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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.
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.
John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton; Isaac Barré; William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (Lord Shelburne) by Sir Joshua Reynolds.jpg 2,400 × 1,792; 726 KB Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) (and studio) - William Petty (1737–1805), 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne - 872153 - National Trust.jpg 1,000 × 1,187; 128 KB
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 ...
2 John Petty, formerly FitzMaurice, 1st Earl of Shelburne b 1706 d 14 May 1761, Bowood, Wiltshire m 16 Feb 1734/35, St Bride, Dublin. 3 Mary FitzMaurice b d 9 Dec 1780, Llewenny Hall, Denbighshire . Grandparents . 4 Thomas FitzMaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry b 1668 d 16 Mar 1742, Lixnaw m 14 Jan 1692/93, St Peter and St Kevin, Dublin. 5 Anne Petty
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 Fitzmaurice, 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 Anglo-Irish Whig statesman who was the first home secretary in 1782 and then prime minister from 1782 to 1783 during the final months of the ...
