Charles Smith-Ryland

Sir Charles Mortimer Tollemache Smith-Ryland KCVO (May 24, 1927 – 1989) was Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire from 1968 to 1989.

The son of Captain Charles Ivor Phipson Smith-Ryland, he was educated at Eton College and married Jeryl Marcia Sarah Gurdon, daughter of Robert Brampton Gurdon and sister of the third Baron Cranworth, in 1952.

He was a member of Warwickshire County Council from 1949, being Vice-Chairman in 1963 and Chairman from 1964 to 1967.

Appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Warwickshire in 1954 and High Sheriff of Warwickshire for 1967–68, he became Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire in 1968.

He was a landowner and farmer, a member of the Royal Agricultural Society, and was, for some time, chairman of the Warwickshire and Coventry Police Authority.

References

The Birmingham Post Year Book and Who's Who 1973-74, Birmingham Post and Mail Ltd., July 1973
Whitaker's Almanack, various editions, Joseph Whitaker & Sons
Rootsweb - http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/RYLAND/2001-06/0992304536

Honorary titles
Preceded by Victor William Oubridge	High Sheriff of Warwickshire 1967–1968	Succeeded by Frederick Devereux Muntz
Preceded by The Lord Willoughby de Broke	Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire 1968–1989	Succeeded by The Viscount Daventry