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Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon (13 September 1917 - 16 May 1993), C.B.E, was a British peer and member of the House of Lords. The only son of Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon, he succeeded his father to the title on his death in 1927. Lord Kenyon was educated at Eton and then Magdalene College, Cambridge. As a peer he was active across many fields of public life including education, museums and health. Lord Kenyon was president of the University College of North Wales in Bangor (part of the University of Wales), from 1947-82. Through the university he was behind the revival of the Gwasg Gregynog Press, which printed traditional hand-bound books from metal type and woodcuts illustrations, and he was chairman of the press from 1978-91. He was president of the National Museum of Wales from 1952-57, trustee of the National Portrait Gallery from 1953-88 and member of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts from 1966-93. He was credited with growing the NPG from a small specialist museum to "''one of the great national galleries''". He was chairman of the Wrexham, Powys and Mawddach Hospital Management Committee from 1960-74, and then chairman of the Clwyd Area Health Authority, 1974-78. As Flintshire county councillor he was appointed to their first records committee and was an active supporter of Flintshire Record Office (later Clwyd Record Office). He was also elected to North Wales Police Authority. He was a director of Lloyds Bank. He was a Justice of the Peace in 1944. He was made the Deputy Lieutenant for Flintshire in 1948, an Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1972.〔 He was a provincial grandmaster for the Freemasons of North Wales. He married Leila Cookson in 1846 and three children - two sons, one of whom pre-deceased him and one daughter. He died in Gredington, Shropshire on 16 May 1993, aged 75. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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