Ailwyn Edward Fellowes, 3rd Baron de Ramsey Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Territorial Decoration was a British peer.
Background
De Ramsey was the son of the Honorary Coulson Churchill Fellowes (1883–1915), son of William Fellowes, 2nd Baron de Ramsey. His mother was Gwendolene Dorothy, daughter of Harry Wyndham Jefferson.
His father had died while on active service in the First World War and in May 1925, aged 15, he succeeded his grandfather in the barony.
Education
He was educated at Oundle School.
Career
De Ramsey fought in the Second World War as a captain in the Royal Artillery (TA), was taken a Prisoner of War and awarded the Territorial Decoration. In 1947 de Ramsey was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire, a position that was renamed Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdon and Peterborough in 1965. He continued to hold the office until 1968.
In 1974 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Lord de Ramsey was entitled to a seat in the House of Lords between 1931 and 1993 and spoke 53 times during this period, mainly on water and drainage issues.
His maiden speech was in August 1940 and his last speech in November 1981. Lord de Ramsey married Lilah Helen Suzanne, daughter of Francis Anthony Labouchere, in 1937.
She died in 1987. Lord de Ramsey survived her by six years and died in March 1993, aged 83.