Augustus Schutz

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Shotover House, the Schutz family residence

Baron Augustus Schutz (born 1689) was an English courtier. [1]

He was born in England the son of Louis-Justus Sinoldt dit Schutz, a minister-plenipotentiary of the Duke of Hanover at the Court of St James.

At the age of 16 he went to live in Hanover but returned in 1714 with George I when the latter acceded to the throne of England. He subsequently served George II from 1727 to 1757 as his Master of the Robes and Keeper of the Privy Purse.

He married Penelope Madan and lived at Shotover House in Oxfordshire, which he took over from Lt-Gen. James Tyrell. The Schutzes had 5 sons and 3 daughters; their eldest son George Frederick became a Groom of the Bedchamber to George III. [2]

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References

  1. Burke, John. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. p. 10191.
  2. Burke, John Bernard (1852). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Colburn.
Court offices
Preceded by Master of the Robes
1727–1757
Succeeded by
Preceded by Keeper of the Privy Purse
1727–1757
Succeeded by