George Irby, 3rd Baron Boston
The Lord Boston | |
|---|---|
| Born | George Irby 27 December 1777 Mayfair, London |
| Died | 12 March 1856 (aged 78) Hedsor House, Buckinghamshire |
| Education | Eton College |
| Alma mater | Oxford University |
| Spouse |
Rachel Ives Drake
(m. 1801; died 1830) |
| Children | 10, including George |
| Parent(s) | Frederick Irby, 2nd Baron Boston Christian Methuen |
| Relatives | William Irby, 1st Baron Boston (grandfather) |
Major George Irby, 3rd Baron Boston (27 December 1777 – 12 March 1856) was an English peer and landowner.
Early life
[edit]George Irby was born on 9 June 1749 at Grosvenor Street, Mayfair, London.[1] For his baptism on 28 January 1778, his sponsor was King George III (for whom his father served as Lord of the Bedchamber).[2] He was the eldest son, of thirteen children, born to the former Christian Methuen and Frederick Irby, 2nd Baron Boston. Among his siblings were Rear-Admiral Hon. Frederick Paul Irby (who married George's sister-in-law, Emily Ives Drake),[3] Hon. Charles Leonard Irby (who travelled to the Middle East and married Frances Mangles),[3] and the Hon. Anne Maria Louisa Irby (who married Henry Peachey, 3rd Baron Selsey), among others.[3]
His paternal grandparents were William Irby, 1st Baron Boston, and Albinia Selwyn (a sister of William Selwyn, MP for Whitchurch).[4] His paternal aunt, Hon. Augusta Georgina Elizabeth Irby,[5] married Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham.[6] His maternal grandparents were Paul Methuen, MP for Westbury, Warwick, and Great Bedwyn, and Catharine Cobb of Corsham Court, Wiltshire.[7] His maternal uncle, Paul Cobb Methuen, was the father of Paul Methuen, 1st Baron Methuen.[8]
He was educated at Eton College,[9] and graduated from Oxford University with a Doctor of Civil Laws.
Career
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Irby entered the British Army, purchasing a Cornet in the 1st Dragoons on the 4 March 1794. He was promoted to Major in the 13th Light Dragoons on 22 January 1801 before he retired on 14 August 1801.[1]
Upon the death of his father on 23 March 1825,[10] he succeeded as the 3rd Baron Boston, of Boston, Lincolnshire in the Peerage of Great Britain,[11] as well as the 4th Baronet Irby, of Whaplode and Boston, Lincolnshire in the Baronetage of Great Britain.[12]
Personal life
[edit]On 17 October 1801 at Catton, Norfolk, Irby married Rachel Ives Drake (1783–1830), daughter of William Drake, MP for Amersham, and Rachel Elizabeth Ives.[3] Her sister, Emily Ives Drake, was the first wife of his brother, Frederick Paul Irby. Together, they were the parents of:
- George Ives Irby, 4th Baron Boston (1802–1869), who married Fanny Elizabeth Hopkins-Northey, daughter of William Richard Hopkins-Northey and Anne Elizabeth Fortescue, in 1830. After her death, he married Hon. Caroline Amelia Saumarez, daughter of John Saumarez, 3rd Baron de Saumarez and Caroline Esther Rhodes, in 1861.
- Hon. Rachel Emily Irby (1805–1873), who married Capt. William Jones Prowse in 1840.
- Hon. Charlotte Isabella Irby (1807–1883), who married Thomas FitzMaurice, 5th Earl of Orkney, son of John FitzMaurice, Viscount Kirkwall and Hon. Anna Maria de Blaquiere (a daughter of the 1st Baron de Blaquiere), in 1826.
- Hon. William Drake Irby (1808–1839), a Captain with the 1st Dragoon Guards; he died unmarried.
- Hon. Frances Matilda Irby (1810–1879)[13]
- Hon. Frederica Maria Louisa Irby (1814–1885), who married Edward Horatio Hussey, 21st Baron Galtrim, son of Edward Thomas Hussey, 20th Baron Galtrim, and Anne Frances Bacon (a daughter of Sir Edmund Bacon, 8th Baronet), in 1840.
- Hon. Georgina Albinia Irby (1816–1900), who died unmarried.
- Hon. Catherine Cecilia Irby (1818–1894), who married Col. Walter Caulfeild Pratt, son of Col. Joseph Pratt and Jemima Roberta Tynte (a daughter of Sir James Tynte, 1st Baronet), in 1852.
- Hon. Augustus Anthony Frederick Irby (1820–1870), who married Jessie Augusta Montgomery-Cuninghame, daughter of Sir Thomas Montgomery-Cuninghame, 8th Baronet and Charlotte Niven Doig Hutcheson, in 1866.
- Hon. Llewellyn Charles Robert Irby (1822–1911), the Rector at Whiston, Northamptonshire; he married Margaret Emily Bullock, daughter of Jonathan Bullock of Faulkbourne Hall, Essex, in 1845.
Lord Boston died on 12 March 1856 at Hedsor House, Buckinghamshire. He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, George.[12]
Drake-Ives inheritance
[edit]His wife Rachel and her sister, Emily, each inherited one half of their maternal grandfather Jeremiah Ives's property, including the Manors of Boyland (including Boyland Hall} and Fritton, as well as Drake's property in Boyland, Fritton, Hempnall, Morningthorpe, Stratton St. Mary and St. Michael, Long Stratton and Tasburgh; Drake's messuage in Flixton and land in Flixton and Gunton, Suffolk; Drake's house 'The White House' and land in Blundeston; Drake's messuage and land in Corton, Suffolk; Drake's messuage in Amersham in Buckinghamshire, formerly part of the George Inn; property in Amersham, Chesham and Woburn, including Chartridge Farm in Chesham and Woburn; property formerly of Jeremiah Ives as described in 1781 Drake-Ives settlement.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Brown, Steve (29 August 2023). King George's Army - British Regiments and the Men Who Led Them 1793-1815: Volume 1: Administration and Cavalry. Helion and Company. p. 247. ISBN 978-1-80451-601-0. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ^ "Frederick Irby, 2nd Baron Boston - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ^ a b c d Burke, Bernard (1892). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage: Together with Memoirs of the Privy Councillors and Knights. Harrison & Sons. p. 155. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ^ Drummond, Mary M. "SELWYN, William (1732-1817), of Boxley, Kent". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ^ The Register of Births & Baptisms in the Parish of St James within the Liberty of Westminster Vol. IV. 1741-1760. 5 August 1747.
- ^ G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 227.
- ^ Drummond, Mary M. "METHUEN, Paul (1723-95), of Corsham, Wilts". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ^ Drummond, Mary M. "METHUEN, Paul Cobb (1752-1816), of Corsham, Wilts". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ^ "George Irby, third baron Boston". lordbyron.org. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ^ Kassler, Michael (31 July 2024). Memoirs of the Court of George III. Taylor & Francis. p. 148. ISBN 978-1-040-15612-4. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage and Titles of Courtesy. Dean & Son. 1879. p. 77. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
- ^ a b Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, vol. 1, pp. 445-7.
- ^ "Irby family commonplace booIrby family commonplace book, 1823-1852k. - YCBA Collections Search". collections.britishart.yale.edu. Yale Center for British Art. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ^ "Settlements on the marriage and after the marriage of Frederick Paul Irby and Emily Ives Drake 1803, 1806 and settlement after the marriage of George Irby and Rachel Ives Drake 1806". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. National Archives (United Kingdom). 1803. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
External links
[edit]- George Irby, 3rd Baron Boston dated 1854, after Herbert Luther Smith, at the Royal Collection Trust