biography text
Lovelace accompanied his father to New York in the winter of 1708. At the time of his succession to the peerage in May of the following year he can have been no more than six years old. He enjoyed the title for less than a fortnight before succumbing to disease probably brought on by a particularly hazardous journey the previous winter. He was succeeded in the peerage by his brother, then aged about one.1 Longleat, Bath mss, Thynne pprs. 46, f. 101; Post Boy, 27 Aug. 1709.