Robert Monckton-Arundell, 4th Viscount Galway
Robert Monckton-Arundell, 4th Viscount Galway (1752–1810) was a British politician. He was the second surviving son of William Monckton-Arundell, 2nd Viscount Galway, and Elizabeth Villareal. He became the 4th Viscount Galway in 1774 after his elder brother Henry died unmarried.
He entered Parliament and served as MP for Pontefract from 1780 to 1783, was made a Privy Councillor in 1784, and was knighted in the Order of the Bath in 1786. In 1783 he left Pontefract to become envoy to the Elector Palatine, but the government fell before he could take up the post. He then served as MP for York from 1783 to 1790, and later returned to Pontefract from 1796 to 1802. He spoke against Fox’s East India Bill in 1783 and served as Comptroller of the Household from 1784 to 1787.
On 1 March 1779 he married Elizabeth Mathew of Felix Hall; they had five sons and four daughters. Elizabeth died in 1801. He remarried on 24 May 1803 to Mary Bridget Milnes Drummond, who died in 1810; they had no children.
He died on 23 July 1810 and was succeeded by his son William as the next Viscount Galway. His widow died in 1835. Through his daughter Henrietta, he was the grandfather of Henrietta Maria Milnes (who married the 6th Viscount Galway) and Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton.
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