Sir George Wombwell, 3rd Baronet (13 April 1792 – 14 January 1855) was a British baronet.
Early life
Wombwell was born on 13 April 1792. He was the eldest son of
Sir George Wombwell, 2nd Baronet and Lady Anne Belasyse.
After his mother's death in 1808, his father married Eliza Little, daughter of T. E. Little. From his parents' marriage, he had a younger brother, Henry Walter Wombwell, who died unmarried.
From his father's second marriage, he had a half-sister, Louisa ( Wombwell) Beauclerk (best known for her lengthy relationship with
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge
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, grandson of King
George III
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and cousin of
Queen Victoria
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),
and a half-brother, Charles Orby Wombwell (who married his wife's sister, Charlotte Catherine Hunter, in 1836).
His paternal grandparents were
Sir George Wombwell, 1st Baronet and Susannah Rawlinson (a daughter of
Sir Thomas Rawlinson). His maternal grandparents were
Henry Belasyse, 2nd Earl Fauconberg
Henry Belasyse, 2nd Earl Fauconberg (13 April 1742 – 23 March 1802) was a British politician and peer.
Family
Fauconberg was the son of Thomas Belasyse, 1st Earl Fauconberg and Catherine Betham.Arthur Collins, ''The peerage of England'' (177 ...
of
Newborough, Yorkshire, and the former Hon. Charlotte Lamb (daughter of
Sir Matthew Lamb, 1st Baronet
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Lamb was the son of Matthew Lamb, of Southwell, Nottinghamshire, an ...
and sister of
Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne
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). His aunt, Lady Elizabeth Belasyse, was married to
Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk
Bernard Edward Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk (21 November 1765 – 16 March 1842), was a British peer.
Early life
Howard was the son of Henry Howard (1713–1787) by his wife Juliana Molyneux, daughter of Sir William Molyneux, 6th Baronet (die ...
.
Career
Upon the death of his father on 28 October 1846, George, who was "well-known in fashionable circles",
succeeded as the 3rd Baronet Wombwell, of Wombwell, and inherited
Newburgh Priory
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Originally a house of Augustinian canons, it was founded in 1145 and became a family home following the dissolution of the priory in 1538. The present ...
in
Coxwold
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History
The villag ...
, North Yorkshire, the old seat of the Belasyses.
Sir George never took part in "public politics" and was mainly known "in the fashionable world, and on the Turf".
Personal life
On 23 June 1824, Wombwell married Georgiana Hunter (1807–1875) at the bride's father's house in
Grosvenor Place
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, London.
She was the youngest daughter of Thomas Orby Hunter (a grandson of
Thomas Orby Hunter, MP for
Winchelsea
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) and Frances Heywood (daughter of
James Modyford Heywood
James Modyford Heywood (c1729 – 22 March 1798) was an English Member of Parliament for Fowey, plantation owner in Jamaica, and Lord of the Admiralty.
Early life
Heywood was the only son of James Heywood (c1684–1738), of Maristow (near Rob ...
).
Together, they were the parents of:
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*
Sir George Orby Wombwell, 4th Baronet
Sir George Orby Wombwell, 4th Baronet (23 November 1832 – 16 October 1913) was a British baronet.
Early life
Wombwell was born on 23 November 1832. He was the son of Sir George Wombwell, 3rd Baronet and educated at Eton College and Royal Mil ...
(1832–1913), who married Lady Julia Sarah Alice Child-Villiers, daughter of
George Child-Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey and Julia Peel (daughter of the Prime Minister, Sir
Robert Peel
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), in 1861.
* Adolphus Ulick Wombwell (1834–1886), a Lt.-Col. in the
12th Lancers
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who married Mary Caroline Myddelton-Biddulph, daughter of Col.
Robert Myddelton-Biddulph of
Chirk Castle
Chirk Castle () is a Grade I listed castle located in Chirk, Wrexham County Borough, Wales, from Chirk railway station, now owned and run by the National Trust.
History
The castle was built in 1295 by Roger Mortimer de Chirk, uncle of Roge ...
, in 1862.
Mary's brother, Richard Myddelton Biddulph, married Catherine Arabella Howard (granddaughter of
Edward Charles Howard
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Career
In January 1799 ...
who was a younger brother of the
12th Duke of Norfolk).
*
Sir Henry Herbert Wombwell, 5th Baronet (1840–1926), a captain in the
Royal Horse Guards
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who married Hon. Myrtle Mabel Muriel Mostyn, daughter of Maj. Hon. George Charles Mostyn and sister to the
7th Baron Vaux of Harrowden, in 1902.
* Frederick Charles Wombwell (1845–1889), a Captain who married Marie "Mina" Boyer in 1868.
Sir George died suddenly on 14 January 1855, at his townhouse at 15
St George Hanover Square
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.
Descendants
Through his youngest son Frederick, he was a grandfather of Frederick Adolphus Wombwell (father of
Sir Frederick Wombwell, 6th Baronet) and
Almina Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon
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.
References
External links
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National Portrait Gallery, London
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1792 births
1855 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain
Place of birth missing