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John Petty (Primitive Methodist minister) (1807–1868), 19th-century author and Primitive Methodist minister and first governor of Elmfield College. John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne (1706–1761), politician, father to former prime minister of Great Britain, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne. John Petty, 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne (1765 ...
Origins. This branch of the Fitzmaurice family descends from John Fitzmaurice, second son of Thomas Fitzmaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry (see Earl of Kerry for earlier history of the family), and his wife Anne, the daughter of the political economist Sir William Petty, whose wife had been created Baroness Shelburne for her own life only and whose two sons had been created at different times Baron ...
John Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Earl of Shelburne (Irish Peerage) Apparently the title "Earl of Shelburne" was also held by John's uncle, Henry Petty, but became extinct when he died in 1751. The title was recreated for John 225 on 26 Jun 1753. Born c. 1700; died in May 1761. Son of Thomas FitzMaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry.
11 de jun. de 2018 · Shelburne, William Petty, 2nd earl of (1737–1805). Shelburne was intelligent and able, but deemed untrustworthy by most of his social and political equals. He entered the army in 1757, became an MP in 1760, and went to the Lords in 1761, succeeding his father as earl of Shelburne and Baron Wycombe. Initially a follower of Bute, he shifted his ...
William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, PC (2 May 1737 – 7 May 1805), known as The Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was an Irish-born British Whig statesman who was the first Home Secretary in 1782 and then Prime Minister 1782–1783 during the final months of the American War of Independence. He succeeded in securing peace with ...
Henry Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne PC (I) was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1727. John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne PC (Ire), known as John FitzMaurice until 1751 and as The Viscount FitzMaurice between 1751 and 1753, was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician.
In 1760, Fitzmaurice was elected as Member of Parliament for Wycombe, but he did not take up his seat. His father died in May 1761, and Fitzmaurice was elevated to the peerage as the Earl of Shelburne. In 1763, Shelburne joined the Grenville ministry as First Lord of Trade. In 1766, he became Southern Secretary in Lord Chatham’s government.
