Desmond Llowarch Edward Flower, 10th Viscount Ashbrook KCVO MBE JP DL (9 July 1905 – 5 December 1995)[1] was an Anglo-Irish peer and soldier.
Flower was the only son of Llowarch Flower, 9th Viscount Ashbrook and his wife Gladys Lucille Beatrice, daughter of George Higginson.[2] He was educated at Eton College and went then to Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1927.[3] Ashbrook worked as a chartered accountant, succeeding to his father's titles on 30 August 1936.[3] Before the Second World War, he joined 79th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, of the Territorial Army, ending the war as a major.[4][5] After the end of the war in 1945, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire.[3]
In 1949 Flower was nominated a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Cheshire and in 1961 vice lord-lieutenant.[3] From 1946, he represented the county also as a Justice of the Peace, retiring from these posts in 1968.[3] Flower joined the council of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1957.[3] He was invested as a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1977 on his retirement from the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster[6] and was director of the Country's Gentlemen Association.[3]
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On 8 November 1934, he married Elizabeth (1911-2002), daughter of Captain John Egerton-Warburton; they had three children, two sons and a daughter. Flower died in 1995 and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his older son Michael.
In 2022, a new rose variety, the 'Elizabeth Ashbrook', was named in the late Lady Ashbrook's honour.[7]
References edit
- ^ "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". Archived from the original on 8 June 2008. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companioage. J. Whitaker & Sons. 1923. p. 126.
- ^ a b c d e f g Who is Who 1963. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd. 1963. p. 96.
- ^ Col J.D. Sainsbury, The Hertfordshire Yeomanry Regiments, Royal Artillery, Part 2: The Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment 1938–1945 and the Searchlight Battery 1937–1945; Part 3: The Post-war Units 1947–2002, Welwyn: Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery Trust/Hart Books, 2003, ISBN 0-948527-06-4, Appendix 3.
- ^ Monthly Army List.
- ^ "No. 47221". The London Gazette. 24 May 1977. p. 6421.
- ^ "New fragrant rose launched in memory of Lady Elizabeth Ashbrook". Knutsford Guardian. Retrieved 26 October 2022.