Thomas Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield

The Earl of Lichfield
Master of the Buckhounds
In office
24 November 1830 – 14 November 1834
MonarchWilliam IV
Prime MinisterThe Earl Grey
The Viscount Melbourne
Preceded byThe Lord Maryborough
Succeeded byThe Earl of Chesterfield
Postmaster General
In office
22 May 1835 – 30 August 1841
MonarchsWilliam IV
Victoria
Prime MinisterThe Viscount Melbourne
Preceded byThe Marquess Conyngham
Succeeded byViscount Lowther
Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth
In office
1818–1819
Preceded byEdmund Knowles Lacon
William Loftus
Succeeded byCharles Rumbold
Hon. George Anson
Personal details
Born20 October 1795 (1795-10-20)
Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire, England[1]
Died18 March 1854 (1854-03-19) (aged 58)
Mayfair, London[1]
Political partyWhig
SpouseLouisa Philips (d. 1879)
Children8, including Thomas and Augustus
Parent(s)Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson
Lady Anne Margaret Coke
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford
Anson family memorial at St Michael and All Angels Church in Colwich

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.

  1. ^ a b "Death of the Earl of Lichfield". The Times. 21 March 1854. p. 10.