Friday, 15 March 2013
86 Lord Granville Proby
Constituency : County Wicklow 1858-68
Granville was a younger son of the Earl of Carysfort who became heir when his elder brother died. He was an army captain
Granville entered Parliament in a by-election when his predecessor became Earl Fitzwilliam.
Granville became Comptroller of the Household in 1859 under Palmerston and held the post through to the end of Russell's government. He never spoke in the Commons but moved the address to the Queen's Speech in the Lords in 1869 which turned out to be his only speech there.
Granville left the seat the same way he came in on his own elevation just before the 1868 election and was succeeded by one of the Fitzwilliams.
He died in 1872 in Italy aged only 47.
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