Henry Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough

Major Henry Astell Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough, MC, JP, DL (11 July 1889 – 19 May 1945), was a member of the House of Lords.

Major The Right Honourable The Lord Ellenborough MC JP DL
Henry Astell Law
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer 1931 – 19 May 1945
Preceded by	The 6th Baron Ellenborough
Succeeded by	The 8th Baron Ellenborough
Personal details
Born	11 July 1889
Died	19 May 1945(1945-05-19) (aged 55)
Spouse	Helen Dorothy Lovatt
Children	Richard Law, 8th Baron Ellenborough Hon. Cecil Law
Parents	Cecil Law, 6th Baron Ellenborough Alice Caroline Astell
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	RMC Sandhurst
Profession	Military officer, peer and politician
Military service
Rank	Major

Law was educated at Eton College where he was in the Eton Shooting VIII and at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.^[1] On the death of his father, Cecil Law, 6th Baron Ellenborough, in 1931, he succeeded to the peerage.

He was commissioned as an officer into the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1909^[2] and served in World War I. Law was awarded the Military Cross^[3][4] and mentioned in despatches twice for gallantry.^[5] He was promoted to the rank of major. He was appointed one of His Majesty's Bodyguard of Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms in 1934 and a Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset.^[6] Lord Ellenborough took a prominent part in the local affairs of Dorset and he did good work as Chairman to the Council for the Preservation of Rural England for the county.

Henry Astell Law married Helen Dorothy Lovatt in 1923, the only daughter of H. W. Lovatt. They had two sons: Richard Edward Cecil Law, 8th Baron Ellenborough (1926–2013), and the Hon. Cecil Towry Henry Law (1931–2005). He died in 1945.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Henry Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough
8. Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough 4. Hon. Henry Spencer Law (1802–1885) 9. Ann Towry (died 1843) 3. Cecil Law, 6th Baron Ellenborough 10. Col. John Rochfort (died 1844) 5. Dorothea Rochfort (died 1871) 11. Mary Burgh (died 1866) 1. Henry Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough 6. John Harvey Astell 3. Alice Astell (died 1916)

Arms

Coat of arms of the Barons Ellenborough^[7]

Crest A cock gules charged on the breast with a mitre pendant from a chain round the neck or. Escutcheon Ermine on a bend engrailed between two cocks gules three mullets pierced or. Supporters Two eagles, wings elevated, sable, each gorged with a chain or, and pendant therefrom on the brest of the dexter supporter a mitre, and on the sinister a covered cup gold. Motto Compositum Jus Fasque Animi (Law and equity combined)

References

1. "The Times, May 21, 1945".
2. "No. 28289". The London Gazette. 17 September 1909. p. 6962.
3. Kidd, Charles, (editor). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (2015 edition), p. 419.
4. "No. 30450". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 1917. p. 40.
5. "The Times, Obituary, May 21, 1945".
6. "Ellenborough, Baron (UK, 1802)". Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.
7. Debrett's peerage and baronetage 2003. 2002. p. 542.

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Cecil Law	Baron Ellenborough 1931–1945	Succeeded by Richard Law