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Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland

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Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland, as Grand Master, from Vanity Fair, 1869.
Garter encircled arms of Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland, KG, as displayed on his Order of the Garter stall plate in St. George's Chapel.

Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland, KG (5 February 1795 – 6 May 1873), was a British nobleman and politician.

Born in Marylebone, London, eldest son of the 1st Earl and his wife Harriet Hale, he was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] In 1818 he was elected Whig Member of Parliament for his father and grandfather's old seat of Richmond, becoming representative for York twelve years later. In 1835 he returned to Parliament as member for Richmond, and four years later succeeded his father as second Earl of Zetland.

Like his father a prominent freemason, Lord Zetland was the United Grand Lodge of England's Grand Master from 1844 to 1870. Zetland was a senior member of the Jockey Club and won The Derby and St Leger Stakes with his horse Voltigeur in 1850.[2]

In the year of his succession to the earldom, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the North Riding of Yorkshire, and in 1861 became a Knight of the Thistle. He resigned the Order on being made a Knight Companion of the Garter in 1872, and died the following year at Aske Hall, Yorkshire.

He married, on 6 September 1823, Sophia Jane, daughter of Sir Hedworth Williamson, Bt.

References

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  1. ^ "Dundas, the Hon. Thomas (DNDS812T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ Mortimer, Roger; Onslow, Richard; Willett, Peter (1999). Biographical Encyclopedia of British Flat Racing. Macdonald and Jane’s. ISBN 0-354-08536-0.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Richmond
1818–1830
With: Viscount Maitland 1818–1820
Samuel Barrett Moulton Barrett 1820–1828
Hon. Sir Robert Dundas 1828–1830 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for York
1830–1832
with Samuel Adlam Bayntun 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Richmond
1835–1839
With: Alexander Speirs 		Succeeded by
Honorary titles
Preceded by Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire
1838–1873 		Succeeded by
Masonic offices
Preceded by Grand Master of the
United Grand Lodge
of England
1844–1870 		Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Earl of Zetland
1839–1873 		Succeeded by
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