| The Right Honourable The Lord Wolverton PC |
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| "The Whip" Glyn as caricatured by Adriano Cecioni in Vanity Fair, February 1872 |
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| Paymaster General | |
| In office 24 May 1880 – 9 June 1885 |
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| 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 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Preceded by | Lord John Manners |
| Succeeded by | Henry Cecil Raikes |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 February 1824 |
| Died | 6 November 1887 |
| 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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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.
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.
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.
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]
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| 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 |