George Parkyns 2nd Baron Rancliffe | |
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| Member of Parliament for Minehead | |
| In office 1806–1807 | |
| Preceded by | John Patteson John Fownes Luttrell |
| Succeeded by | John Denison John Fownes Luttrell |
| Member of Parliament for Nottingham | |
| In office 1812–1820 | |
| Preceded by | Daniel Parker Coke John Smith |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Denman Joseph Birch |
| Member of Parliament for Nottingham | |
| In office 1826–1830 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas Denman Joseph Birch |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Denman Sir Ronald Craufurd Ferguson |
George Augustus Henry Anne Parkyns, 2nd Baron Rancliffe (10 June 1785 – 1 November 1850) of Bunny Hall was an English landowner and politician from Nottinghamshire. A baron in the peerage of Ireland, he sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom for thirteen of the years between 1806 and 1830.
Lord Rancliffe's politics were those of an advanced whig, with links to radicalism, and by the 1830s he supported many of the demands of the Chartists. His championing of progressive causes was later tempered by his private support for protectionism, and had always jarred with his public image as a playboy enjoying his inherited wealth. The History of Parliament describes him as an "aristocratic buffoon".[1]