George Edward Henry Arthur Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (7 July 1755 – 16 January 1801), styled Viscount Ludlow until 1772, was a

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peer.

Early life

Herbert was born at

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, the son of

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, by Barbara Herbert, daughter of Lord Edward Herbert.''Burke's Peerage 2003'', page 3209 He was educated at

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Career

He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1772 and was appointed

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and

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in 1776. Also in 1776 he served as treasurer of the Salop Infirmary in

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. Powis was commissioned a colonel to embody the Montgomeryshire Militia in 1778. In 1798 he was also made

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; he was also appointed colonel of the Shropshire Militia in place of the Montgomeryshire. He retained both Lord-Lieutenancies until his death in 1801. Lord Powis made a

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in 1775–76, when he probably acquired a collection of marble sculpture preserved at his family seat,

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. He added a ballroom but did little to maintain the house, visitor John Byng in 1784 ascribing its neglected state to his time spent ''"in the prodigalities of London and in driving high phaetons up

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."'' At a later visit (1793) he wrote: ''"The present (grandly-descended peer) is a mean silly man, the bubble of his mistress (and of his steward consequently) who rarely comes here, to sneak for about a day or two."''Powis Castle guidebook.

Personal life

Lord Powis died at the York House Hotel, Albemarle Street,

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in January 1801, aged 45, and was buried at St Mary's Church,

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. He was unmarried and the titles died with him. His sister and heir, Lady Henrietta, married Edward Clive, 2nd Baron Clive, who was created

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in 1804.

References

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