Family and Education
b. 2 Apr. 1684, s. of Charles Somerset‡, styled mq. of Worcester, and Rebecca Child (d.1712). educ. DCL, Oxf. 1706. m. (1) July 1702, Mary (d.1705), da. Charles Sackville, 6th earl of Dorset, s.p.; (2) 26 Feb. 1706 (with £60,000), Wentworth Pprs. 45n.; Post Man, 26 Feb. 1706. Rachel (d.1709), 2nd da. and coh. of Baptist Noel, 2nd earl of Gainsborough, 2s.; London Gazette, 25–29 May 1714. (3) 14 Sept. 1711, Mary (d.1722), da. Peregrine Osborne, 2nd duke of Leeds, s.p. KG 1712. d. 24 May 1714; will 19 Aug. 1712, pr. 17 Sept. 1714. TNA, PROB 11/542.
Offices Held
PC 1710; capt. gent. pens. 1712 – d.
Ld. lt. Hants. 1710 – d., Glos. 1712 – d.; freeman, Winchester 1710.
Parlimentarian
Associated with: Badminton, Glos.; St James’ Street, Westminster;E. Hatton, A New View of London (1708), ii. 623-39.; Beaufort House, Chelsea, Mdx.
Likenesses
oil on canvas by Michael Dahl, c.1702/1712, National Trust, Powis Castle; engraving by George Vertue, aft. M. Dahl, 1714, NPG D31580.
Volume
Lords 1660-1715
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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