Ralph Sheldon Mansfield, 4th Baron Sandhurst, OBE (19 July 1892 – 1964) was the son of John William Mansfield, 3rd Baron Sandhurst. Mansfield became 4th Baron Sandhurst upon the death of his father, John William Mansfield, the 3rd Baron Sandhurst, in 1933.

Biography

He was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Ralph Mansfield, 4th Baron Sandhurst

Military service

During World War I he served with the Royal Engineers Signal Service, and was made OBE in 1918. In 1939 he was commissioned as a Major in the Royal Corps of Signals in 1939 and worked for MI8.

Ralph Mansfield, 4th Baron Sandhurst

Family

He married Morley Victoria Upcher (died 17 June 1961), daughter of Edward Berners Upcher, on 8 February 1917. They had three children:

Ralph Mansfield, 4th Baron Sandhurst

Valerie Mansfield (25 December 1918 - 3 August 1994), who in 1938 married George Parker, Viscount Parker John Edward Terence Mansfield, 5th Baron Sandhurst (born 4 September 1920) Ralph Geoffrey Knyvet Mansfield (born 8 November 1926)

Arms

References

1892 births

1964 deaths

Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Officers of the Order of the British Empire

British Army personnel of World War I

Royal Engineers soldiers

British Army personnel of World War II

Royal Corps of Signals officers