Background
Wodehouse was the eldest son of John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse and Sophia Berkeley.
Wodehouse was the eldest son of John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse and Sophia Berkeley.
Wodehouse was elected to the House of Commons for Great Bedwyn in 1796, a seat he held until 1802. In the general election that year he stood for Norfolk, but was defeated by Thomas Coke and Sir Jacob Astley. He was likewise defeated by Coke and William Windham in the 1806 election.
He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk in 1821.
He later represented Marlborough from 1818 to 1826. In 1834 he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the House of Lords as a Conservative.
Wodehouse was a Peelite, and gave his proxy to the ministry to vote for repeal of the Corn Laws in the Lords shortly before his death. Lord Wodehouse married Charlotte Laura Norris, daughter of John Norris, of Witton Park, Norfolk, in 1796.
They had eleven children:
Norris John Wodehouse (May 1798 – 25 May 1819)
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Henry Wodehouse (1799 – 29 April 1834), married Anne Gurdon and left two sons:
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley (1826–1902)
Honorary Henry Wodehouse (27 May 1834 – 20 August 1873) was granted the rank of a baron"s younger son in 1847. His widow later married Henry Paget, 4th Marquess of Anglesey
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Sophia Laura Wodehouse (13 January 1801 – 1869), married Raikes Currie in 1825
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Honorary Edward Thornton-Wodehouse (5 June 1802 – 17 March 1874), Registered Nurse, married Diana Thornton and left issue
Honorary Charlotte Laura Wodehouse (2 September 1803 – 1878), married Review
Richard Phayre, left no issue
Honorary Henrietta Laura Wodehouse (30 March 1805 – aft 1890), married John David Chambers in 1834
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Honorary Berkeley Wodehouse (14 May 1806 – 13 September 1877), married Fanny Holmes and left issue
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Caroline Elizabeth Laura (29 December 1810 – 1856), married John Whaites in 1836 and left issue
Cornet Honorary Bertram Wodehouse (30 April 1813 – 11 October 1856)
Honorary Review Alfred Wodehouse (10 June 1814 – 6 September 1848), married Emma Hamilton Macdonald in 1840 and left issue
Emma Laura Wodehouse (d 1820).
1st United Kingdom Parliament. 6th United Kingdom Parliament. 7th United Kingdom Parliament.
18th Parliament of Great Britain.