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Authorised form of namePetty; Henry (1675 - 1751); 1st Earl of Shelburne; Anglo-Irish peer and politician
Dates1675 - 1751
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLondon, Middlesex, England
Date of birth22 October 1675
Place of deathHigh Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
Date of death17 April 1751
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
OccupationAnglo-Irish peer and politician
ActivityCareer:
Joint Prothonotary of the Common Pleas of Ireland (1692-1700); Joint Ranger of Phoenix Park and Joint Master of the Game of All Ireland (1698-death); Privy Councillor (Ireland) (1701); Deputy-Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (1703); MP for Great Marlow (1715-1722); MP Chipping Wycombe (1722-1727); at his death left a fortune of £16,000 a year and £250,000 in the funds
Honours:
Viscount Dunkeron and Earl of Shelburne (1719)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election30/11/1696
Age at election21
ProposerSir Robert Southwell
RelationshipsParents: Sir William Petty (FRS 1660) and Elizabeth, Baroness Shelburne, widow of Sir Maurice Fenton and daughter of Sir Hardess Waller and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Dowdall of Kilfinny
Siblings: Anne Kerry; Charles Petty, 1st Baron Shelburne; and John Petty
Spouse: Arabella, daughter of Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan (FRS 1664) and Jane, daughter of William Seymour, Duke of Somerset
Children: Anne, who married Francis Bernard of Castle Bernard, Bandon, County Cork
Hereditary titles: Succeeded his brother as 3rd Baron Shelburne (1699)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; Hunter; GEC; Sedgwick; 'History of Parliament Online' [URL: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/petty-henry-1675-1751; last accessed: 11/01/2024]
CodeNA792
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MS/390/51Bond of Henry Petty to the Treasurer of the Royal Society9 December 1696
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