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]
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]
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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]
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]
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