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Lewis Watson, 2nd Earl of Rockingham {{Infobox noble , name = Lewis Watson , title = Earl of Rockingham , image = , caption = , alt = , CoA = , more = no , succession = , rei ...

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, mother = Catherine Sondes , birth_name = , birth_date = 3 July 1686 , birth_place = , christening_date = , christening_place = , death_date = {{Death date and age, 1722, 03, 20, 1686, 07, 03, df=y , death_place = Kensington Gravel Pits , burial_date = 31 March 1722 , burial_place = Rockingham church , occupation = politician , memorials = , website = , module = Edward Watson, Viscount Sondes (3 July 1686 – 20 March 1722) of Lees Court, Sheldwich, Kent, and Park Place, London, was a British Whig politician who sat in the

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between 1708 and 1722.{{sfn, Handley, 2002 Watson was the eldest son of

and Catherine Sondes, daughter of

George Sondes, 1st Earl of Feversham Sir George Sondes, 1st Earl of Feversham KB (November 1599 – 16 April 1677) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1626 and 1676 and was then created a peer and member of the House of Lords. Life So ...

. He matriculated at

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on 1 June 1703, aged 16 and travelled abroad to Germany in 1707.{{sfn, Handley, 2002{{sfn, Foster, 1891, pp=1577–1600 Watson arrived back from Germany in 1708, in time to be elected as a Whig

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for

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at the 1708 British general election. He proposed a motion on 25 January 1709 for an address to the Queen that she should consider remarrying. He also supported the naturalization of the Palatines. He was appointed to a committee to draft a bill to limit the time allowed for public mourning, since this was felt to be having an adverse effect on Canterbury's silk trade. He also voted for the impeachment of Dr Sacheverell and possibly in consequence he lost his seat at the 1710 British general election. He was returned unopposed as MP for New Romney at a by-election on 20 April 1713. Following his father's elevation as

Earl of Rockingham Earl () is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. The title originates in the Old English word ''eorl'', meaning "a man of noble birth or rank". The word is cognate with the Scandinavian form ''jarl'', and meant "chieftain", particular ...

in 1714, he was styled

. In 1718, he went over to the Opposition and in 1719 he was appointed a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to

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.{{sfn, Handley, 2002 He married, on 21 March 1709, Catherine Tufton, eldest daughter of

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in 1709, and had three sons and a daughter:{{sfn, Handley, 2002{{sfn, Cokayne, 1949, p=58{{sfn, Wise, 1891,
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Lewis Watson, 2nd Earl of Rockingham {{Infobox noble , name = Lewis Watson , title = Earl of Rockingham , image = , caption = , alt = , CoA = , more = no , succession = , rei ...

, no issue *

Thomas Watson, 3rd Earl of Rockingham {{Infobox noble , name = Thomas Watson , title = Earl of Rockingham , image = , caption = , alt = , CoA = , more = no , succession = , r ...

, no issue * Edward Watson, no issue * Catherine Watson, married

Edward Southwell Edward Southwell may refer to: * Edward Southwell, 20th Baron de Clifford (1738–1777), British politician * Edward Southwell Sr. (1671–1730), Irish politician * Edward Southwell Jr. (1705–1755), Irish politician {{hndis, Southwell, Edward ...

and had issue. Watson died of

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at Kensington Gravel Pits 20 March and was buried 31 March 1722 at Rockingham, predeceasing his father by 2 years.{{sfn, Cokayne, 1949, p=58 In 1729 his widow and her four sisters became co-heiresses to the Barony of Clifford.{{sfn, Cokayne, 1913,
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, but following her death without surviving issue in 1775 the barony was restored in favour of Viscount Sondes' grandson,

Edward Southwell, 20th Baron Clifford Edward Southwell, 20th Baron de Clifford (6 June 1738 – 1 November 1777) was a British politician. Early life Southwell was born on 6 June 1738 as the only son and heir of Lady Katherine Watson and Edward Southwell Jr. (1705–1755). His fa ...

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*{{cite book , last1=Cokayne , first1=G. E. , author-link=George Edward Cokayne , editor1-last=Gibbs , editor1-first=Vicary , editor1-link=Vicary Gibbs (St Albans MP) , editor2-last=Doubleday , editor2-first=H. Arthur , title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, volume=3 , location=London , publisher=St Catherine Press , year=1913 , url=https://archive.org/details/completepeerageo03coka/page/298/mode/2up?view=theater *{{cite book , last1=Cokayne , first1=G. E. , date=1949 , editor1-last=White , editor1-first=Geoffrey H. , title=The Complete Peerage, or a History of the House of Lords and all its Members from the Earliest Times , volume=11 , location=London , publisher=St Catherine Press , pages=57–58 *{{cite book , editor1-last=Foster , editor1-first=Joseph , editor1-link=Joseph Foster (genealogist) , title=Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 , date=1891 , orig-year=1st pub. Oxford: University of Oxford:1891 , publisher=

British History Online ''British History Online'' is a digital library of primary and secondary sources on medieval and modern history of Great Britain and Ireland. It was created and is managed as a cooperative venture by the Institute of Historical Research, Universi ...

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, chapter-url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/watson-hon-edward-1686-1722 , chapter=Watson, Hon. Edward (1686-1722), of Lees Court, Sheldwich, Kent, and Park Place, London *{{cite book , last1=Henning , first1=Basil Duke , editor1-last=Henning , editor1-first=Basil Duke , title=The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690 , date=1983 , publisher=British History Online , chapter-url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/watson-hon-lewis-1655-1724 , chapter=Watson, Hon. Lewis (1655-1724), of Rockingham Castle, Northants *{{cite book , last1=Newman , first1=A. N. , editor1-last=Sedgwick , editor1-first=Romney , editor1-link=Romney Sedgwick , title=The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754 , date=1970 , publisher=British History Online , chapter-url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/watson-edward-1686-1722 , chapter=Watson, Edward, Visct. Sondes (?1686-1722) *{{cite book , last1=Wise , first1=Charles , title=Rockingham Castle and the Watsons , date=1891 , publisher=Elliot Stock , location=London , url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t70w1vt9h&view=1up&seq=139 , pages=101, 247, oclc=902976023 {{s-start {{s-par, gb {{s-bef , before = Henry Lee , before2 = John Hardres {{s-title , title =

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Thomas D'Aeth Sir Thomas D'Aeth, 1st Baronet (1678–1745), of Knowlton Court and North Cray, Kent, was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1722. D'Aeth was the only surviving son of Thomas D’Aeth, a merchant of St D ...

{{s-aft , after = John Hardres , after2 = Henry Lee {{s-bef , before =

Robert Furnese Sir Robert Furnese, 2nd Baronet (1 August 1687 – 7 March 1733), of Waldershare, Kent, and Dover Street, Westminster, was an English Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1708 to 1733. Furnese was the son of Sir Henry F ...

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, after2 = David Papillon {{s-end {{DEFAULTSORT:Sondes, Edward Watson, Viscount 1686 births 1722 deaths British courtesy viscounts Alumni of Merton College, Oxford Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1708–1710 British MPs 1713–1715 British MPs 1715–1722 Heirs apparent who never acceded