George Damer, 2nd Earl of Dorchester, PC, PC, styled Viscount Milton between 1792 and 1798, was a British politician who served as Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1794 to 1795.
Portrait by Thomas Beach, 1795
Milton Abbey in the late 1800s
Joseph Damer, 1st Earl of Dorchester was a country landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1741 to 1762 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Milton. He was particularly ass
George Damer, 2nd Earl of Dorchester
…Milton between 1792 and 1798, was a British politician who served as Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1794 to 1795. Dorchester was the second son of Joseph Damer, 1st Earl of Dorchester. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his MA in 1767. Lord Dorchester sat as Member of Parliament for Cricklade between…
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