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George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield

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Lord Macclesfield married Mary Frances, daughter of Reverend Thomas Drake, in 1780. She died in January 1823. Macclesfield died in March 1842, aged 87, and was succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother, Thomas.
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in August 1824. As chair of the canal company, he saw it through its most testing times as a variety of problems and obstacles had to be surmounted before the canal could be opened in 1820.
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Lord Macclesfield was a director of the Regent's Canal from 1812 and its chairman from 1816. He was appointed as a commissioner of the
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A List of the Officers of the Militia, the Gentlemen & Yeomanry Cavalry, and Volunteer Infantry of the United Kingdom
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War he raised the County Fencible Cavalry in Oxfordshire, later the Watlington Cavalry, precursor of the
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between 1764 and 1795, was a British peer and politician who sat in the
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in 1777, a seat he held until 1784, and later represented
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The Right Honourable
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Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
George III
George IV
William IV
William Pitt the Younger
The Lord Grenville
The Duke of Portland
Spencer Perceval
The Earl of Liverpool
George Canning
The Viscount Goderich
The Duke of Wellington
The Lord Pelham
The Marquess of Clanricarde
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House of Commons
Thomas Parker, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield
Sir William Heathcote, 1st Baronet
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Minehead
Privy Council
Comptroller of the Household
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Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
French Revolutionary
Oxfordshire Yeomanry
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