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He was educated at Westminster School and at Eton but matriculated at Oxford. He was Lord Lieutenant of Sussex 1819-1835 and Vice Admiral of Sussex 1820-1831. For many years he was prominent in the fashionable world and in 1774 was called 'a pretty man' by Mrs. Delaney, in 1779 'handsome' by Horace Walpole and in 1834 'that fine old fellow' by Charles Greville. He was a great supporter of the Turf and the fine arts and was a patron of Turner, the artist.
In 1780 Lady Sarah Lennox stated that he was contracted to marry Lady Maria Waldegrave who released him from his engagement 'like an angel, and without reproach'. He fathered six children by Elizabeth Ilive before he married her on 16 July 1801 at Petworth. Only one more child, Elizabeth, was born after the marriage.
He was most liberal in his charities which are said in the last 60 years of his life to have amounted to £1,200,000. According to Rev. A. B. Beaven, 'In politics he was originally a Whig, and opposed Lord North; he voted for Fox's India Bill, and protested against Pitt's Regency Bill in 1788. In later life he became a Tory'.
He died of inflamation of the trachea, aged nearly eighty-six, on 11 November 1837 at Petworth. As he had died without legitimate issue, the family's title went to a nephew.
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1751 - 1837 (85 years)
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