Henry Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough

Major Henry Astell Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough, MC, JP, DL (11 July 1889 – 19 May 1945), was a member of the House of Lords.

Major The Right Honourable The Lord Ellenborough MC JP DL
Henry Astell Law
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer 1931 – 19 May 1945
Preceded by	The 6th Baron Ellenborough
Succeeded by	The 8th Baron Ellenborough
Personal details
Born	11 July 1889
Died	19 May 1945(1945-05-19) (aged 55)
Spouse	Helen Dorothy Lovatt
Children	Richard Law, 8th Baron Ellenborough Hon. Cecil Law
Parents	Cecil Law, 6th Baron Ellenborough Alice Caroline Astell
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	RMC Sandhurst
Profession	Military officer, peer and politician
Military service
Rank	Major

Law was educated at Eton College where he was in the Eton Shooting VIII and at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[1] On the death of his father, Cecil Law, 6th Baron Ellenborough, in 1931, he succeeded to the peerage.

He was commissioned as an officer into the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and served in World War I. Law was awarded the Military Cross[2] and mentioned in despatches twice for gallantry.[3] He was promoted to the rank of Major. He was appointed one of His Majesty's Bodyguard of Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms in 1934 and a Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset.[4] Lord Ellenborough took a prominent part in the local affairs of Dorset and he did good work as Chairman to the Council for the Preservation of Rural England for the county.

Henry Astell Law married Helen Dorothy Lovatt in 1923, the only daughter of H. W. Lovatt. They had two sons: Richard Edward Cecil Law, 8th Baron Ellenborough (1926–2013), and the Hon. Cecil Towry Henry Law (1931–2005). He died in 1945.