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\"6th Baronet\" Ralph Milbanke Hand Signed Free Frank Dated 1800:
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Sir
Ralph Noel, 6th Baronet (28
July 1747 – 19 March 1825) was a British landowner and politician, and
father-in-law of Lord Byron. Before 1815 he
was known as Sir Ralph Milbanke. He was the eldest son of Sir Ralph Milbanke, 5th
Baronet, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Hedworth. His uncle John Milbanke was married to a sister
of the Whig leader Lord Rockingham, and his sister was the On 9 January 1777 he married Judith Noel, they had one daughter, Anne Isabella. Milbanke
succeeded his father as sixth baronet on 8 January 1798. The family lived
at Seaham Hall, County Durham, but also owned property in
Northumberland and Yorkshire. Milbanke was elected Member of the 1790 general election.
A Foxite Whig, he supported abolition of the slave trade
and Catholic emancipation. By
1812, worsening health and declining finances obliged him to retire from the
Commons. Milbanke's wife Judith succeeded to the Leicestershire estates of and on 29 May that year Milbanke adopted the surname of Noel by royal
licence. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew
John Penistone Milbanke. Lady Noel had died in 1822, and in 1856 their daughter
Lady Byron succeeded as 11th Baroness Wentworth.
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