WINDHAM, William (c.1706-89), of Earsham, Norf.

Appointed sub-governor to the ten-year-old Duke of Cumberland, Windham married the governess of the younger Princesses, a lady who

engrossed the dalliance of the King’s looser hours, his Majesty having chosen, not from any violence of passion, but as a decent convenient, natural, and unexceptionable commerce, to make the governess of his two youngest daughters his whore, his two eldest daughters convenient [i.e. to make a convenience of their apartment], and the guardian of his son’s youth and morals his cuckold.Hervey, Mems. 745.

Returned for Aldeburgh in 1747 on Pelham’s recommendation,Pelham to Bedford, 28 Dec. 1746, Bedford mss. classed as a government supporter, he died 4 May 1789.