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The Earl of Dorchester
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| Chief Secretary for Ireland | |
| In office 1794–1795 | |
| Monarch | George III |
| Prime Minister | William Pitt the Younger |
| Preceded by | Sylvester Douglas |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Pelham |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1746-03-28)28 March 1746 |
| Died | (1808-03-07)7 March 1808 Park Lane, London |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
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George Damer, 2nd Earl of Dorchester, PC, PC (Ire) (28 March 1746 – 7 March 1808), styled Viscount Milton between 1792 and 1798, was a British politician. He served as Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1794 and 1795.
Dorchester was the second son of Joseph Damer, 1st Earl of Dorchester. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his MA in 1767.[1][2]
Lord Dorchester sat as Member of Parliament for Cricklade between 1768 and 1774,[3] for Anstruther Burghs between 1778 and 1780,[4] for Dorchester between 1780 and 1790[5] and for Malton between 1792 and 1798.[6] He also represented Naas in the Irish House of Commons between 1795 and 1798[7] and served under William Pitt the YoungerasChief Secretary for Ireland between 1794 and 1795. He was sworn of the British Privy Council in 1794[8] and of the Irish Privy Council in 1795.[9]
He succeeded his father in the earldom on 12 January 1798, his elder brother having committed suicide in 1776, and entered the House of Lords. On 25 June 1798, he was appointed colonel of the Dorset Militia in succession to Lord Rivers,[10] but resigned in late 1799.[11] Lord Dorchester was also Lord Lieutenant of Dorset, and colonel of the Dorsetshire Yeomanry Cavalry, from 1803 to 1808.[12]
Lord Dorchester was a great favourite of the royal family who occasionally stayed at his estate at Milton Abbey near Weymouth.[13] He died unmarried in Park Lane, London,[14] in March 1808, aged 61, when his titles became extinct. His estates were inherited by his sister Lady Caroline Damer, and on her death in 1828 by their Dawson cousins, who assumed the additional name of Damer. John Dawson-Damer, 2nd Earl of Portarlington, inherited the large but encumbered Irish properties, and his younger brothers Henry and George Dawson-Damer received respectively the estates of Milton Abbey and Came.[15]
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Cricklade 1768–1774 With: Sir Robert Fletcher |
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Anstruther Burghs 1778–1780 |
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Dorchester 1780–1791 With: William Ewer 1780–1789 Thomas Ewer 1789–1790 Cropley Ashley 1790 Francis Fane 1790–1791 |
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Malton 1792–1798 With: Edmund Burke 1792–1794 Richard Burke 1794–1795 William Baldwin 1795–1798 |
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| Parliament of Ireland | ||
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Naas 1795–1798 With: Sir James Bond, Bt 1795–1797 Vacant 1797–1798 |
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| Military offices | ||
| Preceded by | Colonel of the Dorset Militia 1798–1799 |
Succeeded by Richard Bingham |
| New regiment | Colonel of the Dorsetshire Yeomanry Cavalry 1803–1808 |
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| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by | Chief Secretary for Ireland 1794–1795 |
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| Preceded by | Lord Lieutenant of Dorset 1803–1808 |
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| Peerage of Great Britain | ||
| Preceded by | Earl of Dorchester 1798–1808 |
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