Viscount Tenby, of Bulford in the County of Pembroke, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1957 for the former Home Secretary

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, the Hon. Gwilym Lloyd George

Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby

Major Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby PC TD was a British politician and cabinet minister. A younger son of Prime Minister David Lloyd George, he served as Home Secretary from 1954 to 1957....

. He was the second son of Prime Minister

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 David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor. the title is held by his younger son, the third Viscount, who succeeded his elder brother in 1983. Lord Tenby is one of the ninety elected hereditary peer

Hereditary peer

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s that remain in the House of Lords

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 after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999

House of Lords Act 1999

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, and sits as a cross-bencher. As a grandson of the first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor he is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary title the viscountcy of Gwynedd.

Viscounts Tenby (1957)

• Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby
  Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby
  Major Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby PC TD was a British politician and cabinet minister. A younger son of Prime Minister David Lloyd George, he served as Home Secretary from 1954 to 1957....
  
   (1894–1967)
• David Lloyd George, 2nd Viscount Tenby (1922–1983)
• William Lloyd George, 3rd Viscount Tenby
  William Lloyd George, 3rd Viscount Tenby
  William Lloyd George, 3rd Viscount Tenby is a British peer and soldier. He is one of the ninety hereditary peers in the House of Lords, elected to remain after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999....
  
   (b. 1927)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son the Hon. Timothy Henry Gwilym Lloyd George (b. 1962)