Background
Wolverton was the eldest of the nine sons of the banker George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton, and his wife Marianne, daughter of Pascoe Grenfell.
Wolverton was the eldest of the nine sons of the banker George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton, and his wife Marianne, daughter of Pascoe Grenfell.
He held office in three of the Liberal administrations of William Ewart Gladstone. Wolverton was elected to Parliament for Shaftesbury as a Liberal in 1857, a seat he would hold until he succeeded his father in 1873 and entered the House of Lords. In 1868 he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in William Ewart Gladstone"s first administration, a post he held until 1873, when he was also admitted to the Privy Council.
The Liberals lost office in 1874, but when Gladstone returned to power in 1880 Wolverton was appointed Paymaster-General.
He retained this office until Gladstone resigned in June 1885 and the Conservatives came to power under Lord Salisbury. The same year the Liberal Party split over the issue of Irish Home Rule.
Wolverton supported Gladstone and was rewarded when he was made Postmaster General in February 1886, when Gladstone became Prime Minister for a third time. However, the government fell already in July the same year.
Lord Wolverton married Georgiana Maria Tufnell, daughter of Reverend George Tufnell, in 1848.
They had no children. They lived at Warren House in Coombe, Kingston upon Thames. The small country house, now a Grade II listed conference centre, was built in the 1860s for Hugh Hammersley, and then extended 1884-1886 by the architect George Devey.
In 1876 he bought the manorial estate at in Dorset from the Bower family, to which he made many changes and improvements, including the building of a large mansion designed by Alfred Waterhouse.
Much of the farmland was turned over to parkland, and he pursued his passion for hunting, maintaining, till 1879, a pack of bloodhounds.
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