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The Right Honourable
The Earl of Carysfort
KP PC PC (Ire) FRS
Arms of Proby: Ermine, on a fess gules a lion passant or
Joint Master of the Rolls in Ireland (with the Earl of Glandore)
In office
1789–1801
MonarchGeorge III
Preceded byThe Duke of Leinster
Succeeded byMichael Smith
Joint Postmaster General
(with the Earl of Buckinghamshire)
In office
1806–1807
MonarchGeorge III
Prime MinisterThe Lord Grenville
Preceded byThe Duke of Montrose
Lord Charles Spencer
Succeeded byThe Earl of Chichester
The Earl of Sandwich
Personal details
Born12 August 1751 (1751-08-12)
Died7 April 1828 (1828-04-08) (aged 76)
Upper Grosvenor Street, London
NationalityBritish
Political partyWhig
Spouse(s)(1) Elizabeth Osborne
(d. 1783)
(2) Elizabeth Grenville (1756-1842)
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge

John Joshua Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort, KP, PC, PC (Ire), FRS (12 August 1751 – 7 April 1828) was a British judge, diplomat, Whig politician and poet.

Background and education

Carysfort was the son of John Proby, 1st Baron Carysfort, and the Hon. Elizabeth, daughter of Joshua Allen, 2nd Viscount Allen. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1][2]

Political and judicial career

Carysfort succeeded his father as second Baron in 1772. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1779[1] and made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1784.[3] In 1789 he was admitted to the Irish Privy Council,[4] created Earl of Carysfort in the Peerage of Ireland[5] and appointed Joint Master of the Rolls in Ireland,[6] which he remained until 1801. The office was then generally regarded as a sinecure.[1] In February 1790 he was returned to the House of Commons for East Looe, a seat he held until June the same year,[1][7] and then represented Stamford until 1801.[1][8] He was also Envoy to Berlin between 1800 and 1802.[1] On 18 February 1793, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Northamptonshire.[9]

In 1801 he was created Baron Carysfort, of the Hundred of Norman Cross in the County of Huntingdon, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom,[10] which gave him a seat in the British House of Lords. He served as a Commissioner of the Board of Control and as Joint Postmaster General under Lord Grenville from 1806 to 1807 and was sworn of the British Privy Council in 1806.[11]

In 1810 Carysfort published Dramatic and Narrative Poems.[1]

Family

Elton Hall

Lord Carysfort lived at Elton Hall, Huntingdonshire, which he inherited from his father. He married, firstly, Elizabeth Osbourne, daughter of Sir William Osborne, 8th Baronet, in 1774. They had three sons and one daughter. After Elizabeth's early death in 1783 he married, secondly, Elizabeth Grenville, daughter of Prime Minister George Grenville, in 1787. They had three daughters. Lord Carysfort died in April 1828, aged 76, and was predeceased by his eldest son, William, being succeeded in his titles by his second but eldest surviving son John. Lady Carysfort died in December 1842, aged 86.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Record for John Joshua Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort on thepeerage.com
  2. ^ "Proby, the Hon. John Joshua (PRBY767JJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ "No. 12526". The London Gazette. 9 March 1784. p. 5.
  4. ^ "No. 13138". The London Gazette. 6 October 1789. p. 642.
  5. ^ "No. 13124". The London Gazette. 18 August 1789. p. 557.
  6. ^ "No. 13124". The London Gazette. 18 August 1789. p. 558.
  7. ^ "leighrayment.com House of Commons: Ealing to Elgin". Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 15 September 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  8. ^ "leighrayment.com House of Commons: Southend to Stamford". Archived from the original on 23 October 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  9. ^ "No. 13708". The London Gazette. 27 September 1794. p. 987.
  10. ^ "No. 15327". The London Gazette. 10 January 1801. p. 55.
  11. ^ "No. 15889". The London Gazette. 11 February 1806. p. 189.
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Member of Parliament for East Looe
1790
With: Viscount Belgrave 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Stamford
1790 – 1801
With: Sir George Howard 1790–1796
John Leland 1796–1801 		Succeeded by
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Parliament of Great Britain
 Member of Parliament for Stamford
1801
With: John Leland 		Succeeded by
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by British Minister to Prussia
1800 – 1802 		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Master of the Rolls in Ireland
1789 – 1801
With: The Earl of Glandore 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Joint Postmaster General
1806 – 1807
With: The Earl of Buckinghamshire 		Succeeded by
Peerage of Ireland
New creation Earl of Carysfort
1789 – 1828 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Baron Carysfort
1772 – 1828
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Carysfort
1801 – 1828 		Succeeded by
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