Gerard Vernon Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth (16 May 1898 – 28 September 1984), styled Viscount Lymington from 1925 until 1943, was a British landowner, writer on agricultural topics, and pro-Axis fascist politician.

After the deaths of his two older brothers without sons, Oliver succeeded as 8th Earl of Portsmouth, and renounced his American citizenship to serve in the House of Lords.

[10] Like much of the British aristocracy at the time, Lymington wanted to recreate a version of the feudal system, which led him to own a lavish estate in the "White Highlands" of Kenya.

[11] The policy of free trade which kept food prices low was opposed by the land-owning aristocracy who had trouble competing with foreign farmers, and much of the nobility wanted a return to high agricultural tariffs.

[11] However, the policy of cheap food via free trade was popular with urban voters who had made up 90% of the electorate by the 1920s, and successive governments were not prepared to risk defeat in the next general election solely for the sake of keeping the landed estates of the aristocracy profitable.

[11] The British historian Martin Pugh noted it was no accident that every single aristocrat who owned an estate in Rhodesia or Kenya in the interwar period was active in far right-wing groups that sought to end democracy in the United Kingdom as all of the aristocrats who lived out their feudal fantasies in Africa all wanted to return to the political system where the aristocracy held political power again.

[12] Lymington wrote often for The English Review, a Conservative journal intended in the words of its editor from 1931 onward, Douglas Jerrold, to be "a platform for real Toryism as opposed to the plutocratic Conservatism represented by the official party under Mr. Baldwin's uninspiring leadership".

Lymington became increasingly frustrated with the National Government founded in 1931, which he called "a morass of compromise" which was useless in the face of the Great Depression.

[14] Lymington visited several of the areas worse hit by the Great Depression, which he wrote left him "a sadder and more inwardly knowing man".

[14] He attended[15] the second Convegno Volta in 1932, with Christopher Dawson, Lord Rennell of Rodd, Charles Petrie and Paul Einzig making up the British representatives.

[18] In particular, Lymington was opposed to the Government of India Act that would have devolved much power to the Indians, which was understood as the first step towards ending the Raj, which Baldwin had supported.

In his resignation speech on 24 March 1934, he stated he was leaving the House of Commons because he was "unable any longer to breath the polluted atmosphere of the National Government".

[14] He stated he was leaving the House "to devote my energies and to play such a part as I am able in arousing our people to the necessities of national defense before it is too late and above all to help in trying to re-establish English character and tradition and in recreating local leadership".

[20] In the 1935 general election, Drummond Wolff chose not to run, and another candidate chosen by Lymington, Patrick Donner, won the seat of Basingstoke.

[25] Lymington was violently opposed to Britain accepting Jewish refugees from Germany, writing in a letter in 1936 that he was opposed to accepting German Jewish refugees who "had proved themselves unworthy subjects of Germany", going on to write that Britain was being "overrun with the unwanted and unworthy of the ghettoes and bazaars of most of Europe and a good deal of Asia".

[26] Lymington wrote that if the Archbishop of Canterbury was really concerned about human suffering, he should "interested himself in European Christians in Spain, Russia and other countries including our own".

[27] Lymington met several times with Sir Oswald Mosley to discuss an alliance between the English Array and the British Union of Fascists.

[32] It has been described as "more specifically pro-Nazi" than the Mistery; Famine in England (1938) by Lymington was an agricultural manifesto, but traded on racial overtones of urban immigration.

[33] Famine in England was concerned with the "aliens" and "scum" said to be settling in British cities along with a sustained attack on "international finance" together with panegyrics for the beauty of the English countryside, the "great white northern races of Europe" and the concentration camps of Nazi Germany.

[34] Most of Famine in England was concerned about problems with British agriculture, but there was also several chapters devoted to the "scum of subhuman population" in Britain who were "the willing tools of the communist, since revolution means an opportunity to gratify their lusts".

[35] Lymington wrote it would be "suicidal" to go to war against Germany again, but warned it was possible because of "the endless propaganda directed in a sinister way against selected dictatorships in Europe".

[36] In the Quarterly Gazette of the English Array for April 1938, Lymington praised the Anschluss and wrote "we must do what we can to save our country from being forced into a war which would mark the end of white civilisation".

Lymington founded the British Council Against European Commitments during the Sudetenland crisis which pushed the United Kingdom to the brink of war with the Reich.

[39] In April 1939, Lymington complained that the German violation of the Munich Agreement in occupying the Czech part of Czecho-Slovakia on 15 March 1939 had greatly damaged the image of the Reich in Britain, but called for "Anglo-German understanding" which was "essential to the future of European civilisation".

[40] The marked pro-German tenor to The New Pioneer to accusations that the journal was pro-Nazi, leading to Lymington to write response in July 1939 that "war with Germany would mean the end of our white civilisatin as we know it".

It recruited Edmund Blunden, Arthur Bryant, H. J. Massingham,[43] Walter James, 4th Baron Northbourne, Adrian Bell, and Philip Mairet.

[47] Even then, Portsmouth did not leave Kenya and instead stayed on as the special agricultural adviser to President Jomo Kenyatta, who apparently greatly valued his advice.