John Wodehouse, 2nd Baron Wodehouse
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John Wodehouse, 2nd Baron Wodehouse (11 January 1771 – 31 May 1846), styled The Honourable John Wodehouse from 1797 to 1834, was a British peer and Member of Parliament.
Background
Wodehouse was the eldest son of John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse and Sophia Berkeley.[1]
Political career
Wodehouse was elected to the
House of Commons for Great Bedwyn in 1796, a seat he held until 1802. In the general election that year he stood for Norfolk, but was defeated by Thomas Coke and Sir Jacob Astley; he was likewise defeated by Coke and William Windham in the 1806 election. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk in 1821.[1] He later represented Marlborough from 1818 to 1826. In 1834 he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the House of Lords as a Conservative. Wodehouse was a Peelite, and gave his proxy to the ministry to vote for repeal of the Corn Laws in the Lords shortly before his death.[1]
Family
Lord Wodehouse married Charlotte Laura Norris, daughter of John Norris, of Witton Park, Norfolk, in 1796. They had eleven children:[1]
- Norris John Wodehouse (May 1798 – 25 May 1819)
- Henry Wodehouse (1799 – 29 April 1834), married Anne Gurdon and left two sons:
- John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley (1826–1902)
- Henry Wodehouse (27 May 1834 – 20 August 1873) was granted the rank of a baron's younger son in 1847. He married Mary Livingstone King, daughter of John Pendleton King, left no children. His widow later married Henry Paget, 4th Marquess of Anglesey
- Sophia Laura Wodehouse (13 January 1801 – 1869), married Raikes Currie in 1825
- Vice-Admiral Edward Thornton-Wodehouse[2] (5 June 1802 – 17 March 1874), RN, married Diana Thornton and left children
- Charlotte Laura Wodehouse (2 September 1803 – 1878), married Rev. Richard Phayre, left no children
- Henrietta Laura Wodehouse (30 March 1805 – aft. 1890), married John David Chambers in 1834
- Captain Berkeley Wodehouse (14 May 1806 – 13 September 1877), married Fanny Holmes and left children
- Caroline Elizabeth Laura (29 December 1810 – 1856), married John Whaites in 1836 and left children
- Cornet Bertram Wodehouse (30 April 1813 – 11 October 1856)
- Reverend Alfred Wodehouse (10 June 1814 – 6 September 1848), married Emma Hamilton Macdonald in 1840 and left children
- Emma Laura Wodehouse (d. 1820)
He died in 1846, aged 76, and was succeeded in the barony by his grandson John, who became a prominent Liberal politician and was created Earl of Kimberley in 1866.
Notes
- ^ a b c d Sylvanus Urban, ed. (1846). "Obituaries". The Gentleman's Magazine. 180: 92.
- A Naval Biographical Dictionary. London: John Murray.
References
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- Lundy, Darryl. "FAQ". The Peerage.[unreliable source]
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