The Earl of Lichfield | |
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| Master of the Buckhounds | |
| In office 24 November 1830 – 14 November 1834 | |
| Monarch | William IV |
| Prime Minister | The Earl Grey The Viscount Melbourne |
| Preceded by | The Lord Maryborough |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Chesterfield |
| Postmaster General | |
| In office 22 May 1835 – 30 August 1841 | |
| Monarchs | William IV Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Viscount Melbourne |
| Preceded by | The Marquess Conyngham |
| Succeeded by | Viscount Lowther |
| Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth | |
| In office 1818–1819 Serving with Charles Edmund Rumbold | |
| Preceded by | Edmund Knowles Lacon William Loftus |
| Succeeded by | Charles Rumbold Hon. George Anson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 October 1795 Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire, England[1] |
| Died | 18 March 1854 (aged 58) Mayfair, London[1] |
| Political party | Whig |
| Spouse | Louisa Philips (d. 1879) |
| Children | 8, including Thomas and Augustus |
| Parent(s) | Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson Lady Anne Margaret Coke |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Thomas William Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield PC (20 October 1795 – 18 March 1854), known as Viscount Anson from 1818–31, was a British Whig politician from the Anson family. He served under Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne as Master of the Buckhounds between 1830 and 1834 and under Melbourne Postmaster General between 1835 and 1841.
Lichfield's gambling and lavish entertaining got him heavily into debt and he was forced to sell off the entire contents of his Shugborough Hall estate.