Lieutenant Sir William Earle Welby, 2nd Baronet (14 November 1768 – 3 November 1852) was a British land-owner, baronet and Member of Parliament for Grantham from 1807 to 1820. He also served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire from 1823 to 1824. Early life William Earle Welby was born on 14 November 1768 at Denton in Lincolnshire. He was the eldest son of Sir William Earle Welby, 1st Baronet, of Denton and the only son by his first wife, Penelope Glynne, a daughter of Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet, and his wife Honora Conway. The younger Welby was admitted at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1786 and matriculated the following year, though he took no degree. He worked at the Newark banking firm of Welby & Co. until his father's death, and was a Lieutenant in the Ossington Volunteers from 1806. Family Welby married on 30 August 1792, Wilhelmina Spry, daughter and heir of William Spry, who was Governor of Barbados from 1767 to 1772, and his wife Katherine Cholmeley. She died on 4 February 1847. Together, they had seven daughters and three sons: Elizabeth Welby (1804–1888). She married, on 17 February 1829, Thomas James Ireland of Ousden Hall, Suffolk, (he died in 1863) and had with him five children. Sir Glynne Earle Welby, 3rd Baronet (later Welby-Gregory, by Royal Licence; 1806–1875). He succeeded his father as Baronet and also served as a member of parliament. Rt Rev. Thomas Earle Welby, DD (1810–1899). He was an Anglican clergyman, who was consecrated as the second Bishop of St Helena in 1862, in which position he served until his death. Arthur Earle Welby (1815–1884). Rector of Holy Trinity, Hulme, Manchester. He married, on 13 May 1843, Julia, daughter of Capt. George Macdonald of the 68th Regiment; she died on 18 October 1892. Together they had seven children. Wilhelmina Welby (d. 1874). She married, on 17 May 1825, the Rev. Frederick Browning, Prebendary of Salisbury; he died on 3 December 1858. Penelope Welby (d. 1834). She married, on 8 May 1825, Clinton James Fynes-Clinton (1792–1833), MP for Aldborough, and together they had two children. Katherine Welby (d. 1869). She married, on 13 May 1822, the Rev. Thomas Welby Northmore, her first cousin and the son of Thomas Northmore of Cleve, , a writer, and Penelope Welby, a daughter of the first baronet; the Rev. Northmore died on 16 July 1829; he and his wife had