suc. fa. 31 July 1701 (a minor) as 7th earl of WARWICK and 4th earl of HOLLAND
First sat 21 Jan. 1719; last sat 7 Aug. 1721
b. 20 Jan. 1698, o.s. of Edward Rich, 6th earl of Warwick and 3rd earl of Holland, and Charlotte, da. of Sir Thomas Middleton‡ 2nd bt. of Chirk Castle, co. Denbigh. educ. Westminster sch.; Christ Church, Oxf. 1714. unm. d. 16 Aug. 1721; admon. 20 Aug. 1721 to mother, 12 June 1736 to John Dawnay‡, Sir John Bridgeman and Alexander Denton‡, mother’s executors, 15 June 1748 to step-sis. Charlotte Addison.1
Gent. of the bedchamber 1719-21.
Associated with: Albemarle Street, Westminster.2
Warwick succeeded to the title when just three years old. He died of fever not long after attaining his majority, a few weeks after having visited Newgate prison in the company of some other men of fashion, where they had been ‘not a little diverted’.3 Full details of his career will be considered in the second part of this work.
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