Woodrow Lyle Wyatt, Baron Wyatt of Weeford (4 July 1918 – 7 December 1997) was a British politician, author, journalist and broadcaster, close to the Queen Mother #6300546 {fake #197771315}, Margaret Thatcher #108023705 & Rupert Murdoch b.1931. For the last twenty years of his life, he was chairman of the state betting organisation The Tote.
Wyatt was married four times, to:
m1.First (div): Susan Cox, no issue. She was a fellow student at Oxford.
m2.Second (div): Nora Robbins, no issue. She was his secretary.
m3. Third (1957, dissolved 1966): Lady Moorea Hastings (1928–2011) daughter of the 16th Earl of Huntingdon and a granddaughter of Luisa Casati; one son: Hon. Pericles Plantagenet Wyatt.
m4.Fourth (1966): Veronica (Verushka) Banszky von Ambroz, née Racz, a Hungarian and widow of a surgeon; one daughter: journalist Petronella Wyatt (b. 1968).
died in Camden, north London, aged 79. Buried in St Mary's churchyard in Weeford, just south of Lichfield, Staffordshire, where the Wyatt family originated.
Woodrow Lyle Wyatt b.4 July 1918
Milbourne Lodge, Surrey, England
d. 7 December 1997 (aged 79) London
Born in Kingston upon Thames, southwest London, Wyatt was the second son of Robert Harvey Lyle Wyatt, the founder and headmaster of Milbourne Lodge School, Esher, and his wife Ethel née Morgan. Born on America's Independence Day, he was named after the American President Woodrow Wilson. Wyatt was educated at Eastbourne College and Worcester College, Oxford, where he read jurisprudence and graduated with a second-class degree in 1939. He volunteered for military service ten days before the outbreak of the Second World War with the Suffolk Regiment and rose to the rank of major. Wyatt was posted to Normandy on D-Day plus one and was mentioned in despatches.
He was nearly court-martialled after an acrimonious exchange with one of his senior officers. Wyatt was afterwards posted to India.
Wyatt edited ten volumes of English Story (1940–50).
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Wyatt, Woodrow Lyle, Baron Wyatt of Weeford (1918–1997), politician and journalist, was born on 4 July 1918 at Milbourne Lodge, Esher, Surrey, the second son and last child of Robert Harvey Lyle Wyatt, preparatory school headmaster, and his wife, Ethel, née Morgan.
Wyatt was married four times, to:
m1.First (div): Susan Cox, no issue. She was a fellow student at Oxford.
m2.Second (div): Nora Robbins, no issue. She was his secretary.
m3. Third (1957, dissolved 1966): Lady Moorea Hastings (1928–2011) daughter of the 16th Earl of Huntingdon and a granddaughter of Luisa Casati; one son: Hon. Pericles Plantagenet Wyatt.
m4.Fourth (1966): Veronica (Verushka) Banszky von Ambroz, née Racz, a Hungarian and widow of a surgeon; one daughter: journalist Petronella Wyatt (b. 1968).
died in Camden, north London, aged 79. Buried in St Mary's churchyard in Weeford, just south of Lichfield, Staffordshire, where the Wyatt family originated.
Woodrow Lyle Wyatt b.4 July 1918
Milbourne Lodge, Surrey, England
d. 7 December 1997 (aged 79) London
Born in Kingston upon Thames, southwest London, Wyatt was the second son of Robert Harvey Lyle Wyatt, the founder and headmaster of Milbourne Lodge School, Esher, and his wife Ethel née Morgan. Born on America's Independence Day, he was named after the American President Woodrow Wilson. Wyatt was educated at Eastbourne College and Worcester College, Oxford, where he read jurisprudence and graduated with a second-class degree in 1939. He volunteered for military service ten days before the outbreak of the Second World War with the Suffolk Regiment and rose to the rank of major. Wyatt was posted to Normandy on D-Day plus one and was mentioned in despatches.
He was nearly court-martialled after an acrimonious exchange with one of his senior officers. Wyatt was afterwards posted to India.
Wyatt edited ten volumes of English Story (1940–50).
Extract
Wyatt, Woodrow Lyle, Baron Wyatt of Weeford (1918–1997), politician and journalist, was born on 4 July 1918 at Milbourne Lodge, Esher, Surrey, the second son and last child of Robert Harvey Lyle Wyatt, preparatory school headmaster, and his wife, Ethel, née Morgan.
Woodrow Lyle Wyatt, Baron Wyatt of Weeford (4 July 1918 – 7 December 1997) was a British politician, author, journalist and broadcaster, close to the Queen Mother #6300546 {fake #197771315}, Margaret Thatcher #108023705 & Rupert Murdoch b.1931. For the last twenty years of his life, he was chairman of the state betting organisation The Tote.
Wyatt was married four times, to:
m1.First (div): Susan Cox, no issue. She was a fellow student at Oxford.
m2.Second (div): Nora Robbins, no issue. She was his secretary.
m3. Third (1957, dissolved 1966): Lady Moorea Hastings (1928–2011) daughter of the 16th Earl of Huntingdon and a granddaughter of Luisa Casati; one son: Hon. Pericles Plantagenet Wyatt.
m4.Fourth (1966): Veronica (Verushka) Banszky von Ambroz, née Racz, a Hungarian and widow of a surgeon; one daughter: journalist Petronella Wyatt (b. 1968).
died in Camden, north London, aged 79. Buried in St Mary's churchyard in Weeford, just south of Lichfield, Staffordshire, where the Wyatt family originated.
Woodrow Lyle Wyatt b.4 July 1918
Milbourne Lodge, Surrey, England
d. 7 December 1997 (aged 79) London
Born in Kingston upon Thames, southwest London, Wyatt was the second son of Robert Harvey Lyle Wyatt, the founder and headmaster of Milbourne Lodge School, Esher, and his wife Ethel née Morgan. Born on America's Independence Day, he was named after the American President Woodrow Wilson. Wyatt was educated at Eastbourne College and Worcester College, Oxford, where he read jurisprudence and graduated with a second-class degree in 1939. He volunteered for military service ten days before the outbreak of the Second World War with the Suffolk Regiment and rose to the rank of major. Wyatt was posted to Normandy on D-Day plus one and was mentioned in despatches.
He was nearly court-martialled after an acrimonious exchange with one of his senior officers. Wyatt was afterwards posted to India.
Wyatt edited ten volumes of English Story (1940–50).
Extract
Wyatt, Woodrow Lyle, Baron Wyatt of Weeford (1918–1997), politician and journalist, was born on 4 July 1918 at Milbourne Lodge, Esher, Surrey, the second son and last child of Robert Harvey Lyle Wyatt, preparatory school headmaster, and his wife, Ethel, née Morgan.
Wyatt was married four times, to:
m1.First (div): Susan Cox, no issue. She was a fellow student at Oxford.
m2.Second (div): Nora Robbins, no issue. She was his secretary.
m3. Third (1957, dissolved 1966): Lady Moorea Hastings (1928–2011) daughter of the 16th Earl of Huntingdon and a granddaughter of Luisa Casati; one son: Hon. Pericles Plantagenet Wyatt.
m4.Fourth (1966): Veronica (Verushka) Banszky von Ambroz, née Racz, a Hungarian and widow of a surgeon; one daughter: journalist Petronella Wyatt (b. 1968).
died in Camden, north London, aged 79. Buried in St Mary's churchyard in Weeford, just south of Lichfield, Staffordshire, where the Wyatt family originated.
Woodrow Lyle Wyatt b.4 July 1918
Milbourne Lodge, Surrey, England
d. 7 December 1997 (aged 79) London
Born in Kingston upon Thames, southwest London, Wyatt was the second son of Robert Harvey Lyle Wyatt, the founder and headmaster of Milbourne Lodge School, Esher, and his wife Ethel née Morgan. Born on America's Independence Day, he was named after the American President Woodrow Wilson. Wyatt was educated at Eastbourne College and Worcester College, Oxford, where he read jurisprudence and graduated with a second-class degree in 1939. He volunteered for military service ten days before the outbreak of the Second World War with the Suffolk Regiment and rose to the rank of major. Wyatt was posted to Normandy on D-Day plus one and was mentioned in despatches.
He was nearly court-martialled after an acrimonious exchange with one of his senior officers. Wyatt was afterwards posted to India.
Wyatt edited ten volumes of English Story (1940–50).
Extract
Wyatt, Woodrow Lyle, Baron Wyatt of Weeford (1918–1997), politician and journalist, was born on 4 July 1918 at Milbourne Lodge, Esher, Surrey, the second son and last child of Robert Harvey Lyle Wyatt, preparatory school headmaster, and his wife, Ethel, née Morgan.
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