| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Viscount Ashbrook | |
| Birth Name: | Desmond Llowarch Edward Flower |
| Birth Date: | 9 July 1905 |
| Nationality: | Anglo-Irish |
| Occupation: | Chartered accountant, soldier |
| 10th Viscount Ashbrook | |
| Predecessor: | Llowarch Flower, 9th Viscount Ashbrook |
| Successor: | Michael Flower, 11th Viscount Ashbrook |
| Parents: | Llowarch Flower, 9th Viscount Ashbrook Gladys Lucille Beatrice Higginson |
Desmond Llowarch Edward Flower, 10th Viscount Ashbrook (9 July 1905 - 5 December 1995)[1] was an Anglo-Irish peer and soldier.
Flower was the only son of Llowarch Flower, 9th Viscount Ashbrook and his wife Gladys Lucille Beatrice, daughter of George Higginson.[2] He was educated at Eton College and went then to Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1927. Ashbrook worked as a chartered accountant, succeeding to his father's titles on 30 August 1936. Before the Second World War, he joined 79th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, of the Territorial Army, ending the war as a major.[3] [4] After the end of the war in 1945, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
In 1949 Flower was nominated a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Cheshire and in 1961 vice lord-lieutenant. From 1946, he represented the county also as a Justice of the Peace, retiring from these posts in 1968. Flower joined the council of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1957.[5] He was invested as a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1977 on his retirement from the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster and was director of the Country's Gentlemen Association.[5]
On 8 November 1934, he married Elizabeth (1911–2002), daughter of Captain John Egerton-Warburton; they had three children, two sons and a daughter. Flower died in 1995 and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his older son Michael.
In 2022, a new rose variety, the 'Elizabeth Ashbrook', was named in the late Lady Ashbrook's honour.[6]