Robert Grant Grant-Ferris, Baron Harvington, AEPC (30 December 1907 – 1 January 1997) was a British Conservative Party politician.
Harvington near Chaddesley Corbett: St Mary's Catholic Church, grave of Lord Harvington and his mother in the churchyard. The roof of Harvington Hall is visible in the background.
In 1930, he married Florence Brennan de Vine (d. 30 December 1996), with whom he had a daughter and a son.[2] He was Member of Parliament (MP) for St Pancras North from 1937 to 1945, and for Nantwich from 1955 until his retirement at the February 1974 general election. He served as Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker from 1970 to 1974. Ferris's maiden speech to Parliament was in March 1937, in a debate on the Air Ministry estimates, in which he spoke as a member of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force.[3]
Grant-Ferris was a staunch supporter of fellow devout Roman CatholicFrancisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War.[4] His son Fr Piers Grant-Ferris (b. April 9, 1933)[citation needed] pleaded guilty at Leeds Crown Court to indecently assaulting 15 boys while teaching at Gilling Castle, North Yorkshire, the preparatory school for nearby Ampleforth College, between 1966 and 1975.[5] He changed his name from Ferris to Grant-Ferris by deed poll in August 1942.[6]
Coat of arms of Robert Grant-Ferris, Baron Harvington
Crest
A Comb fesswise Argent between two Hazel Branches fruited proper
Escutcheon
Gules three Antique Crowns Or within an Orle of eight Horseshoes Argent [10]
Supporters
Dexter: a Knight Grand Cross of Magistral Grace of the Sovereign and Military Order of Malta in Choir Dress proper; Sinister: a representation of a Pilot of the Royal Air Force in Service Dress circa 1942 also proper about his neck a Scarf Gules spotted Argent
Motto
I Never Give Up
ReferencesEdit
^"Harvington Hall - Our Story". Retrieved 1 September 2021.
^"Obituary". The Independent. 4 January 1997. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
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