Major The Right Honourable
The Lord Terrington
Personal details
Born(1915-12-30)30 December 1915
Died6 May 1998(1998-05-06) (aged 82)
Spouse(s)Suzanne Irwin
(m. 1942)
ChildrenLavinia Harrisson
Georgina Leatham
Davinia Alexander, Countess Alexander of Tunis
EducationWinchester College
Alma materRoyal Military Academy Sandhurst

Major James Allen David Woodhouse, 4th Baron Terrington (30 December 1915 – 6 May 1998[1]) was a Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom[1] and Deputy Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords. He was a member of the London Stock Exchange and a director of S J Carr and County (Gunmakers) Ltd.[1] He served in the Royal Norfolk Regiment and Queen's Westminster Rifles and was wounded in World War II.[1]

Woodhouse was the son of Horace Martin Woodhouse, 3rd Baron Terrington and Valerie Phillips,[1] and was educated at Winchester College and then at Royal Military College, Sandhurst.[1] He married Suzanne Irwin, daughter of Colonel Thomas Strutt Irwin, on 7 November 1942.[1] They had three daughters.[1]

On his death in 1998, having no male heirs, was succeeded by his brother, Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington.[2] James is depicted in three glass-plate negative photographs held by the National Portrait Gallery, two of which show him as a child.[3]

Arms

Coat of arms of David Woodhouse, 4th Baron Terrington
Crest
Issuant out of a wreath of roses Argent barbed and seeded Proper a demi-woodman also Proper supporting in the dexter hand an axe Or.
Escutcheon
Per fess Or and Azure a hurst of oak trees issuant in chief Proper and two bars wavy in base Argent.
Supporters
On either side an Airedale terrier Proper gorged with a ducal coronet Or.
Motto
Labor Omnia Vincit[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "James Allen David Woodhouse, 4th Baron Terrington - Person Page 8453". The Peerage. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  2. ↑ Clogg, Richard (20 February 2001). "Obituary: Monty Woodhouse". The Guardian. London.
  3. ↑ "National Portrait Gallery - Person - (James Allen) David Woodhouse, 4th Baron Terrington". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  4. ↑ Burke's Peerage. 1956.
  • Charles Mosley, editor Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage; 107th edition, 3 vols. (Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), vol. 3, p. 3874.
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