Lionel Tollemache, 5th Earl of Dysart
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Lionel Tollemache, 5th Earl of Dysart (August 1734 – 20 February 1799) was a Scottish nobleman, styled Lord Huntingtower from 1727 to 1770.
Lord Huntingtower received no settlement from his father at his majority, and, feeling he owed him nothing, married without his knowledge or consent. The bride was Caroline, daughter of Sir Edward Walpole
, whom he married on 2 October 1760. Caroline's uncle Horace Walpole
called Huntingtower "a very handsome person". He succeeded to the earldom a decade later.
Caroline died 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
.
Lord Huntingtower received no settlement from his father at his majority, and, feeling he owed him nothing, married without his knowledge or consent. The bride was Caroline, daughter of Sir Edward Walpole
Edward Walpole
Sir Edward Walpole KB PC was a British politician, and a younger son of Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister from 1721 to 1742....
, whom he married on 2 October 1760. Caroline's uncle Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He is now largely remembered for Strawberry Hill, the home he built in Twickenham, south-west London where he revived the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors,...
called Huntingtower "a very handsome person". He succeeded to the earldom a decade later.
Caroline died 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
Wilbraham Tollemache, 6th Earl of Dysart
Wilbraham Tollemache, 6th Earl of Dysart FRS , known from 1739 to 1799 as Hon. Wilbraham Tollemache, was a British politician, a younger son of Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart....
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