George Carpenter, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell

This marriage was dissolved by act of parliament in October 1777 and the Lady later married Phillip Anstruther, Esq.

They had one child;[1] Lord Tyrconnell was elected Member of Parliament for Scarborough on 28 July 1772, a seat he held until 1796, when he was returned for Berwick-upon-Tweed.

He supported William Pitt's administration because The Duke of York's conduct towards Lady Tyrconnell that was alleged by Sir Gilbert Elliot.

He made no mark in that Parliament, except for his pleas for a fair hearing for John Fenton Cawthorne who was threatened with expulsion 25 April 1796.

[4] Lord Tyrconnell's Arms appears to be of French or Norman heritage, "Paly of six, argent and gules, on a chevron azure, 3 cross crosslets or."

[6] Sir William Boyd Carpenter (1841–1918), an English clergyman of the Established church of England, Bishop of Ripon, afterwards a Canon of Westminster and Chaplain to the reigning sovereign of England, wrote in a letter dated 7 August 1907 that his family bore the Hereford Arms.

Sir Noel Paton, upon painting the Family Arms, informed him that the supporters were originally a round-handled sword, which in drawing over time became shortened, until nothing but the cross and globe were left beneath it.

surmounted by a mitre Or, three cross crosslets of—nine pales alternating red and blue, with a silver chevron bearing three gold cross-crosslets.