George Grenfell Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton

From Wikipedia: George Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton

George Grenfell Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton Privy Council (Tuesday, 10 February 1824 – Sunday, 6 November 1887), was a British Liberal politician. He held office in three of the Liberal administrations of William Gladstone.

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, 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. In 1868 he was appointed 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 July the same year.

Iwerne Minster

In 1876 he bought the manorial estate at Iwerne Minster in Dorset from the Bower family, to 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 pursued his passion for hunting, maintaining, till 1879, a pack of bloodhounds.

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.

They lived at Warren House in Coombe, Kingston upon Thames. The small country house, now a Grade II listed conference centre, was built in the 1860s for Hugh Hammersley, and then extended 1884-6 by the architect George Devey.

From FreeBMD: Registration of marriage of George Grenfell Glyn in 1848 and FreeBMD: Registration of marriage of Georgiana Maria Julia Tufnell in 1848

• April to June 1848: Registration of marriage of Georgiana Maria Julia Tufnell; in St George Hanover Square, London (Volume I, Page 59)
• April to June 1848: Registration of marriage of George Grenfell Glyn; in St George Hanover Square, London (Volume I, Page 59)

From Ancestry: Church of England Marriages and Banns

• Marriage: Thursday, 22 June 1848
• Georgiana Maria Julia Tufnell, of Ingatestone, Essex, spinster, full age
• daughter of George Tufnell, Clerk
• George Grenfell Glyn, Esq., of Eccleston Street, Belgravia, London, bachelor, full age
• son of George Carr Glyn, Esq.
• married at: St Peter's Church, 119 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London SW1W 9AL 51.4978, -0.1493, England, according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church of England by licence
• ceremony by: J. Tufnell, Assistant Vicar
• witnesses: George Tufnell, Maria N. Tufnell, Marianne Skye[?], Caroline Waring, George Carr Glyn, Emily Clara Tufnell

From FreeBMD: Registration of death of George Grenfell Glyn in 1887

October to December 1887: Registration of death of George Grenfell Glyn; aged 64 [born about 1823]; in Brighton (Volume 2b, Page 164)

From British Newspaper Archive: Illustrated London News Saturday, 19 November 1887 Page 12 The late Lord Wolverton

The Obituary notices of Saturday, 12 November 1887 recorded the death, on Sunday, 6 November 1887, of this nobleman, who was an active and zealous member of the Liberal party, and an adherent of Mr. Gladstone in his recent Irish policy.

The Right Hon. George Grenfell Glyn, Baron Wolverton, of Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, was eldest son of George Carr [Glyn], first Baron, by Marianne [Glyn (née Grenfell)], daughter of the late Pascoe Grenfell, M.P., of Taplow House, Buckinghamshire. He was born in London in 1824, was educated at Rugby School, Lawrence Sheriff Street, Rugby, Warwickshire CV22 5EH 52.3675, -1.2611, and was admitted to partnership in the banking-house of Glyn, Mills, Currie and Co. 62 Lombard Street, City of London, London EC3V 9LJ 51.5125867, -0.0868532. He married Georgiana Maria Tufnell, daughter of the Rev. George Tufnell, of Uffington, Berkshire.

Mr. Glyn entered the House of Commons, Houses of Parliament, St Margaret Street, London SW1A 0AA 51.499889, -0.124667 as member for Shaftesbury in 1857, and continued to represent that borough until 1873. The confidence reposed in his tact and business qualities was shown by his appointment as Patronage Secretary to the Treasury in December 1868. He discharged the duties of his office to the satisfaction of his party nearly five years. The death of his father, George Carr, first Lord Wolverton, in August 1873, compelled Mr. Glyn to vacate his seat in the Lower House. In 1873, Lord Wolverton became a member of the Privy Council. On Mr. Gladstone's return to office in 1880, Lord Wolverton was appointed Paymaster-General, and he held that office in the second Gladstone Ministry. In the brief Administration of 1886 he was Postmaster-General.

The Portrait is from a photograph the Stereoscopic Company.