Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy, 9th Baron Langford

Who is Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy, 9th Baron Langford?

Colonel Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy, 9th Baron Langford OBE DL is a British peer.

The only son of two children born to Major Geoffrey Seymour Rowley-Conwy and Bertha Gabrielle Cochran, JP, Langford was educated at Marlborough College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

He married on 24 January 1939 Ruth St John Murphy, daughter of Albert St John Murphy and Rose Davis, of The Island House, Little Island, County Cork, Ireland.

He married on 7 February 1957 Grete von Freiesleben, daughter of Colonel Erik Theodor Christian von Freiesleben, of Hjortekaer, Kongens Lyngby, Copenhagen, Ch Kings's Adj's Staff to His Majesty The King of Denmark.

He married on 3 February 1975 Susan Winifred Denham, daughter of Cyril Henry Charles Denham, of Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales. Lady Langford is a patron of St Kentigern Hospice, St Asaph.

Langford has three sons by his second marriage and a son and a daughter by his third. His heir is his third son from his second marriage, Hon Owain Grenville Rowley-Conwy.

He inherited the Bodrhyddan estate in Rhuddlan, on the death of his unmarried and childless paternal uncle Captain Rafe Grenville Rowley-Conwy RN CMG in April 1951 and succeeded to the Barony as the ninth holder of the title on the death of his childless second cousin once removed Arthur Sholto Langford Rowley, 8th Baron Langford CMG in August 1953. He is Constable of Rhuddlan Castle and Lord of the Manor of Rhuddlan. He turned 100 in March 2012. He is the patron of the North Wales Wildlife Trust.