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Charles George Noel, Viscount Campden and 2d earl of Gainsborough

1818–81

Military officer and politician. Captain of the Leicestershire Yeomanry. MP for Rutland, 1840–1. Lord-lieutenant and high sheriff of Rutland from 1848. Succeeded to the earldom, 1866.

Sources

Alum. Cantab.

Burke’s peerage 1865–78.

Bibliography

Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.

Burke’s peerage: A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the United Kingdom. Burke’s peerage and baronetage. 1st– edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1826–.

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