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and his wife Frances FitzWilliam , daughter of

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. He succeeded his father in the title in 1759, and inherited an estate heavily encumbered by his father's debts, and family settlements: he complained in 1760 that of his first half-year's rent, he had to pay £1,000 to his mother and £4,000 to his brother

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and sister Frances. On 7 February 1760, he married Lady Juliana Noel (died 18 December 1760), the third daughter of Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough and Elizabeth Chapman. They had one daughter: *Hon. Juliana Evans (1760 – 20 May 1807), married Edward Hartopp-Wigley, of Dalby House, Leicestershire, on 16 April 1782 After the death of Lady Juliana, Carbery married Elizabeth Horton (died 14 June 1789), daughter of Christopher Horton of

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, Derbyshire, on 13 December 1762. They had one son: *

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(1766–1804) He probably commissioned W. D. Legg to design the new house at Laxton after 1778. He also held estates in

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, where Jeremiah Jackson was his agent in the 1760s and 1770s. By 1782, he was nearly blind, and rendered an invalid by

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. After having once refused Hartopp's suit, Carbery's daughter eloped with him, to Carbery's surprise and indignation, although Hartopp in the end made a good

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on her. Carbery died the following year, on 26 May 1783, and was succeeded by his son George. He left the unentailed portion of his Irish estates to his daughter in the event that George died without heirs, a contingency that came to pass in 1804.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carbery, George Evans, 3rd Baron Year of birth unknown 1783 deaths Barons Carbery Members of the Irish House of Lords