George Thomas Keppel, sixth earl of Albemarle

(1799-1891)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Albemarle, George Thomas Keppel, Earl of, 1799-1891 NRA: Keppel George Thomas (1799-1891) 6th Earl of Albemarle General DNB: Keppel, George Thomas, sixth earl of Albemarle (1799-1891), army officer LBT ID: LdAlbem6 VIAF ID: 41974897 LOC ID: n80007819	B/BAP: 1799-06-13 DIED: 1891-02-21
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Son of the fourth earl (d. 1849); he left Westminster School to fight at Waterloo, afterwards serving in the Ionian Islands and India; he published Personal Narrative of a Journey from India to England, 2 vols (1825) and was whig MP for East Norfolk (1832-35) and was private secretary to Lord John Russell.
REFERENCES TO George Thomas Keppel, sixth earl of Albemarle: Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 2 April 1824 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 15: Learned Societies Found 1: ¶ 7 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XVII Found 1: ¶ 6 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. III: 1823-24