Rowland Winn, 4th Baron St Oswald
Rowland Denys Guy Winn, 4th Baron St Oswald,DL (19 September 1916 – 19 December 1984), was a British soldier and Conservative politician.
Biography
St Oswald was the eldest son of Rowland George Winn, 3rd Baron St Oswald, and his wife Eve Carew, daughter of Charles Greene. He was a major in the
Second World War, where he was wounded and mentioned in dispatches. He later fought in the Korean War from 1950 to 1952 where he was awarded the Military Cross
(MC).
St Oswald succeeded his father in the
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1962 to 1964. From 1973 to 1979 he was an appointed Member of the European Parliament (MEP). He contested the Yorkshire West constituency at the first direct elections to the Parliament, in 1979
, but was unsuccessful.
He was also a deputy lieutenant (DL) of the West Riding of Yorkshire and of the City of York.
Lord St Oswald married firstly Laurian, daughter of
Sir Roderick Jones
, in 1952. They were divorced in 1955. He married secondly Maria Wanda, daughter of Sigismund Jaxa-Chamiec, in 1955. She died in 1981. Lord St Oswald survived her by three years and died in December 1984, aged 68. He was succeeded in the barony by his younger brother, Derek Winn.
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See also
Notes
- ^ Lundy, Darryl. "Rowland Denys Guy Winn, 4th Baron St Oswald". The Peerage.[unreliable source]
- ^ Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the peerage, baronetage, and knightage, Privy Council, and order of preference. 1949.
References
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, [page needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]