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John Whyte-Melville-Skeffington, 13th Viscount Massereene

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John Clotworthy Talbot Foster Whyte-Melville-Skeffinton, (born 22nd October 1914 - d.1992), 13th Viscount Massereene (1660) & 6th Viscount Ferrard (1797), known as Viscount Massereene and Ferrard. He was also Baron of Loughneagh (1660)(Ireland),and 6th Baron Oriel (1790)(Ireland), and 6th Baron Oriel (1821)(UK), and a Deputy Lieutenant for co.Antrim. He succeeded his father in 1956 and regularly attended the House of Lords. He was President of the Conservative Monday Club from 1981 unil his death.

Educated at Eton he married in 1939, Annabelle Kathleen, daughter of the late Henry D. Lewis, of Combwell Priory, Kent. They had one son and one daughter. He was a lieutenant in the Black Watch regiment and invalided out in 1940 due to wounds received in action. He served in the Small Vessels Pool in 1944. He was Gold Staff Officer at the Coronation of HM The Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. He was the driver of the leading British car in the Le Mans Grand Prix in 1937, and promoted the first scheduled air service between Glasgow-Oban-Isle of Mull. He was a Freeman of the City of London, and a liveryman of the Shipwright's Company. He was one of the original pioneers in the commercial development of Cape Canaveral, and a director of numerous companies.

Viscount Masserene & Ferrard was President of Brighton Kemptown Conservative Association, Vice-President and sometime Treasurer of the Ashford, Kent, Conservative Division. He was a chairman of the Victoria League, Kent. He was a member of the inter-Parliamentary Union Delegation to Spain in 1960, and Commodore of the House of Lords Yacht Club. He was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Peers Committee (IUP) in the House of Lords 1965 - 1970, and a Vice-President of the Kent branch of the Royal British Legion.

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References

  • Dod's Parliamentary Companion 1991, 172nd edition, London. ISBN 0-905702-17-4
  • Black, A & C, Who's Who, London. (Various editions).
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