John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth
John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth (15 April 1690 – 22 November 1762), of
Early life
Wallop was the third son of John Wallop, of Farleigh Wallop and his wife Alicia, daughter of William Borlase. The Wallops were an old and influential Hampshire family; his great-grandfather was the regicide Robert Wallop. His father died about 1694, and he succeeded an elder brother, Bluett Wallop, in the family estates in 1707. Wallop was educated at Eton in 1708, in Geneva from 1708 to 1709, and took his Grand Tour through Italy and Germany in 1710.[1]
Political career
In
When Sunderland fell in 1720 after the
On 11 January 1732 (
Upon Walpole's fall in 1742 (due in part to the failed siege of Cartagena, which had claimed the life of Lymington's second son), the Duke of Bolton regained all of his prior offices in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, to Lymington's loss. As in 1720, Lymington was compensated with a peerage, and was created Earl of Portsmouth on 11 October 1743. He regained the offices of Governor and Vice-Admiral of the Isle of Wight in 1746, when Bolton supported the abortive ministry of Bath and Granville and was deprived of those posts by the Pelhams.[1]
Family
On 20 May 1716, Wallop had married Lady Bridget Bennet (d. 12 October 1738), the daughter of Charles Bennet, 1st Earl of Tankerville. They had six sons and four daughters:[3][4]
- Hon. Bridget Wallop (20 February 1717 – 26 June 1736)
- John Wallop, Viscount Lymington (1718–1749)
- Hon. Borlace Wallop (3 June 1720 – April 1741)(elsewhere Burlace), educated as a gentleman commoner at Winchester College (around 1731),[5] ensign in the Royal Regiment of Foot Guards, aide-de-camp to General Wentworth, carried orders at the attack on Fort Saint Lazarus and died of fever soon thereafter
- Hon. Mary Wallop (17 August 1721 – 13 April 1722)
- Hon. Charles Wallop (1722–1771)
- Hon. Anne Wallop (d. 3 March 1759), unmarried
- Hon. Bluett Wallop (1726–1749)
- Hon. Elizabeth Wallop (d. June 1727)
- Henry Wallop, died in infancy
- Bennet Wallop, died young
Lymington remarried on 9 June 1741 to Elizabeth, widow of Henry Grey and daughter of James Griffin, 2nd Baron Griffin of Braybrooke; they had no children.[1]
Two of his sons died in 1749: Bluett, his youngest, in June, and John, Viscount Lymington in November. Upon his death in 1762, Wallop was succeeded by his grandson John Wallop, 2nd Earl of Portsmouth.
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Wallop, John (1690-1762), of Hurstbourne Park, nr. Whitchurch, and Farleigh Wallop, Hants". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
- ^ "Hampshire". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage
- ^ Collins's Peerage
- ISBN 9781785512209.
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