Peter Ludlow, 1st Earl Ludlow Personal Computer, known as The Lord Ludlow between 1755 and 1760, was a British politician.
Background
Ludlow was the son of Peter Ludlow and Mary, daughter of John Preston, of Ardsalla, County Meath (of the Viscounts Gormanston). He was the grandson of Stephen Ludlow, who represented several constituencies in the Irish House of Commons, and the great-grandson of Henry Ludlow, brother of the Parliamentarian general Edmund Ludlow.
Career
He served as Comptroller of the Household from 1782 to 1784. In 1755 Ludlow, then aged only 25, was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Ludlow, of Ardsalla in the County of Meath. Five years later he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Preston, of Ardsalla in the County of Meath, and Earl Ludlow in the Irish peerage.
As these were not English peerages he was still eligible to stand for election to the House of Commons, and in 1768 he was returned for Huntingdonshire, a seat he would hold for the next 28 years.
In 1782 he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Comptroller of the Household, a post he held until 1784. Lord Ludlow married Lady Frances, eldest daughter of Thomas Lumley-Saunderson, 3rd Earl of Scarbrough, in 1753.
Ludlow"s second son George, the third Earl, was a General in the British Army.
Membership
13th Parliament of Great Britain. 14th Parliament of Great Britain. 15th Parliament of Great Britain.
16th Parliament of Great Britain.
17th Parliament of Great Britain.