William Nassau de Zuylestein, 2nd Earl of Rochford
William Nassau de Zuylestein, 2nd Earl of Rochford (1682 – 27 July 1710), styled Viscount Tunbridge from 1695 to 1709, was a British Army officer and Whig politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1705 and in the British House of Commons from 1708 until 1709 when he succeeded to the peerage and sat in the House of Lords. He was killed in battle.
William Nassau de Zuylestein was baptized on 9 July 1682, the eldest son of William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 1st Earl of Rochford, and his wife Jane Wroth, daughter of Sir Henry Wroth of Durrants, Enfield, Middlesex.[1]
Tunbridge was an
Tunbridge was returned for the
Rochford was killed on 27 July 1710 at the Battle of Almenar while leading his regiment, aged 28. He was succeeded by his brother Frederick Nassau de Zuylestein, 3rd Earl of Rochford.
References
- Dictionary of National Biography, in article on his father.
- ^ a b c Doyle, James William Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England, v. 3. London: Longmans, Green. p. 163.
- ^ "NASSAU DE ZUYLESTEIN, William, Visct. Tunbridge (1682-1710)". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 12 August 2019.