John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth (15 April 1690 – 22 November 1762), of
Hurstbourne Park
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, near Whitchurch and Farleigh Wallop, Hampshire, known as John Wallop, 1st Viscount Lymington from 1720 to 1743, was a British politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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from 1715 to 1720, when he vacated his seat on being raised to the
peerage
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as
Viscount Lymington
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and
Baron Wallop.
Early life
Wallop was the third son of John Wallop, of
Farleigh Wallop
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and his wife Alicia, daughter of
William Borlase
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. The Wallops were an old and influential
Hampshire
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family; his great-grandfather was the regicide
Robert Wallop
Robert Wallop (20 July 1601 – 19 November 1667) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times from 1621 to 1660. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War and was one of the regicides of King Char ...
. His father died about 1694, and he succeeded an elder brother, Bluett Wallop, in the family estates in 1707. Wallop was educated at
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in 1708, in
Geneva
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from 1708 to 1709, and took his
Grand Tour
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through Italy and Germany in 1710.
Political career
In
1715
Events
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, Wallop was returned as a
Whig Member of Parliament
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for both
Andover
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, where a family interest existed, and
Hampshire
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, choosing to sit for the latter. In 1717, he took the side of
Stanhope and
Sunderland
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over
Walpole and
Townshend and was rewarded with appointment as a junior
Lord of the Treasury
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. He was re-elected without opposition at the ensuing
by-election
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in Hampshire. However, he voted against the Government on the repeal of the
Occasional Conformity and
Schism Act
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s.
When Sunderland fell in 1720 after the
South Sea Bubble
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, Wallop was put out of the Treasury. He was compensated with a peerage, being created Viscount Lymington and Baron Wallop on 11 June 1720. In 1731, he suggested to
Queen Caroline (through the medium of her favorite, Charlotte Clayton) that he should replace the
Duke of Bolton
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as the Government's electoral manager in Hampshire, but nothing immediately came of this.
On 11 January 1732 (
O.S.) he was appointed
Justice in Eyre
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for the forests north of
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. In 1733, when the Duke of Bolton broke with Walpole over the proposed
Excise Bill
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, he was stripped of most of his offices; Lymington succeeded him as
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,
Vice-Admiral of Hampshire
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, and
Vice-Admiral of the Isle of Wight. In July 1734, the
Duke of Montagu
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, who had succeeded Bolton as
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, resigned that office and Lymington received it as well, although he resigned office as Justice in Eyre that year.
The disaffection of Bolton threatened the Whig interest in Hampshire. Lymington worked in "perfect harmony" with
Lord Harry Powlett, Bolton's brother and one of the Whig candidates, but Bolton's opposition to
Anthony Chute, the other Whig, resulted in the defeat of Chute and the victory of one of the Tory candidates,
Edward Lisle
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.
Upon Walpole's fall in 1742 (due in part to the failed
siege of Cartagena, which had claimed the life of Lymington's second son), the Duke of Bolton regained all of his prior offices in Hampshire and the
Isle of Wight
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, to Lymington's loss. As in 1720, Lymington was compensated with a peerage, and was created Earl of Portsmouth on 11 October 1743. He regained the offices of Governor and Vice-Admiral of the Isle of Wight in 1746, when Bolton supported the abortive ministry of
Bath and
Granville and was deprived of those posts by the Pelhams.
Family
On 20 May 1716, Wallop had married Lady Bridget Bennet (d. 12 October 1738), the daughter of
Charles Bennet, 1st Earl of Tankerville
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Tankerville was the son of the book collector Bridget Bennett and John Bennet, 1st Baron Ossulston.
...
. They had six sons and four daughters:
*Hon. Bridget Wallop (20 February 1717 – 26 June 1736)
*
John Wallop, Viscount Lymington
John Wallop, Viscount Lymington (3 August 1718 – 19 November 1749) was a British politician, styled Hon. John Wallop from 1720 to 1743.
Early life
The eldest son of John Wallop, 1st Viscount Lymington, Wallop was educated at Winchester Scho ...
(1718–1749)
*Hon. Borlace Wallop (3 June 1720 – April 1741)(elsewhere Burlace), educated as a gentleman commoner at
Winchester College
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(around 1731),
ensign
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in the
Royal Regiment of Foot Guards,
aide-de-camp to General
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, carried orders at the
attack on Fort Saint Lazarus and died of fever soon thereafter
*Hon. Mary Wallop (17 August 1721 – 13 April 1722)
*Hon.
Charles Wallop
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The third son of John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth, Charles was educated at Winchester School from 1732 to 1739 and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 1740 ...
(1722–1771)
*Hon. Anne Wallop (d. 3 March 1759), unmarried
*Hon.
Bluett Wallop (1726–1749)
*Hon. Elizabeth Wallop (d. June 1727)
*Henry Wallop, died in infancy
*Bennet Wallop, died young
Lymington remarried on 9 June 1741 to Elizabeth, widow of
Henry Grey and daughter of
James Griffin, 2nd Baron Griffin of Braybrooke
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; they had no children.
Two of his sons died in 1749:
Bluett, his youngest, in June, and
John, Viscount Lymington in November. Upon his death in 1762, Wallop was succeeded by his grandson
John Wallop, 2nd Earl of Portsmouth
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.
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