Lord Mount Temple, whose letter to "The Times" in strang protest against any eventual British support of Soviet Russia was mentioned in Fecent Trans-Ocean message, father of Lady Louis Mountbatten. who was recently in Shanghai," As: Colonel W. W. Ashley he sat in the House of Commons for 26 years until he was raised to the peerage in 1932, after serving in various ministerial offices including the Ministry of 'Transport, He is a strong Conservative of right-wing views and has been Chairman of the Anti-Socialist Union. He commanded' the 20th Battalion of the King's Regiment from 1914 to 1915 In the Great War, Mis rst wite was the daughter of Sir Ernest Cassel whos career, which began in a clerkship of a bank in Cologne—his native elly—at the age of 16, was one of the remanets of mid-Victorian London. 'During the War on unsuccess{ul' attempt was made to remove Sir Ernest Cassels nome from the list at the Privy Council. "He retired from. active 1010, His benefactions to charity were enormous and, a great personal friend of the 1 late' King Edward VII, he gave £60,- 000 to the King Edward's Hospital Pund, On his death in 1921, he left hhis fortune to his two granddaughters one of whom married Lord Louis Mountbatten and the other Captain 'A. 8. Cunningham Reld, now M. P. for Marylebone,
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