Background
Lord Harlech was the younger son of William Ormsby-Gore and Mary Jane Ormsby.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Lord Harlech was the younger son of William Ormsby-Gore and Mary Jane Ormsby.
He was educated at Eton College and later purchased an Ensigncy in the 53rd Foot.
He purchased a Lieutenantcy in 1839 and exchanged into the 13th Light Dragoons in 1841, purchasing a Captaincy in 1846 and a Majority in 1852. In the 1841 general election Ormsby-Gore was elected unopposed as a Conservative Party Member of Parliament for County Sligo. In 1852 general election there was a contest for the seat and he was defeated by a nationalist-inclined Liberal candidate.
He returned to Parliament in a by-election on 17 May 1858 as Member of Parliament for Leitrim, a seat he held until 1876.
Ormsby-Gore bought an estate at Derrycarne near Dromod in County Leitrim and went on to rise to high office in the county: he became High Sheriff there for 1857, and was appointed as Lord Lieutenant of County Leitrim in 1878, which he remained until his death. On 14 January 1876, Ormsby-Gore"s elder brother John was created Baron Harlech.
This was an unusual procedure and it was determined at the time that the last such case had been 45 years before. As it happened, the first Baron died on 15 June 1876 and Ormsby-Gore became the second Baron Harlech.
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Honorary Seymour Fitzroy Ormsby-Gore, FRGS (born 18 January 1863, died 10 November 1950), unmarried, Conservative Member of Parliament for Gainsborough between 1900 and 1906.