John Wodehouse, 2nd Baron Wodehouse

John Wodehouse, 2nd Baron Wodehouse (11 January 1771 – 31 May 1846), styled The Honourable John Wodehouse from 1797 to 1834, was a British peer and Member of Parliament.

Background Wodehouse was the eldest son of John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse and Sophia Berkeley. On 10 October 1793 he was commissioned as Captain in the East Norfolk Militia commanded by his father. On 14 July 1798 he was promoted to take over from his father as Colonel, the third generation of his family to command the regiment. In 1842 he was succeeded in command by his own son, Berkeley.

Political career Wodehouse was elected to the House of Commons for Great Bedwyn in 1796, a seat he held until 1802. In the general election that year he stood for Norfolk, but was defeated by Thomas Coke and Sir Jacob Astley; he was likewise defeated by Coke and William Windham in the 1806 election. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk in 1821. (5 June 1802 – 17 March 1874), RN, married Diana Thornton and left children Charlotte Laura Wodehouse (2 September 1803 – 1878), married Rev. Richard Phayre, left no children Henrietta Laura Wodehouse (30 March 1805 – aft. 1890), married John David Chambers in 1834 Major Berkeley Wodehouse (14 May 1806 – 13 September 1877), married Fanny Holmes and left children Caroline Elizabeth Laura (29 December 1810 – 1856), married John Whaites in 1836 and left children Cornet Bertram Wodehouse (30 April 1813 – 11 October 1856) Reverend Alfred Wodehouse (10 June 1814 – 6 September 1848), married Emma Hamilton Macdonald in 1840 and left children Emma Laura Wodehouse (d. 1820)

He died in 1846, aged 76, and was succeeded in the barony by his grandson John, who became a prominent Liberal politician and was created Earl of Kimberley in 1866.