Sir George Wombwell, 3rd Baronet

Sir George Wombwell, 3rd Baronet (13 April 1792 – 14 January 1855) was a British baronet.

Early life Wombwell was born on 13 April 1792. He was the eldest son of Sir George Wombwell, 2nd Baronet and Lady Anne Belasyse. After his mother's death in 1808, his father married Eliza Little, daughter of T. E. Little. From his parents' marriage, he had a younger brother, Henry Walter Wombwell, who died unmarried. From his father's second marriage, he had a half-sister, Louisa ( Wombwell) Beauclerk (best known for her lengthy relationship with Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, grandson of King George III and cousin of Queen Victoria), and a half-brother, Charles Orby Wombwell (who married his wife's sister, Charlotte Catherine Hunter, in 1836). succeeded as the 3rd Baronet Wombwell, of Wombwell, and inherited Newburgh Priory in Coxwold, North Yorkshire, the old seat of the Belasyses.

Personal life

On 23 June 1824, Wombwell married Georgiana Hunter (1807–1875) at the bride's father's house in Grosvenor Place, London. Together, they were the parents of:

Sir George Orby Wombwell, 4th Baronet (1832–1913), who married Lady Julia Sarah Alice Child-Villiers, daughter of George Child-Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey and Julia Peel (daughter of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel), in 1861.

Descendants Through his youngest son Frederick, he was a grandfather of Frederick Adolphus Wombwell (father of Sir Frederick Wombwell, 6th Baronet) and Almina Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon.