Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue

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Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue KG PC (13 February 1783 – 14 September 1861), known (1789–1841) as Viscount Ebrington, was a British politician who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1839 to 1841.

He first became an MP, for Barnstaple, just after his 21st birthday, and sat for various constituencies almost continuously until 1839. Ebrington belonged to that section of the Whig party that welcomed much of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon hoping for radical change in Britain. After Napoleon's first abdication and exile to Elba he arranged visits by other prominent Whigs to the Emperor.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir Edward Pellew, 1st Bt.	Member of Parliament for Barnstaple 1804–1807	Succeeded by George Thellusson
Preceded by William Shipley	Member of Parliament for St Mawes 1807–1809	Succeeded by Earl Gower
Preceded by Richard Griffin Lord George Grenville	Member of Parliament for Buckingham with William Henry Fremantle 1812–1817	Succeeded by James Hamilton Stanhope William Henry Fremantle
Preceded by Sir Thomas Dyke-Acland, 10th Bt. and Edmund Pollexfen Bastard	Member of Parliament for Devon 1818–1820 (with Edmund Pollexfen Bastard)	Succeeded by Sir Thomas Dyke-Acland, 10th Bt. and Edmund Pollexfen Bastard
Preceded by John Fazakerly	Member of Parliament for Tavistock 1820–1830	Succeeded by Lord John Russell
Preceded by Sir Thomas Dyke-Acland, 10th Bt. and Edmund Pollexfen Bastard	Member of Parliament for Devon 1830–1832 (with Sir Thomas Dyke-Acland, to 1831; Lord John Russell from 1831)	Succeeded by (constituency abolished)
Preceded by (new constituency)	Member of Parliament for North Devon 1832–1839	Succeeded by Lewis Buck
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Earl Fortescue	Lord Lieutenant of Devon 1839–1861	Succeeded by The Duke of Somerset
Political offices
Preceded by The Earl of Mulgrave	Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1839–1841	Succeeded by The Earl de Grey
Preceded by The Earl of Liverpool	Lord Steward 1846–1850	Succeeded by The Marquess of Westminster
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Hugh Fortescue	Earl Fortescue 1841–1861	Succeeded by Hugh Fortescue