The son of the seventh earl (d. 1831); educated at Westminster School, he was a Tory MP for Worcester City (1816-26) and was Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire (1838).

REFERENCES TO George William Coventry, eighth earl of Coventry:

Earl of Sefton to Thomas Creevey, 26 November 1833 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)