Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

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Member of the House of Commons for Buckinghamshire
In office
1818 – 17 January 1839
Succeeded byCaledon Du Pré
Personal details
Born11 February 1797 (1797-02-11)
Tory
Spouse
Lady Mary Campbell
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(m. 1819; div. 1850)​
Children
Parents
  • Richard Temple-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
  • Lady Anne Brydges
Alma materOriel College, Oxford
The Grenville Armorial produced between 1822 and 1839 for Richard Temple-Grenville, Marquess of Chandos, the son of the 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. The centrepiece of the Gothic Library at Stowe House, it shows 719 quarterings of the family.

Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos,

Tory politician. He served as Lord Privy Seal
between 1841 and 1842.

Two events in his life were remarkable, given the era he lived in and the position he held in society as a duke: firstly, he obtained a divorce at a time when it required an

Act of Parliament
; secondly, despite the great wealth to which he was born, he declared bankruptcy with debts of over a million pounds in 1847.

Background and education

Born at

Lady Kinloss. In 1799, Richard Temple-Nugent-Grenville changed the already triple-barrelled family name to Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville by royal license to reflect his wife's family.[1]

The second Duke was a paternal grandson of

Prime Minister George Grenville. He was educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford.[2]

Political career

Buckingham sat as

Sir Robert Peel, a post he held only until February 1842. He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Order in 1835, elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1840[2] and made a Knight of the Garter in 1842.[4]

Slave ownership

According to the

Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership at University College London, Buckingham was the beneficiary of payment due to him as a slave owner in the aftermath of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.[5]

Buckingham was associated with "T71/865 St Andrew claim no. 114 (Hope Estate)", for 379 slaves in Jamaica. The claim was made by his father, the 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, but it was denied, as it was subject to a marriage settlement for the heir and his wife. The compensation was instead awarded to the Trustees of that settlement, who received a £6,630 payment at the time, to the 2nd Duke's benefit.[6]

Financial affairs

In 1847, eight years after succeeding his father as

English country house contents auctions of the 19th century. The financial ruin of so prominent a member of the aristocracy, who had inherited an income of more than £70,000, a vast fortune at the time, became a national sensation.[7]

Personal life

In 1819, Buckingham married Lady Mary Campbell, daughter of

Act of Parliament. Anna went to campaign for women's rights.[8]

Buckingham died at the Great Western Hotel, Paddington, London, in July 1861, aged 64, and was succeeded in the dukedom by his only son. His former wife died less than a year later in June 1862, aged 66.[2]

References

  1. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1
    .
  2. ^ a b c d Stephen, Leslie (1890). Dictionary of National Biography. p. 130. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  3. ^ a b "No. 20014". The London Gazette. 3 September 1841. p. 2221.
  4. ^ "No. 20090". The London Gazette. 12 April 1842. p. 1017.
  5. ^ "Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos". University College London. Retrieved on 20 March 2019.
  6. ^ "Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos". University College London. Retrieved on 15 September 2021.
  7. ISBN 9780719037573
    . Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  8. ^ Elizabeth Crawford, ‘Langton, Lady Anna Eliza Mary Gore- (1820–1879)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 7 Nov 2017

Bibliography

  • Spring, David & Spring, Eileen (1956). "The Fall of the Grenvilles, 1844-1848". Huntington Library Quarterly. 19 (2): 165–190.
    JSTOR 3816224
    .

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire
1818–1839
With: William Selby Lowndes 1818–1820
Robert Smith 1820–1831
John Smith 1831–1835
Sir George Dashwood, Bt 1832–1835
Sir William Young 1835–1839
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Peerage of the United Kingdom
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Peerage of Scotland
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