English peer and noble
Thomas Newport, 4th Earl of Bradford (c. 1696 – 18 April 1762[1]), was an English peer and noble.
Newport was the third son of Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford.[2] His mother Mary was the third daughter of Sir Thomas Wilbraham, 3rd Baronet.[2] After a fall from his horse in his youth, Newport suffered from feeble-mindedness for the rest of his life.[3]
Richard, his father's second son and Member of Parliament, had died in 1716,[4] and so on the death of his oldest brother Henry Newport, 3rd Earl of Bradford, in 1734, he succeeded in the titles and entailed estates, such as Weston Park, Staffordshire.[1]
Newport died unmarried in Weston Park in Staffordshire.[3] His estate, including the manor of Walsall, was transferred to his sister Diana, Countess of Mountrath,[5] while all his titles became extinct.[3]
In 1815, the earldom was revived for Orlando Bridgeman, a descendant of a daughter of the 2nd Earl.[6]
Notes
- ^ a b Doyle (1886), p. 208.
- ^ a b Collins (1756), p. 158.
- ^ a b c Cokayne (1912), p. 275.
- ^ Cruickshanks, Handley and Hayton (2002), p. 1024.
- ^ "Walsall: Manors Pages 169-175 A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17, Offlow Hundred (Part). Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1976". British History Online.
- ^ Burke (1832), p. 135.
References
- Doyle, James William Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England. Vol. I. London: Longmans, Green & Co.
- Cokayne, George Edward (1912). Vicary Gibbs (ed.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Vol. II. London: The St Catherine Press Ltd.
- Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley.
- Collins, Arthur (1756). The Peerage of England. Vol. III. London.
- Eveline Cruickshanks; Stuart Handley; D. W. Hayton, eds. (2002). The House of Commons, 1690–1715. Vol. IV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-77221-4.
