Granville Leveson Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort

Granville Leveson Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort (12 November 1782 – 3 November 1868), known as the Honourable Granville Proby until 1855, was a British naval commander and Whig politician.

Carysfort was the third and youngest son of John proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort, and his first wife Elizabeth (née Osbourne), and was educated at Rugby. He was commissioned into the Royal Navy and fought as a fifteen-year-old at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 and also at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. He was promoted to Rear-Admiral in 1841, to Vice-Admiral in 1851 and to Admiral in 1857. Apart from his military career Carysfort also represented County Wicklow in Parliament from 1816 to 1829. In 1855 he succeeded his elder brother in the earldom and entered the House of Lords.

Lord Carysfort married Isabella, daughter of the Hon. Hugh Howard, in 1818. They had four sons and four daughters. She died in 1836, shortly after the birth of her youngest child. Carysfort died in November 1868, aged 85, and was succeeded in the earldom by his second but eldest surviving son Granville.

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