Person
George Ashburnham
- Slug
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- Alternative names
- Right Honourable, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham
- Gender
- Assigned male at birth
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Ethnicity
- White
- Languages
- English
- Occupations
- Unknown
Born in late 1760, Ashburnham was baptised on 29 January 1761 with King George III, the Duke of Newcastle and the Dowager Princess of Wales as his godparents. He was summoned to the House of Lords by 1804, and was the Trustee of the British Museum between 1810 and 1830. In 1812, he succeeded his father as 3rd Earl of Ashburnham. He had four children by his first wife, Sophia Thynne, and thirteen children by his second wife, Lady Charlotte Percy. He died in October of 1830.