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{{other people|William Jolliffe}}
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|honorific-prefix  = [[The Right Honourable]]
|honorific-suffix =
|name        = The Lord Hylton
|office4 = [[Member of the House of Lords]]<br/>[[Lords Temporal|Lord Temporal]]
|term_start4 = 26 May 1945
|term_end4 = 14 November 1967 <br/>[[Hereditary peer|Hereditary Peerage]]
|predecessor4 = [[Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton|The 3rd Lord Hylton]]
|successor4 = [[Raymond Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton|The 5th Lord Hylton]]
|birth_name  =
|birth_date  = 2 December 1898
|death_date  = 14 November 1967 (aged 68)
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|alma_mater  =
|nationality      = [[British nationality|British]]
}}
'''William George Hervey Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton''' (2 December 1898&nbsp;– 14 November 1967), was a British peer and soldier.
Hylton was the son of [[Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton]], and Lady Alice Adeliza Hervey. He achieved the rank of [[Lieutenant-Colonel]]<ref>{{cite web|title=William George Hervey Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp61841/william-george-hervey-jolliffe-4th-baron-hylton|publisher=National Portrait Gallery|accessdate=6 October 2012}}</ref> in the [[Coldstream Guards]] and also served as [[Lord Lieutenant of Somerset]] from 1949 to 1964. Lord Hylton married Lady Perdita Rose Mary Asquith, daughter of [[Katharine Asquith|Katharine]] and [[Raymond Asquith]], eldest son of Prime Minister [[H. H. Asquith]], in 1931.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hylton, Baron (UK, 1866)|url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index1007.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100525202049/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index1007.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 May 2010|publisher=Heraldic Media Limited.|accessdate=6 October 2012}}</ref> He died in November 1967, aged 68.
He was succeeded in his titles by his elder son [[Raymond Hervey Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton|Raymond]]. John Hedworth Jolliffe, a writer (of e.g. ''Raymond Asquith: Life and Letters'')<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.librarything.com/author/jolliffejohn-1 |title=John Jolliffe |publisher=Library Thing |access-date=11 December 2022}}</ref> is his younger son; his daughter Mary is the wife of John Paget Chancellor, son of [[Christopher Chancellor]] of [[Reuters]]. Mary and John Chancellor are the parents of the actress [[Anna Chancellor]] and the financial historian [[Edward Chancellor]].<ref>{{cite web|title=spotlight on... Anna Chancellor.|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/spotlight+on...+Anna+Chancellor.-a0298525657|publisher=Free Library|accessdate=6 October 2012}}</ref>
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