Ronald Collet Norman
JP (15 November 1873 – 5 December 1963) was a
banker
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,
administrator and
politician
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.
He was chairman of the
Board of Governors of the BBC from 1935 to 1939 and of the
London County Council
The London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London throughout its existence from 1889 to 1965, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected. It covered the area today ...
from 1918 to 1919.
Biography
Norman was the son of
Frederick Norman of the
Norman family, long prominent in banking. He was educated at
Trinity College, Cambridge
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(
MA 1901).
In March 1900, he was appointed an assistant private secretary (unpaid) to the (
Conservative
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)
Under-Secretary of State for War,
George Wyndham.
In 1907 he was elected to the
London County Council
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as a
Municipal Reformer. From 1918 to 1919 he served as chairman and was an
alderman
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of the council from 1922 to 1934. He served as the vice-chairman of the
National Trust
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The Trust was founded in 1895 by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley to "promote the ...
during the 1930s, but he declined the chairmanship, because he was not "a great landowner". He placed the Trust's finance committee on a more professional footing; it subsequently fell to his son
Mark Norman to chair that committee through the difficult economic circumstances of the 1970s. From 1933 to 1935 he served as vice-chairman of the
BBC
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, and was chairman from 1935 to April, 1939.
Descendants
Norman married Lady Florence Sibell Bridgeman (1877–1959), a daughter of the 4th
Earl of Bradford. They had three sons and one daughter:
#Brigadier Hugh Norman (1905–1979); father of
##Patricia Norman (b. 27 May 1940), former wife of Henry Colum Crichton-Stuart and now wife of the 3rd
Baron Kindersley;
#
Mark Norman (1910–1994), a successful merchant banker;
## David Norman
### Isabella Julia Norman is married to Timothy Nicholas Sean Knatchbull, a descendant of
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in January 1901. Her reign of 63 year ...
through her great-grandson
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy), Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was ...
.
#Sibyl Margaret Norman (1908–2010) who married 1stly
Archibald Edward Cubitt (16 January 1901 – 13 Feb 1972); they had issue, 1 son and 1 surviving daughter.
## (Mark) Robin Cubitt (13 June 1936 – 1991), who was father of three sons, including
### Mark Edward Cubitt, 5th Baron Ashcombe (b. 29 February 1964)
[Genealogy for Mark Edward Cubitt.]
## Priscilla Cubitt (b. 30 May 1941) is the third wife of the 11th
Earl of Harrington
Earl of Harrington is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain that was created in 1742.
History
The earldom of Harrington was granted in 1742 to William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, William Stanhope, 1st Baron Harrington, the former Secret ...
, and they are parents of
###
Lady Isabella Stanhope, wife of the
7th Earl Cawdor.
#Richard Norman (1917–1994) who married an Anglo-Spanish aristocrat, descended from the Bourbon duques de Marchena (Dukes of Marchena) themselves descended
morganatic
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ally from Spanish kings.
Family connections
Through the Bridgemans, the Normans descended from Ronald Collet Norman and Lady Florence are thus related to several prominent English and Scottish aristocrats including
the Duke of Gloucester (whose maternal grandmother was a sister of Lady Florence Norman), the
7th Marquess of Salisbury (whose maternal great-grandmother was another sister), the
9th Duke of Buccleuch (whose paternal grandmother, shared with the Duke of Gloucester, was a sister of Lady Florence), and so forth.
His brother
Montagu Norman
Montagu Collet Norman, 1st Baron Norman DSO PC (6 September 1871 – 4 February 1950) was an English banker, best known for his role as the Governor of the Bank of England from 1920 to 1944.
Norman led the bank during the toughest period in ...
, became a long-serving
governor of the Bank of England
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and was elevated to the
peerage
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Peerages include:
A ...
as the
1st Baron Norman (but that title is now extinct, Lord Norman having had no issue). Both their grandfathers were directors.
Sources
* is shown for his marriage and some of his descendants.
* was the wife of Ronald Collet Norman, and the mother of all his children.
* was the youngest son.
* shows one of Ronald Collet Norman's granddaughters, formerly wife of the 3rd Baron Kindersley.
* is Ronald Collet Norman's great-granddaughter and now The Countess Cawdor.
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1873 births
1963 deaths
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
English bankers
Chairmen of the BBC
General and operations managers
British bankers
Members of London County Council
BBC governors
Municipal Reform Party politicians
National Trust people
Ronald
Ronald is a masculine given name derived from the Old Norse ''Rögnvaldr'',#H2, Hanks; Hardcastle; Hodges (2006) p. 234; #H1, Hanks; Hodges (2003) § Ronald. or possibly from Old English ''Regenweald''. In some cases ''Ronald'' is an Anglicised ...