Fulke Greville-Nugent, 1st Baron Greville explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Greville
Office:Lord Lieutenant of Westmeath
Term Start:1871
Term End:1883
Predecessor:The Marquess of Westmeath
Successor:Sir Benjamin Chapman, Bt
Office2:Member of Parliament for County Longford
Term Start2:1852
Term End2:1869
Alongside2:Richard Maxwell Fox (1852–1856), Henry George Hughes (1856–1857), Henry White (1857–1861), Luke White (1861–1862), Myles O'Reilly (1862–1869)
Predecessor2:Richard Maxwell Fox
Richard More O'Ferrall
Successor2:Myles O'Reilly
Reginald Greville-Nugent
Term Start3:1850
Term End3:1850
Predecessor3:Abel Smith
Successor3:William John Lysley
Birth Date:17 February 1821
Party:Liberal
Parents:Algernon Greville
Caroline Graham
Children:Algernon Greville-Nugent, 2nd Baron Greville
George Greville-Nugent
Robert Greville-Nugent
Reginald Greville-Nugent
Patrick Greville-Nugent
Mildred Greville-Nugent

Colonel Fulke Southwell Greville-Nugent, 1st Baron Greville (17 February 1821 – 25 January 1883), known as Fulke Greville until 1866, was an Irish Liberal politician.

Early life

Greville was the second son of Algernon Greville, Esq., of North Lodge in Hertford, and the former Caroline Graham. His mother was the second daughter of Sir Bellingham Graham, 6th Baronet.[1]

He was a member of a junior branch of the Greville family headed by the Earl of Warwick.[2]

Political career

Greville sat as Member of Parliament for Longford County as a Liberal from 19 July 1852 until 1869, when he was raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Greville, of Clonyn in the County of Westmeath. He had adopted the surname of Nugent-Greville by Royal Patent in 1866. He subsequently served as Lord Lieutenant of Westmeath from 1871 to 1883.[3]

Personal life

On 28 April 1840 Lord Greville married Lady Rosa Emily Mary Anne Nugent, the only daughter and heir of George Nugent, 1st Marquess of Westmeath and, his first wife, Lady Emily Cecil (second daughter of James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury). Together, they had six children:[2]

Lord Greville died on 25 January 1883.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Debrett's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage. 12 April 2015.
  2. Web site: Greville, Baron (UK, 1869 - 1987) . cracroftspeerage.co.uk . Heraldic Media Limited . 15 November 2019 . 15 November 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191115193616/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/greville1869.htm . live .
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20060905065409/http://www.quinnipiac.edu/other/abl/etext/irish/trouble/Irishpolitics.html Recollections of troubled times in Irish politics