Lord Kenyon was educated at
Eton and then
Magdalene College, Cambridge. As a peer he was active across many fields of public life including education, museums and health. Lord Kenyon was president of the
University College of North Wales in
Bangor (part of the
University of Wales), from 1947 to 1982. Through the university he was behind the revival of the Gwasg Gregynog Press, which printed traditional hand-bound books from metal type and woodcut illustrations, and he was chairman of the press from 1978 to 1991. He was president of the
National Museum of Wales from 1952 to 1957, trustee of the
National Portrait Gallery from 1953 to 1988 and member of the
Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts from 1966 to 1993. He was credited with growing the NPG from a small specialist museum to "
one of the great national galleries". He was chairman of the Wrexham, Powys and Mawddach Hospital Management Committee from 1960 to 1974, and then chairman of the
Clwyd Area Health Authority, 1974–1978. As
Flintshire county councillor he was appointed to their first records committee and was an active supporter of Flintshire Record Office (later Clwyd Record Office). He was also elected to
the North Wales Police Authority. He was a director of
Lloyds Bank. He was a
Justice of the Peace in 1944. He was made a
Deputy Lieutenant for Flintshire in 1948, an Officer of the
Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, and a Commander of the
Order of the British Empire in 1972. He married Leila Cookson in 1946 and had three children - two sons, one of whom pre-deceased him and one daughter. He died in Gredington, Shropshire, on 16 May 1993, aged 75. == References ==