George Edmund Milnes Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway, CB (18 November 1844 – 7 March 1931) was a British

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politician and courtier.

Biography

Galway was the son of

George Monckton-Arundell, 6th Viscount Galway 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 ...

, and his wife and first cousin Henrietta Maria, daughter of Robert Pemberton Milnes and sister of

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. He was educated at

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and Christ Church, Oxford. He entered Parliament for Nottinghamshire North in an 1872 by-election, a seat he held until 1885 when the constituency was abolished. He succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1876 but as this was an

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he did not have to resign his seat in the

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. On 4 July 1887 Galway was created Baron Monckton, of Serlby in the

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, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which entitled him to an automatic seat in the

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. He later served as an Aide-de-Camp to

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from 1897 to 1901, to

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from 1901 to 1910 and to

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from 1910 to 1920. He was also involved in local affairs and served as a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for

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and as Chairman and Alderman of the

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. Lord Galway married Vere Gosling, the only daughter of Ellis Gosling of Busbridge Hall, Surrey in 1879. She was invested as a Lady of Justice, Order of St. John of Jerusalem (L.J.St.J.). She died in 1921. Galway survived her by ten years and died in March 1931, aged 86. He was succeeded in his titles by his son

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References

* Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. * *
Biography at The University of Nottingham

External links

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