Colonel Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy, 9th Baron Langford, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Doctor of Laws is a British-Irish peer and British Army officer
Background
The only son of two children born to Major Geoffrey Seymour Rowley-Conwy (1877 – 10 August 1915), who was killed in action Gallipoli, and Bertha Gabrielle Cochran, Justice of the Peace (1880–1984), Langford was educated at Marlborough College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
Career
He served as an army officer with the Royal Artillery in World World War II, being captured at the Japanese taking of Singapore in 1942, but escaping, before seeing further active service in Burma. He reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1945 and retired from the regular army in 1957. He was appointed an Honorary Colonel in 1967.
Lady Langford is a patron of Street Kentigern Hospice, Street Asaph.
He is Constable of Rhuddlan Castle and Lord of the Manor of Rhuddlan. He turned 100 in March 2012.
He is the patron of the North Wales Wildlife Trust.