After leading a cavalry brigade under the Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular War he held court offices and was MP for Lichfield (1806-1841).

REFERENCES TO Sir George Anson:

Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 1 January 1839 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854)

Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 20 October 1840 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854)

Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 12 April 1841 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854)

Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 11 May 1846 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854)