John Tylney, 2nd Earl Tylney (1712 – 17 September 1784) was an English aristocrat and member of parliament who moved to Italy after a homosexual scandal.

Life

Child was baptized on 22 October 1712. He was the third son of

Richard Child, 1st Earl Tylney Richard Child, 1st Earl Tylney (5 February 1680 – March 1750), was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1734. Initially a Tory, he switched to supporting the Whigs after 1715. He held no Office of State, ...

, and Dorothy, daughter of John Glynne of Henley Park, Surrey. Dorothy Glynne's mother was the heiress Dorothy Tylney whose father was Frederick Tylney of Tylney Hall. Due to the inheritance, Richard Child and his sons all adopted the surname of Tylney in 1734. John Child was educated at

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in 1721 and later at Christ Church in Oxford. At the 1734 general election, his father stood down from his seat at

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in his favour, but he was not elected. In 1750, John Child, now John Tylney became the Earl of Tylney and inherited

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, where he lived. At the

1761 general election The 1761 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of Great Britain, House of Commons of the 12th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Sco ...

, he was returned as Member of Parliament for

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. In February 1764, Tylney was in Florence, and later he settled in Naples. In 1765, he was a larger seated figure included in a caricature painting by

Thomas Patch Thomas Patch (March 13, 1725 – April 30, 1782) was an English painter, printmaker in etching, physiognomist and art historian. He made a living from painting views of Florence and Tivoli and appears to have sold a number of painted caricatu ...

. Patch was another Englishman living abroad and he had left Rome for Florence after he had been banished for a scandal based on his homosexuality. Tylney died on 17 September 1784 in Naples. His heir was his nephew,

James Tylney-Long Sir James Tylney-Long, 7th Baronet (1736 – 28 November 1794) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons for 32 years from 1762 to 1794. The eldest son of Sir Robert Long, 6th Baronet and his wife Emma Child, he succeeded his ...

Gallery

File:OldNollekensWanstead.jpg, ''The Tylney Family in the Saloon at Wanstead'' by Old Nollekens, 1740. The Earl is seated at right, attended by his son John, right; his wife sits at the table opposite 3rd son Lt. Josiah RN, whilst a daughter in blue stands behind. To the left is the infant James Long, with father Sir Robert Long looking on. (Coll.

Fairfax House Fairfax House is a Georgian townhouse located at No. 27, Castlegate, York, England, near Clifford's Tower and York Castle Museum. It was probably built in the early 1740s for a local merchant and in 1759 it was purchased by Charles Gregory Fai ...

, York, CT198.327)Text copied from

, see that page for attribution. File:Patchmann.jpg, British Gentlemen at Sir Horace Mann's's Home in Florence (''circa'' 1765), including John Tylney, 2nd Earl Tylney, by

; Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

References

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