Arms of Proby: Ermine, on a fess gules a lion passant or
Elton Hall

John Proby, 1st Baron Carysfort KB PC (25 November 1720 – 18 October 1772) was a British Whig politician.

Life

He was the son of John Proby, of Elton Hall, Huntingdonshire, and his wife Jane, daughter of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Baron Gower. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge.[1]

Proby was returned to Parliament for Stamford in 1747, a seat he held until 1754, and then represented Huntingdonshire from 1754 to 1768. Carysfort served as a Lord of the Admiralty under the Duke of Devonshire in 1757 and under George Grenville from 1763 to 1765. In 1752 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Carysfort, of Carysfort in the County of Wicklow, and in 1758 he was admitted to the Irish Privy Council. In 1761 he was further honoured when he was made a Knight of the Order of the Bath.

Lord Carysfort died in October 1772, aged 51, and was succeeded in the barony by his son John, who was created Earl of Carysfort in 1789. Lady Carysfort died in March 1783, aged 60.

HMS Carysfort (1766) was the first ship named in his honour following his service as Lord of the Admiralty. In 1941, HMS Carysfort (R25) was named in his honour as the fifth Royal Navy warship to carry the name Carysfort.

Family

Proby's daughter Elizabeth Storer painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence

Proby married the Hon. Elizabeth Allen, daughter of Joshua Allen, 2nd Viscount Allen, in 1750: they had a son and a daughter.[2] The daughter Elizabeth (1752–1808) married Thomas John Storer (died 1792).[3]

References

  1. ^ "Proby, John (PRBY737J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ "Proby, John, jun. (1720–72), of Elton Hall, Hunts. and Glenart, co. Wicklow, History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  3. ^ Innes, Anne (1827). The Annual peerage of the British empire. Saunders & Otley. pp. 148–9.
Parliament of Great Britain Preceded byWilliam NoelJohn Proby Member of Parliament for Stamford 1747–1754 With: Lord Burghley 1747 Robert Barbor 1747–1754 Succeeded byRobert BarborJohn Harvey-Thursby Preceded byCoulson FellowesEdward Wortley Montagu Member of Parliament for Huntingdonshire 1754–1768 With: Coulson Fellowes 1754–1761Viscount Mandeville 1761–1762 Lord Charles Montagu 1762–1765 Robert Bernard 1765–1768 Succeeded byViscount HinchingbrookeThe Earl Ludlow Masonic offices Preceded byThe Lord Byron Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England 1752–1753 Succeeded byThe Marquess of Carnarvon Peerage of Ireland New creation Baron Carysfort 1752–1772 Succeeded byJohn Joshua Proby
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