| 词条 | Elizabeth, Lady Gass |
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Early lifeThe eldest daughter and co-heiress of the Hon. John Acland-Hood, a barrister and his wife, Phyllis (née Hallett), Elizabeth Acland-Hood was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and Girton College, Cambridge. Her father was himself a younger son of Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, 1st Baron St Audries.[3] CareerHaving graduated from the University of Cambridge, Acland-Hood worked as a schoolteacher, teaching mathematics. In 1967 she inherited from an uncle her family's ancestral seat, Fairfield House, near Stogursey, Somerset, and gave up her teaching career to concentrate on managing the estate which came with it.[4] In 1975, she married Sir Michael Gass KCMG, who died in 1983.[5] He was a former High Commissioner for the Western Pacific (1969–71) and Governor of the Solomon Islands (1969–73), and they had no children.[4] In 1985, two years after being widowed, Gass was elected to Somerset County Council, as a Conservative Party Councillor for the Quantock district, and remained a member until 1997.[6] From 1989 to 1993 she was Chairman of the Exmoor National Park Committee and at the same time was Vice-Chairman of the county council's Social Services Committee. In 1994 she was High Sheriff of Somerset, the next year was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Somerset, and in 1996 was promoted to Vice Lord-Lieutenant and appointed as a Justice of the Peace for the county. In 1998, she became Lord Lieutenant of Somerset,[7] a position she still held in 2013. In 2011, she attracted considerable negative attention after selling some 230 acres of land on the coast beneath the Quantock Hills for about £50 million. The land was the part of her Fairfield estate lying immediately to the west of the Hinkley Point power station and was wanted for the construction of two new nuclear reactors.[4] Other appointments
Private lifeLady Gass is a Dame of the Order of St John and was appointed Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO) in the 2014 New Year Honours List.[9] Notes1. ^{{cite web|title=The Lord-Lieutenant of Somerset|url=http://www.somerset.gov.uk/irj/public/council/civicdignitaries/civicdignitarie?rid=/guid/e0f1f183-f2bb-2c10-018c-88c1b57f3a3b|publisher=Somerset County Council}} 2. ^{{cite news|title=Anne Maw appointed as Lord-Lieutenant for Somerset|url=http://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/11821651.Anne_Maw_appointed_as_Lord_Lieutenant_for_Somerset|accessdate=2015-03-04|work=Somerset County Gazette|date=26 February 2015}} 3. ^Profile, debretts.com; accessed '5 June 2014. 4. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Nuclear land deal leaves Lady Gass '£50m richer'", Bridgwater Times, 17 November 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2012. 5. ^Profile, thepeerage.com. Retrieved 15 June 2014. 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.somerset.gov.uk/irj/go/km/docs/CouncilDocuments/SCC/Documents/Resources/Elections/election%20results/Election%20Results%201989.pdf|title=Election of Councillors for Count of Somerset|publisher=Somerset County Council|date=4 May 1989|accessdate=2013-10-18}} 7. ^London Gazette, issue no. 55408 dated 19 February 1999. 8. ^{{cite news|title=Lady Gass appointed as new Somerset patron of British Red Cross|url=http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Lady-Gass-appointed-new-Somerset-patron-British/story-17739801-detail/story.html|newspaper=This is Somerset|accessdate=2014-06-15}} 9. ^{{London Gazette|issue=60728|supp=y|page=4|date=31 December 2013}} External links
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