George Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton
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George Grenfell Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton, PC (10 February 1824 – 6 November 1887), was a British Liberal politician. He held office in three of the Liberal administrations of William Ewart Gladstone.
Wolverton was the eldest of the nine sons of the banker George Carr Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton, and his wife Marianne Grenfell, daughter of Pascoe Grenfell. His grandfather Sir Richard Carr Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Gaunt's House, and great-grandfather Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell, had been prominent London bankers and had both served as Lord Mayor of London. Wolverton was elected to Parliament for Shaftesbury as a Liberal in 1857, a seat he would hold until he succeeded his father in 1873 and entered the House of Lords. In 1868 he was appointed Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in William Gladstone's first administration, a post he held until 1873, when he was also admitted to the Privy Council. The Liberals lost office in 1874, but when Gladstone returned to power in 1880 Wolverton was appointed Paymaster-General. He retained this office until Gladstone resigned in June 1885 and the Conservatives came to power under Lord Salisbury. The same year the Liberal Party split over the issue of Irish Home Rule. Wolverton supported Gladstone and was rewarded when he was made Postmaster General in February 1886, when Gladstone became Prime Minister for a third time. However, the government fell already in August the same year.
Lord Wolverton married Georgiana Maria Tufnell, daughter of Reverend George Tufnell, in 1848. They had no children. He died suddenly in November 1887, aged 63, and was succeeded in the Barony by his nephew Henry Richard Glyn.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Henry Portman |
Member for Shaftesbury 1857–1873 |
Succeeded by Vere Fane Benett-Stanford |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by Gerard Noel |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 1868–1873 |
Succeeded by Arthur Wellesley Peel |
| Preceded by David Plunket |
Paymaster General 1880–1885 |
Succeeded by The Earl Beauchamp |
| Preceded by Lord John Manners |
Postmaster General 1886 |
Succeeded by Henry Cecil Raikes |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by George Carr Glyn |
Baron Wolverton 1873–1887 |
Succeeded by Henry Richard Glyn |
