Sir George John Egerton Dashwood, 6th Bt.
About Sir George John Egerton Dashwood, 6th Bt.
Lived 1851 – 1933 (aged 81).
Sir George John Egerton Dashwood, 6th Baronet, DL, JP (12 September 1851 – 1 September 1933), of Kirtlington Park, was an English landowner.
Early life Dashwood was born on 12 September 1851. He was the eldest son of Sir Henry Dashwood, 5th Baronet (1816–1889), and the former Sophia Drinkwater (1818–1894). His sister, Ellen Louisa Dashwood, married Hon. Conrad Adderley Dillon (second son of Arthur Dillon, 16th Viscount Dillon).
His paternal grandparents were Sir George Dashwood, 4th Baronet (MP for Truro), and the former Marianne Sarah Rowley (eldest daughter of Sir William Rowley, 2nd Baronet). His maternal grandparents were Ellen ( Hyde) Drinkwater (daughter of Nathan Hyde, of Ardwick) and John Drinkwater, of Sherborne.
Career On 25 January 1889, he succeeded to the baronetcy upon the death of his father. In 1909, he sold the family estate, Kirtlington Park, to the Earl of Leven and Melville. The house had been built at the beginning of the 18th century and contained notable examples of Grinling Gibbons's carving. He was Deputy Lieutenant and a Justice of the Peace of Oxfordshire. Like his father before him, he served as High Sheriff of Oxfordshire from 1903 to 1904. in 1919. in 1909.
Sir George died at his home in Oxford on 1 September 1933. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Robert. His funeral was held at Ristlington parish church, near Oxford, and led by the Vicar and the Rev. Lord Victor Seymour, his brother-in-law. His widow, Lady Dashwood, died on 29 December 1948.
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