Wodehouse
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Wodehouse is an English surname and may refer to:
Members of the family of the Earls of Kimberley:
- Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th BaronetSir Armine Wodehouse, 5th BaronetSir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet , was a British Member of Parliament.Wodehouse was the son of Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Baronet, and Mary Fermor. He was elected to the House of Commons for Norfolk in 1737, a seat he held until 1768...
(c. 1714–1777), MP for Norfolk - Armine Wodehouse (MP)Armine Wodehouse (MP)Armine Wodehouse CB , was a British civil servant and Liberal politician.Wodehouse was a younger son of Foreign Secretary John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley, and his wife Lady Florence, daughter of Richard FitzGibbon, 3rd Earl of Clare...
(1860–1941), MP for Saffron Walden, descendant of the above - Edmond Wodehouse (1784–1855)Edmond Wodehouse (1784–1855)-Background:Wodehouse was the son of Thomas Wodehouse, younger son of Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet and brother of John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse. His mother was Sarah, daughter of Pryse Campbell.-Political career:...
, MP for Norfolk, and later, Norfolk East - Edmond Robert WodehouseEdmond WodehouseEdmond Robert Wodehouse PC , was an English Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1906....
(1835–1914), British Unionist politician - Sir Edwin Frederick WodehouseFrederick WodehouseMajor Sir Edwin Frederick Wodehouse KCB KCVO , known as Sir Frederick Wodehouse, was a senior British police officer, serving as Assistant Commissioner of both the City of London Police and the Metropolitan Police....
(c. 1850–1934), senior British police officer - Sir John Wodehouse, 4th BaronetSir John Wodehouse, 4th BaronetSir John Wodehouse, 4th Baronet was a British Member of Parliament.A member of an old Norfolk family, Wodehouse succeeded his grandfather in the baronetcy 6 May 1681. In 1695 he was elected to the House of Commons for Thetford, a seat he held until 1698 and again from 1701 to 1702 and 1705 to...
(1669–1754), British MP - John Wodehouse, 1st Baron WodehouseJohn Wodehouse, 1st Baron WodehouseJohn Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse , known as Sir John Wodehouse, 6th Baronet, from 1777 to 1797, was a British peer and Member of Parliament....
(1741–1834), British MP and then peer - John Wodehouse, 2nd Baron WodehouseJohn Wodehouse, 2nd Baron WodehouseJohn Wodehouse, 2nd Baron Wodehouse , styled The Honourable John Wodehouse from 1797 to 1834, was a British peer and Member of Parliament....
(1770–1846), British MP and then peer - Norman WodehouseNorman WodehouseVice Admiral Norman Atherton Wodehouse was a Royal Navy officer killed in the second World War. He had gained 14 caps for England at rugby union, including six as captain between 1910 and 1913.- Naval history :...
(1887–1941), Royal Navy vice-admiral - P. G. WodehouseP. G. WodehouseSir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...
(1881–1975), English humor writer - Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse (1811–1887), British colonial administrator
- Richard WodehouseRichard WodehouseRichard Lancelot Deane Wodehouse was an English born cricketer. Though born in England, his entire recorded cricket career took place in Asia. He was one of three brothers of the famous author P. G...
(1892–1940), cricketer
Members of the family of the Earls of Kimberley:
- John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of KimberleyJohn Wodehouse, 1st Earl of KimberleyJohn Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley KG , PC , known as the Lord Wodehouse from 1846 to 1866, was a British Liberal politician...
(1826–1902), English statesman - John Wodehouse, 2nd Earl of KimberleyJohn Wodehouse, 2nd Earl of KimberleyJohn Wodehouse, 2nd Earl of Kimberley , known as Lord Wodehouse from 1866 to 1902, was a British peer and landowner, who was the first member of the Labour Party in the House of Lords....
(1848–1932), first member of the Labour Party in the House of Lords - John Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of KimberleyJohn Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of KimberleyJohn Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of Kimberley CBE MC was a British peer, known from 1902 to 1932 as Lord Wodehouse.-Biography:...
(1883–1941) - John Wodehouse, 4th Earl of KimberleyJohn Wodehouse, 4th Earl of KimberleyJohn Wodehouse, 4th Earl of Kimberley was the oft-married Earl of Kimberley from 1941 to 2002. He inherited the title when his father, John Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of Kimberley, was killed in an air raid...
(1924–2002) - John Wodehouse, 5th Earl of KimberleyJohn Wodehouse, 5th Earl of KimberleyJohn Armine Wodehouse, 5th Earl of Kimberley is the only child of John Wodehouse, 4th Earl of Kimberley and Carmel Maguire, daughter of Mickey Maguire, welterweight champion of Australia. He succeeded to the earldom and barony in 2002....
(born 1951) - David Wodehouse, Lord Wodehouse (born 1978), heir of the 5th Earl of Kimberley
See also
- The WodehouseThe WodehouseThe Wodehouse is a country house near Wombourne, Staffordshire, notable as the seat of the Georgian landscape designer and musicologist Sir Samuel Hellier and, a century later, Colonel Thomas Bradney Shaw-Hellier, director of the Royal Military School of Music. For almost 200 years the family...
, an English country house near Wombourne, Staffordshire, notable for its connections with British musical history