John Walgrave Halford Fremantle, 4th Baron Cottesloe, 5th Baron Fremantle GCB (2 March 1900 - 1994) was Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain and the South Bank Theatre Board.
Fremantle was the son of Colonel Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe and his wife Frances Tapling. He was educated at Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] He rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race in 1921 and 1922, both of which were won by Cambridge, and graduated from Cambridge in 1925 with a Master of Arts (M.A.).
Fremantle was Lieutenant-Colonel of the 21st LAA Regiment, Royal Artillery from 1939 to 1965 and served in World War II, being awarded the T.D..
He succeeded to the title Baron Fremantle and Baron Cottesloe on the death of his father on 19 July 1956. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of London from 1951 to 1976 and was invested as a Knight Grand Cross, Order of the British Empire (G.B.E.) in 1960. He was Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1960 to 1965. The Cottesloe, one of the three theatres at the National Theatre complex in London, was named in his honour.
Lord Cottesloe died in 1994.
Lord Cottesloe married, firstly, Lady Elizabeth Harris, daughter of James Edward Harris, 5th Earl of Malmesbury and Dorothy Gough-Calthorpe, on 16 February 1926. They were divorced in 1944, and he married, secondly, Gloria Jean Irene Dunn, daughter of W. E. Hill, on 26 March 1959.
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