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Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon

1917 – 1993

British peer and member of the House of Lords

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Lived 1917 – 1993 (aged 75). Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon was a British politician.

Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon, (13 September 1917 – 16 May 1993), was a British hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords, and academic administrator. The only son of Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon, he succeeded to the title of Baron Kenyon on his father's death in 1927.

Life Lord Kenyon was educated at Eton and then Magdalene College, Cambridge. As a peer he was active across many fields of public life including education, museums and health.

Lord Kenyon was president of the University College of North Wales in Bangor (part of the University of Wales), from 1947 to 1982. Through the university he was behind the revival of the Gwasg Gregynog Press, which printed traditional hand-bound books from metal type and woodcut illustrations, and he was chairman of the press from 1978 to 1991.

He was president of the National Museum of Wales from 1952 to 1957, trustee of the National Portrait Gallery from 1953 to 1988 and member of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts from 1966 to 1993. He was credited with growing the NPG from a small specialist museum to "one of the great national galleries".

He was chairman of the Wrexham, Powys and Mawddach Hospital Management Committee from 1960 to 1974, and then chairman of the Clwyd Area Health Authority, 1974–1978. As Flintshire county councillor he was appointed to their first records committee and was an active supporter of Flintshire Record Office (later Clwyd Record Office). He was also elected to the North Wales Police Authority.

He was a director of Lloyds Bank.

He was a Justice of the Peace in 1944. He was made a Deputy Lieutenant for Flintshire in 1948, an Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1972. He married Leila Cookson in 1946 and had three children - two sons, one of whom pre-deceased him and one daughter. He died in Gredington, Shropshire, on 16 May 1993, aged 75.

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Important facts

Birth century
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Nationality
Education
Magdalene College, Eton College
Positions held
Member of the House of Lords
Awards
Commander of the Order of the British Empire; Officer of the Order of Saint John
Also known as
Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon, Baron of Gredington

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British peer and member of the House of Lords (1917-93)

When was Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon born?

Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon was born on 13 September 1917.

When did Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon die?

Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon died on 16 May 1993.

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Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon was a politician.

What nationality was Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon?

Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon was British.

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· Wikipedia: Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon

· Wikidata: Q17403874

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