Robert Monckton-Arundell, 4th Viscount Galway, PCKB (4 July 1752 – 23 July 1810) was an English peer and politician.
Early life
He was the second surviving of three sons and two daughters born to William Monckton-Arundell, 2nd Viscount Galway and the former Elizabeth Villareal. His father served as Receiver-General of the Crown rents for Yorkshire, Westmorland and Durham before being returned to Parliament as a Member for Pontefract and Thirsk. Among his siblings were sisters Hon. Elizabeth Monckton (wife of Sir Francis Sykes, 1st Baronet and Sir Drummond Smith, 1st Baronet) and Hon. Frances Charlotte Monckton (wife of Anthony Burlton-Bennett).[1]
He succeeded his elder unmarried brother Henry to the title in 1774.[1]
Career
He was elected Member of Parliament to represent Pontefract from 1780 to 1783, made a Privy Counsellor in 1784 and knighted in the Order of the Bath in 1786. He gave up his seat in 1783 following an appointment by Lord Shelburne as envoy to the Elector Palatine, however, the fall of the Government in March prevented his taking up the appointment.[4] In the subsequent general election, Galway was elected unopposed for the York constituency in 1783, serving until 1790. He spoke and voted against Fox's East Indiabill, 27 November 1783. He stood unsuccessfully for Pontefract in 1790, but was returned in 1796, serving until he resigned his seat in 1802.[5]
On 1 March 1779, Lord Galway married Elizabeth Mathew (c. 1760–1801), the daughter of Daniel Mathew of Felix Hall, Essex. Elizabeth's sister, Louisa, was the wife of James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, and her youngest sister, Jane, was the mother of Sir Edward John Gambier. Before her death on 19 November 1801, they were the parents of five sons and four daughters, including:[1]
After the death of his first wife, he married Mary Bridget (née Milnes) Drummond on 24 May 1803. Mary Bridget, the widow of Peter Auriol Hay Drummond (son of ArchbishopRobert Hay Drummond and grandson of the 8th Earl of Kinnoull), was the only child and heiress of Pemberton Milnes of Bawtry Hall, Yorkshire (a prosperous wool-merchant from Wakefield) and Jane Slater (a daughter of Dr .Adam Slater). There were no children of this marriage.[4]
Upon his death on 23 July 1810, he was succeeded by his son William. His widow died on 15 November 1835.[1]
^G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume V, page 615.
^ abL. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 89.