- GB-2014-WSA-14290
- Person
- 1751-1828
PROBY, JOHN JOSHUA, 1st EARL OF CARYSFORT (I), only son of John Proby, 1st Baron Carysfort (I) (qv); b. 12 Aug 1751; in school list Jun 1764; left 1767; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. nob. 21 Dec 1767, matr. 1770; MA 1771; LLD 1811; succ. as 2nd Baron Carysfort (I) 18 Oct 1772; KP 5 Feb 1784; created Earl of Carysfort (I) 20 Aug 1789; Privy Councillor (I) 26 Sep 1789; MP East Looe 4 Feb – 11 Jun 1790, Stamford 1790 – 21 Jan 1801; Minister Plenipotentiary to Berlin 20 May 1800 – Oct 1802; created Baron Carysfort (UK) 21 Jan 1801; Privy Councillor 12 Feb 1806; Joint Postmaster-General 20 Feb 1806 – May 1807; his second marriage brought him into the political grouping led by his wife’s brother Lord Grenville; FRS 4 Feb 1779; DCL Oxford 3 Jul 1810; m. 1st, 18 Mar 1774 Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Sir William Osborne, Bart, , MP (I); m. 2nd, 12 Apr 1787 Elizabeth, second dau. of Right Hon. George Grenville PC MP, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury; d. 7 Apr 1828. DNB.