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William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech (1885 - 1964), British Conservative politician and banker.
Ormsby-Gore was MP for Stafford, 1918 to 1938, when he was elevated to the peerage on the death of his father. Parliamentary under-secretary to the Colonies 1922-9 (with a brief interruption during the short lived Labour government of 1924). He was Colonial Secretary 1936-8 under Neville Chamberlain. During World War II he was British high commissioner in South Africa (1941-4).
After retiring from the Commons he served on the board of Midland Bank, owner of a banking house founded by his family.
His son, the fifth baron, followed him into politics and served as British ambassador to Washington in the 1960's.
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