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Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale (
29 October 1854–
21 October 1925), was a
British Liberal politician.
Ribblesdale was the eldest son of Thomas Lister, 3rd Baron Ribblesdale, and his wife Adelaide (née Lister), and succeeded his father in the barony in
1876. He sat on the Liberal benches in the
House of Lords and served as a
Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) under
William Gladstone from 1880 to 1885 and in 1886 and as
Master of the Buckhounds under Gladstone and later
Lord Rosebery from 1892 to 1895. Apart from his political career he was also a Captain in the
Rifle Brigade and a Trustee of the
National Gallery from 1909 to 1925. His portrait was painted by
John Singer Sargent and is said to epitomise the British aristocrat.
Lord Ribblesdale married Charlotte, daughter of
Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet, and half-sister of
Margot Tennant, in 1877. His eldest son, Captain the Hon. Thomas Lister, was killed in action during the Somaliland campaign of 1903 to 1904 while his youngest son the Hon. Charles Alfred Lister died from wounds received at the
Battle of Gallipoli during the
First World War. His daughter the Hon. Laura married
Simon Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat, and was the mother of
Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, and
Sir Hugh Fraser. Lady Ribblesdale died in 1911. Lord Ribbesdale married secondly
Ava, daughter of Edward Shippen Willing and former wife of
John Jacob Astor IV, in 1919. He died in October 1925, aged 70, when the barony became extinct. Lady Ribbesdale died in 1958.
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