ST. JOHN, Paulet St. Andrew (1711-14)

St John succeeded to his father’s baronetcy at his birth, and to the barony of St John shortly after.3 HP Commons 1690-1715, v. 359. The estates of his predecessor, Paulet St John, 3rd earl of Bolingbroke, from whom he had inherited the peerage, passed to his uncle, William St John, later 9th Baron St John.4 PROB 11/523. Despite his youth in May 1712 plans were already afoot for his marriage. The projected alliance required that he survive to the age of 12, but in the event he died in May 1714 probably before his third birthday.5 Beds. Archives, SJ 2287, W. Foster to W. St John, 5 May 1712. During his brief tenure of the peerage, any interest in his estates was, presumably, controlled by his mother and uncles, and it was to the senior of these, William St John, that the title passed on the young lord’s death.