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. | |