John Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort
- John Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort
John Joshua Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort KP, PC, FRS (12 August 1751-7 April 1828), was an British Whig politician.
Carysfort was the son of John Proby, 1st Baron Carysfort, and the Hon. Elizabeth Allen, and was educated at Westminster School, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1779, was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1784 and created Earl of Carysfort in the Peerage of Ireland in 1789. In February 1790 he was elected to the House of Commons for East Looe, a seat he held until June the same year, and then represented Stamford until 1801. He was also an Envoy to Berlin between 1800 and 1802. 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, which gave him a seat in the British House of Lords. Carysfort later served as a Commissioner of the Board of Control and as Joint Postmaster General from 1806 to 1807. He was admitted to the Irish Privy Council in 1789 and to the British Privy Council in 1806.
Lord Carysfort married, firstly, Elizabeth Osbourne, daughter of Sir William Osbourne, 7th Baronet, in 1774. They had three son and one daughters. 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 1842.
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