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'''George Florance Irby, 6th Baron Boston''' (6 September 1860 – 16 September 1941) was a British scientist and [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician.<ref name="DWB">{{cite DWB|id=s2-IRBY-FLO-1860|title=Irby, George Florance 6th Baron Boston (1860-1941), landowner and scientist|author=Emyr Gwynne Jones|year=2001|access-date=6 November 2022}}</ref>
Boston was the eldest son of Florance George Henry Irby, 5th Baron Boston, and his wife Augusta Caroline (née Saumarez), and was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]] and [[Christ Church, Oxford]]. He succeeded his father in the barony in 1877 at the age of sixteen and later took his seat on the Conservative benches in the [[House of Lords]]. Between 1885 and 1886 he served as a [[Lord-in-waiting]] (government whip in the House of Lords) in the short-lived [[Conservative Government 1885-1886|Conservative administration]] of [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|Lord Salisbury]]. Boston was also deeply interested in astronomy, botany, entomology and archaeology and was a [[Society of Antiquaries of London|Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries]] and of the [[Geological Society of London|Geological Society]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Records of Buckinghamshire|publisher=James Pickburn|year=1996|page=119}}</ref> In 1936 he was awarded an Honorary [[Doctor of Laws|Doctorate of Law]] (LL.D.) by the [[Bangor University|University of Wales, Bangor]] for his services to culture. He also served as a [[deputy lieutenant]] of [[Anglesey]].
Lord Boston married his first cousin once removed Cecilia Constance, daughter of Augustus Anthony Frederick Irby, in 1890. The marriage was childless. She died in January 1938, aged 67. Lord Boston survived her by three years and died in September 1941, aged 81.<ref>{{cite book|title=Vacher's Parliamentary Companion, Issues 816–825|publisher=A.S. Kerswill|year=1941|page=40}}</ref> He was succeeded in the barony by his nephew Greville.
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