John Wodehouse, 4th Earl of Kimberley (12 May 1924 – 26 May 2002), styled Lord Wodehouse between 1932 and 1941, was an active British peer, and also a bobsled racer and Cresta member. Background and education Wodehouse was the son of John Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of Kimberley and Frances Margaret Irby, and succeeded to the earldom in 1941 when his father was killed in an air raid. He was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge, and served with the Grenadier Guards in the Guards Armoured Division in 1943–45. Wodehouse was the godson of the writer P. G. Wodehouse, a distant cousin (third cousins thrice removed), both being descended from Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet. Personal life Lord Kimberley had the reputation of being Britain's most married peer, having married six times. His first marriage was on 27 October 1945 to Diana Evelyn Legh, daughter of Sir Piers Legh; they divorced in 1949. His next marriage was to Australian Carmel June Dunnett (née Maguire) on 9 February 1949. They had a son before divorcing in 1952: John Wodehouse, 5th Earl of Kimberley Lord Kimberley's marriage was to Cynthia Westendarp (née Abdy Collins) on 15 September 1953, but they were divorced in 1961. Together they had two sons: Hon. Edward Abdy Wodehouse (born 29 May 1954) Hon. Henry Wyndham Wodehouse (born 26 April 1956); served in the Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police His next marriage was to model Margaret Simons on 7 July 1961, but they were also divorced, in 1965. Wodehouse then wed Gillian Ireland-Smith on 8 August 1970. They divorced in 1982, so that he could marry Sarah Jane Hope Consett, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel A. P. Consett, DSO, MC, Grenadier Guards, on 20 August 1982. This marriage lasted for the remainder of his life and gave him much happiness. Politics Lord Kimberley was the Vice-President of the World Council on Alcoholism, an Associate of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and sometime Liberal Spokesman on Aerospace, Defence and Voluntary Community Services in the House of Lords. However, in 1979 he joined the Conservative Party. He was a long-standing member of the House of Lords All-Party Defence Group (Hon.Secretary from 1978) and became U.K. delegate to the North Atlantic Assembly from 1981. From that year he was a member of the Air League Council. He was a member of the Association of Conservative Peers, of the British Maritime League Council, the