Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh, 3rd Earl of Desmond (1668 – 18 March 1717) was a British peer and member of the

House of Lords The House of Lords, also known as the House of Peers, is the Bicameralism, upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Membership is by Life peer, appointment, Hereditary peer, heredity or Lords Spiritual, official function. Like the ...

, styled Viscount Feilding from 1675 to 1685.

Peerage

Fielding inherited the English Earldom of Denbigh and the Irish

Earldom of Desmond Earl of Desmond is a title in the peerage of Ireland () created four times. When the powerful Earl of Desmond took arms against Queen Elizabeth Tudor, around 1578, along with the King of Spain and the Pope, he was confiscated from his estates, s ...

in 1685, from William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh and 2nd Earl of Desmond.

Family

Basil Feilding was born in 1668. He was the son of

William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh, 2nd Earl of Desmond (29 December 1640 – 23 August 1685) was an aristocrat in the Peerage of England. He was the son of George Feilding, 1st Earl of Desmond, and his wife, the former Bridget Stanhope, daugh ...

, and Mary King, daughter of Sir Robert King. He married Hester Firebrace, daughter of

Sir Basil Firebrace, 1st Baronet Sir Basil Firebrace, 1st Baronet (1652 – 7 May 1724) was a supplier of wines to the royal household, Sheriff of London, and MP for Chippenham, Wiltshire, from 1690 to 1692. He was prosecuted for fraud and bribery, acquitted, and created a baron ...

and Elizabeth Hough, on 22 June 1695. They had eight children together, including

William Feilding, 5th Earl of Denbigh Earl of Denbigh (pronounced 'Denby') is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1622 for William Feilding, 1st Viscount Feilding, a courtier, admiral, adventurer, and brother-in-law of the powerful Duke of Buckingham. The title is ...

and 4th Earl of Desmond (1697–1755), who succeeded him. Another son, Charles Feilding, was the father of a naval officer of the same name who was involved in the

Affair of Fielding and Bylandt The affair of Fielding and Bylandt was a brief naval engagement off the Isle of Wight on 31 December 1779 between a Royal Navy squadron, commanded by Commodore Charles Fielding, and a naval squadron of the Dutch Republic, commanded by rear-admir ...

."Fielding, Charles," in: The earl's daughters included

Frances Finch, Countess of Winchilsea and Nottingham Frances Finch, Countess of Winchilsea and Nottingham (c.1690 – September 1734), was an English aristocrat and social reformer. Biography She was the daughter of Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh, and his wife, the former Hester Firebrace ...

. He died on 18 March 1717.

References

1668 births 1717 deaths Lord-Lieutenants of Leicestershire English army officers

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