| Sir George Wombwell, Bt | |
| Birth Date: | 13 April 1792 |
| Death Place: | St George Hanover Square |
| Residence: | Newburgh Priory --> |
| Parents: | Sir George Wombwell, 2nd Baronet Lady Anne Belasyse |
| Children: | 4, including George |
| Relations: | Sir George Wombwell, 1st Baronet (grandfather) Henry Belasyse, 2nd Earl Fauconberg (grandfather) |
Sir George Wombwell, 3rd Baronet (13 April 1792 – 14 January 1855) was a British baronet.
Wombwell was born on 13 April 1792. He was the eldest son of Sir George Wombwell, 2nd Baronet and Lady Anne Belasyse.[1] After his mother's death in 1808, his father married Eliza Little, daughter of T. E. Little. From his parents' marriage, he had a younger brother, Henry Walter Wombwell, who died unmarried.[2] From his father's second marriage, he had a half-sister, Louisa (Wombwell) Beauclerk (best known for her lengthy relationship with Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, grandson of King George III and cousin of Queen Victoria),[3] and a half-brother, Charles Orby Wombwell (who married his wife's sister, Charlotte Catherine Hunter, in 1836).
His paternal grandparents were Sir George Wombwell, 1st Baronet and Susannah Rawlinson (a daughter of Sir Thomas Rawlinson). His maternal grandparents were Henry Belasyse, 2nd Earl Fauconberg of Newborough, Yorkshire, and the former Hon. Charlotte Lamb (daughter of Sir Matthew Lamb, 1st Baronet and sister of Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne). His aunt, Lady Elizabeth Belasyse, was married to Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk.
Upon the death of his father on 28 October 1846, George, who was "well-known in fashionable circles",[4] succeeded as the 3rd Baronet Wombwell, of Wombwell, and inherited Newburgh Priory in Coxwold, North Yorkshire, the old seat of the Belasyses.
Sir George never took part in "public politics" and was mainly known "in the fashionable world, and on the Turf".[5]
On 23 June 1824, Wombwell married Georgiana Hunter (1807–1875) at the bride's father's house in Grosvenor Place, London. She was the youngest daughter of Thomas Orby Hunter (a grandson of Thomas Orby Hunter, MP for Winchelsea) and Frances Heywood (daughter of James Modyford Heywood).[6] Together, they were the parents of:[7]
Sir George died suddenly on 14 January 1855, at his townhouse at 15 St George Hanover Square.[8]
Through his youngest son Frederick, he was a grandfather of Frederick Adolphus Wombwell (father of Sir Frederick Wombwell, 6th Baronet) and Almina Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon.[7]