Background
Wrottesley was the son of John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley, and his first wife Lady Caroline Bennet, daughter of Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville. He succeeded his father in the barony on 16 March 1841.
Wrottesley was the son of John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley, and his first wife Lady Caroline Bennet, daughter of Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville. He succeeded his father in the barony on 16 March 1841.
He was also President of the Royal Society from 1854 to 1858. In 1853 he called the attention of the House of Lords to Lieutenant Maury"s valuable scheme of meteorological observations and discoveries, and on 30 November 1855 succeeded the Earl of Rosse as President of the Royal Society. The crater Wrottesley on the Moon is named in honour of John Wrottesley.
Lord Wrottesley died in October 1867, aged 69.
On 28 July 1821 Wrottesley married Sophia Elizabeth (d 13 January 1880), third daughter of Thomas Giffard of Chillington in Staffordshire. His two youngest sons—Henry and Cameron—fell in action.
Royal Society.