Sir Henry Petty 1st Earl of Shelburne was born 22 October 1675 , a younger son of Sir William Petty and Elizabeth, Baroness Shelburne, daughter of Sir Hardress Waller. [1]
He was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1727, succeeding his elder brother Charles Petty, as 1st Baron Shelburne to the family estates in 1696 and then bought further estates near Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.[1]
He married the Hon. Arabella, daughter of Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan, in 1699.
They had one daughter:
His wife, the Countess of Shelburne died in October 1740.[1]
He died 17 April 1751 (Aged 75)[1]
HIs his titles became extinct. His estates devolved on his nephew John FitzMaurice, who changed his surname to Petty and in whose favour the earldom of Shelburne was revived in 1753[1]
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