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Victoria Cross. William Philip Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle, VC, KG, GCMG, GCVO, KStJ, PC (23 May 1909 – 5 April 1991), known as Lord De L'Isle and Dudley between 1945 and 1956, was a British Army officer, politician and Victoria Cross recipient who served as the 15th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1961 to 1965.
The 2nd Viscount De L'Isle, as Lord-Lieutenant of Kent, with the Queen in 2011. Viscount De L'Isle, of Penshurst in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1956 for William Sidney, 6th Baron de L'Isle and Dudley, VC, KG, GCMG, GCVO (1909–1991).
William Philip Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle. Soldier, politician and businessman. Lord de L'Isle served with the Grenadier Guards and was awarded the Victoria Cross for an action demonstrating 'superb courage and utter disregard of danger' during the Anzio landings in February 1944. He served as Secretary of State for Air in Churchill's 1951 ...
William Philip Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle,, known as Lord De L'Isle and Dudley between 1945 and 1956, was a British Army officer, politician and Victoria Cross recipient who served as the 15th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1961 to 1965.
National Library of Australia, 44883435. William Philip Sidney, first Viscount De L’Isle, (1909-1991), governor-general, was born on 23 May 1909 at Chelsea, London, only son of William Sidney, barrister, mayor of Chelsea (1906-08), London County councillor (1922-34), and 5th Baron De L’Isle and Dudley, and his wife Winifred Agneta Yorke ...
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11. 16th cent-17th cent: Sidney family papers 16th-17th cent, incl corresp of Henry Sidney (1641-1704), Earl of Romney 1674-91 and misc Leicester House (London) inventories 1644, 1677. British Library, Manuscript Collections. Add MSS 32680-83.
See also C Cunneen, ‘De L’Isle, Viscount William Philip (Bill) (1909–1991)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 2021, accessed 30 August 2021; PG Masefield, ‘Sidney, William Philip, first Viscount de L’Isle (1909–1991), army officer and politician’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
