Sir George Shee, 2nd Baronet

Sir George Shee, 2nd Baronet (14 June 1785, Calcutta – 25 January 1870, London) was an Irish diplomat.

Life

George Shee was the eldest son of Sir George Shee, 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Maria Crisp. He was educated at Sandy Mount, near Dublin, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1806 and M.A. in 1811. He was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1802. On 4 January 1808 he married his first wife, Jane, the eldest daughter of William Young of Harley Street and Hexton Place, Hertfordshire. On 3 February 1825 he succeeded his father in the Shee Baronetcy, and lived at Dunmore House, Galway. He was J.P. and D.L. for Galway, and High Sheriff of County Galway in 1828.^[1]

From November 1830 to 1834 Shee served in the Whig Government as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. He was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Prussia at Berlin from 1834 to 1835, Minister Plenipotentiary to Württemberg at Stuttgart from 1835 to 1844, and a diplomat to Baden from 1841 to 1844.^[1]

Shee also wrote articles on foreign policy for The Globe. In 1841 he married his second wife Sarah, third daughter of Henry Barrett of Denton. He died without heir on 25 January 1870 in London.^[1]

His maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Crisp, born Marsh, is the central character in Linda Colley's book, "The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh".^[2]

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