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Mount Temple, Baron (UK, 1932 - 1939)

Creation: let.pat. 13 Jan 1932

Extinct: 3 Jul 1939

Family name: Ashley

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Arms:

Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Argent three Bulls statant Sable armed and unguled Or (Ashley);  2nd and 3rd, Gules a Bend engrailed between six Lions rampant Or (Cooper)

Crest:

On a Chapeau Gules doubled Ermine a Bull statant Sable ducally gorged armed and unguled Or

Supporters:

Dexter:  a Bull Sable armed unguled and charged on the shoulder with a Crescent Or;  Sinister:  a Horse reguardant Argent maned tailed and unguled Or charged on the shoulder with a Crescent Sable

Motto:

 Love, Serve

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Wilfrid William [Ashley], 1st Baron Mount Temple, PC

only son and heir of Rt Hon (Anthony) Evelyn Melbourne Ashley-Cooper later Ashley MP, of Classiebawn Castle, Mullaghmore, co. Sligo, and Broadlands, Romsey, co. Hampshire (by his first wife Sybella Charlotte Farquhar, 2nd dau. of Sir Walter Rockcliffe Farquhar, 3rd Bt., of Cadogan House, co. Middlesex), 2nd son of Anthony [Ashley-Cooper], 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

born

13 Sep 1867

mar. (1)

4 Jan 1901 Amalia Mary Maud Cassel (d. 5 Feb 1911), only child of Rt Hon Sir Ernest Cassel GCB GCMG GCVO, by his wife Annette Maxwell, dau. of R T Maxwell

children by first wife

1. Hon Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley CI GBE DCVO GCStJ (b. 28 Nov 1901; d. 21 Feb 1960), mar. 18 Jul 1922 Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas [Mountbatten], 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and had issue

2. Hon (Ruth) Mary Clarisse Ashley, mar. (1) 12 May 1927 (div. 1940) Capt Alex Stratford Cunningham-Reid DFC (d. 26 Mar 1977), son of Rev Arthur M Cunningham-Reid; (2) 3 Sep 1940 (div. 1943) Laurie Gardner, only son of Sir Ernest Gardner, of Maidenhead, co. Berkshire, and (3) 15 Jun 1944 (div. 1955) as his second wife Thomas Pitt Hamilton [Cholmondeley], 4th Baron Delamere, and had issue by her first husband

mar. (2)

29 Aug 1914 Muriel Emily Forbes-Sempill (former wife of Rear Admiral Hon Arthur Lionel Ochoncar Forbes-Sempill, 5th son by his second wife of William [Forbes later Forbes-Sempill], 17th Lord Sempill; d. 24 Jun 1954), 1st dau. of Rev Walter Spencer, of Fownhope Court, co. Hereford

died

s.p.m. 3 Jul 1939

created

13 Jan 1932 Baron Mount Temple, of Lee in the County of Southampton

note

Member of Parliament (Conservative) for Blackpool 1906-18, for Fylde 1918-22, and for New Forest and Christchurch 1922-32; Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Transport 1922-23; Under-secretary of State for War 1923-24; Privy Councillor 1924; Minister of Transport 1924-29

On the death of the 1st Baron Mount Temple the Barony of Mount Temple became extinct.

 First written 9 Feb 2003

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