[119178] All Saints, Kirby Underdale : Earls & Countesses of Halifax

All Saints, Kirby Underdale, East Yorkshire.
Churchyard.

Grave of Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, TD, PC (1881-1959).
His wife Lady Dorothy Evelyn Augusta Onslow (1885-1976).

Lord Halifax was an aristocrat and a Conservative politician who had a long, and sometimes controversial, political career.

He served his country as Viceroy of India and as Foreign Secretary, first to Neville Chamberlain, thus he is forever associated with appeasement, and then Winston Churchill. At the time of the creation of the wartime coalition government Lord Halifax was favoured to emerge as Prime Minister, but against the flow, Churchill got the job, and the rest, of course, is history.

Much more here...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Wood,_1st_Earl_of_Halifax
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Grave of Charles Ingram Courtenay Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax, DL (1912-1980).
His wife Lady Ruth Alice Hannah Mary Primrose (1916-1989).

A Conservative politician, he was the son of Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, and was educated at Eton College.

He gained the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in 1934 in the service of the Royal Horse Guards. Like his father, Wood also entered politics, becoming Member of Parliament for the City of York in 1937, as a Conservative. In 1939, at the outbreak of World War II, he rejoined the Royal Horse Guards and served for three years in the Middle East. He continued as a member of parliament during this time but at the 1945 general election, lost his seat to the Labour candidate.

Lord Halifax held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of the East Riding in Yorkshire between 1955 and 1968, Lord-Lieutenant of Humberside between 1974 until 1980 and High Steward of York Minster between 1972 until 1980. In 1978, his horse Shirley Heights won The Derby.

Taken on: May 13, 2010

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