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{{short description|British politician (1867–1939)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[Colonel (British Army)|Colonel]] [[The Right Honourable]]
| name                = The Lord Mount Temple
| honorific-suffix    = [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]] [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]]
| image               = Wilfrid Ashley - Bain Collection.jpg
| imagesize           =
| caption             =
| order1              = [[Secretary of State for Transport|Minister for Transport]]
| term_start1         = 11 November 1924
| term_end1           = 4 June 1929
| monarch1            = [[George V of the United Kingdom|George V]]
| primeminister1      = [[Stanley Baldwin]]
| predecessor1        = [[Harry Gosling]]
| successor1          = [[Herbert Morrison]]
| birth_name          = Wilfrid William Ashley
| birth_date          = {{birth date text|13 September 1867}}
| birth_place         =
| death_date          = {{death-date and age|3 July 1939|13 September 1867}}
| death_place         = [[Romsey]], Hampshire
| nationality         = British
| party               = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| alma_mater          = [[Magdalen College, Oxford]]
| spouse              = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Amalia Mary Maud Cassel<br />|1901|1911|end=d}}
* {{marriage|[[Muriel Ashley, Lady Mount Temple|Muriel Emily Spencer]]<br />|1914}}
}}
| children            = [[Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma]]<br>[[Mary Cholmondeley, Lady Delamere]]
| parents             = [[Evelyn Ashley]]<br>Sybella Charlotte Farquhar
}}
[[Colonel]] '''Wilfrid William Ashley, 1st Baron Mount Temple''', [[His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council|PC]] [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]] (13 September 1867 – 3 July 1939) was a British soldier and [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician. He was [[Secretary of State for Transport|Minister of Transport]] between 1924 and 1929 under [[Stanley Baldwin]].
==Background and education==
Ashley was the son of [[Evelyn Ashley|Hon. Evelyn Ashley]], second surviving son of the social reformer [[Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury]]. His mother was Sybella Charlotte Farquhar, daughter of [[Sir Walter Farquhar, 3rd Baronet]]. [[William Cowper-Temple, 1st Baron Mount Temple]], was his great-uncle. He was educated at [[Harrow School|Harrow]] and [[Magdalen College, Oxford]].<ref name="thepeerage.com">[http://thepeerage.com/p10281.htm#i102802 "Lt.-Col. Wilfred William Ashley, 1st and last Baron Mount Temple"], ''The Peerage'', 18 August 2011</ref> He left Oxford without taking a degree, and then travelled widely, including in Africa and the Americas.
==Military career==
Ashley served in the Ayrshire militia (1886–9), then held an active commission in the regular army with the [[Grenadier Guards]] (1889–98), before returning to the militia when he was commissioned with the 3rd battalion of the [[Royal Hampshire Regiment|Hampshire Regiment]] (1899–1902).<ref name=":0">Feuchtwanger, E.  (3 January 2008). Ashley, Wilfrid William, Baron Mount Temple (1867–1939), politician. ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.'' Retrieved 15 Nov. 2020, from https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-30471 .</ref> Though in the militia, he volunteered for active service in South Africa during the [[Second Boer War]] (1899–1902), but was invalided home. He resigned from the militia with the honorary rank of [[Major (British Army and Royal Marines)|major]] in December 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27501 |page=8443 |date=5 December 1902 }}</ref>
==Political career==
Ashley's father was a Liberal Unionist and Ashley initially acted as private secretary to [[Henry Campbell-Bannerman|Sir Henry Campbell-Bannermann]], beginning in 1899, when he was the leader of the opposition. After being invalided home from the South Africa in 1901, he congratulated Campbell-Bannermann on his "methods of barbarism" speech in June 1901.<ref name=":0" />
Ashley, who held the rank of [[Colonel (British Army)|colonel]] in the [[British Army]],<ref>Christof Mauch, Thomas Zeller, ''The world beyond the windshield: roads and landscapes in the United States and Europe'', Ohio University Press, 2008, p. 169</ref> was well known as an activist in various [[pressure group]]s before commencing his party political career. He was a leading figure in the [[Marine Society & Sea Cadets|Navy League]] and also set up the anti-state intervention No More Waste Committee during the [[First World War]].<ref>Frank McDonough, ''Neville Chamberlain, appeasement, and the British road to war'', Manchester University Press, 1998, p. 96</ref> He was subsequently involved in the foundation of the [[Comrades of the Great War]] in 1917 and as President of the group helped to ensure that the ex-serviceman's movement was closely linked to the Conservative Party at its foundation.<ref>Niall Barr, ''The lion and the poppy: British veterans, politics, and society, 1921-1939'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005, pp. 12-13</ref>
Ashley was elected to [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] in 1906 to represent [[Blackpool (UK Parliament constituency)|Blackpool]], holding the seat until 1918 before subsequently sitting as a member for [[Fylde (UK Parliament constituency)|Fylde]] until 1922 and [[New Forest (UK Parliament constituency)|New Forest]] from 1922 to 1932.<ref name="Papers">Cameron Hazlehurst, Sally Whitehead, Christine Woodland, ''A guide to the papers of British cabinet ministers, 1900-1964'', Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 30</ref> Ashley commanded the 20th battalion of the [[King's Liverpool Regiment|King's Regiment (Liverpool)]] in 1914 in the rank of lieutenant-colonel before returning to England in 1915 to become parliamentary private secretary to the financial secretary to the War Office.<ref name=":0" /> Ashley, who owned [[Classiebawn Castle]] in southern Ireland, was a fierce opponent of [[Irish republicanism]] and wrote to [[David Lloyd George]], then Prime Minister, in 1921 to ask for the protection of his Irish estates.<ref name=":0" />
He served under [[Bonar Law]] and [[Stanley Baldwin]] as [[Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport]] and [[Parliamentary Secretary to the Office of Works]] from October 1922 until October 1923, when he was appointed [[Under-Secretary of State for War]], which he remained until January 1924.<ref name="Papers" /> Ashley was sworn of the [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Council]] in February 1924<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32910 |date=22 February 1924 |page=1549 }}</ref> and when the Conservatives returned to power under Baldwin in November of that year he was made [[Secretary of State for Transport|Minister for Transport]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32992 |date=14 November 1924 |page=8241 }}</ref> an office he retained until the fall of the Baldwin administration in 1929. He left the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] in 1932 and was raised to the peerage as '''Baron Mount Temple''', of Lee in the County of Southampton,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33790 |date=15 January 1932 |page=346 }}</ref> a revival of the title held by his great-uncle.
==The Anglo-German Fellowship==
Lord Mount Temple remained active within the [[House of Lords]] and was a vocal supporter of the policy of [[appeasement]] towards [[Nazi Germany]]. He admired [[Adolf Hitler]] for his [[anti-communism]], although much of his conviction rested on the belief that the [[Treaty of Versailles]] had been unjust to begin with and that it should be revised regardless of who was in government in Germany.<ref>McDonough, ''Neville Chamberlain'', pp. 96-97</ref> In 1935, in order to underline his support for the Germans, Lord Mount Temple was instrumental in establishing the [[Anglo-German Fellowship]].<ref>McDonough, ''Neville Chamberlain'', p. 97</ref> He served as chairman of both this group and [[Anti-Socialist Union]] simultaneously in the later 1930s.<ref>Thomas P. Linehan, ''British Fascism, 1918-39: Parties, Ideology and Culture'', Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 46</ref> The British historian Brian Connell wrote that Mount Temple was "an officer and a gentleman of the old school who regarded socialism as a subversion".{{sfn|Griffiths|1980|p=185}}
The Anglo-German Fellowship was an elitist group intended to bring together the elites of Germany and Britain by promoting cultural exchanges and economic agreements. {{sfn|McDonough|2011|p=190}} The Fellowship had about 250 members at the beginning of 1936, and besides for Mount Temple other aristocrats sitting on the executive board included [[Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry|Lord Londonderry]]; [[Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian|Lord Lothian]], the [[Patrick Boyle, 8th Earl of Glasgow|Earl of Glasgow]]; the [[Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington|Duke of Wellington]]; [[Harry McGowan, 1st Baron McGowan|Lord McGowan]], [[J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone|Lord Mottistone]]; [[David Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale|Lord Redesdale]], and [[Ronald Nall-Cain, 2nd Baron Brocket|Lord Brocket]].{{sfn|Kershaw|2004|p=144}} Mount Temple argued that his group was eminently respectable with some of the illustrious and richest British aristocrats serving in its ranks.{{sfn|Kershaw|2004|p=144}}  Mount Temple was the chairman of the Fellowship, but the group's two most important members were the merchant banker Sir [[Ernest Tennant]] and the historian Philip Conwell-Evans with the latter serving as the British agent for [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]].{{sfn|Griffiths|1980|p=185}} On 5 December 1935, Mount Temple made a speech at a Fellowship meeting in London saying he hoped if another world war came that "the sides will be different" with the implication that Britain and Germany should be allies against France.{{sfn|Waddington|1997|p=64}} In the same speech, he praised the "traditional friendship between England and Germany" and added: "we know Germany fought fair and I hope that in the next war – well I mustn't say what I was going to say!"{{sfn|Griffiths|1980|p=185}}  Mount Temple's speech caused much discussion at the time with its implicit call for an Anglo-German alliance.{{sfn|Waddington|1997|p=64}} In a speech given in Berlin on 11 January 1936 at an Anglo-German Fellowship meeting, Mount Temple stated: "our public opinion is convinced that a final and clear understanding between our two peoples must be attained so that peace and stability in the world can be established".{{sfn|McDonough|2011|p=190}} In the same speech, he praised the Nazi regime for banning the [[Communist Party of Germany|German Communist Party]] as he stated: "Your strength and determination have liberated Europe from a real danger – a danger which seems at a moment to have vanished, but which can at any moment reappear".{{sfn|Waddington|1997|p=65-66}}
Mount Temple's speech in Berlin was very typical of his viewpoint which held that another war with Germany would be so catastrophic to the world that it must be avoided at almost any cost.{{sfn|McDonough|2011|p=190}} Alongside this belief about the frightful possibility of another world war was the belief that the Treaty of Versailles was deeply unjust to Germany and so the ''Reich'' was morally justified in challenging the Treaty of Versailles.{{sfn|McDonough|2011|p=190}} As such, Mount Temple and the other members of the Anglo-German Fellowship saw France – the power most committed to upholding the Treaty of Versailles – as the main danger to world peace rather than Germany.{{sfn|McDonough|2011|p=190}} Mount Temple often stated that he hoped "in the next war" that Germany and Britain would be fighting on the same side as he argued that Nazi Germany was the most logical ally for Britain to choose.{{sfn|Kershaw|2004|p=144}} In a letter to ''The Times'' on 4 April 1936, he wrote that the most dangerous nation in western Europe was France, which signed a [[Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance|treaty of alliance]] with the Soviet Union the previous year, and he expressed concern that the recent Anglo-French staff talks began in the aftermath of the [[Remilitarisation of the Rhineland]] might lead to Britain fighting on the same side as France and the Soviet Union against Germany.{{sfn|Griffiths|1980|p=205}} In what sounded like a threat to the government, Mount Temple wrote: "To find themselves drawn into a war in defense of Bolshevism would be deeply repugnant to the mass of British people. They would resent seeing the Union Jack flying beside the Red Flag and would rightly refuse to rise in honour of the ''Internationale''".{{sfn|Griffiths|1980|p=205}} Mount Temple wrote the remilitarisaton of the Rhineland was a welcome development that improved the prospects of peace.{{sfn|Griffiths|1980|p=208}} On 14 July 1936 in an anti-French gesture intended to mark [[Bastille Day]], Mount Temple hosted the [[Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick|Duke of Brunswick]] at a Fellowship dinner.{{sfn|Griffiths|1980|p=220}} A number of speeches at the dinner were given over to praising the German military in World War One as an honourable and noble enemy while disparaging the French military in World War One as a dishonourable and ignoble ally. In September 1936, Mount Temple attended the annual [[Nuremberg rallies|Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg]].{{sfn|Griffiths|1980|p=225}} Mount Temple and the other Fellowship members who attended the rally were described as part of "Ribbentrop's kindergarten" as the Fellowship members all expressed much gratitude to Ribbentrop for letting them attend the rally.{{sfn|Griffiths|1980|p=225}} The British historian Richard Griffiths noted that in 1936 the Fellowship members who attended the rally all expressed much admiration for Nazi Germany and Hitler and after the war all claimed to have disgusted by Nazism along with the "mad" Hitler.{{sfn|Griffiths|1980|p=225-226}}
On 14 May 1937, Lord Mount Temple welcomed the German War Minister, Field Marshal [[Werner von Blomberg]] to London.{{sfn|Griffiths|1980|p=186}} At the dinner of the Fellowship held in Blomberg's honor, Mount Temple praised him as "an outstanding figure of the new Germany" who had "helped to build up for Germany the means of self-defense which a vindictive treaty attempted to take away".{{sfn|Griffiths|1980|p=186}} Mount Temple called Blomberg a hero for his role in German rearmament and violating the Treaty of Versailles, saying he had "created what any impartial historian must regard as essential to a Great Nation; Self-Respect and World Equality".{{sfn|Griffiths|1980|p=186}} In July 1937, Mount Temple wrote in ''The Anglo-German Review'' (the journal of the Fellowship) that the British newspapers had made "little or no attempt to describe any of the constructive efforts of the Hitler regime in the social sphere".{{sfn|Griffiths|1980|p=186}}  The elitism of the Fellowship limited its ability to influence British public opinion as the group was expressly not intended to appeal to the masses and the people who did join the Fellowship were overwhelming already convinced of the necessity of an Anglo-German alliance.{{sfn|Waddington|1997|p=66-67}} The British historian Geoffrey Waddington wrote that the Fellowship was "preaching to the converted".{{sfn|Waddington|1997|p=67}}
As AGF chairman, Lord Mount Temple (as he now was) visited Germany in mid-1937 and held a meeting with Hitler.<ref>N. J. Crowson, ''Facing fascism: the Conservative party and the European dictators, 1935-1940'', Routledge, 1997, p. 23</ref> Upon his return from Germany, Lord Mount Temple attempted to see the Prime Minister [[Neville Chamberlain]] to discuss his meeting at the Berghof. Sir [[Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart|Robert Vansittart]], the British Foreign Office's Permanent Undersecretary wrote a memo stating that:<blockquote>"The P.M. [Prime Minister] should certainly not see Lord Mount Temple – nor should the S[ecretary] of S[tate]. We really must put a stop to this eternal butting in of amateurs – and Lord Mount Temple is a particularly silly one. These activities – which are practically confined to Germany – render impossible the task of diplomacy. Lord Londonderry goes to Berlin; Lord Lothian goes to Berlin; Mr. Lansbury goes to Berlin; and now Lord Mount Temple goes. They all want interviews with the S of S, and two at least have had them. This flow is quite unfair to the service and Sir E. Phipps rightly complained of these ambulant amateurs. So did Sir N. Henderson in advance, and rightly, for Lord Lothian's last visit is being mischievously and unintelligently misused, particularly at the Imperial Conference. The proper course for any ambulant amateur is to be seen by someone less important than Ministers. If there is anything worthwhile in their remarks – there never is, for of course, we have much better information than this naïf propaganda stuff – we can report it to the S of S. But a stage has now been reached where the service is entitled to at least this amount of protection. These superficial people are always gulled into the lines of least resistance – vide Lord Lothian – and we then have the ungrateful but necessary task of pointing out the snags and appearing obstructive. It is quite unfair and should cease".{{sfn|Waddington|1997|p=59-60}}</blockquote> In a letter to ''The Times'' that was published on 26 February 1938, Mount Temple called the ''Anschluss'' an expression of the Nazi "dynamic of National Liberation" from the Treaty of Versailles.{{sfn|Griffiths|1980|p=293}} In the same letter, Mount Temple wrote "the integrity of the countries of Eastern Europe is in no danger from such a philosophy".{{sfn|Griffiths|1980|p=293}} In October 1938, after the [[Munich Agreement]], he was among twenty-six signatories of a letter to ''The Times'', calling the agreement "the rectification of one of the most flagrant injustices in the peace treaties".<ref name=":0" /> At a Fellowship dinner on 10 October 1938 in London, Mount Temple praised the Munich Agreement as marking the beginning of a new era of Anglo-German friendship as he declared: "Seventeen out of twenty Englishmen ardently desire an understanding with Germany".{{sfn|Waddington|1997|p=71}}
Unlike some of his contemporaries in the Fellowship, the [[laissez-faire]] [[capitalist]] Mount Temple did not support ideological [[Nazism]] (perhaps due in part to the fact that his first wife was Jewish). In the aftermath of [[Kristallnacht]] he resigned in protest from the chairmanship although his membership of the group continued.<ref>Crowson, ''Facing Fascism'', p. 32</ref> Mount Temple in his resignation letter stated that he had resigned "as a protest against the treatment of the Jews by the German government".{{sfn|Griffiths|1980|p=339}} Of the 900 members of the Fellowship by this point, only 20 resigned in protest of the ''Kristallnacht''.{{sfn|Griffiths|1980|p=340}} During the Danzig crisis, Mount Temple lobbied for a "peace" policy to find a way to avoid having Britain go to war against Germany in defense of Poland.{{sfn|Kershaw|2004|p=301}}
==Personal life==
In 2008, the British historian [[Edgar Feuchtwanger|Edward Feuchtwanger]] described Ashley as "a strikingly good-looking man, of military bearing, courteous and tactful, with strongly held, rather conventional views, sometimes regarded as reactionary".<ref name=":0" />
Lord Mount Temple married Amalia Mary Maud Cassel, daughter and only child of financier [[Ernest Cassel|Sir Ernest Cassel]], in early January, 1901.<ref name="thepeerage.com" /> Amongst the wedding guests was [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|The Prince Albert Edward]], [[Prince of Wales]] (the wedding taking place on 4 January, only eighteen days before Albert Edward became [[King-Emperor]]), who was a friend of Cassel.<ref>Sidney Lee, ''King Edward VII: A Biography, Part 2'', Kessinger Publishing, 2004, p. 62</ref> The couple had two daughters:
*[[Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma|Edwina, Countess Mountbatten of Burma]] (1901–1960), who married [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|The 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma]] (1900–1979)
*[[Mary Cholmondeley, Lady Delamere|Ruth Mary Cholmondeley, Lady Delamere]] (1906–1986), who married [[Alec Cunningham-Reid]] (1895–1977) in 1927. They divorced in 1940. She then married Major Ernest Laurie Gardner. They divorced in 1943. In 1944 she married [[Thomas Cholmondeley, 4th Baron Delamere|the 4th Baron Delamere]] (1900–1979). They divorced in 1955.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE6DD1739F936A3575AC0A961948260&scp=8&sq=delamere&st=cse  "Lady Delamere, Figure in Murder,"] ''New York Times.'' 5 September 1987.</ref>
[[File:László - Mrs Wilfrid Ashley.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Portrait of Mrs Wilfrid Ashley ([[née]] Muriel Emily ["Molly"] Spencer) by [[Philip de László]], 1920]]
Following his first wife's early death in 1911, he married in 1914 [[Muriel Ashley, Lady Mount Temple|Muriel Emily ("Molly") Forbes-Sempill]], the former wife of [[Rear admiral (Royal Navy)|Rear-Admiral]] [[The Honourable|The Hon.]] [[Arthur Forbes-Sempill]], daughter of [[The Reverend|The Rev.]] Walter Spencer of Fownhope Court, [[Herefordshire]], and sister of [[Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood|Margery, Viscountess Greenwood]].
The family also owned Classiebawn Castle on the west coast of Ireland.
Lord Mount Temple collapsed and died following a recent diagnosis of [[Parkinson's disease]] at his home [[Broadlands]] in July 1939, aged 71, at which time the barony became extinct and the Broadlands estate passed to his eldest daughter [[Edwina Ashley]], the wife of [[Lord Louis Mountbatten]].
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==Books and articles==
*{{cite book |last1=Griffiths |first1=Richard G |title=Fellow Travellers of the Right British Enthusiasts for Nazi Germany, 1933-9 |date=1980 |publisher=Constable |location=London |isbn=0571271324}}
*{{cite book |last1=Kershaw |first1=Ian |title=Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to War |date=2004 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=London |isbn=0143036076}}
*{{cite book|last=McDonough|first=Frank|chapter=When Instinct Clouds Judgement: Neville Chamberlain and the Pursuit of Appeasement with Nazi Germany, 1937-1939|pages=186–204|title=The Origins of the Second World War|publisher=Comtinuum|location=London|date=2011}}
*{{cite journal|last=Waddington|first=Geoffrey|title=An Idyllic and Unruffled Atmosphere of Complete Anglo-German Misunderstanding: Aspects of the Operations of the ''Dienststelle Ribbentrop'' in Great Britain, 1934–1938 |pages=44–74|journal=History|volume=82|issue=265|date=January 1997|doi=10.1111/1468-229X.00027 }}
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