Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart

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Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart, 1730, by John Vanderbank the Younger (1694–1739)
4th Earl of Dysart
Predecessor Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart
Successor Lionel Tollemache, 5th Earl of Dysart
Known for High Steward of Ipswich
Knight of the Thistle
Born(1708-05-01)1 May 1708
England
Died10 March 1770(1770-03-10) (aged 61)
London, England
Noble family Tollemache
Spouse(s)Grace Carteret
Issue Lionel
Wilbrahim
Louisa, and others
Father Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart
MotherHenrietta Cavendish
OccupationLandowner

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Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart, KT (1 May 1708 – 10 March 1770), styled Lord Huntingtower from 1712 to 1727, was an English peer and landowner. [1]

Contents

Lionel's father, a namesake in 1712 predeceased his father Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart – on the latter's death in 1727, Lionel inherited the earldom and five main estates: Ham House in Surrey, Helmingham Hall in Suffolk, Harrington and Bentley in Northamptonshire, and 20,000 acres (8,100  ha ; 31  sq mi ) in Cheshire. The following year he went on a Grand Tour. [2]

Lady Grace Carteret, Countess of Dysart, 1737, by John Vanderbank the Younger (1694-1739) Vanderbank - Grace Carteret, Countess of Dysart.jpg
Lady Grace Carteret, Countess of Dysart, 1737, by John Vanderbank the Younger (16941739)

In 1729, he was elected High Steward of Ipswich, a post he held for 41 years. [2]

Family and Issue

In 1729, he married Lady Grace Carteret (1713–1755 St James's), daughter of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, by whom he had sixteen children, nine of whom did not reach age 17:

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. [11] [12]

Memorials and succession

Grace, Lady Dysart, died at the Earl's new house in New Burlington Street, St James's. Dysart 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 parent and left no legitimate children. The title came for eight years to the next surviving son, Wilbraham who outlived his older, childless sister and then passed to the second of three surviving daughters who inherited the title after her brothers and died aged 95. [2]

The funerary hatchments of the Earl and Countess are now in St Andrew's Church, Ham.

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References

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Attribution
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Earl of Dysart
1727–1770
Succeeded by