Constituency : Plymouth 1900-04 ( Conservative ), 1904-06 , Cardiff 1906-10
Ivor also followed in Churchill's footsteps.
Ivor was the son and heir of Baron Wimborne and Churchill's first cousin. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He volunteered to serve in the Boer War and became a lieutenant in the Imperial Yeomanry. He was promoted to captain in 1902. He contested two by-elections at Plymouth as a Conservative . He was unsuccessful in 1898 but won in 1900.
Ivor's first speech as a Liberal was against some of the compensation proposals in the 1904 Licensing Bill.
Ivor switched to Cardiff in 1906.
Ivor was very concerned about the land taxes in the People's Budget as his father had transferred considerable property to him two years earlier and the Budget was extending the qualifying period to five years. Ivor doubted his father would last that long and was part of a deputation of around 30 rich Liberals to Asquith on the matter. He threatened to resign his seat.
Ivor stood down in 1910 and was elevated to the Lords as a working peer Baron Ashby St Leger. He was immediately appointed as Paymaster-General serving until 1912. He became a lord-in-waiting in 1913. In 1914 he suceeded his father as Baron Wimborne.
At the start of the First World War, Ivor joined the staff of the 10th ( Irish ) Division at Curragh. In 1915 he became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and also head of recruiting there. He proclaimed martial law in Dublin when the Easter Rising started. He ceremonially resigned under pressure and was then re-appointed. The Royal Commission on the Rebellion exonerated him of any blame. He retired in 1918 and was upgraded to Viscount Wimborne.
Ivor welcomed the formation of the National Government but opposed the idea of an early election.
He died in 1939 aged 66.
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