George Kenyon, second baron Kenyon

(1776-1855)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Kenyon, George Kenyon, Baron, 1776-1855 NRA: Kenyon George (1776-1855) 2nd Baron Kenyon politician DNB: Kenyon, George, second Baron Kenyon (1776–1855), activist against Catholic emancipation LBT ID: LdKenyo2 VIAF ID: 1559487 LOC ID: n88101047	B/BAP: 1776-07-22 DIED: 1855-02-25
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Son of the first baron (d. 1802); he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and was an ultra-tory peer opposed to Catholic emancipation.
REFERENCES TO George Kenyon, second baron Kenyon: Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 17 August 1820 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 10 November 1836 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXXVII. 1836-1837 Found 1: ¶ 4 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