Viscount Galway is a title that has been created four times in the Peerage of Ireland. The first creation came in 1628 in favour of Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde. He was made Earl of St Albans in the Peerage of England at the same time.
George Vere Arundell Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, was a British politician. He served as the fifth Governor-General of New Zealand from 1935 to 1941.
Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage of High Meadow, Gloucestershire and later Firle Place, Sussex, was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons as a Whig for 33 years between 1717 and 1754.
Lord James Cavendish FRS of Staveley Hall, Derbyshire was a British Whig politician who sat in the English House of Commons and the British House of Commons. He was a son of the 1st Duke of Devonshire and a member of the Cavendish family.
The Honourable Thomas Townshend, of Frognal House, Kent, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons for 52 years from 1722 to 1774.
Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford, of Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire, styled as Lord Guilford between 1729 and 1752, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 until 1729 at which point he succeeded to the peerage as Baron Guildford. He also became the Treasurer of Queen Charlotte of the Royal House of Mecklenburg. His son, Frederick North, was the famous Prime Minister of Great Britain who lost the American Revolutionary War under his term.
George Edmund Milnes Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway, CB JP DL was a British Conservative politician and courtier.
Serlby Hall is a grade I listed 18th century mansion and estate in Nottinghamshire, England, located 7 miles north-east of Worksop.
Mary Boyle, Countess of Cork and Orrery was an Anglo-Irish literary hostess.
Henry Dawnay, 2nd Viscount Downe, styled The Honourable Henry Dawnay between 1681 and 1695, was an English Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons between 1690 and 1707 and in the British House of Commons from 1708 to 1727.
Robert Monckton-Arundell, 4th Viscount Galway, PC KB was an English peer and politician.
William Bateman, 1st Viscount Bateman KB, FRS was an English Whig politician and peer who sat in the British House of Commons from 1721 to 1734, representing the constituency of Leominster.
Edward Monckton was a British colonial administrator and nabob, a Whig politician, a member of parliament for 32 years, and an important Staffordshire landowner.
Robert Monckton was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1695 and 1713. He took an active part supporting William of Orange in the Glorious Revolution, and was notable for his involvement in a number of exceptionally bitter and prolonged electoral disputes.
Sir Thomas Webster, 1st Baronet, of Copped Hall, Essex, and Battle Abbey, Sussex, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1705 and 1727.
William Monckton-Arundell, 2nd Viscount Galway was an English peer and politician.
John Plumptre, of Plumptre House, Nottingham, was a British Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1706 and 1751.
Charles Eversfield of Denne Place, near Horsham, Sussex, was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1705 and 1747.
Vere Monckton-Arundell, Viscountess Galway was a British poet, writer, philanthropist, and woman of letters. In 1910, she co-founded an auxiliary hospital at her home, Serlby Hall, with her husband. She was invested as a Lady of Justice of The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.
Thomas Rowney was an English Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons between 1695 and 1708 and in the British House of Commons from 1708 to 1722.
