Desmond Flower, 10th Viscount Ashbrook

The Right Honourable

The Viscount Ashbrook

KCVO MBE JP DL
10th Viscount Ashbrook
PredecessorLlowarch Flower, 9th Viscount Ashbrook
SuccessorMichael Flower, 11th Viscount Ashbrook
BornDesmond Llowarch Edward Flower
9 July 1905
Died5 December 1995(1995-12-05) (aged 90)
NationalityAnglo-Irish
ParentsLlowarch Flower, 9th Viscount Ashbrook Gladys Lucille Beatrice Higginson
OccupationChartered accountant, soldier

Desmond Llowarch Edward Flower, 10th Viscount Ashbrook KCVO MBE JP DL (9 July 1905 – 5 December 1995)[1] was an Anglo-Irish peer and soldier.

Flower was the only son of Llowarch Flower, 9th Viscount Ashbrook and his wife Gladys Lucille Beatrice, daughter of George Higginson.[2] He was educated at Eton College and went then to Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1927.[3] Ashbrook worked as a chartered accountant, succeeding to his father's titles on 30 August 1936.[3] Before the Second World War, he joined 79th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, of the Territorial Army, ending the war as a major.[4][5] After the end of the war in 1945, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire.[3]

In 1949 Flower was nominated a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Cheshire and in 1961 vice lord-lieutenant.[3] From 1946, he represented the county also as a Justice of the Peace, retiring from these posts in 1968.[3] Flower joined the council of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1957.[3] He was invested as a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1977 on his retirement from the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster[6] and was director of the Country's Gentlemen Association.[3]

Family

On 8 November 1934, he married Elizabeth (1911–2002), daughter of Captain John Egerton-Warburton; they had three children, two sons and a daughter. Flower died in 1995 and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his older son Michael.

In 2022, a new rose variety, the 'Elizabeth Ashbrook', was named in the late Lady Ashbrook's honour.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". Archived from the original on 8 June 2008. Retrieved 23 December 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companioage. J. Whitaker & Sons. 1923. p. 126.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Who is Who 1963. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd. 1963. p. 96.
  4. ^ Col J.D. Sainsbury, The Hertfordshire Yeomanry Regiments, Royal Artillery, Part 2: The Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment 1938–1945 and the Searchlight Battery 1937–1945; Part 3: The Post-war Units 1947–2002, Welwyn: Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery Trust/Hart Books, 2003, ISBN 0-948527-06-4, Appendix 3.
  5. ^ Monthly Army List.
  6. ^ "No. 47221". The London Gazette. 24 May 1977. p. 6421.
  7. ^ "New fragrant rose launched in memory of Lady Elizabeth Ashbrook". Knutsford Guardian. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Viscount Ashbrook
1936–1995 		Succeeded by