George Edward Anson
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, Treasurer of the Household to HRH Prince Albert
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, Treasurer and Cofferer of the Household of HRH the Prince of Wales
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, a member of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster
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and of the Prince of Wales's Council for the Duchy of Cornwall
Duchy of Cornwall
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Anson served as private secretary to Prince Albert, and was frequently employed on diplomatic missions for the Prince. He was married to the Hon. Georgiana Mary Harbord, who was a Woman of the Bedchamber
Woman of the Bedchamber
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to the Queen and sister of Edward, Third Lord Suffield. Anson died at age 37 in Barton-under-Needwood
Barton-under-Needwood
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, Staffordshire. He was the son of the Rev. Frederick Anson, Dean of Chester
Chester
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, born at Shugborough Hall
Shugborough Hall
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, and his wife Anne, only daughter of Rev. Richard Levett
Levett
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and Louisa Frances (Bagot
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) of Milford Hall
Milford Hall
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. George Edward Anson's elder brother was also a Rev. Frederick Anson
Frederick Anson
The Revd Frederick Anson , a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, served as Canon of St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. As such, he was Canon to Queen Victoria...
, formerly a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
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and later Canon
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of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. Frederick Anson was married to Caroline Maria, daughter of George John Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon.
External links
- The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing, Edmund Lodge, 1843
- Obituary of George Edward Anson, The Gentleman's Magazine, 1849
- Appointment of Anson, Bulletins and Other State Intelligence, Windsor, 1847
- George Edward Anson deceased, Bulletins and Other State Intelligence, Windsor, 1849
- Ancestry of George Edward Anson
- George Edward Anson, Sudbury, Derbyshire