Charles Arthur Uryan Rhys, 8th Baron Dynevor

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(21 September 1899 – 15 December 1962), was a British peer and

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. He was the son of

Walter FitzUryan Rice, 7th Baron Dynevor Walter FitzUryan Rice, 7th Baron Dynevor (17 August 1873 – 8 June 1956) was a British military officer, civil servant and Conservative politician. He was the only son and heir of the 6th Baron Dynevor. Early life and family He was educated at ...

. Rhys was educated at Eton and the

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, and was commissioned into the

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. In 1919 he was awarded the Order of St. Anne of

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. He resigned his commission as a

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in 1920. He was appointed deputy lieutenant for

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in 1925 and a justice of the peace in 1931. Rhys served as a

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for

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from 1923 until 1929, when defeated by

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's H.T. Muggeridge. He returned to the

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two years later, when he was elected at an unopposed by-election in 1931 as MP for Guildford, holding the seat until he stood down at the 1935 United Kingdom general election. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Stanley Baldwin from 1927 to 1929. On 29 September 1934 he married Hope Mary Woodbine who had formerly been the wife of Captain

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, OBE, of the

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. Rhys served as Deputy Chairman of the Sun Insurance Company and as Chairman of the Cities of London and Westminster Conservative Association from 1948 until 1960. He was also the Governor of the

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. From 1950 until 1962 Rhys was President of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, (now called Cardiff University). When he died at the age of 63,

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previously incurred by the 7th Baron had not been paid, placing an intolerable financial burden on the next in line of descent, his son Richard Charles Uryan Rhys, 9th Baron Dynevor.

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* Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs 1931–1935 Dynevor, B8 Grenadier Guards officers Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst 08 People associated with Cardiff University People educated at Eton College 1899 births 1962 deaths Parliamentary Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister Politics of Guildford Politics of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Politics of the London Borough of Havering Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Deputy Lieutenants of Carmarthenshire Dynevor, Charles Rhys, 8th Baron Charles Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Guildford {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1890s-stub