George Irby, 4th Baron Boston

George Ives Irby was born on 14 September 1802. He was the son of George Irby, 3rd Baron Boston and Rachel Ives Drake. His father was a first cousin of Paul Methuen, 1st Baron Methuen. His maternal grandparents were William Drake, MP for Amersham, and Rachel Elizabeth Ives (a daughter of Jeremiah Ives, of Norwich). Between 1814 and 1817, he was educated at Eton College. He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 1 February 1821, graduating in 1824 with a Bachelor of Arts. ==Career==

On 7 February 1831 he was commissioned as a captain in the disembodied Royal Buckinghamshire Militia (King's Own), a nominal position that he retained into the 1850s. Upon the death of his father on 12 March 1856, he succeeded as the 4th Baron Boston, of Boston, Lincolnshire in the Peerage of Great Britain, as well as the 5th Baronet Irby, of Whaplode and Boston, Lincolnshire in the Baronetage of Great Britain. The seats of the Barons Boston were Hedsor Lodge, near Maidenhead; The Grange, Hitcham, near Maidenhead; Llanidan Hall, near Carnarvon; and Porthamel, Isle of Anglesey, Wales. ==Personal life==

On 25 January 1830, he married Fanny Elizabeth Hopkins-Northey (d. 1860), daughter of William Richard Hopkins-Northey and Anne Elizabeth Fortescue. Before her death in 1860, they were the parents of: • Florance George Henry Irby, 5th Baron Boston (1837–1877), who married Hon. Augusta Caroline Saumarez, second daughter of John Saumarez, 3rd Baron de Saumarez and Caroline Esther Rhodes, in 1859. On 20 July 1861 at St George's, Hanover Square, he married his son's sister-in-law, Hon. Caroline Amelia Saumarez, eldest daughter of John Saumarez, 3rd Baron de Saumarez and, his first wife, Caroline Esther Rhodes (daughter of William Rhodes of Kirskill Hall, Yorkshire, and Bramhope Hall, Yorkshire). Together, they were the parents of: ==References==