George Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton

George Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton in a caricature of the magazine Vanity Fair from February 24, 1872

George Grenfell Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton PC (born February 10, 1824 - † November 6, 1887 in Brighton ) was a British Liberal Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons between 1857 and 1873 and was appointed 2nd in 1873 . Baron Wolverton inherited and was a member of the House of Lords until his death . He was Paymaster General from 1880 to 1885 and Postmaster General from February to August 1886.

Life

Family origins and siblings

Glyn was the eldest of the eleven children of George Carr Glyn , a co-owner and the private bank Glyn, Mills & Currie , who was also a member of the House of Commons between 1847 and 1868 and was raised to hereditary peerage as 1st Baron Wolverton in 1869 , as well as his wife Marianne Grenfell, a daughter of the politician Pascoe Grenfell , who was also a member of the House of Commons from 1802 to 1826.

His other younger brothers included Vice Admiral Henry Carr Glyn, who took part in the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War from 1854 to 1855 and was awarded the Order of the Bath , the Order of the Star of India , the Order of Mecidiye and Aide- de-camp of Queen Victoria was. Another younger brother was the one with the Order of the Medjidie excellent Major of the Rifle Brigade Richard Glyn Riversdale, but died on 11 December. 1859

Another younger brother, Pascoe Charles Glyn , was also a member of the House of Commons from 1885 to 1886, as was younger brother Sidney Carr Glyn , who was a member of the House of Commons between 1880 and 1885. His younger brother Ashley Carr Glyn was a barrister .

His youngest brother was the clergyman Edward Carr Glyn , who was Bishop of Peterborough between 1897 and 1916 .

His youngest sister Alice Carr Glyn was the wife of the clergyman Francis Pelham , who in 1902 also became a member of the House of Lords as the 5th Earl of Chichester.

Degree, banker and member of the House of Commons

Georgiana Maria Tufnell, wife of George Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton (painting by Robert Thorburn , Swedish National Museum in Stockholm )

George Glyn graduated after attending the prestigious Rugby School to study at the University College of the University of Oxford and entered the port in 1845 as a partner in the part of the family private bank Glyn, Mills & Currie one for which he worked until his death 1887th In the meantime he was chairman of the Railway Clearing House (RCH), founded on January 2, 1842 , a clearing office for legal and tariff issues between the numerous private railway companies that served the British railway market at the time.

His political career began Glyn when he was elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party on March 27, 1857 to a member of the House of Commons and in this until July 24, 1873 represented the constituency of Shaftesbury . During this time he held his first government post when he was a Parliamentary Secretary ( Whip ) during the first government of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone 1868-1873 Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury ) was. In addition, he was appointed a member of the Privy Council (PC) in 1873 .

House of Lords, Minister and Marriage

On the death of his father on July 24, 1873, George Glyn inherited his title of Baron Wolverton , of Wolverton in the County of Buckingham, and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death.

On April 23, 1880 he was appointed by Prime Minister Gladstone as Paymaster General (Paymaster General) in his second cabinet, of which he was until June 23, 1885.

In the third, only 174 last third government of Gladstone Glyn held between February 17, 1886 and July 20, 1886 the office of Postmaster General (Postmaster General) .

Glyn was married to Georgiana Maria Tufnell, daughter of clergyman George Tufnell, since June 22, 1848. Since the marriage remained childless, his nephew Henry Richard Glyn , the eldest son of his younger brother Vice Admiral Henry Carr Glyn , inherited the title of 3rd Baron Wolverton .

Web links

• George Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton at the Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• George Grenfell Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton, on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
George Carr Glyn	Baron Wolverton 1873-1888	Henry Richard Glyn