Lionel Tollemache, 5th Earl of Dysart (6 August 1734 – 20 February 1799) was a Scottish nobleman, styled Lord Huntingtower from birth until his succession to the Dysart earldom in 1770.
Lord Huntingtower received no settlement from his father at his majority, and, feeling he owed him nothing, married without his knowledge or consent.[1][2] The bride was Charlotte, daughter of Sir Edward Walpole, whom he married on 2 October 1760 at St James's Church, Piccadilly.[3] Charlotte's uncle Horace Walpole called Huntingtower "a very handsome person".[1] He succeeded to the earldom a decade later.
Charlotte died, after a long and painful illness,[4] at Ham House on 5 September 1789. Dysart remarried, on 19 April 1791, to Magdalene Lewis, sister of his brother Wilbraham's wife. He had no children by either wife, and upon his death at Ham House in 1799 was succeeded by his brother Wilbraham.
References
- ^ a b Walpole, Horace (1903), Toynbee, Paget (ed.), "Letter to George Montagu, 2 October 1760", The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, vol. IV, pp. 430–431
- ^ Walpole, Horace (1903), Toynbee, Paget (ed.), "Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 5 October 1760", The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, vol. IV, pp. 432–434
- ^ The Register of Marriages solemnized in the Parish Church of St James within the Liberty of Westminster & County of Middlesex. 1754–1765. No. 2030. 2 October 1760.
- ^ Pritchard, Evelyn (2007). Ham House and its owners through five centuries 1610–2006. London: Richmond Local History Society. p.42. ISBN 9781955071727.
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from The Scots Peerage (1904-1914), a publication now in the public domain.
External links
- Dysart, Earl of (S, 1643) Cracroft's Peerage
- Ham House homepage
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