George Orby Wombwell

Wombwell was born on 23 November 1832. He was the son of Sir George Wombwell, 3rd Baronet and educated at Eton College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

He joined the 17th Lancers in 1852 as a cornet and served as an aide-de-camp to Lord Cardigan. He was a survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade. When he had reached the guns, his horse was killed under him and he was shortly after pulled off and taken prisoner, his sword and pistols being taken from him by some Russian Lancers. He managed to escape, catch another loose horse and ride back to the British lines, hotly pursued by Russians.{{cite web|url= http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/britishcavalry/17thlancerswombwell.htm| title= 17th Lancers | accessdate =12 February 2015}}

He retired from the Army as a lieutenant in 1855, when he inherited his title and Newburgh Priory, the old seat of the Belasyses, in Coxwold, North Yorkshire, on the death of his father. Included in this estate was Over Silton Manor, where Wombwell's initials (GOW) can still be seen on one of the manor cottages, and High House, at Thornton-on-the-Hill.{{National Heritage List for England |num=1150731 |desc=High House |grade=II* |accessdate=26 August 2014}}

He was appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1861.{{cite journal |url= http://www.cultrans.com/the-times/1851-1860/3285-nov-13-1860-nomination-of-sheriffs|title = Nov 13 1860 Nomination of Sheriffs | journal = Cumberland and Westmorland Newspaper Transactions|accessdate =16 November 2010}}

He married Lady Julia Sarah Alice Child-Villiers, daughter of George Child-Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey and Julia Peel, on 3 September 1861. They had two sons, who both died on active service, and three daughters:Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 100th Edn, London, 1953.

• George Wombwell (1865–1889), a lieutenant with the King's Royal Rifle Corps, died at Meerut in India
• Stephen Frederick Wombwell (1867–1901), a lieutenant in the Yorkshire Hussars, died of Enteric fever at Vryburg in South Africa during the Second Boer War while serving as a captain with the Imperial Yeomanry.[https://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/yeomanry/yorkshirehussars.htm Yorkshire Hussars at British Empire.]{{cite web | url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/grey-panther/2978611955/sizes/l/in/photostream/|title= photo|publisher= flickr|accessdate=16 November 2010}}
• Julia Georgiana Wombwell (b. 1862), who married firstly Vesey Dawson, 2nd Earl of Dartrey in 1890 and secondly, late in life, John St Aubyn, 2nd Baron St Levan.{{cite web | url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p5281.htm#i52806| title = p. 5281 § 52806 |accessdate=15 November 2010}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=September 2012}}{{cite web |url= http://www.plymouthdata.info/PP-St%20Levan.htm

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|title=The Lords Saint Levan|publisher = The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History|accessdate=12 February 2015|last=Moseley|first=Brian|date=19 February 2011}}

• Mabel Caroline Wombwell (b.1863) who married Henry Robert Hohler.
• Cecilia Clementina Wombwell (b. 1864) who married William Menzies.

At his death he was the last surviving officer of the Charge of the Light Brigade and was buried in Coxwold churchyard. His title and 12,000 acre estate passed to his younger brother Henry Herbert Wombwell.

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• [http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/britishcavalry/17thlancerswombwell.htm Painting of Sir George Wombwell, 4th Baronet]

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• http://www.peerage.com

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