# Robert Monckton-Arundell, 4th Viscount Galway

Robert Monckton-Arundell, 4th Viscount Galway, PC KB (4 July 1752 – 23 July 1810) was an English peer and politician.

## Early life

He was the second surviving of three sons and two daughters born to William Monckton-Arundell, 2nd Viscount Galway and the former Elizabeth Villareal. His father served as Receiver-General of the Crown rents for Yorkshire, Westmorland and Durham before being returned to Parliament as a Member for Pontefract and Thirsk. Among his siblings were sisters Hon. Elizabeth Monckton (wife of Sir Francis Sykes, 1st Baronet and Sir Drummond Smith, 1st Baronet) and Hon. Frances Charlotte Monckton (wife of Anthony Burlton-Bennett).
His paternal grandparents were John Monckton, 1st Viscount Galway and Lady Elizabeth Manners (a daughter of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland). His maternal grandparents were Joseph Isaac Villareal and Kitty da Costa (a well known English Sephardi Jew who converted to Christianity; she was a daughter of Joseph da Costa, a gold and coral trader who owned Manor of Copped Hall in Totteridge).
He succeeded his elder unmarried brother Henry to the title in 1774.

## Career

He was elected Member of Parliament to represent Pontefract from 1780 to 1783, made a Privy Counsellor in 1784 and knighted in the Order of the Bath in 1786. He gave up his seat in 1783 following an appointment by Lord Shelburne as envoy to the Elector Palatine, however, the fall of the Government in March prevented his taking up the appointment. In the subsequent general election, Galway was elected unopposed for the York constituency in 1783, serving until 1790. He spoke and voted against Fox's East India bill, 27 November 1783. He stood unsuccessfully for Pontefract in 1790, but was returned in 1796, serving until he resigned his seat in 1802.
His career also included service as Comptroller of the Household (1784–87) during the reign of King George III.

## Personal life

On 1 March 1779, Lord Galway married Elizabeth Mathew (c. 1760–1801), the daughter of Daniel Mathew of Felix Hall, Essex. Elizabeth's sister, Louisa, was the wife of James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, and her youngest sister, Jane, was the mother of Sir Edward John Gambier. Before her death on 19 November 1801, they were the parents of five sons and four daughters, including:
* William George Monckton-Arundell, 5th Viscount Galway (1782–1834), who married Catherine Elizabeth Handfield, daughter of Capt. George Handfield, in 1804.
* Hon. Robert Henry Monckton-Arundell (d. 1813)
* Hon. Charles Frederick Monckton-Arundell (d. 1798)
* Hon. Augustus Philip Monckton-Arundell (d. 1802)
* Hon. Carleton Thomas Monckton-Arundell (1797–1830), a Captain of the 22nd Light Dragoons.
* Hon. Elizabeth Mary Monckton-Arundell (d. 1840)
* Hon. Henrietta Maria Monckton-Arundell (d. 1847), who married Robert Pemberton Milnes of Fryston Hall, son of Richard Slater Milnes, in 1808.
* Hon. Charlotte Penelope Monckton-Arundell (d. 1806)
* Hon. Frances Jane Monckton-Arundell (d. 1854)
After the death of his first wife, he married Mary Bridget (née Milnes) Drummond on 24 May 1803. Mary Bridget, the widow of Peter Auriol Hay Drummond (son of Archbishop Robert Hay Drummond and grandson of the 8th Earl of Kinnoull), was the only child and heiress of Pemberton Milnes of Bawtry Hall, Yorkshire (a prosperous wool-merchant from Wakefield) and Jane Slater (a daughter of Dr .Adam Slater). There were no children of this marriage.
Upon his death on 23 July 1810, he was succeeded by his son William. His widow died on 15 November 1835.

### Descendants

Through his daughter Henrietta, he was a grandfather of Henrietta Maria Milnes (who married her cousin George Monckton-Arundell, 6th Viscount Galway), and Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (who married Hon. Annabella Crewe, daughter of John Crewe, 2nd Baron Crewe).