George Edward Arundell Monckton-Arundell, 6th Viscount Galway (1 March 1805 – 6 February 1876), was an Anglo-Irish

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 Conservative

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 politician.

Galway was the son of William George Monckton-Arundell, 5th Viscount Galway. He succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1834 but as this was an Irish peerage

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 it did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords

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. He was instead elected to the House of Commons

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 for East Retford

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 in 1847, a seat he held for the remainder of his life, and served as a Lord-in-Waiting

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 in 1852 in the first Conservative administration

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 of the Earl of Derby

Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby

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Lord Galway married his first cousin Henrietta Eliza, daughter of Robert Pemberton Milnes and sister of Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

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, in 1838. He died in February 1876, aged 70, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his son George

George Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway

George Edmund Milnes Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway CB , was a British Conservative politician and courtier.-Biography:...

. Lady Galway died in September 1891.