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Up for sale a RARE! "8th Earl of Coventry" George Coventry Signed Free Frank Dated 1822.
October 1784 – 15 May 1843), styled Viscount Deerhurst from
1809 to 1831, was a British peer and Tory Member of
Parliament. Coventry was the eldest son of George
Coventry, 7th Earl of Coventry, and his wife Peggy (née Pitches).
His younger brother was the Hon. William Coventry and his sisters were Lady
Augusta Coventry (wife of Gen. Sir Willoughby Cotton), Lady Barbara Coventry (wife of Lt. Col.
Alexander Gregan-Crauford) and Lady Sophia Coventry (wife of Sir Roger Gresley, 3rd Bt and Sir William Des Voeux, 3rd Bt).
His paternal grandparents were George
Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry and the former Maria Gunning
(eldest daughter of Col. John Gunning of Castle Combe and Hon Bridget Bourke, a daughter of Theobald Bourke, 6th Viscount Mayo).[1] His mother was the second daughter and
co-heiress of Sir Abraham Pitches, former High Sheriff of Surrey,
and Jane Hassel (daughter of Robert Prowse Hassel of Wraytesbury).
He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He
was elected to the House of
Commons as one of two representatives for Worcester in
1816, a seat he held until 1826. In 1831, he succeeded his father in the
earldom and entered the House of Lords. In 1838, he served as Lord Lieutenant of
Worcestershire.
