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2 unusual facts about George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick


John Westbrooke Chandler

He was the natural son of George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick, worked in London towards the end of the last century.

Thomas Scott, 2nd Earl of Clonmell

Lord Clonmell married Lady Henrietta Louisa, daughter of George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick, in 1805.


George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick

He was also the first aristocratic patron to George Romney, from whom he commissioned several portraits of his children and two wives.

He amassed in his own words a "matchless collection of pictures by Sir Peter Paul Rubens and Sir Anthony Van Dyck", several of which are still in the collection at Warwick Castle.

Heneage Finch, 6th Earl of Aylesford

Born in Packington, Worcestershire, Aylesford was the son of Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford and his wife Lady Augusta Sophia, fourth daughter of George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick.

Richard FitzPatrick

Lady Evelyn bore her second husband three daughters: Henrietta, who married George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick; Caroline Maria, who married Robert Percy Smith, brother of writer Sydney Smith and Elizabeth who never married but became companion to her niece, Caroline Fox.


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