with the Irish Reform Association conceived by his permanent under-secretary Sir Antony MacDonnell (afterwards Baron) and with the approval of the Lord Lieutenant the Earl of Dudley. He resigned along with the rest of the Unionist government in May 1905. Wyndham was in October 1902 elected by the students of the University of Glasgow to be Lord Rector of the university for three years. Wyndham was the leader of the "die-hard" opponents in the House of Commons of the Parliament Bill that became the Parliament Act 1911. Family Wyndham married in 1887 Sibell Mary, Countess Grosvenor, daughter of Richard Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough, and widow (since 1884) of Victor Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, son of the 1st Duke of Westminster. She was Wyndham's senior by eight years, and her son succeeded as 2nd Duke of Westminster in 1899. Towards the end of his life the couple settled at Clouds House in Wiltshire, designed for his father Percy Wyndham by the Arts and Crafts movement architect, Philip Webb (1886). In 1911 he succeeded his father and had the management of a small landed estate on his hands. Wyndham died suddenly in June 1913 in Paris, aged 49, of a blood clot. He was survived by his wife and one son. Lady Grosvenor died in February 1929, aged 73. There has been speculation over the years that Wyndham was the natural father of Anthony Eden, who was Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957. Eden's mother, Sybil, Lady Eden, was evidently close to Wyndham, to whom Eden bore a striking resemblance. Works North's Plutarch (1894; editor) The Poems of Shakespeare (1898; editor) The Ballad of Mr. Rook (1901) Ronsard & La Pleiade, with Selections From Their Poetry and Some Translations in the Original Metres (1906) Sir Walter Scott (1908) The Springs of Romance in the Literature of Europe (1910; address, University of Edinburgh, October 1910) Essays in Romantic Literature (1919; edited by Charles Whibley) References Letters of George Wyndham, 1877–1913 (1915) Guy Percy Wyndham Life and Letters of George Wyndham (1924) Guy Percy Wyndham and J. W. Mackail “In Dublin Castle 1899–1903” (1928) chapter from the memoirs of T. M. Healy. Further reading Ellenberger, Nancy W. Balfour's World: Aristocracy and Political Culture at the Fin de Siècle (2015). excerpt External links 1863 births 1913 deaths People educated at Eton College Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English