Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh (3 January 1719 – 14 July 1800) was an

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

nobleman and courtier. He was the son of

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 Dutch noblewoman Isabella Haeck de Jong, daughter of Count Peter Haeck de Jong of

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and Anna Maria van Weede tot Dijkveld en Ratelis. He succeeded to the title of 6th Earl of Denbigh on 2 August 1755. He married Mary Cotton, daughter of Sir John Cotton, 6th Baronet, and Jane Burdett, on 12 April 1757. Their first son was

William Feilding, Viscount Feilding Major-General William Robert Feilding, Viscount Feilding (15 June 1760 – 8 August 1799) was a British Army officer and politician. He was the eldest son of Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh, but died a year before his father, leaving a son, W ...

. Their second son was Charles John Fielding, born 20 December 1761, who published a poem dedicated to his brother titled ''The Brothers, an Ecologue'' (1781). In 1779 Charles prosecuted James Donally for highway robbery, who had accused him of sexual assault. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and died abroad unmarried.''Collins's Peerage of England: Contains the earls to the termination of the seventeenth century'' (1812, p.280). Basil married, secondly, Sarah Farnham, daughter of Edward Farnham, on 21 July 1783. Feilding owned the

Newnham Paddox Monks Kirby is a village and civil parish in north-eastern Warwickshire, England. The population of the parish is 445. Monks Kirby is located around one mile east of the Fosse Way, around 8 miles north-west of Rugby, seven miles north-east of ...

estate in Warwickshire. He was Master of the Royal Harriers and Foxhounds from 1762 until March 1782, when the post was abolished. In 1773

Horace Walpole Horatio Walpole (), 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whigs (British political party), Whig politician. He had Strawb ...

called him "the lowest and most officious of the Court-tools".

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