William Lloyd George, 3rd Viscount Tenby, JP (7 November 1927 – 7 June 2023), was a British peer and army officer. A grandson of the

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, he was among the 90 hereditary peers elected to remain in the

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after the passing of the

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Family and education

Tenby was the younger son of Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby (a

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politician who had served as

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from 1954 to 1957 before becoming Viscount Tenby), and Edna Gwenfrom Jones.BBC News, "Viscount Tenby ends 125 years' family parliamentary service"
19 March 2015. Retrieved 15 June 2023. He was the grandson of the Liberal

, whom he often visited at '' Bron-y-de'' in Churt,

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, during school holidays. In 1955 he married Ursula Diana Ethel Medlicott (1929–2022), daughter of Lt.-Col. Henry Edward Medlicott and Clare Charlotte Marjorie Gabrielle Gosselin, and a niece of the cricketer Walter Medlicott.Charles Mosley, " Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 107th edn" (London, 2003), p. 3871. They had three children: * Sara Gwenfron Lloyd George (b. 1957) * Clare Mair Lloyd George (b. 1961) * Timothy Henry Gwilym Lloyd George, 4th Viscount Tenby (b. 1962)

Education and career

After attending

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, Tenby served with the

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and later retained a Territorial Army commission with the regiment. In 1949 he went to

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, to study history, and obtained a

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. He worked as an advertising manager for United Dominions Trust before joining the investment bank

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in 1974 as a public relations adviser. He left that role in 1988 and later chaired St James Public Relations.

House of Lords

In 1983 he succeeded his elder brother

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as Viscount Tenby. He sat as a

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in the

, serving on the

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and the Committee of Selection, and was among the 90 hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the

. He spoke on issues such as over-development in south-east England, unit fines, wind turbines in

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, the

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and

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. After retirement from the House of Lords was made possible by the

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, Tenby stood down on 1 May 2015. His retirement triggered a

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that was won by Jeffrey Evans, 4th Baron Mountevans.

Personal life

Tenby served as a Justice of the Peace for

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, including as chair of the north-east Hampshire magistrates from 1990 to 1994, and led the

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in the county. He died on 7 June 2023, at the age of 95.

Arms

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Hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999 Peers retired under the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 English justices of the peace