George Fitzwilliam

British Member of Parliament
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroBritish Member of Parliament
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain
wasPolitician
Work fieldPolitics
Gender
Male
Birth28 February 1757
Death6 May 1786 (aged 29 years)
Star signPisces
Family
Father:William Fitzwilliam, 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam
Education
Eton College
Trinity Hall
The details

Biography

George Fitzwilliam (28 February 1757 – 6 May 1786) was a British Member of Parliament.

Biography

Fitzwilliam was the younger (and posthumous) son of William Fitzwilliam, 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam, by his wife Anne, sister of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham. He was educated at Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge and served in the 1st Troop, Horse Grenadier Guards. His brother William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam suggested him as a candidate for Grimsby at the general election in 1780, but his uncle Rockingham refused to contribute to the costs. Instead he replaced Sir Lawrence Dundas in a by-election at Richmond (Fitzwilliam's sister Charlotte was married to Dundas's son Thomas). In the House of Commons he voted against parliamentary reform in May 1783, and as a result his brother Lord Fitzwilliam was dissuaded from nominating him for York at a by-election later that year and at the general election in 1784, when he left the House. There is no record of his having spoken in Parliament. He died, unmarried, two years later.

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