Sir George Ralph Fetherston, 3rd Baronet (4 June 1784 – 12 July 1853) was an

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politician. Fetherston was the son of Sir Thomas Fetherston, 2nd Baronet, by Catherine, daughter of George Boleyn Whitney. He was educated at Newcombe's School,

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, and at

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. He joined

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in 1804.Fetherston at History of Parliament Online.
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of the

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and commanded the regiment during its deployment to England in 1813–14. He continued in the disembodied regiment after

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and was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1833.Arthur Sleigh, ''The Royal Militia and Yeomanry Cavalry Army List'', April 1850, London: British Army Despatch Press, 1850/Uckfield: Naval and Military Press, 1991, ISBN 978-1-84342-410-9 p. 122. He sat in the

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as one of the Members of Parliament for

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between 1819 and 1830. On 19 July 1819 he succeeded to his father's baronetcy.John Burke, ''A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire'', Volume 1 (H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832), p.467.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fetherston, George, 3rd Baronet 1784 births 1853 deaths 19th-century Anglo-Irish people Longford Militia officers Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Longford constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1818–1820 UK MPs 1820–1826 UK MPs 1826–1830