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Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, PC, FRS (2 July 1780 – 31 January 1863), known as Lord Henry Petty from 1784 to 1809, was a British statesman.
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3 rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780-1863) Henry was a politician, philanthropist and patron to the arts. Until he succeeded his half-brother as 3 rd Marquess in 1809, Henry was Whig Member of Parliament for Calne and then for the University of Cambridge.
Marquess of Lansdowne is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1784, and held by the head of the Petty-Fitzmaurice family. The first Marquess served as Prime Minister of Great Britain .
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780 - 1863) RA Collection: People and Organisations. Landowner, politician; collector, and commissioner of works of art. Succeeded to the marquisate in November 1809 on the death of his half-brother, John Henry, the second marquess.
Biography. Chancellor of the Exchequer 1806-7, home secretary 1827-8, Lord President of the Council 1830-4, 1835-41, 1846-52, and in the Cabinet without office 1852-8. 1808, married Lady Louisa Emma Fox-Strangways (1785-1851), fifth daughter of the 2nd Earl of Ilchester.Championed anti-slavery, Catholic emancipation and law reform, but as home ...
In the north west tower chapel in the nave of Westminster Abbey is a memorial bust to Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne, politician. The bust is by sculptor Sir J. Edgar Boehm and was paid for in 1873.
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‘Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne’ was created in 1806 by Charles Turner in Romanticism style. Find more prominent pieces of portrait at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
