Henry Richard Greville, 3rd Earl of Warwick, 3rd Earl Brooke, KT (29 March 1779 – 10 August 1853), styled Lord Brooke from 1786 to 1816, was a British

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politician.

Life

Warwick was the son of

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, by his second wife Henrietta (née Vernon), and was educated at

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. Henry undertook an extensive Grand Tour between June 1801 and August 1803, his travels taking him to Copenhagen, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Switzerland and throughout Italy. In March 1803 he joined Sir William Drummond and

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, on Captain Sir John Gore's ship the HMS Medusa to bring Drummond to Constantinople. Henry undertook another tour to Italy during the late 1820s, where he purchased a set of Pietra Dure tables from the Grimanni Palace in Venice, a set which were sold by Merlin Entertainments at Sotheby's in 2015. He entered Parliament as one of two representatives for

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in 1802, a seat he held until he succeeded his father in the earldom in 1816. He served as a

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(government whip in the

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) from 1841 to 1846 in the second Tory administration of

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. Warwick was also a

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between 1816 and 1813,

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between 1822 and 1853 and a

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between 1828 and 1830. In 1827 he was made a

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. He was also an amateur artist. His print ''Landscape with Old Trees by Water''—one of the first

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s made in Britain—was published in the portfolio ''Specimens of Polyautography'' in 1803.''Landscape with Old Trees by Water'', 1803–6
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 11 May 2019. Lord Warwick married Lady Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of

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, and widow of John Monson, 3rd Baron Monson, in 1816. She died in January 1851, aged 64. Warwick survived her by two years and died in August 1853, aged 74. He was succeeded in the earldom by his son George.

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References

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

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Warwick, Henry Greville, 3rd Earl of 1779 births 1853 deaths Earls in the Peerage of Great Britain

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