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for auction a RARE! "2nd Earl of Zetland" Thomas Dundas Hand Written Letter Dated 1866. 

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 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. 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. 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 of the Garter in 1872, and

died the following year at Aske Hall, Yorkshire.

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

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