{{Short description|British politician (1884–1960)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Major The Right Honourable | name = The Lord Glyn | honorific_suffix = MC DL | image = | caption = | office1 = Member of Parliament<br />for Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire | term_start1 = 1918 | term_end1 = 1922 | predecessor1 = New constituency | successor1 = Lauchlan MacNeill Weir | majority1 = | office = Member of Parliament<br />for Abingdon | term_start = 1924 | term_end = 1953 | predecessor = Edward Lessing | successor = Airey Neave | majority = 4,000 | office2 = Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister | alongside2 = John Worthington (1931–1935) <br /> Frank Markham (1931–1932) | prime_minister2 = Ramsay McDonald | predecessor2 = Robert Morrison | successor2 = Geoffrey Lloyd | term_start2 = 1931 | term_end2 = 1935 | birth_name = Ralph George Campbell Glyn | birth_date = {{birth date|1884|03|03|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1960|05|01|1884|03|03|df=yes}} | death_place = Oxfordshire | education = Wixenford, Wokingham <br /> Harrow School | party = Conservative | spouse = Sibell Vanden Bempde-Johnstone <small>(m. 1921–1958, her death)</small> | children = | relatives = Edward Carr Glyn <br /> George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton | alma_mater = Royal Military College, Sandhurst | other_party = | occupation = <!-- Military service --> | allegiance = United Kingdom | branch = British Army | service_years = 1914–1918 | rank = Major | servicenumber = | unit = | commands = | battles = First World War | mawards = Military Cross }}
Major '''Ralph George Campbell Glyn, 1st Baron Glyn''', Bt, MC, DL (3 March 1884 – 1 May 1960), known as '''Sir Ralph Glyn, 1st Baronet''', from 1934 to 1953, was a soldier and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1918 to 1922, and from 1924 to 1953.
==Early life== Glyn was born on 3 March 1884 to Edward Glyn, Bishop of Peterborough and Lady Emma Mary, daughter of George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll. His father was the younger son of George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton. He was educated at Wixenford, Harrow, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.<ref>'Glyn, 1st Baron', in ''Who Was Who 1951–1960'' (A. & C. Black, 1984 reprint, {{ISBN|0-7136-2598-8}})</ref>
==Career==
===Military service=== Glyn fought in the First World War, during which he was mentioned in despatches and was awarded the Military Cross.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=30450 |date=1 January 1918 |page=36 |supp=y}}</ref>
===Political career=== At the 1918 general election, Glyn was elected as Unionist MP for the Scottish constituency of Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire. However he lost the seat at the 1922 general election, coming third with 28% of the votes. The following year, at the 1923 general election, Glyn stood in the Conservative-held seat of Abingdon, where the MP Arthur Loyd was not standing again. Lloyd's majority in 1922 had been only 640 votes, and Glyn lost by 254 votes (1.2% of the total) to the Liberal candidate Edward Lessing.
However, at the 1924 general election, Glyn substantially increased his vote, and won the seat with a majority of over 4,000 votes. He represented the constituency for nearly thirty years, and was returned unopposed at the 1931 election and at the 1935 election. He was made a baronet 21 January 1934, of Farnbo. h Downs, in the County of Berkshire,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34018 |date=26 January 1934 |page=604}}</ref> and in 1953 he was elevated to the peerage as '''Baron Glyn''', of Farnborough in the County of Berkshire.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=39904 |date=3 July 1953 |page=3677 }}</ref>
==Personal life== Lord Glyn married Sibell Vanden Bempde-Johnstone, daughter of Francis Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baron Derwent and widow of Brigadier-General Walter Long, in 1921. She was the mother of Walter Long, 2nd Viscount Long. There were no children from the marriage. Lady Glyn died in 1958. Lord Glyn survived her by two years and died in Oxfordshire in 1960, aged 75, when the baronetcy and barony became extinct.
Glyn was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1924 to 1952 and again from 1955 to 1960 in addition to be the vice-chairman of the Governors from 1958 until his death in 1960.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abingdon.org.uk/uploads/school/files/abingdonian/1942_Summer_V008_N004.pdf#page=11|title=1942 Summer Abingdonian|publisher=Abingdon School}}</ref> and the Mayor of Abingdon.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://friendsofabingdon.org.uk/about-us/history/2/|title=History of the FoA|publisher=Friends of Abingdon Civic Society}}</ref>
==Arms== {{Infobox COA wide |image = {{center|150px 180px}} |escutcheon = Argent an eagle displayed with two heads Sable guttee d'Or. |crest = An eagle's head erased Sable guttee d'Or holding in the beak an escallop Argent. |motto = Fidei Tenax<ref>{{cite book|title=Burke's Peerage |date=1956}}</ref>}}
== Notes == {{reflist}}
== References == * {{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |author-link= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 |orig-year=1969 |edition= 3rd |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-06-X}}
== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | colonel-ralph-glyn | Ralph Glyn }}
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