George Grenfell Glyn, 2nd Baron WolvertonPC (10 February 1824 – 6 November 1887), was a British Liberal politician. He held office in three of the Liberal administrations of William Gladstone.
Wolverton was the eldest of the nine sons of the banker George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton, and his wife Marianne, daughter of Pascoe Grenfell. His grandfather Sir Richard Carr Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Gaunt's House, and great-grandfather Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell, had been prominent London bankers, both had served as Lord Mayor of London.
The same year the Liberal Party split over the issue of Irish Home Rule. Wolverton supported Gladstone and was rewarded when he was made Postmaster General in February 1886, when Gladstone became Prime Minister for a third time. However, the government fell already in July the same year.
Iwerne Minster
In 1876 he bought the manorial estate at Iwerne Minster in Dorset from the Bower family,[3] to which he made many changes and improvements, including the building of a large mansion designed by Alfred Waterhouse. Much of the farmland was turned over to parkland, and he pursued his passion for hunting, maintaining, till 1879, a pack of bloodhounds.[4]
Lord Wolverton married Georgiana Maria Tufnell, daughter of Reverend George Tufnell, in 1848. They had no children. He died suddenly in November 1887, aged 63, and was succeeded in the barony by his nephew, Henry Glyn.
^Barrett, Barry. Iwerne Minster St Mary's Church & Village Story.
^Brough, Edwin (1907). Read, Tony (ed.). Bloodhounds, History, Origins, Breeding & Training (excerpted from the Kennel Encyclopaedia of 1907). ISBN978-1-4067-8733-7.
^"Warren House, Kingston upon Thames". www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
External links
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by George Glyn
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