the Athenaeum Club. Nugent died on 26 November 1850, at his residence in Buckinghamshire. Works In 1812 Nugent published Portugal, a Poem then in 1829 Oxford and Locke, which defended the expulsion of Locke from the University of Oxford against the censures of Dugald Stewart. Nugent's sympathetic Memorials of John Hampden appeared in 1832. The work was favourably reviewed by Thomas Babington Macaulay in the Edinburgh Review, and adversely by Robert Southey in the Quarterly Review, resulting in a flurry of correspondence. Legends of the Library at Lillies (his family seat) appeared in 1832: "from the fireside of the... little oak library the following legends proceed." It was followed by the two-volume travelogue Lands Classical and Sacred in 18456. Nugent also wrote pamphlets on political, social, and ecclesiastical subjects. Family Nugent married, 6 September 1813, Anne Lucy, second daughter of Major-General the Hon. Vere Poulett. She died without issue in 1848, and the barony became extinct on the death of Nugent. References Attribution External links 1788 births 1850 deaths 19th-century Irish people Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Nugent, George Nugent-Grenville, 2nd Baron Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Nugent, George Nugent-Grenville, 2nd Baron UK MPs 1807–1812 UK MPs 1812–1818 UK MPs 1818–1820 UK MPs 1820–1826 UK MPs 1826–1830 UK MPs 1830–1831 UK MPs 1831–1832 UK MPs 1847–1852 UK MPs who inherited peerages George Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Barons Nugent Committee members of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge