The 6th Earl of Malmesbury TD

The 6th Earl of Malmesbury TD
Title:The 6th Earl of
Surname:Malmesbury
Post-nominals:TD
Year elected:1937
Last year on list:2000
Elected as:The Viscount FitzHarris
MembershipMember
Vice Commodore1971-1977
Yachting Committee1968-1971
William James Harris, 6th Earl of Malmesbury TD (18 November 1907 – 11 November 2000), styled Viscount FitzHarris until 1950, was a British peer.

The son of James Harris, 5th Earl of Malmesbury, Harris was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge and, as a surveyor, joined and served in the Royal Hampshire Regiment. After leaving the army, he served in a variety of positions, all of which involved forestry, agriculture, or surveying work. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1950. In 1973 he became Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, a position he held until 1982. From 1966 to 1974 he was Official Verderer of the New Forest.

The family seat was Greywell Hill House, near Farnham in Hampshire.

He was on the Yachting Committee twice - from 1956 to 1959 and then again from 1968 to 1971.

Yachts Owned

NameRig ClassfromtoMMSI
Mother Goose Bermudan Sloop 1948 1950-51  
Chloe Auxiliary Sloop 1951-52 1958  
Summer Lightning Auxiliary Sloop 1965 1965  
White Hurn Auxiliary Sloop 1967 1971  
Barbary Heron Auxiliary Ketch 1972 1974  
Hampshire Lass Auxiliary Ketch 1975 1980  

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