IRBY
,
GEORGE FLORANCE
,
6th Baron BOSTON
(
1860
-
1941
),
landowner and scientist
;
b.
6 Sept. 1860
, eldest s. of
Florance George
Irby
,
5th Baron Boston
, and
Augusta Caroline
, dau. of the
3rd Baron de Saumarez
. He was educated at
Eton
and
Christ Church
,
Oxford
, where he graduated with 2nd class honours in Modern History in
1882
. From
1885 to 1886
he was
lord-in-waiting
to
Queen
Victoria
. He had estates in
Lincolnshire
,
Buckinghamshire
and a seat at
Lligwy
,
Anglesey
. Throughout his life he devoted much of his leisure to branches of natural science, especially
astronomy
,
botany
and
entomology
, and was a
Fellow
both of the
Society of Antiquaries
and of the
Geological Society of London
. As
president
of the
Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club
from its formation in
1912
to within a short time of his death, he took a
keen interest in archaeological activities
, and did much to facilitate the investigation of the
Lligwy Romano-British village
. He was also associated with the excavation at
Segontium
and
Conovium
(
Caerhun
). For his services to national culture the
University of Wales
in
1936
conferred on him the honorary degree of
LL.D.
He d.
16 September 1941
.
Bibliography:
-
The Times
,
17 Sept. 1941
;
-
Who's who in Wales
(1933)
;
-
Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Court
of Governors of the University College of Wales, held at
the College, in Aberystwyth
, Aberystwyth
,
21 and 22 July 1936
.
Author:
Emyr Gwynne Jones, M.A., (1911-72), Bangor
