FORTESCUE

Hugh Fortescue , 2 Earl ( eld. child of 1 Earl Fortescue 1753–1841 ). b. 13 Feb. 1783; styled Viscount Ebrington 1789–1841; ed. at Eton and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1810; M.P. for Barn staple 1804–7, for St. Mawes 1807–9, for Bucking ham 1812–17, for Devon 1818–20, 1830 and 1831–32, for Tav i stock 1820–30, for North Devon 15 Dec. 1832 to 1 March 1839 when summoned to House of Peers in his father’s barony of Fortescue; col. of 1 Devon militia 20 May 1816 to death; F.R.S. 5 June 1817; lord lieut. of Ireland 1 March 1839 to 15 Sep. 1841; P.C. 1 March 1839; lord lieut. of Devon 1839 to death; lord steward of H.M.’s household 1846–50; parliamentary sec. of Poor law board 1847–51; K.G. 12 July 1856; author of Memorandum of two conversations between Napoleon and Viscount Ebrington 1814. d. at house of H. Ford, 25 Southern hay, Exeter 14 Sep. 1861. Saunders’s Portraits of Reformers (1840) 135, portrait ; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 349–52.