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, and Lady Alice Adeliza Hervey. He achieved the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the

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and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Somerset from 1949 to 1964. Lord Hylton married Lady Perdita Rose Mary Asquith, daughter of Katharine 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

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

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. Mary and John Chancellor are the parents of the actress

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and the financial historian Edward Chancellor.

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Lord-lieutenants of Somerset Somerset County Cricket Club presidents 20th-century British Army personnel