George Florance Irby, 6th Baron Boston DL FGS FSA (6 September 1860 – 16 September 1941) was a British scientist and

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politician.

Early life

George Florance Irby was born on 6 September 1860 at The Grange,

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. He was the eldest son of Florance George Henry Irby, 5th Baron Boston, and the former Hon. Augusta Caroline Saumarez (1841–1929). After his father's death in 1877, his mother married Sir Henry Percy Anderson, Assistant Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, in 1883.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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, 2003, vol. 1, p. 1113. His paternal grandparents were

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and Fanny Elizabeth Hopkins-Northey (a daughter of William Richard Hopkins-Northey of

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