3rd Viscount Tenby (1927-2023)
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Viscount Tenby, grandson of David Lloyd George and enthusiastic member of the House of Lords – obituary
He campaigned against wind turbines in areas of natural beauty and opposed right-to-die legislation
The 3rd Viscount Tenby, who has died aged 95, was the last surviving grandson of David Lloyd George; in his teens he often visited the former Liberal prime minister at Churt, his home on the Surrey-Hampshire border, with his father Gwilym Lloyd George, Minister of Fuel and Power in Churchill’s wartime coalition.
With his brother and cousins away in uniform, during holidays from Eastbourne College William Lloyd George was the grandson “LG” spent most time with, until in 1944 he went home to North Wales to die. Lloyd George had alienated much of his family the year before by marrying his political secretary and long-term mistress Frances Stevenson, but Gwilym, who lived nearby, continued to motor over at weekends….
After LG’s death in 1945 Gwilym Lloyd George gravitated from the Liberals to the Conservatives, becoming Churchill’s Minister of Food in 1951 and Home Secretary in 1954. When Anthony Eden resigned after Suez, Gwilym threw his weight behind Harold Macmillan; having secured the Tory leadership, Macmillan sacked him, sending him to the Lords as Viscount Tenby.
William inherited the title in 1983 from his elder brother, the 2nd Viscount. He also acquired a mass of family memorabilia, which lay untouched in his barn until 1994. When the Wales Film and Television Archive invited him to view a film it had restored of LG visiting Germany in 1934, he surprised them by saying he already had a copy, as well as other films he had not gone through….
William Lloyd George was born on November 7 1927, the younger son of Major Gwilym Lloyd George and the former Edna Jones. He followed his father to Eastbourne College, and after service with the Royal Welch Fusiliers went to St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, in 1949 with an exhibition to read history….
Tenby was Hampshire chairman of the Council for the Protection of Rural England, and from 1990 to 1994 chaired North-East Hampshire magistrates. In his most colourful case Arthur Pendragon, a self-styled druid, claimed exemption from the poll tax on his one-bedroom flat in Farnborough as a “religious renunciate”. Pendragon appeared before the Bench in sackcloth, carrying a 7ft staff and a 4ft sword named Excalibur; Tenby ruled against him.
William Lloyd George married Ursula Medlicott in 1955. She died last year and he is survived by their two daughters and son, Timothy Lloyd George, born in 1962, who succeeds as 4th Viscount.
Viscount Tenby, born November 7 1927, died June 12 2023
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From the Telegraph of 22 June 2023: LLOYD-GEORGE William (Bill), 3rd Viscount Tenby, dearly loved husband of Ursula, wonderful father to Sara, Clare and Tim, loving grandfather to Emma and Cathryn. Funeral at All Saints Church, Crondall. Details from A and W Goddard... Family flowers only. Donations, if desired, to Friends of New Byways.
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