Peerage details
suc. fa. 31 July 1701 (a minor) as 7th earl of WARWICK and 4th earl of HOLLAND
Sitting
First sat 21 Jan. 1719; last sat 7 Aug. 1721
Family and Education
b. 20 Jan. 1698, o.s. Edward Rich, 6th earl of Warwick and 3rd earl of Holland, and Charlotte, da. of Sir Thomas Middleton‡ 2nd bt. of Chirk Castle, co. Denbigh. educ. Westminster sch.; Christ Church, Oxf. 1714. unm. d. 16 Aug. 1721; admon. 20 Aug. 1721 to mother, 12 June 1736 to John Dawnay‡, Sir John Bridgeman and Alexander Denton‡, mother’s executors, 15 June 1748 to step-sis. Charlotte Addison.1 TNA, PROB 6/97, f. 111v, PROB 6/112, f. 120v, PROB 6/124, f. 192v.
Offices Held
Gent. of the bedchamber 1719 – 21.
Address
Associated with: Albemarle Street, Westminster.2Daily Post, 18 Aug. 1721.;
biography text
Warwick succeeded to the title when just three years old. He died of fever not long after attaining his majority, a few weeks after having visited Newgate prison in the company of some other men of fashion, where they had been ‘not a little diverted’.3 Post Boy, 17-19 Aug. 1721, Daily Journal, 29 July 1721. Full details of his career will be considered in the second part of this work.
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