Background
He succeeded his father as 11th Baron Audley and 8th Baron Tuchet on 30 December 1563, and served in the Parliament of England from 30 September 1566 to 5 April 1614.
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George Tuchet
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Career
He was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He was Governor of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and Governor of Kells, County Meath, Ireland. He was wounded at the Battle of Kinsale, 24 December 1601.
He resided primarily in Ireland and was summoned by writ to the Irish House of Lords 11 March 1613/1614.
He was created 1st Baron Audley of Orier (County Armagh) and 1st Earl of Castlehaven (County Cork) on 6 September 1616 in the Peerage of Ireland. They had seven children:
Eleanor Tuchet (1590–1652), who married 1st: Sir John Davies, attorney of the king.
2nd: Sir Archibald Douglas. Mervyn (1593–1631)
Sir Ferdinando Tuchet Knight Bachelor, who married widow of Sir John Rodney.
Anne Tuchet, who married Edward Blount Esq.
Elizabeth Tuchet, who married 1st: Sir John Stawel. 2nd: Sir Thomas Griffin. Mary Tuchet, who married Sir Thomas Thynne.
Christian Tuchet, who married Sir Henry Mervyn.
The couple had no children.
