Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne
Hereditary Peerage | |
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Preceded by | The 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne |
Succeeded by | The 4th Marquess of Lansdowne |
Member of Parliament for Cambridge University | |
In office 15 December 1806 – 27 April 1807 | |
Preceded by | William Pitt the Younger |
Succeeded by | Vicary Gibbs |
Member of Parliament for Calne | |
In office 31 August 1802 – 24 October 1806 | |
Preceded by | Sir Francis Baring, Bt |
Succeeded by | Osborne Markham |
Personal details | |
Born | Lady Louisa FitzPatrick | 2 July 1780
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh Trinity College, Cambridge |
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne,
Background and education
Lansdowne was the son of Prime Minister
Political career
He entered the
He was
Other public appointments
Lansdowne chaired the inaugural meeting of the London Statistical Society, and was its first president (1834–1836). He later served a second term (1842–1844). (See The Times 15 and 17 March 1834, and John Bibby (1987) HOTS: History of Teaching Statistics.)
Family
Lord Lansdowne married Lady Louisa Fox-Strangways, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Ilchester, in 1808. They had two sons and one daughter:
- William Thomas Petty-FitzMaurice, Earl of Kerry(30 March 1811 – 21 August 1836)
- Lady Louisa (1813 – 12 June 1906) married Hon. James Kenneth Howard, son of Thomas Howard, 16th Earl of Suffolk. They had a son Kenneth (married Lady Emily Bury, daughter of the Earl of Charleville) and daughter Winifrede.
- Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne(7 January 1816 – 5 July 1866).
Louisa died in April 1851, aged 65, and Lord Lansdowne in January 1863, aged 82. His eldest son, the Earl of Kerry, had predeceased him and he was succeeded in the marquessate by his only surviving son, Henry. The latter was the father of
References
- ^ a b c public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lansdowne, William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of s.v. Henry Petty Fitzmaurice". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 184. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ "Fitzmaurice, Lord Henry Petty (FTSY798HP)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
External links
- "Archival material relating to Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne". UK National Archives.
- Illustrated London News, 14 February 1863.
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Marquess of Lansdowne