Lionel Tollemache, 5th Earl of Dysart

Lionel Tollemache, 5th Earl of Dysart (6 August 1734 – 20 February 1799) was a Scottish nobleman, styled Lord Huntingtower from birth until 1770.

Lionel Tollemache
5th Earl of Dysart
Lionel Tollemache (1734–1799), 5th Earl of Dysart, c.1750, British (English) School
Predecessor	Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart
Successor	Wilbraham Tollemache, 6th Earl of Dysart
Other titles	Baron Huntingtower
Born	6 August 1734
Died	20 February 1799 (aged 64)
Residence	Ham House
Spouse(s)	Charlotte Walpole Magdalene Lewis
Parents	Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart Grace Carteret

Lord Huntingtower received no settlement from his father at his majority, and, feeling he owed him nothing, married without his knowledge or consent.[1][2] The bride was Charlotte, daughter of Sir Edward Walpole, whom he married on 2 October 1760. Charlotte's uncle Horace Walpole called Huntingtower "a very handsome person".[1] He succeeded to the earldom a decade later.

Charlotte died at Ham House on 5 September 1789. Dysart remarried, on 19 April 1791, to Magdalene Lewis, sister of his brother Wilbraham's wife. He had no children by either wife, and upon his death at Ham House in 1799 was succeeded by his brother Wilbraham.

References

1. Walpole, Horace (1903), Toynbee, Paget (ed.), "Letter to George Montagu, 2 October 1760", The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, IV, pp. 430–431
2. Walpole, Horace (1903), Toynbee, Paget (ed.), "Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 5 October 1760", The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, IV, pp. 432–434

Attribution

• This article incorporates text from The Scots Peerage (1904-1914), a publication now in the public domain.

External links

• Dysart, Earl of (S, 1643) Cracroft's Peerage
• Ham House homepage