 15 June 1925.

Military and political career

Llewelyn was on 29 July 1893 appointed a

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in the Royal Carmarthen Artillery, a

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regiment based in

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, and was promoted to

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in the regiment on 4 April 1900. Llewelyn was elected Conservative MP for

in January 1910 during the

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of that year, but lost the seat in the election in December. He inherited the

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on the death of his father in 1927. He was

from 1929 to 1949 and High Sheriff of Radnorshire in 1924. He died five days before his 81st birthday in June 1951, last survivor of the 22 MPs who only served in the parliament of 1910.

References

*
History of the Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn family
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn, Charles 1870 births 1951 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for Welsh constituencies 2 Lord-lieutenants of Radnorshire High sheriffs of Radnorshire UK MPs 1910

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