George Nugent-Grenville, 2nd Baron Nugent
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George Nugent-Grenville, 2nd Baron Nugent of Carlanstown, GCMG (31 December 1788 – 26 November 1850), was an Irish politician.
Life
A younger son of
He was
In November 1830 Nugent was made one of the
Nugent was an extreme Whig, or a whig-radical, in politics. He was a strong supporter of Queen
Nugent died on 26 November 1850, at his residence in Buckinghamshire.[1]
Works
In 1812 Nugent published Portugal, a Poem then in 1829 Oxford and Locke, which defended the expulsion of Locke from the University of Oxford against the censures of
Legends of the Library at Lillies (his family seat) appeared in 1832: "from the fireside of the... little oak library the following legends proceed."[3] It was followed by the two-volume travelogue Lands Classical and Sacred in 1845–6. Nugent also wrote pamphlets on political, social, and ecclesiastical subjects.[1]
Family
Nugent married, 6 September 1813, Anne Lucy, second daughter of Major-General the Hon. Vere Poulett. She died without issue in 1848, and the barony became extinct on the death of Nugent. [1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Smith 1890.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11491. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ XIX Century Fiction, Part I, A–K (Jarndyce, Bloomsbury, 2019).
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, George Barnett (1890). "Grenville, George Nugent (1788-1850)". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 23. London: Smith, Elder & Co.