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Personal data George CARPENTER 

• He was born in the year 1750 in Herefordshire.
• Title: 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell
• He died on April 15, 1805, he was 55 years old.

Household of George CARPENTER

He is married to Frances MANNERS.

They got married on July 9, 1772, he was 22 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Susanna CARPENTER  ± 1773-1827

Notes about George CARPENTER

George Carpenter, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell (1750 - 15 April 1805), styled The Honourable George Carpenter until 1761 and Viscount Carlingford between 1761 and 1762, was a British nobleman. He sat as Member of Parliament for Scarborough from 1772 to 1796 and for Berwick-upon-Tweed from 1796 to 1802.

Carpenter was the eldest son of George Carpenter, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell by his wife Frances (née Clifton), of Herefordshire, England. He became known by the courtesy title Viscount Carlingford when his father was elevated to an earldom in 1761. He succeeded in the earldom already the following year on the death of his father. This was an Irish peerage and did not entitle him to a seat in the British House of Lords although it did entitle him to a seat in the Irish House of Lords.

Family
Lord Tyrconnell married firstly on 9 July 1772, Frances Manners, the eldest daughter of the military commander John Manners, Marquess of Granby, and granddaughter of John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland. This marriage was dissolved by act of parliament in October 1777 and the Lady later married Phillip Anstruther, Esq.

Tyrconnell married secondly, on 3 June 1780, Sarah Hussey Delaval, the youngest daughter and co-heir of John Delaval, 1st Baron Delaval. They had one child;
Lady Susan Hussey Carpenter (abt 1784-1827), who married Henry Beresford, 2nd Marquess of Waterford.

Lord Tyrconnell was elected Member of Parliament for Scarborough on 28 July 1772, a seat he held until 1796, when he was returned for Berwick-upon-Tweed. He continued to represent this constituency until 1802. Despite his difficulty in marriage, he owed in Parliament to his former wives. Before 1790 he attended regularly, and silently followed the Rutland line in politics. He supported William Pitt's administration because The Duke of York's conduct towards Lady Tyrconnell that was alleged by Sir Gilbert Elliot.

Tyrconnell voted for Richmond's fortifications plan on 27 February 1786, and with Pitt over the Regency in 1788 and 1789. In May 1787, when the question of the Prince of Wales debts was brought before Parliament, Pulteney informed Tyrconnell about the letter he had received from Rutland, and Carpenter voted accordingly 'for the Prince.' In April 1791 Carpenter was listed as "hostile" to the repeal of the Test Act in Scotland, On 29 May 1791 he renewed an application to Pitt to place his sister, Lady Almeria Carpenter, on the pension list, in view of her "scanty income." He made no mark in that Parliament, except for his pleas for a fair hearing for John Fenton Cawthorne who was threatened with expulsion 25 April 1796. The Duchess of Rutland made clear that he would not be again nominated at Scarborough for 1796.

In 1796 he was unopposed as a MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed. By 1799 he had resolved not to stand again at Berwick, and he left no further evidence of Parliamentary activity and retired in 1802 from public life.

Lord Tyrconnell died on 15 April 1805. He was succeeded by his nephew, George, the son of Charles Carpenter, became the 3rd Earl of Tyrconnell.
SOURCE: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carpenter,_2nd_Earl_of_Tyrconnell

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