Background
Glyn was born on 3 March 1884 to Edward Glyn, Bishop of Peterborough and Lady Emma Mary, daughter of George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll. His father was the younger son of George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton.
Glyn was born on 3 March 1884 to Edward Glyn, Bishop of Peterborough and Lady Emma Mary, daughter of George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll. His father was the younger son of George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton.
He was educated at Wixenford, Harrow, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Military service
Political career
At the 1918 general election, Glyn was elected as Member of Parliament for the Scottish constituency of Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire. However he lost the seat at the 1922 general election, coming third with 28% of the votes. The following year, at the 1923 general election, Glyn stood in the Conservative-held seat of Abingdon, where the Member of Parliament Arthur Loyd was not standing again.
Lloyd"s majority in 1922 had been only 640 votes, and Glyn lost by 254 votes (12% of the total) to the Liberal candidate Edward Lessing.
He represented the constituency for nearly thirty years, and was returned unopposed at the 1931 election and at the 1935 election. He was made a baronet 21 January 1934, of Farnborough Downs, in the County of Berkshire, and in 1953 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Glyn, of Farnborough in the County of Berkshire.
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He was a Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) from 1918 to 1922, and from 1924 to 1953.
