The Right Honourable
The Lord de Tabley
PC
Portrait by Margaret Sarah Carpenter, c.1830/32
Treasurer of the Household
In office
12 December 1868 – 1 March 1872
MonarchQueen Victoria
Prime MinisterWilliam Ewart Gladstone
Preceded byPercy Egerton Herbert
Succeeded byThe Lord Poltimore
Personal details
Born
George Fleming Leicester

(1811-10-28)28 October 1811
Died19 October 1887 (1887-10-20) (aged 75)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal
Spouses
Catharina de Salis-Soglio
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(m. 1832; died 1869)​
Elizabeth Smith-Barry
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(m. 1871; died 1887)​
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford

George Fleming Warren, 2nd Baron de Tabley PC (28 October 1811 – 19 October 1887) was a British Liberal politician. He notably served as Treasurer of the Household under William Ewart Gladstone between 1868 and 1872.

Early life

Born George Fleming Leicester, he was the eldest son of John Leicester, 1st Baron de Tabley, by his wife Georgina Maria Cottin, daughter of Josiah Cottin, and a godson of George IV.[1]

George was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1832, he assumed by Royal licence the surname of Warren in lieu of Leicester under the terms of the will of his kinswoman Elizabeth Warren-Bulkeley (née Warren), Viscountess Bulkeley.[2]

Political career

Lord de Tabley succeeded in the barony on the death of his father in 1827. He sat on the Liberal benches in the House of Lords and served under successively Lord Aberdeen, Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) between 1853[3] and 1858[4] and 1859[5] and 1866.[6] In 1868 he was appointed Treasurer of the Household in the first Liberal administration of William Ewart Gladstone,[7] a post he held until 1872,[8] and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1869.[9]

Personal life

Plaster oval miniature reliefs of De Tabley and his wife Nina, circa 1833.
Miniature of Lady de Tabley, from an album made by her sister-in-law, Emily Fane de Salis

Lord de Tabley married Catharina Barbara 'Nina', daughter of Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio, in 1832. They had two sons and four daughters:

Catherine-Barbara, first wife to 2nd Lord De Tabley.
Tomb of Lady de Tabley (c. 1870) and that of her eldest daughter, Catharine, Harlington.
Lady De Tabley's monogramme on her gravestone at Harlington (2013). (CWB for Catherina Barbara Warren).

Lady de Tabley died in 1869. Lord de Tabley subsequently married Elizabeth Smith-Barry (née Jacson) in 1871 but had no further children. He died in October 1887, aged 75, to be succeeded in his titles by his eldest and only surviving son, John.[11]

Gallery

References

  1. ^ Annual Obituary, 1827
  2. ^ Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1848. p. 295. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  3. ^ "No. 21402". The London Gazette. 14 January 1853. p. 97.
  4. ^ "No. 22106". The London Gazette. 2 March 1858. p. 1207.
  5. ^ "No. 22279". The London Gazette. 24 June 1859. p. 2471.
  6. ^ "No. 23139". The London Gazette. 17 July 1866. p. 4035.
  7. ^ "No. 23452". The London Gazette. 22 December 1868. p. 6775.
  8. ^ "No. 23837". The London Gazette. 5 March 1872. p. 1312.
  9. ^ "No. 23465". The London Gazette. 5 February 1869. p. 584.
  10. ^ George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume IV, page 206.
  11. ^ L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 103.

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Political offices Preceded byPercy Egerton Herbert Treasurer of the Household 1868–1872 Succeeded byThe Lord Poltimore Peerage of the United Kingdom Preceded byJohn Fleming Leicester Baron de Tabley 1827–1887 Succeeded byJohn Byrne Leicester Warren
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