George Monckton-Arundell, 6th Viscount Galway
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The Viscount Galway
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 Engraving of Lord Galway by Joseph Brown, 1870
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| Member of Parliament for East Retford | |
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In office 1847–1876 |
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| Preceded by |
Granville Harcourt Vernon Arthur Duncombe |
| Succeeded by |
Francis Foljambe William Beckett-Denison |
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| Born |
George Edward Arundell Monckton-Arundell
1 March 1805 |
| Died | 6 February 1876 (aged 70) Serlby Hall, Essex |
| Spouse |
Henrietta Milnes
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1838; died 1876) |
| Relations | George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway (grandson) |
| Children | George Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway |
| Parent(s) |
William Monckton-Arundell, 5th Viscount Galway Catherine Elizabeth Handfield |
| Education | Harrow School |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
George Edward Arundell Monckton-Arundell, 6th Viscount Galway (1 March 1805 – 6 February 1876), was an Anglo-Irish Conservative politician.
Early life
George Edward Arundell Monckton-Arundell was born on 1 March 1805. He was the son of William George Monckton-Arundell, 5th Viscount Galway and Catherine Elizabeth Handfield.
He was educated at Harrow and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1824, earning his B.A. in 1827.
Career
He succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1834 but as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords.
He was instead elected to the House of Commons for East Retford in 1847, a seat he held until 1876 (the remainder of his life), and served as a Lord-in-waiting in 1852 in the first Conservative administration of the Earl of Derby.
Personal life
On 25 April 1838 Lord Galway married his first cousin Henrietta Maria Milnes at St George's, Hanover Square. She was a daughter of Robert Pemberton and sister of Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, in 1838. Together, they were the parents of:
- George Edward Milnes Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway (1844–1931), who married Vere Gosling, the only daughter of Ellis Gosling of Busbridge Hall, Surrey in 1879.
He was Master of the Grove Hunt from 1848 to 1876, and died from the effects of a hunting accident in February 1876, aged 70, at Serlby Hall, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his son George. Lady Galway died in September 1891.