About George Evans, 2nd Baron Carbery
Lived 1705 – 1759 (aged 53–54). George Evans, 2nd Baron Carbery was a politician.
George Evans, 2nd Baron Carbery (died 2 February 1759), known until 1749 as Hon. George Evans, was a British politician. Like his father, he represented Westbury as a Whig. Evans entered the British House of Commons in 1734 as a supporter of the Walpole administration. He was in financial difficulties by 1743, and did not stand for election again in 1747. Succeeding his father as an Irish peer in 1749, he sat in the Irish House of Lords until his death a decade later.
Biography Evans was the eldest son of George Evans, 1st Baron Carbery and his wife Anne. On 23 May 1732, he married Hon. Frances FitzWilliam (d. 30 July 1789), the second daughter of Richard FitzWilliam, 5th Viscount FitzWilliam and Frances Shelley. Upon their marriage, Evans was given the Laxton Hall estate of his mother, worth £1,100 per year, and an annuity on the family's Irish estates worth £1,400 per year. Evans and his wife had four children: George Evans, 3rd Baron Carbery (d. 1783) John Evans, 5th Baron Carbery (1738–1807) William Evans, died young Hon. Frances Anne Evans (d. 12 July 1802), married Edward Warter Wilson, of Bilboa House, on September 1756, and afterwards married Eleazar Davy, of Ubbeston Hall, Suffolk
At the 1734 election, Evans stood for Westbury as a Whig, together with John Bance. They narrowly defeated James Bertie and William Phipps, Tory candidates backed by the Earl of Abingdon. Bance joined the opposition Whigs, while Evans, though he voted against ratifying the Convention of Pardo in 1739, was afterwards classed as a Government supporter. Lord Carbery died on 2 February 1759 and was succeeded by his eldest son George.
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