Jasset Ormsby-Gore, 7th Baron Harlech

Harlech is a great-great-great-grandson of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, who served as British prime minister.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1985/01/27/lord-harlech-british-envoy-to-us-in-60s/ea5c4f69-b084-4ad3-8c2d-126df93fb13f/ |title=Lord Harlech, British Envoy To U.S. in '60s |last=Pearson |first=Richard |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=27 January 1985 |access-date=18 July 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-baron-puts-treasured-family-12177393 |title=Welsh baron puts treasured family heirlooms up for sale to fund restoration of stately family home |last=Walford |first=Jessica |publisher=WalesOnline |date=15 November 2016 |access-date=18 July 2021}} His father was Francis Ormsby-Gore, 6th Baron Harlech, a Conservative peer, and his mother is Amanda Ormsby-Gore (née Grieve), a creative consultant and writer. Due to his father's mental health issues, he describes his mother raising him and his sister "essentially as a single parent".{{cite Hansard |jurisdiction=United Kingdom |title=Land Use Framework |volume=815 |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2021-10-28/debates/23AF7A56-3FAE-46FA-AF3C-A4108C1FBA89/details#contribution-343594A7-CAE7-4A14-9751-1449F7AC70C6 |house=House of Lords |date=28 October 2021 |column_start=928 |column_end=930 |speaker=Lord Harlech }}

Harlech was educated at Eton College. He studied graphic design at Central Saint Martins art school, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 2008.{{cite web |title=Harlech, 7th Baron, (Jasset David Cody Ormsby Gore) (born 1 July 1986) |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U286935 |website=Who's Who 2022 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=2 November 2022 |language=en |date=1 December 2021}}

Harlech married Canadian Ida Lai in August 2024 at Islington Town Hall.{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/births-marriages-and-deaths-august-31-2024-t7cwk7t6h |title=Births, marriages and deaths: August 31, 2024 | newspaper=The Times |date=31 August 2024 |access-date=12 February 2025}}

Harlech sought election as a Liberal Democrat peer in 2017 "in order to stand for equality and progress".{{cite web |url=https://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-information-office/2017/Arrangements-by-election-01-03-17.pdf?shiftFileName=Arrangements-by-election-01-03-17.pdf&shiftSavePath=/documents/lords-information-office/2017 |website=parliament.uk |title=Heredity peers' by-election |date=1 March 2017}}

Harlech became a member of the House in July 2021, being elected in a hereditary peers' by-election by the whole House.{{cite web |url=https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/lords-communications/by-elections/hereditary-peers-by-election-result-elton.pdf |title=Conservative hereditary peers' by-election, July 2021: result |date=15 July 2021 |access-date=15 July 2021}} He took the oath on 22 July 2021.{{cite web |url=https://lordsbusiness.parliament.uk/ItemOfBusiness?itemOfBusinessId=101104§ionId=40&businessPaperDate=2021-07-22 |title=House of Lords Business: Oath |publisher=UK Parliament |date=22 July 2021 |access-date=24 July 2021}} He made his maiden speech on 28 October 2021 during a debate on the Land Use Framework; talking about his father, being an army reservist, his life before joining the Lords and his love of the countryside.

He was the youngest member of the House of Lords from July 2021 to July 2023.{{cite web |url=https://www.parliament.uk/about/faqs/house-of-lords-faqs/lords-members/ |title=House of Lords: Membership and principal office holders |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=23 July 2021}}

• 1 July 1986 – 1 February 2016: The Honourable Jasset David Cody Ormsby-Gore
• 1 February 2016 – present: The Right Honourable The Lord Harlech

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