George Augustus Frederick Charles Holroyd, 2nd Earl of Sheffield FRS (16 March 1802 – 5 April 1876), styled Viscount Pevensey from 1816 to 1821, was a British

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 Conservative

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 politician.

Sheffield was the son of John Baker-Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield

John Baker-Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield

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, by his second wife Lady Anne, daughter of Prime Minister Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford

Frederick North, Lord North

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, and succeeded his father in the earldom in 1821 at the age of nineteen. He was later able to take a seat in the House of Lords

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 in right of his junior title of Baron Sheffield, which was in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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, and served as a Lord-in-Waiting

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 (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1858 to 1859 in the Conservative administration

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 of the Earl of Derby

Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby

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.

Lord Sheffield married Lady Harriet, daughter of Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood

Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood

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, in 1825. He died in April 1876, aged 74, and was succeeded in his titles by his second but eldest surviving son Henry

Henry Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield

Henry North Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield , styled Viscount Pevensey until 1876, was an English Conservative politician and patron of cricket....

. The Countess of Sheffield died in January 1889.