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David Woodhouse, 4th Baron Terrington

David Woodhouse, 4th Baron Terrington

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Major James Allen David Woodhouse, 4th Baron Terrington (30 December 1915 – 6 May 1998[1]) was a Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom[1] and Deputy Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords. He was a member of the London Stock Exchange and a director of S J Carr and County (Gunmakers) Ltd.[1] He served in the Royal Norfolk Regiment and Queen's Westminster Rifles and was wounded in World War II.[1]

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Woodhouse was the son of Horace Martin Woodhouse, 3rd Baron Terrington and Valerie Phillips,[1] and was educated at Winchester College and then at Royal Military College, Sandhurst.[1] He married Suzanne Irwin, daughter of Colonel Thomas Strutt Irwin, on 7 November 1942.[1] They had three daughters.[1]

On his death in 1998, having no male heirs, was succeeded by his brother, Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington.[2] James is depicted in three glass-plate negative photographs held by the National Portrait Gallery, two of which show him as a child.[3]

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Coat of arms of David Woodhouse, 4th Baron Terrington
Crest
Issuant out of a wreath of roses Argent barbed and seeded Proper a demi-woodman also Proper supporting in the dexter hand an axe Or.
Escutcheon
Per fess Or and Azure a hurst of oak trees issuant in chief Proper and two bars wavy in base Argent.
Supporters
On either side an Airedale terrier Proper gorged with a ducal coronet Or.
Motto
Labor Omnia Vincit[4]

References

  1. "James Allen David Woodhouse, 4th Baron Terrington - Person Page 8453". The Peerage. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  2. Clogg, Richard (20 February 2001). "Obituary: Monty Woodhouse". The Guardian. London.
  3. Burke's Peerage. 1956.
  • Charles Mosley, editor Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage; 107th edition, 3 vols. (Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), vol. 3, p. 3874.
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