Petty-Fitzmaurice, Henry, 1816-1866
- GB-2014-WSA-13830
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- 1816-1866
PETTY-FITZMAURICE, HENRY, 4TH MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE, younger son of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquis of Lansdowne (qv); b. 5 Jan 1816; adm. 30 Jun 1826 (recorded as Packharness', likely Stelfox's); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 16 Dec 1833, fellow commoner 29 Jan 1834, matr. Mich. 1834; styled Earl of Shelburne 1836-63; MP (Whig) Calne 1837 – 14 Jul 1856; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 24 Dec 1847 – Aug 1848; Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 5 Jul 1856 – 26 Feb 1858; called up to House of Lords in father’s barony as Baron Wycombe 14 Jul 1856; Chairman, Great Western Railway 1859-63; succ. father as 4th Marquis of Lansdowne 31 Jan 1863; KG 10 Oct 1864; DL Wiltshire 1840; m. 1st, 18 Aug 1840 Lady Georgiana Herbert, fifth dau. of George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke; m. 2nd, 1 Nov 1843 Hon. Emily Jane Mercer Elphinstone de Flahault (Baroness Nairne), eldest dau. of Auguste Charles Joseph Flahaut de la Billarderie, Comte de Flahault, French Ambassador in Vienna and London; d. 5 Jul 1866. DNB.