John Wodehouse, 2nd Baron Wodehouse

[1][2] On 10 October 1793 he was commissioned as Captain in the East Norfolk Militia commanded by his father.

On 14 July 1798 he was promoted to take over from his father as Colonel, the third generation of his family to command the regiment.

[1][3] Wodehouse was elected to the House of Commons for Great Bedwyn in 1796, a seat he held until 1802.

Wodehouse was a Peelite, and gave his proxy to the ministry to vote for repeal of the Corn Laws in the Lords shortly before his death.

They had eleven children:[1][2] He died in 1846, aged 76, and was succeeded in the barony by his grandson John, who became a prominent Liberal politician and was created Earl of Kimberley in 1866.