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The Right HonourableThe Viscount Galway
Engraving of Lord Galway by Joseph Brown, 1870
Member of Parliament for East Retford
In office
1847–1876Serving with Arthur Duncombe, William Duncombe, Francis Foljambe
Preceded byGranville Harcourt Vernon
Arthur Duncombe
Succeeded byFrancis Foljambe
William Beckett-Denison
Personal details
BornGeorge Edward Arundell Monckton-Arundell
(1805-03-01)1 March 1805
Died6 February 1876(1876-02-06) (aged 70)
Serlby Hall, Essex
Spouse Henrietta Milnes
​ ​(m. 1838; died 1876)​
RelationsGeorge Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway (grandson)
ChildrenGeorge Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway
Parent(s)William Monckton-Arundell, 5th Viscount Galway
Catherine Elizabeth Handfield
EducationHarrow School
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford

George Edward Arundell Monckton-Arundell, 6th Viscount Galway (1 March 1805 – 6 February 1876), was an Anglo-Irish Conservative politician.

Early life

George Edward Arundell Monckton-Arundell was born on 1 March 1805. He was the son of William George Monckton-Arundell, 5th Viscount Galway and Catherine Elizabeth Handfield.

He was educated at Harrow and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1824, earning his B.A. in 1827.

Career

He succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1834 but as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords.

He was instead elected to the House of Commons for East Retford in 1847, a seat he held until 1876 (the remainder of his life), and served as a Lord-in-waiting in 1852 in the first Conservative administration of the Earl of Derby.

Personal life

On 25 April 1838 Lord Galway married his first cousin Henrietta Maria Milnes at St George's, Hanover Square. She was a daughter of Robert Pemberton and sister of Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, in 1838. Together, they were the parents of:

He was Master of the Grove Hunt from 1848 to 1876, and died from the effects of a hunting accident in February 1876, aged 70, at Serlby Hall, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his son George. Lady Galway died in September 1891.

Notes

  1. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume V, page 615.
  2. ^ "Biography of George Edward Arundell Monckton-Arundell, 6th Viscount Galway (1805-1876)". www.nottingham.ac.uk. The University of Nottingham. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  3. "Viscount Galway 1805 – 1876". Historic Hansard. Retrieved 15 June 2020.

References

  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byGranville Harcourt Vernon
Arthur Duncombe 		Member of Parliament for East Retford
1847–1876
With: Arthur Duncombe 1847–1852
William Duncombe 1852–1857
Francis Foljambe 1857–1876 		Succeeded byFrancis Foljambe
William Beckett-Denison
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded byWilliam Monckton-Arundell Viscount Galway
1834–1876 		Succeeded byGeorge Monckton-Arundell
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