Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue


Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue DL, known as Viscount Ebrington from 1841 to 1861, was a British peer and occasional Liberal Party politician.

Life

He was born in London on 4 April 1818.
He was the eldest son of Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue, by his first wife, Lady Susan, eldest daughter of Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby. He was a Cambridge Apostle.
He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Devon on 4 March 1839.
He entered the House of Commons in 1841 as a member for Plymouth. He lost this seat in 1852, but returned in 1854 for Marylebone, which seat he held until 1859, when he was called up to the House of Lords by a writ of acceleration.
In 1861, he succeeded to his father's earldom.

Family

He married Georgiana Augusta Caroline Dawson-Damer, granddaughter of John Dawson, 1st Earl of Portarlington, on 1 March 1847. They had fourteen children: