Henry Maynard, 3rd Viscount Maynard (13 March 1788 – 19 May 1865), was a British peer.
Maynard was appointed captain of the Western Battalion of the
Essex
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Militia on 6 March 1808. On 30 January 1809, he was appointed a
deputy lieutenant of Essex and resigned his militia commission on 25 April.
Maynard succeeded his uncle in the viscountcy in 1824. The following year he was appointed
Lord Lieutenant of Essex
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a post he held until his death. He married Mary Rabett, daughter of Reginald Rabett, of Branfield Hall,
Suffolk
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, in 1810. She died in October 1857.
Their son, Colonel the Honourable Charles Henry Maynard, died in January 1865, leaving only daughters. Lord Maynard survived his son by four months and died in May 1865, aged 77, when the viscountcy became extinct.
His three-year-old granddaughter,
Daisy Maynard, succeeded to most of the Maynard estates, including
Easton Lodge. She later married
Francis Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick
Francis Richard Charles Guy Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick (9 February 1853 – 15 January 1924), styled Lord Brooke until 1893, was a Conservative Party (UK), British Conservative politician.
Early life
Greville was the son of George Greville, 4 ...
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1788 births
1865 deaths
British Militia officers
Deputy lieutenants of Essex
Lord-lieutenants of Essex
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