Sidney Glyn

Who was Sidney Glyn?

Captain Sidney Carr Glyn was a British Liberal Party politician.

Glyn was a younger son of George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton, and his first wife Marianne, daughter of Pascoe Grenfell. George Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton, and Vice-Admiral the Hon. Henry Carr Glyn were his elder brothers while the Right Reverend the Hon. Edward Glyn, Bishop of Peterborough, was his younger brother. He was elected at the 1880 general election as the Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury, and held the seat until the constituency was abolished at the 1885 general election.

Glyn married Fanny, daughter of Adolphe Marescaux, in 1868. He died in February 1916, aged 80.