was installed on 26 May following. He moved the address in the House of Commons at the opening of the session in November 1762 (Grenville Papers, 1852-3, ii. 5, and Parl. Hist. xv. 1238), and on 1 Jan. 1703 was reappointed a lord of the admiralty, a post which he resigned in August 1765.
He died at Lille on 18 Oct. 1772, aged 62, and was buried at Elton. He married, on 27 Aug. 1760, the Hon. Elizabeth Allen, elder daughter of John, second viscount Allen, by whom he had one son, John Joshua Proby, first earl of Carysfort [q. v.], and one daughter, Elizabeth, born on 14 Nov. 1752, who married Thomas James Storer, and died at Hampton Court on 19 March 1808. Lady Carysfort died in March 1783. A portrait of Carysfort was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
[Collins's Peerage of England, 1812, ix. 139-140; G. E. C.'s Complete Peerage, ii. 171; Foster's Peerage, 1883, pp. 132-3; Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, 1789, vii. 69-70; Grad. Cantabr 1823, p. 382; Haydn's Book of Dignities, 1890; Gent. Mag. 1750. p. 380, 1808, pt. i. p. 368; Official Return of Lists of Members of Parl. pt. ii. pp. 101, 113. 127.]
PROBY, JOHN JOSHUA, first Earl of Carysfort (1761–1828), born on 12 Aug. 1751, was the only son of John, first baron Carysfort [q. v.], by his wife the Hon. Elizabeth Allen, elder daughter of John, second viscount Allen. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. in 1770. He succeeded his father as second Baron Carysfort on 18 Oct. 1772, and took his seat, on 12 Oct. 1773, in the Irish House of Lords, where he soon became a prominent debater (Journals of the Irish House of Lords, iv. 684).
On 18 Dec. 1777 Carysfort signed a strongly worded protest against the embargo, and on 2 March 1780 he joined with Charlemont and others in protesting against the address (ib, v. 24-5, 102). In February 1780 he wrote a letter 'to the gentlemen of the Huntingdonshire committee,' which was subsequently printed and distributed by the Society of Constitutional Information, advocating the shortening of parliaments, a fuller representation of the people, and 'a strict œconomy of the public treasure.' He appears to have formed the intention of contesting the university of Cambridge at the general election in this year, but he did not go to the poll (Nichols, Lit. Anecd. viii. 648). Though Carysfort had supported Grattan in his agitation (Froude, English in Ireland, 1872-4, ii. 267), he was elected a knight of St. Patrick on 6 Feb. 1784, and installed in St. Patrick's Cathedral on 11 Aug. 1800 (Nicolas, History of the Orders of Knighthood, 1842, vol. iv. (P.) p. xxii). On 16 Feb. 1789 he protested against the address to the Prince of Wales requesting him to exercise the royal authority in Ireland during the king's illness (Journals of the Irish House of Lords, vi. 233-4). As a reward for his support of the lord-lieutenant's policy he was appointed, on 15 July, joint guardian and keeper of the rolls in Ireland, was sworn a member of the Irish privy council; and, on 20 Aug., was created Earl of Carysfort in the peerage of Ireland (ib, vi. 317). In February 1790 he was elected to the British House of Commons for East Looe. He was returned for Stamford at the general election in June 1790, and continued to represent that borough until he was made a peer of the United Kingdom. In April 1791 he supported Wilberforce's motion for the abolition of the slave trade (Parl. Hist. xxix. 333-4). During the debate on the address in December 1792 Carysfort warmly advocated the claims of the Irish Roman catholics, who had 'the same interests as the protestants, and ought to have the same privileges' (ib. xxx. 78-9). He cordially supported the address to the king in November 1797, and maintained that the French government was founded on 'a system hostile to the re-establishment of tranquillity' (ib. xxxiii. 1017-18). On 21 April 1800 Carysfort spoke in favour of the union with Ireland, and declared that the measure was 'wise, politic, and advantageous to the two countries' (ib. xxxv. 83). He was appointed envoy-extraordinary and minister-plenipotentiary to the court of Berlin on 24 May 1800 (London Gazette, 1800, p. 499), a post which he retained until October 1802 (see De Martens, Supplément au Recueil des principaux Traités, 1802, ii. 424-36). He was created Baron Carysfort of Norman Cross in the county of Huntingdon on 21 Jan. 1801, and took his seat in the House of Lords on 27 Nov. following (Journals of the House of Lords, xliii. 418). On 20 Jan. 1805 Carysfort attacked the foreign policy of the ministry, and moved an amendment to the address, but was defeated by a majority of fifty-three votes (Parl. Debates, 1st ser, v. 461-5, 482). On the formation of the Ministry of all the Talents in February 1806 Carysfort was sworn a member of the privy council (12 Feb.), and appointed joint postmaster-general (20 Feb.) On 18 June he was further appointed a member of the board of trade, and on 16 July he became a commissioner of the board of control. He resigned these three offices on the accession of the Duke of Portland to power in the spring of
