Catalogue description Correspondence and Personal Papers of George Edward Monckton-Arundell, 6th Viscount Galway (1805-1876)

The collection includes a number of letters from family members, friends and acquaintances. The letters relate to family concerns and to business and estate matters. A number of letters relate to political events, particularly local elections, and correspondents include Henry Pelham Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle and Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881).

A series of miscellaneous papers, originally divided into 32 bundles, relate particularly to estate matters including a possible let of Serlby Hall and railway development on the family estates. There are also a number of letters concerning Carleton Thomas Monckton (d 1830), son of the 4th Viscount Galway and Augustus Monckton (d 1833), brother of the 6th Viscount.

• Monckton-Arundell, George Edward, 1805-1876, 6th Viscount Galway
• Arundell, George Edward Monckton-, 1805-1876, 6th Viscount Galway

George Edward Monckton Arundell was the son of William George Monckton (Arundell) (1782-1834) and his wife Catherine Elizabeth (d 1862), daughter of Captain George Handfield. He succeeded his father as 6th Viscount Galway in 1834 and married in 1838 Henrietta Eliza, daughter of Robert Pemberton Milnes and sister of Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Lord Houghton. He was Lord in Waiting to the Queen and elected MP for East Retford, Nottinghamshire in 1847, remaining an MP until his death in 1876. He was a Conservative, opposed to the disestablishment of the Irish Church in 1869. He was succeeded by his son, George Edmund Milnes Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway (1844-1931).