Major George Irby, 3rd Baron Boston (27 December 1777 â 12 March 1856) was an English peer and landowner.
George Irby was born on 9 June 1749 at Grosvenor Street, Mayfair, London. For his baptism on 28 January 1778, his sponsor was King George III (for whom his father served as Lord of the Bedchamber). He was the eldest son, of thirteen children, born to the former Christian Methuen and Frederick Irby, 2nd Baron Boston. Among his siblings were Rear-Admiral Hon. Frederick Paul Irby (who married George's sister-in-law, Emily Ives Drake), Hon. Charles Leonard Irby (who travelled to the Middle East and married Frances Mangles), and the Hon. Anne Maria Louisa Irby (who married Henry Peachey, 3rd Baron Selsey), among others.
His paternal grandparents were William Irby, 1st Baron Boston, and Albinia Selwyn (a sister of William Selwyn, MP for Whitchurch). His paternal aunt, Hon. Augusta Georgina Elizabeth Irby, married Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham. His maternal grandparents were Paul Methuen, MP for Westbury, Warwick, and Great Bedwyn, and Catharine Cobb of Corsham Court, Wiltshire. His maternal uncle, Paul Cobb Methuen, was the father of Paul Methuen, 1st Baron Methuen.
He was educated at Eton College, and graduated from Oxford University with a Doctor of Civil Laws.
Irby entered the British Army, purchasing a Cornet in the 1st Dragoons on the 4 March 1794. He was promoted to Major in the 13th Light Dragoons on 22 January 1801 before he retired on 14 August 1801.
Upon the death of his father on 23 March 1825, he succeeded as the 3rd Baron Boston, of Boston, Lincolnshire in the Peerage of Great Britain, as well as the 4th Baronet Irby, of Whaplode and Boston, Lincolnshire in the Baronetage of Great Britain.
On 17 October 1801 at Catton, Norfolk, Irby married Rachel Ives Drake (1783âÂÂ1830), daughter of William Drake, MP for Amersham, and Rachel Elizabeth Ives. Her sister, Emily Ives Drake, was the first wife of his brother, Frederick Paul Irby. Together, they were the parents of:
Lord Boston died on 12 March 1856 at Hedsor House, Buckinghamshire. He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, George.
His wife Rachel and her sister, Emily, each inherited one half of their maternal grandfather Jeremiah Ives's property, including the Manors of Boyland (including Boyland Hall} and Fritton, as well as Drake's property in Boyland, Fritton, Hempnall, Morningthorpe, Stratton St. Mary and St. Michael, Long Stratton and Tasburgh; Drake's messuage in Flixton and land in Flixton and Gunton, Suffolk; Drake's house 'The White House' and land in Blundeston; Drake's messuage and land in Corton, Suffolk; Drake's messuage in Amersham in Buckinghamshire, formerly part of the George Inn; property in Amersham, Chesham and Woburn, including Chartridge Farm in Chesham and Woburn; property formerly of Jeremiah Ives as described in 1781 Drake-Ives settlement.