George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont

British earl

Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1751

Place of Birth: Petworth House, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 11-Nov-1837

Profession: farmer, art collector

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont

  • George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont FRS (18 December 1751 – 11 November 1837) of Petworth House in Sussex and Orchard Wyndham in Somerset, was a British peer, a major landowner and a great art collector.
  • He was interested in the latest scientific advances.
  • He was an agriculturist and a friend of the agricultural writer Arthur Young, and was an enthusiastic canal builder who invested in many commercial ventures for the improvement of his estates.
  • He played a limited role in politics. He was a great patron of art and the painter J.
  • M.
  • W.
  • Turner lived for a while at his Sussex seat of Petworth House.
  • Several other painters including John Constable, C.
  • R.
  • Leslie, George Romney, the sculptor John Flaxman, and other talented artists received commissions from Wyndham, who filled his house with valuable works of art.
  • The earl was a sponsor of the Petworth Emigration Scheme intended to relieve rural poverty caused by overpopulation.
  • Generous and hospitable, blunt and eccentric, the earl was in his day a very prominent figure in English society.
  • Charles Greville assessed him as "immensely rich and his munificence was equal to his wealth" and wrote that "in his time Petworth was like a great inn." Though Wyndham had more than 40 children, the only legitimate one died in infancy.
  • Lord Egremont was succeeded in the earldom by his nephew George Wyndham, 4th Earl of Egremont (1786-1845), but bequeathed his unentailed estates, namely the former Percy estates including Petworth House in Sussex, Leconfield Castle in Yorkshire and Egremont Castle in Cumbria, to his eldest illegitimate son Col.
  • George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield (5 June 1787 – 18 March 1869).

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