George Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton

The Right Honourable
The Lord Wolverton
PC
"The Whip"
Glyn as caricatured by Adriano Cecioni in Vanity Fair, February 1872
Paymaster General
In office
24 May 1880 – 9 June 1885
Monarch Victoria
Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone
Preceded by Hon. David Plunket
Succeeded by The Earl Beauchamp
Postmaster General
In office
17 February 1886 – 20 July 1886
Monarch Victoria
Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone
Preceded by Lord John Manners
Succeeded by Henry Cecil Raikes
Personal details
Born 10 February 1824 (1824-02-10)
Died 6 November 1887 (1887-11-07)
Nationality British
Political party Liberal
Spouse(s) Georgiana Tufnell

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.

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Background

Wolverton was the eldest of the nine sons of the banker George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton, and his wife Marianne, 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, both had served as Lord Mayor of London.

Political career

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.[1] In 1868 he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in William Ewart Gladstone's first administration, a post he held until 1873, when he was also admitted to the Privy Council.[2] 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 July the same year.

Family

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 Glyn.

Iwerne Minster

In 1876 he bought the manorial estate at Iwerne Minster,[3] in Dorset, on which he made many changes and improvements, including the building of a large mansion designed by Alfred Waterhouse. Much of the farmland was turned over to parkland, and he pusued his passion for hunting, maintaining, till 1879, a pack of bloodhounds.[4]

References

  1. ^ leighrayment.com House of Commons: Salisbury to Shaftesbury
  2. ^ London Gazette: no. 24004. p. 3631. 5 August 1873.
  3. ^ Barrett, Barry. Iwerne Minster St Mary's Church & Village Story. 
  4. ^ Brough, Edwin (1907). Read, Tony. ed. Bloodhounds, History, Origins, Breeding & Training (excerpted from the Kennel Encyclopaedia of 1907) ISBN 978-1-4067-8733-7. 

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Hon. Henry Portman
Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury
1857–1873
Succeeded by
Vere Fane Benett-Stanford
Political offices
Preceded by
Hon. Gerard Noel
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
1868–1873
Succeeded by
Arthur Peel
Preceded by
Hon. 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