Ancestral Trails 2016 » John Walgrave Halford FREMANTLE (1900-1994)

Personal data John Walgrave Halford FREMANTLE 

• He was born on March 2, 1900 in Holton, Oxfordshire.
• Title: 4th Baron Cottesloe, Lieutenant-Colonel
• He died in the year 1994, he was 93 years old.
• A child of Thomas Francis FREMANTLE and Frances Anne TAPLING

Household of John Walgrave Halford FREMANTLE

(1) He is married to Elizabeth HARRIS.

They got married on February 16, 1926, he was 25 years old.

Child(ren):

1. (Not public)
2. John Tapling FREMANTLE  1927-2018

(2) He is married to Gloria Jean Irene DUNN.

They got married on March 26, 1959, he was 59 years old.

Child(ren):

1. (Not public)
2. (Not public)
3. (Not public)

Notes about John Walgrave Halford FREMANTLE

John Walgrave Halford Fremantle, 4th Baron Cottesloe, 5th Baron Fremantle, GBE, TD (2 March 1900 - 1994) was a British aristocrat and public official. He served as the Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain and the South Bank Theatre Board.

John Fremantle was born at Holton Park, Oxfordshire, on 2 March 1900. He was the son of Colonel Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe and his wife Frances Tapling, the daughter of industrialist Thomas Tapling Senior and sister of MP Thomas Keay Tapling Jr. He was educated at Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, he was a member of the University Pitt Club. He rowed for the Cambridge University Boat Club in both the Boat Race of 1921 and the Boat Race of 1922, winning both times, and graduated from Cambridge in 1925 with a Master of Arts (M.A.).

Career
He served as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 21st LAA Regiment, Royal Artillery from 1939 to 1965 and served in World War II, being awarded the Territorial Decoration.

He was a Conservative Party member of the London County Council representing Hampstead from 1945 until 1955.

He succeeded to the title Baron Fremantle and Baron Cottesloe on the death of his father on 19 July 1956. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of London from 1951 to 1976 and was invested as a Knight Grand Cross, Order of the British Empire (G.B.E.) in 1960. He was Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1960 to 1965.

The Cottesloe, one of the three theatres at the National Theatre complex in London, was named in his honour.

Personal life
He married, firstly, Lady Elizabeth Harris, daughter of James Edward Harris, 5th Earl of Malmesbury and Dorothy Gough-Calthorpe, on 16 February 1926. Lady Harris was a distant cousin of Fremantle through their shared British North American ancestry - both were descendant of different members of the Dutch American Schuyler family who were Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War.

They had two children:
John Fremantle, 5th Baron Cottesloe
Hon. Ann Fremantle, m. Sir Timothy Brooks
Lord Cottesloe and Lady Elizabeth divorced in 1944.

He married, secondly, Gloria Jean Irene Dunn , daughter of W. E. Hill, on 26 March 1959. They had three children:
Hon. Edward Fremantle
Hon. Elizabeth Fremantle
Hon. Flora Fremantle.

He died in 1994.

References
"Births". The Times (36082). London. 6 March 1900. p. 1.
the Peerage.com
Fletcher, Walter Morley (2011) [1935]. The University Pitt Club: 1835-1935 (First Paperback ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-1-107-60006-5.
W Eric Jackson (1965). Achievement. A Short History of the London County Council. Longmans. p. 259.
"Gloria Jean Irene Dunn". National Portrait Gallery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fremantle,_4th_Baron_Cottesloe

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