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The Lord Wolverton | |
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| Paymaster General | |
| In office 24 May 1880 – 9 June 1885 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | William Gladstone |
| Preceded by | Hon. David Plunket |
| Succeeded by | The Earl Beauchamp |
| Postmaster General | |
| In office 17 February 1886 – 20 July 1886 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | William Gladstone |
| Preceded by | Lord John Manners |
| Succeeded by | Henry Cecil Raikes |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 February 1824 (1824-02-10) |
| Died | 6 November 1887(1887-11-06) (aged 63) |
| Nationality | British |
| Party | Liberal |
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| Relatives | Pascoe Glyn (brother) Sidney Glyn (brother) Edward Carr Glyn (brother) Pascoe Grenfell (maternal grandfather) |
George Grenfell Glyn, 2nd Baron WolvertonPC (10 February 1824 – 6 November 1887), was a BritishLiberal politician. He held office in three of the Liberal administrations ofWilliam Gladstone.
Wolverton was the eldest of the nine sons of the bankerGeorge Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton, and his wife Marianne, daughter ofPascoe Grenfell. His grandfather Sir Richard Carr Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Gaunt's House, and great-grandfather Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell, had been prominentLondon bankers, both had served asLord Mayor of London.
Wolverton was elected to Parliament forShaftesbury as aLiberal in 1857, a seat he would hold until he succeeded his father in 1873 and entered theHouse of Lords.[1] In 1868 he was appointedParliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in William Gladstone'sfirst administration, a post he held until 1873, when he was also admitted to thePrivy Council.[2] The Liberals lost office in 1874, but when Gladstone returned to power in 1880 Wolverton was appointedPaymaster General. He retained this office until Gladstone resigned in June 1885 and theConservatives came to power underLord Salisbury.
The same year the Liberal Party split over the issue ofIrish Home Rule. Wolverton supported Gladstone and was rewarded when he was madePostmaster General in February 1886, when Gladstone becamePrime Minister for a third time. However, the government fell already in July the same year.
In 1876 he bought the manorial estate atIwerne Minster in Dorset from the Bower family,[3] to which he made many changes and improvements, including the building of a large mansion designed byAlfred Waterhouse. Much of the farmland was turned over to parkland, and he pursued his passion for hunting, maintaining, till 1879,a pack of bloodhounds.[4]
Lord Wolverton married Georgiana Maria Tufnell, daughter of Reverend George Tufnell, in 1848. They had no children. He died suddenly in November 1887, aged 63, and was succeeded in the barony by his nephew, Henry Glyn.
They lived at Warren House inCoombe, Kingston upon Thames. The small country house, now aGrade II listed conference centre, was built in the 1860s for Hugh Hammersley, and then extended 1884-6 by the architectGeorge Devey.[5]
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forShaftesbury 1857–1873 | Succeeded by |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by | Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 1868–1873 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Paymaster General 1880–1885 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Postmaster General 1886 | Succeeded by |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by | Baron Wolverton 1873–1887 | Succeeded by Henry Richard Glyn |
