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Coat of arms of William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, KG. William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (2 May 1737 – 7 May 1805), known as the Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was an Anglo-Irish Whig statesman who was the first home secretary in 1782 and then prime minister in 1782–83 during the final months of the ...
In 1784, the second Earl of Shelburne was created Marquess of Lansdowne, in the County of Somerset, Earl of Wycombe, of Chepping Wycombe, and Viscount Calne and Calston, referring to Calne and Calstone in the County of Wiltshire, all in the Peerage of Great Britain. [7] However, he is better known to history under his former title of Earl of ...
He was the second son of the Hon. Anne Petty, daughter of Sir William Petty and Lady Shelburne and sister of the Earl of Shelburne, and her husband Thomas Fitzmaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry. He assumed by Act of Parliament the surname of Petty on succeeding to his maternal uncle's estates in 1751 [ 1 ] and the same year he was raised to the Peerage ...
Articles relating to William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1737-1805, term 1782-1783) and his term in office. Pages in category "William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
She married, as his second wife, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, who served as Prime Minister for 10 months in 1782–83, and was afterwards created Marquess of Lansdowne. The couple were married on 8 July 1779 Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice Petty, died young; Lord Henry Petty (1780–1863), who succeeded his elder half-brother as 3rd Marquess
Charles Maurice Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne, LVO, DL (born 21 February 1941), styled Earl of Shelburne between 1944 and 1999, is a British peer, landowner and army officer. He was Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire from 2012 to 2016, having served on a rural district council in the 1960s, chaired North Wiltshire District Council ...
Henry Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne; Anne, who married Thomas Fitzmaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry. Neither Charles nor Henry had male issue and the Shelburne title passed by a special remainder to Anne's son John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne, who took his mother's surname, and whose descendants hold the title Marquis of Lansdowne.
John Henry Petty, 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne (6 December 1765 – 15 November 1809), known as Earl Wycombe between 1784 and 1805, was a British Whig politician who in Ireland was suspected of complicity in a republican conspiracy. In 1786, his father, the former British Prime Minister Lord Shelbourne, secured him an English seat in the House of ...