Background
The son of Captain Charles Ivor Phipson Smith-Ryland, he was educated at Eton College and married Jeryl Marcia Sarah Gurdon, daughter of the Honorable Robert Brampton Gurdon and sister of the third Baron Cranworth, in 1952.
The son of Captain Charles Ivor Phipson Smith-Ryland, he was educated at Eton College and married Jeryl Marcia Sarah Gurdon, daughter of the Honorable Robert Brampton Gurdon and sister of the third Baron Cranworth, in 1952.
Eton College.
Appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Warwickshire in 1954 and High Sheriff of Warwickshire for 1967-1968, he became Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire in 1968.
He was a member of Warwickshire County Council from 1949, being Vice-Chairman in 1963 and Chairman from 1964 to 1967. He was a landowner and farmer, a member of the Royal Agricultural Society, and was, for some time, chairman of the Warwickshire and Coventry Police Authority.