Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock

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Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock GCSI, GCIE, KCB, VD, PC (12 May 1849 – 15 January 1912) was an English nobleman, eldest son of Beilby Lawley, 2nd Baron Wenlock and 9th Baronet. He succeeded to the Barony and Baronetcy and to the family estate at Escrick, Yorkshire on the death of his father in 1880.

He was educated at Eton College and at Cambridge University. He was a lieutenant-colonel and held the honorary colonelcies of several reserve regiments.

He was active in local affairs as a Justice of the Peace and as Chairman of East Riding County Council.

He was Member of Parliament for Chester in 1880, and Governor of Madras 1891–1895.

Wenlock was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1901, and made a Lord of the Bedchamber to George, Prince of Wales.

In 1872 he married Lady Constance Mary Lascelles, (1852–1932), daughter of the 4th Earl of Harewood, by whom he had one daughter: Hon. Irene Constance Lawley (b. 1889). She married Colin G Forbes-Adam of Skipwith, Yorkshire.^[1] The Forbes-Adam family retain the Escrick estate which they now operate as a holiday and pleasure park.^[2]

He was succeeded in the Barony by his brother Richard.

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• Portraits of Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock at the National Portrait Gallery, London

[edit] References

1. ^ thePeerage.com. Retrieved on December 10, 2006.
2. ^ Papers of the Forbes Adam/Thompson/Lawley Family of Escrick. Retrieved on December 10, 2006.

• regiments.org
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Henry Cecil Raikes John George Dodson	Member of Parliament for Chester 1880	Vacant Suspension until 1885 Title next held by Balthazar Walter Foster
Military Offices
New Title	Honorary Colonel of the 2nd East Riding of Yorkshire RGA (Volunteers) 1881–1908	Succeeded by A.J. Downs
Preceded by The Lord Herries of Terregles	Honorary Colonel of the East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry 1908–1912	Succeeded by J.B. Stacey-Clitheroe
New Title	Honorary Colonel of the 2nd Northumbrian Brigade RFA 1908–1912	Vacant Title next held by O. Sanderson
Political offices
Preceded by John Henry Garstin	Governor of Madras 1891–1895	Succeeded by Sir Arthur Havelock
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Beilby Richard Lawley	Baron Wenlock 1880–1912	Succeeded by Richard Lawley