George Wyndham

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

George Wyndham (1863 - 1913) was a significant English political figure. He was also a man of letters, noted for his elegance, and one of The Souls.

His father was Percy Scawen Wyndham, son of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield. In politics he was a Conservative, closely involved in Irish affairs at two points. He was private secretary to Arthur Balfour, during the years around 1890 when Balfour was Chief Secretary for Ireland; and was himself Chief Secretary 1900-1905. He brought forward a devolution scheme to deal with the Home Rule question. He also successfully saw the significant 1903 Irish Land Act into law.

He married in 1887 Sibell, Countess Grosvenor (née Lumley), after the death of her first husband Victor Alexander Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor (1853 - 1884), son of the 1st Duke of Westminster.

Political offices
Preceded by Earl Midleton	Under-Secretary of State for War 1898–1900	Succeeded by Baron Raglan
Preceded by Gerald William Balfour	Chief Secretary for Ireland 1900–1905	Succeeded by Walter Long

[edit] Works

• The Poems of Shakespeare (1898) editor
• Ronsard & La Pleiade, with Selections From Their Poetry and Some Translations in the Original Meters (1906)
• Sir Walter Scott (1908)
• The Springs of Romance in the Literature of Europe (1910) address, University of Edinburgh October, 1910
• Essays In Romantic Literature (1919) edited by Charles Whibley

[edit] References

• Letters of George Wyndham, 1877-1913 (1915) Guy Percy Wyndham
• Life and Letters of George Wyndham (1924) Guy Percy Wyndham and J. W. Mackail