George Wyndham was born in 1863. After an education at Eton
and Sandhurst, he joined the Coldstream
Guards.
In 1883 Wyndham became private secretary to Arthur
Balfour. Two years later he was elected Conservative
MP for Dover. In 1898 the Marquess of Salisbury
appointed Wyndham as under-secretary to the War Office. He was promoted
to Chief Secretary for Ireland where his main achievement was the
passing of the Irish Land Act in 1903.
Wyndham lost office when Henry Campbell-Bannerman,
the leader of the Liberal Party, came to
power in 1905. George Wyndham died in 1913.
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