Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart

For other people named Lionel Tollemache, see Lionel Tollemache (disambiguation).
Lionel Tollemache
Born (1708-05-01)1 May 1708
Died 10 March 1770(1770-03-10) (aged 61)
London
Title 4th Earl of Dysart
5th Baronet of Helmingham Hall
Known for High Steward of Ipswich
Knight of the Thistle
Nationality English

Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart KT (1 May 1708 – 10 March 1770), styled Lord Huntingtower from 1712 to 1727, was a Scottish nobleman.[1]

Lionel's father, Lionel Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower died in 1712. As grandson of Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart, he became heir to the title. On his grandfather's death in 1727, he inherited the title and the estates of Ham House in Surrey, Helmingham Hall in Suffolk, Harrington and Bentley in Northamptonshire, and the 20,000 acres (8,100 ha; 31 sq mi) estate in Cheshire. The following year he went on a Grand Tour.[2]

In 1729, he was elected High Steward of Ipswich, a post he held for 41 years.[2] Also in 1729 he married Lady Grace Carteret (b.8 July 1713, d.1755 St James, Westminster), daughter of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, by whom he had sixteen children:

In 1743 he was made Knight of the Thistle.[1] He was apparently very parsimonious towards his eldest son, who married Charlotte Walpole in 1760 without his father's knowledge.[4][5]

Grace died in 1755, aged 42, at the Earl's new house in New Burlington Street, London. The 4th Earl died in 1770, aged 72 and was buried in Helmingham. He was succeeded as earl by his eldest son, Lionel who erected no memorial to either of his parents. He was also survived by another son; Wilbraham and three daughters; Frances, Louisa and Jane.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Harwood, H. W. Forsyth; Murray, Keith W. (1906). Paul, James Balfour, ed. Murray, Earl of Dysart. The Scots Peerage III (Edinburgh: David Douglas). pp. 407–411.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Pritchard, Evelyn (2007). Ham House and its owners through five centuries 1610-2006. Richmond Local History Society. ISBN 9781955071727.
  3. Parkes, D. (21 February 1803). Urban, Sylvanus, ed. "Hales Owen Church, Shropshire". The Gentleman's Magazine 73: 614.
  4. Walpole, Horace (1903), Toynbee, Paget, ed., "Letter to George Montagu, 2 October 1760", The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford IV, pp. 430–431
  5. Walpole, Horace (1903), Toynbee, Paget, ed., "Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 5 October 1760", The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford IV, pp. 432–434

This article incorporates text from The Scots Peerage (1904-1914), a publication now in the public domain.

Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by
Lionel Tollemache
Earl of Dysart
1727–1770
Succeeded by
Lionel Tollemache
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
Lionel Tollemache
Baronet
(of Helmingham)
1727–1770
Succeeded by
Lionel Tollemache
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