John Wodehouse in 1832, painted by Thomas Philips

John Wodehouse, 2nd Baron Wodehouse (11 January 1771 – 31 May 1846), styled The Honourable John Wodehouse from 1797 to 1834, was a British peer and Member of Parliament.

Background

Wodehouse was the eldest son of John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse and Sophia Berkeley.[1]

Political career

Wodehouse was elected to the House of Commons for Great Bedwyn in 1796, a seat he held until 1802. In the general election that year he stood for Norfolk, but was defeated by Thomas Coke and Sir Jacob Astley; he was likewise defeated by Coke and William Windham in the 1806 election. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk in 1821.[1] He later represented Marlborough from 1818 to 1826. In 1834 he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the House of Lords as a Conservative. Wodehouse was a Peelite, and gave his proxy to the ministry to vote for repeal of the Corn Laws in the Lords shortly before his death.[1]

Family

Lord Wodehouse married Charlotte Laura Norris, daughter of John Norris, of Witton Park, Norfolk, in 1796. They had eleven children:[1]

  • Norris John Wodehouse (May 1798 – 25 May 1819)
  • Henry Wodehouse (1799 – 29 April 1834), married Anne Gurdon and left two sons:
  • Sophia Laura Wodehouse (13 January 1801 – 1869), married Raikes Currie in 1825
  • Vice-Admiral Edward Thornton-Wodehouse[2] (5 June 1802 – 17 March 1874), RN, married Diana Thornton and left children
  • Charlotte Laura Wodehouse (2 September 1803 – 1878), married Rev. Richard Phayre, left no children
  • Henrietta Laura Wodehouse (30 March 1805 – aft. 1890), married John David Chambers in 1834
  • Captain Berkeley Wodehouse (14 May 1806 – 13 September 1877), married Fanny Holmes and left children
  • Caroline Elizabeth Laura (29 December 1810 – 1856), married John Whaites in 1836 and left children
  • Cornet Bertram Wodehouse (30 April 1813 – 11 October 1856)
  • Reverend Alfred Wodehouse (10 June 1814 – 6 September 1848), married Emma Hamilton Macdonald in 1840 and left children
  • Emma Laura Wodehouse (d. 1820)

He died in 1846, aged 76, and was succeeded in the barony by his grandson John, who became a prominent Liberal politician and was created Earl of Kimberley in 1866.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Sylvanus Urban, ed. (1846). "Obituaries". The Gentleman's Magazine. 180: 92.
  2. ↑ For more on Edward Thornton-Wodehouse see: O'Byrne, William R. (1849). "Wodehouse, Edward Thornton" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary. London: John Murray.

References

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