George Edward Arundell Monckton-Arundell, 6th Viscount Galway (1 March 1805 – 6 February 1876), was a British

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politician.

Early life

George Edward Arundell Monckton-Arundell was born on 1 March 1805. He was the son of William George Monckton-Arundell, 5th Viscount Galway and Catherine Elizabeth Handfield.G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes'',

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, 2000), volume V, page 615. He was educated at

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and matriculated at

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, in 1824, earning his B.A. in 1827.

Career

He succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1834 but as this was an

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it did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the

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. He was instead elected to the

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for

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in 1847, a seat he held until 1876 (the remainder of his life), and served as a

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in 1852 in the first Conservative administration of the

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Personal life

On 25 April 1838 Lord Galway married his first cousin Henrietta Maria Milnes at

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. She was a daughter of Robert Pemberton and sister of

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, in 1838. Together, they were the parents of: * George Edward Milnes Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway (1844–1931), who married Vere Gosling, the only daughter of Ellis Gosling of Busbridge Hall, Surrey in 1879. He was Master of the Grove Hunt from 1848 to 1876, and died from the effects of a hunting accident in February 1876, aged 70, at Serlby Hall, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his son

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. Lady Galway died in September 1891.

Notes

References

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

External links

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