George Grenfell Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton PC (10 February 1824 – 6 November 1887), was a British

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politician. He held office in three of the Liberal administrations of William Gladstone.

Background

Wolverton was the eldest of the nine sons of the banker George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton, and his wife Marianne, daughter of

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. His grandfather Sir Richard Carr Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Gaunt's House, and great-grandfather Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell, had been prominent

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bankers, both had served as

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Political career

Wolverton was elected to Parliament for

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as a

in 1857, a seat he would hold until he succeeded his father in 1873 and entered the

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. In 1868 he was appointed

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in William Gladstone's first administration, a post he held until 1873, when he was also admitted to the Privy Council. The Liberals lost office in 1874, but when Gladstone returned to power in 1880 Wolverton was appointed

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. He retained this office until Gladstone resigned in June 1885 and the

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came to power under

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. The same year the Liberal Party split over the issue of

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. Wolverton supported Gladstone and was rewarded when he was made

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in February 1886, when Gladstone became

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for a third time. However, the government fell already in July the same year.

Iwerne Minster

In 1876 he bought the manorial estate at

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in Dorset from the Bower family, to which he made many changes and improvements, including the building of a large mansion designed by Alfred Waterhouse. Much of the farmland was turned over to parkland, and he pursued his passion for hunting, maintaining, till 1879, a pack of bloodhounds.

Family

Georgiana Maria Tufnell, by Robert Thorburn

Lord Wolverton married Georgiana Maria Tufnell, daughter of Reverend George Tufnell, in 1848. They had no children. He died suddenly in November 1887, aged 63, and was succeeded in the barony by his nephew, Henry Glyn. They lived at Warren House in

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. The small country house, now a Grade II listed conference centre, was built in the 1860s for Hugh Hammersley, and then extended 1884-6 by the architect

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Eldest sons of British hereditary barons