George Ludlow, 3rd Earl Ludlow
The Earl Ludlow 1st Foot Guards | |
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Commands held | Brigade of Guards Various ad hoc divisions |
Battles/wars | American Revolutionary War
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Awards | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath |
Other work | Equerry to the Prince of Wales Lieutenant-Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed |
General George James Ludlow, 3rd Earl Ludlow GCB (12 December 1758 – 16 April 1842), was a British peer and soldier.
Military service
Ludlow served in the
He was a Regimental Colonel in turn of the 96th Regiment of Foot, the 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot and the Scots Fusiliers.[2][3]
Family and peerage
Ludlow was the younger son of Peter Ludlow, 1st Earl Ludlow, by Lady Frances, daughter of Thomas Lumley-Saunderson, 3rd Earl of Scarbrough. Ludlow succeeded his elder brother Augustus in the earldom in 1811. As this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to a seat in the House of Lords. However, in 1831 he was created Baron Ludlow in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which enabled him to take a seat in the upper chamber of parliament.[4]
Lord Ludlow died in April 1842, aged 83. He was unmarried and all his titles became extinct on his death.[2]
References
- ^ Graham, James John (1862). Memoir of General Graham: with notices of the campaigns in which he was engaged from 1779 to 1801. Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark. p. 87.
- ^ a b Courthope, William (editor).Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Twenty-Second Edition. London: J. G. & F. Rivington, 1838.
- ^ "No. 19389". The London Gazette. 7 June 1836. p. 1028.
- ^ "No. 18846". The London Gazette. 9 September 1831. p. 1834.