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10 Facts About Ronald Armstrong-Jones

1.

Ronald Armstrong-Jones was the father of Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, and father-in-law of Princess Margaret, younger daughter of George VI.

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Ronald Armstrong-Jones had two sisters, Elaine Margaret Wauchope and Gwendolen Jane Buckley, who married Sir Denys Buckley.

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Ronald Armstrong-Jones graduated in 1922, then became a barrister at the Inner Temple.

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Ronald Armstrong-Jones was a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers and from 1955 to 1959 he was a member of the Industrial Disputes Tribunal.

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Ronald Armstrong-Jones served as a Governor of St Bartholomew's Hospital.

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Ronald Armstrong-Jones retired from his post as Legal Visitor in 1963, upon medical advice.

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On 18 June 1936, Ronald Armstrong-Jones married secondly Australian Carol Akhurst, daughter of Sir Thomas Melrose Coombe.

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8.

Ronald Armstrong-Jones married thirdly Jenifer Unite Monro on 11 February 1960.

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Ronald Armstrong-Jones underwent an operation in mid-1965 but never recovered from his illness.

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Ronald Armstrong-Jones returned to the hospital at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington in October 1965, and returned to his home, Plas Dinas, in Caernarfon, before Christmas.