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Proby, John Joshua, 1751-1828
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1751-1828
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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.