Henry Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough

Major The Right Honourable
The Lord Ellenborough
MC JP DL
Major The Right Honourable The Lord Ellenborough MC JP DL
	Portrait, c. 1935
Member of the House of Lords
	Lord Temporal
	In office; 22 January 1931 – 19 May 1945; as a hereditary peer
Preceded by	The 6th Baron Ellenborough
Succeeded by	The 8th Baron Ellenborough
Personal details
Born	11 July 1889
Died	19 May 1945 (aged 55)
Spouse	Helen Dorothy Lovatt
Children	Richard Law, 8th Baron Ellenborough; Hon. Cecil Law;
Parents	Cecil Law, 6th Baron Ellenborough; Alice Caroline Astell;
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	RMC Sandhurst
Profession	Army officer, peer, politician
Military service
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Rank	Major
Unit	King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Wars	World War I
Awards	Military Cross

Major Henry Astell Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough (11 July 1889 – 19 May 1945), was a British Army officer, hereditary peer and member of the House of Lords.

Early life and career

Law was educated at Eton College where he was in the Eton Shooting VIII and at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.^[1] He succeeded to the Ellenborough barony on the death of his father, Cecil Law, 6th Baron Ellenborough, in 1931.

He was commissioned as an officer into the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1909^[2] and served in World War I. Law was awarded the Military Cross^[3]^[4] and mentioned in despatches twice for gallantry.^[5] He was promoted to the rank of major. He was appointed one of His Majesty's Bodyguard of Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms in 1934 and a Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset.^[6] Lord Ellenborough took a prominent part in the local affairs of Dorset and he did good work as Chairman to the Council for the Preservation of Rural England for the county.

Personal life and death

Henry Astell Law married Helen Dorothy Lovatt in 1923, the only daughter of H. W. Lovatt. They had two sons: Richard Edward Cecil Law, 8th Baron Ellenborough (1926–2013), and the Hon. Cecil Towry Henry Law (1931–2005). He died in 1945.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Henry Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough

8. Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough

4. Hon. Henry Spencer Law (1802–1885)

9. Ann Towry (died 1843)

3. Cecil Law, 6th Baron Ellenborough

10. Col. John Rochfort (died 1844)

5. Dorothea Rochfort (died 1871)

11. Mary Burgh (died 1866)

1. Henry Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough

6. John Harvey Astell

3. Alice Astell (died 1916)

Arms

Coat of arms of the Barons Ellenborough^[7]
	Crest A cock gules charged on the breast with a mitre pendant from a chain round the neck or. Escutcheon Ermine on a bend engrailed between two cocks gules three mullets pierced or. Supporters Two eagles, wings elevated, sable, each gorged with a chain or, and pendant therefrom on the brest of the dexter supporter a mitre, and on the sinister a covered cup gold. Motto Compositum Jus Fasque Animi (Law and equity combined)

References

^ "The Times, May 21, 1945".
^ "No. 28289". The London Gazette. 17 September 1909. p. 6962.
^ Kidd, Charles, (editor). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (2015 edition), p. 419.
^ "No. 30450". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 1917. p. 40.
^ "The Times, Obituary, May 21, 1945".
^ "Ellenborough, Baron (UK, 1802)". Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.
^ Debrett's peerage and baronetage 2003. 2002. p. 542.

[1] "The Times, May 21, 1945".

[2] "No. 28289". The London Gazette. 17 September 1909. p. 6962.

[3] Kidd, Charles, (editor). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (2015 edition), p. 419.

[4] "No. 30450". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 1917. p. 40.

[5] "The Times, Obituary, May 21, 1945".

[6] "Ellenborough, Baron (UK, 1802)". Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.

[7] Debrett's peerage and baronetage 2003. 2002. p. 542.

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