George Edward Anson

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George Edward Anson (1812-1849), was a courtier and British politician. He served as Keeper of Her Majesty's Privy Purse, Treasurer of the Household to HRH Prince Albert, Treasurer and Cofferer of the Household of HRH the Prince of Wales, a member of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster and of the Prince of Wales's Council for the Duchy of Cornwall.

Anson served as private secretary to Prince Albert, and was frequently employed on diplomatic missions for the Prince. He was married to the Hon. Georgiana Mary Harbord, who was a Woman of the Bedchamber to the Queen and sister of Edward, Third Lord Suffield. Anson died an untimely death at age 37 in Needwood, Staffordshire. He was the son of the Rev. Frederick Anson, Dean of Chester, born at Shugborough Hall, and his wife Anne, only daughter of Rev. Richard Levett and Louisa Frances (Bagot) of Milford Hall. George Edward Anson's elder brother was also a Rev. Frederick Anson, formerly a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and later Canon of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. Frederick Anson was married to Caroline Maria, daughter of George John Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon.

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• The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing, Edmund Lodge, 1843
• Obituary of George Edward Anson, The Gentleman's Magazine, 1849
• George Edward Anson, ThePeerage.com
• Appointment of Anson, Bulletins and Other State Intelligence, Windsor, 1847
• George Edward Anson deceased, Bulletins and Other State Intelligence, Windsor, 1849
• Ancestry of George Edward Anson
• George Edward Anson, Sudbury, Derbyshire