Lot 1649 , John Jones after Thomas Beach, mezzotint, 'The Right Honourable Lord Viscount Milton, Colonel of the Dorsetshire Volunteer Rangers', published by Beach 1795, visible sheet 51 x 36cm

John Jones after Thomas Beach, mezzotint, 'The Right Honourable Lord Viscount Milton, Colonel of the Dorsetshire Volunteer Rangers', published by Beach 1795, visible sheet 51 x 36cm
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George Damer, 2nd Earl of Dorchester, PC, PC (Ire) (1746 – 1808), styled Viscount Milton between 1792 and 1798, was a British politician. He served as Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1794 and 1795.
Lord Dorchester sat as Member of Parliament for Cricklade between 1768 and 1774, for Anstruther Burghs between 1778 and 1780, for Dorchester between 1780 and 1790 and for Malton between 1792 and 1798. He also represented Naas in the Irish House of Commons between 1795 and 1798[7] and served under William Pitt the Younger as Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1794 and 1795. He was sworn of the British Privy Council in 1794 and of the Irish Privy Council in 1795.
He succeeded his father in the earldom on 12 January 1798, his elder brother having committed suicide in 1776, and entered the House of Lords. On 25 June 1798, he was appointed colonel of the Dorset Militia in succession to Lord Rivers, but resigned in late 1799. Lord Dorchester was also Lord Lieutenant of Dorset, and colonel of the Dorsetshire Yeomanry Cavalry, from 1803 to 1808.

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