Admiral Granville Leveson Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort (12 November 1782 – 3 November 1868), known as

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Granville Proby until 1855, was a British naval commander and Whig politician.

Biography

Carysfort was the third and youngest son of John Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort, and his first wife Elizabeth (née Osbourne), and was educated at

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between 1792 and 1798.

Naval career

Proby entered the Navy on 21 March 1798 as a midshipman aboard the

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ship under the command of Captain Edward Berry, and serving as the flagship of Sir Horatio Nelson. Proby saw action at the Battle of the Nile on 1 August 1799, then transferred to the ship with Captain Berry, and while blockading Malta, took part in the capture, on 18 February 1800, of the ship and the armed store-ship ''Ville de Marseilles''. He also took part in the action of 31 March 1800 in which ''Foudroyant'', in company with the 64-gun ship and frigate , captured the French ship , the flagship of Rear-Admiral

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, during which ''Foudroyant'' sustained a loss of 8 men killed and 64, including Proby, wounded. In 1801 he was present in ''Foudroyant'' under Admiral Lord Keith during the Egyptian campaign. He then served aboard the frigate , under Captain Robert Campbell; the frigate , Captain Hon. Philip Wodehouse; and , flagship of Lord Nelson. There, on 24 October 1804, he was promoted to lieutenant, and transferred to the frigate , Captain Ross Donnelly. In May 1805 he transferred to the 98-gun ship , Captain Thomas Fremantle, and was present on 21 October in the

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. On 15 August 1806 Proby was appointed commander of the sloop ''Bergère'', and promoted to post-rank on 28 November 1806, with command of the 54-gun ship ''Madras''. From 7 January 1807 he commanded the frigate in the Mediterranean, and from 1808 until 1810, the frigate , in the Channel, North Sea, and Baltic. On 8 June 1813 he was appointed to , stationed at the Cape of Good Hope, and on 3 December 1814 to , in the Mediterranean. ''Amelia'' (the ship in which his eldest brother

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had died in 1804) was paid off in July 1816, ending Proby's active naval career. However, the course of time brought promotion to rear-admiral on 23 November 1841, to vice-admiral on 16 June 1851, and finally admiral on 9 July 1857.

Political career

Apart from his military career Carysfort also represented County Wicklow in Parliament from 1816 to 1829 and served as

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for 1831. In 1855 he succeeded his elder brother to the earldom and entered the

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Personal life

Elton Hall and gardens (geograph 5515547)

Proby married in 1818 Isabella Howard, daughter of the Honourable Hugh Howard. They had four sons and four daughters. She died in 1836, shortly after the birth of her youngest child. Lord Carysfort died on 3 November 1868, aged 85, at the family estate of Elton Hall, and was succeeded in the earldom by his second but eldest surviving son Granville. Children included: *John Joshua Proby, Lord Proby (1823–1858) *

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(1824–1872) *Honourable Hugh Proby (1826–1852), who emigrated to Australia and died there *Lady Theodosia Gertrude Proby (1833–1902), who married William Montagu Baillie, of Dochfour (1827–1902; he was a grandson of the 5th Duke of Manchester) * William Proby, 5th Earl of Carysfort (1836–1909) *Lady Frances Proby (d.1863), unmarried *Lady Emma Elizabeth Proby (d.1900), who married

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*Lady Isabella Proby (d.1866)

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