Background
Carysfort was the son of John Proby, 1st Baron Carysfort, and the Honorary Elizabeth, daughter of Joshua Allen, 2nd Viscount Allen. Carysfort succeeded his father as second Baron in 1772.
Carysfort was the son of John Proby, 1st Baron Carysfort, and the Honorary Elizabeth, daughter of Joshua Allen, 2nd Viscount Allen. Carysfort succeeded his father as second Baron in 1772.
He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
In 1789 he was admitted to the Irish Privy Council, created Earl of Carysfort in the Peerage of Ireland and appointed Joint Master of the Rolls in Ireland, which he remained until 1801. In February 1790 he was returned to the House of Commons for East Looe, a seat he held until June the same year, and then represented Stamford until 1801. He was also Envoy to Berlin between 1800 and 1802.
On 18 February 1793, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Northamptonshire.
In 1801 he was created Baron Carysfort, of the Hundred of Norman Cross in the County of Huntingdon, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which gave him a seat in the British House of Lords. He served as a Commissioner of the Board of Control and as Joint Postmaster General under Lord Grenville from 1806 to 1807 and was sworn of the British Privy Council in 1806.
In 1810 Carysfort published Dramatic and Narrative Poems. Lord Carysfort married, firstly, Elizabeth Osbourne, daughter of Sir William Osborne, 8th Baronet, in 1774.
They had three daughters.
Lady Carysfort died in December 1842, aged 86.
Royal Society; 17th Parliament of Great Britain. 18th Parliament of Great Britain.