George Thomas Kenyon was a British Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1885 and 1906.

Kenyon was the second son of Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon

Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon

Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon , was a British peer and Member of Parliament.Kenyon was the son of George Kenyon, 2nd Baron Kenyon, and Margaret Emma Hanmer. His grandfather was Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, Master of the Rolls and Lord Chief Justice of England...

 and his wife Hon. Georgina de Grey, daughter of Thomas de Grey, 4th Baron Walsingham

Baron Walsingham

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. He was educated at Harrow School

Harrow School

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 and at Christ Church, Oxford

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 and was called to the bar at Middle Temple

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 in 1869. He was a captain in the North Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry and a J.P.

Justice of the Peace

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 and Deputy Lieutenant

Deputy Lieutenant

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 for Flintshire

Flintshire

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 and a J.P. for Shropshire

Shropshire

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. He was guardian to his nephew, Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon

Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon

Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon, TD , was a British peer and Conservative politician.Kenyon was the son of the Hon. Lloyd Kenyon, son of Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon. He succeeded his grandfather as fourth Baron Kenyon in 1869, aged only five, and was able to take his seat in the House of...

 who inherited the title at the age of five.

At the 1874

United Kingdom general election, 1874

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 and 1880 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1880

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s, Kenyon stood unsuccessfully for the Denbigh Boroughs

Denbigh Boroughs (UK Parliament constituency)

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. He was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Denbigh at the 1885 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1885

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and held the seat until he stood down in 1895. He was elected again for Denbigh in 1900

United Kingdom general election, 1900

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 and held the seat until he stood down again in 1906

United Kingdom general election, 1906

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Kenyon lived at Llanerch-Parva, Ellesmere and died at the age of 67.

Kenyon married Florence Anna Leche in 1875.

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