George O'Brien Wyndham, third earl of Egremont

(1752-1837)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Egremont, George O'Brien Wyndham, Earl of, 1751-1837 NRA: Wyndham George O'Brien (1751-1837) 3rd Earl of Egremont DNB: Wyndham, George O'Brien, third earl of Egremont (1751-1837), art patron, agriculturist, and philanthropist LBT ID: LdEgrem3 VIAF ID: 59984107 LOC ID: nr91029925	B/BAP: 1752-02-09 DIED: 1837-11-11
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Of Petworth; educated at Westminster School, he was an art collector and patron of J. M. W. Turner, a lover of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and the father of four children by Elizabeth Fox. He is thought to have fathered several of Lady Melbourne's children also, among them the prime minister William Lamb.
REFERENCES TO George O'Brien Wyndham, third earl of Egremont: Charles Grey to Lady Melbourne, [1793 c.] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1: ¶ 43 Edward Jenner to Thomas Charles Morgan, 20 December 1808 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 5 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 6 November 1820 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 2 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 18 August 1828 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 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 XXX 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 XIII: 1819-20 Ch. VI: 1827-28 Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906, Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) I. Byron Characteristics Found 1: ¶ 43 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 23 Chapter IV. Found 2: ¶ 10 ¶ 22