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Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh

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Anglo-Irish peer and courtier

The Right HonourableThe Earl of Denbigh
Born1668
County Kilkenny, Ireland
Died18 March 1716/7
Denbighshire, Wales
Burial placeMonks Kirby, Warwickshire
Spouse Hester Firebrace ​(m. 1685)
Parents

Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh, 3rd Earl of Desmond (1668 – 18 March 1717), styled Viscount Feilding from 1675 to 1685, was an Anglo-Irish peer and courtier.

Peerage

See also: Earl of Denbigh and Earl of Desmond
Arms of Feilding

Feilding inherited the English Earldom of Denbigh and the Irish Earldom of Desmond in 1685, from his father, William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh and 2nd Earl of Desmond.

Family

Basil Feilding (also Fielding) was born in 1668 in County Kilkenny, Ireland. He was the son of William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh, and Mary King, daughter of Sir Robert King.

On 22 June 1695, he married Hester Firebrace (died 1725), daughter of Sir Basil Firebrace, 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Hough.

Denbigh and his wife had six daughters and four sons:

  • Lady Mary Feilding (18 November 1696 – 1 October 1732), married physician William Cockburn
  • William, Viscount Feilding (26 October 1697 – 2 August 1755)
  • Lady Bridget Feilding (14 September 1698 – 29 March 1756)
  • Hon. Basil Feilding (18 September 1699 – buried 22 October 1699), died as an infant
  • Lady Elizabeth Feilding (4 August 1700 – April 1752)
  • Lt.-Col. Hon. Charles Feilding (8 December 1702 – 6 February 1745), married Anne Palmer , daughter of Sir Thomas Palmer, and was father of the a naval officer of the same name who was involved in the Affair of Fielding and Bylandt.
  • Lady Hester Feilding (12 April 1704 – 20 February 1720)
  • Hon. George Feilding (14 August 1705 – 6 November 1723)
  • Lady Diana Feilding (2 November 1706 – 29 March 1756)
  • Lady Frances Feilding (20 January 1709/10 – 3 October 1734)

References

  1. Cokayne, George Edward (1890). Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, Or Dormant. G. Bell & sons. p. 60. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
  2. ^ The English Compendium: Or Rudiments of Honour. 1769. p. 81. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
  3. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Page 1087
  4. Warwickshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1535–1812
  5. "Fielding, Charles," in: Charnock, John (1798). Biographia navalis: or, Impartial memoirs of the lives and characters of officers of the navy of Great Britain, from the year 1660 to the present time; drawn from the most authentic sources, and disposed in a chronological arrangement, Volume 6. R. Faulder. pp. 391–393. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
Political offices
Preceded byThe Viscount Fitzhardinge Teller of the Exchequer
1712–1715
Succeeded byLord William Powlett
Court offices
Preceded byThe 3rd Earl of Sandwich Master of the Horse to
Prince George of Denmark

1694–1697
Succeeded byThe 3rd Earl of Sandwich
Honorary titles
Preceded byThe Earl of Rutland Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire
1703–1706
Succeeded byThe 1st Duke of Rutland
Preceded byThe 1st Duke of Rutland Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire
1711–17
Succeeded byThe 2nd Duke of Rutland
Peerage of England
Preceded byWilliam Feilding Earl of Denbigh
1685–1717
Succeeded byWilliam Feilding
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded byWilliam Feilding Earl of Desmond
1685–1717
Succeeded byWilliam Feilding


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