John Proby, 2nd Earl of Carysfort

Who was John Proby, 2nd Earl of Carysfort?

John Proby, 2nd Earl of Carysfort, known as Lord Proby from 1804 to 1828, was a British military commander and Whig politician.

Proby was the second but eldest surviving son of John Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort, and his wife Elizabeth, and was educated at Rugby. He gained the courtesy title of Lord Proby when his elder brother died in 1804. He was commissioned into the British Army in 1794 and fought in the French Revolutionary Wars. Carysfort was promoted to major-general in 1814, to lieutenant-general in 1830 and to general in 1846. Apart from his military career he also represented Buckingham in the House of Commons from 1805 to 1806 and Huntingdonshire from 1806 to 1807 and again from 1814 to 1818.

Lord Carysfort died in June 1855. He never married and was succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother Granville.