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Edward Watson, Viscount Sondes , issue-link = , issue-pipe = , full name = , native_name = , styles = , other_titles = , noble family = Watson , house-type = , father = Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of R ...

, mother = Catherine Tufton , birth_name = , birth_date = {{circa, 1714 , birth_place = , christening_date = , christening_place = , death_date = {{Death date and age, 1745, 12, 04, 1714, df=y , death_place = , burial_date = 14 December 1745 , burial_place = Rockingham church , occupation = politician , memorials = , website = , module = Lewis Watson, 2nd Earl of Rockingham ({{circa, 1714 – 4 December 1745) was a British peer, styled Viscount Sondes from 1722 to 1724.{{sfn, Cokayne, 1949, p=58 He was born the eldest son of

and Lady Catherine Tufton, the daughter of

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and Lady Catherine Cavendish.{{sfn, Cokayne, 1949, p=58 His father having predeceased his own father, Lewis inherited the

earldom 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 ...

from his grandfather,

, in 1724.{{sfn, Cokayne, 1949, p=58 He was

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from 1737 to his death in 1745.{{sfn, Cokayne, 1949, p=58 He married his first cousin Catherine, daughter of Sir Robert Furnese. As part of the marriage settlement, he purchased a London house in

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and had it grandly decorated with marble tables, Persian carpets, mahogany panelling, silk damask hangings, and an organ.{{sfn, Sheppard, 1980, pp=117–166 Watson died childless on 4 December and was buried on 14 December 1745 at Rockingham.{{sfn, Cokayne, 1949, p=59 He was succeeded by his brother,

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}{{sfn, Cokayne, 1949, p=59 His widow subsequently married, on 13 June 1751, as his third wife, Francis, Earl of Guildford, who died on 4 August 1790.{{sfn, Hasted, 1798, pp=499–531 She died on 17 December 1766 and was buried at

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*{{cite book , last1=Cokayne , first1=G. E. , author-link1=George Edward Cokayne , 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 , last1=Hasted , first1=Edward , author1-link=Edward Hasted , date=1798 , orig-date=1st pub. Canterbury: W Bristow:1798 , chapter=Parishes: Ospringe , chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol6/pp499-531 , title=The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent , volume=6 , 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 ...

, pages=499–531 *{{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=

History of Parliament The History of Parliament is a project to write a complete history of the United Kingdom Parliament and its predecessors, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of England. The history will principally consist of a prosopography, in w ...

, chapter-url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/watson-hon-thomas-1715-46 , chapter=Watson, Hon. Thomas (1715-46) *{{cite book , editor1-last=Sheppard , editor1-first=F. H. W. , title=Survey of London , volume=40: The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2 (Buildings) , date=1980 , orig-date=1st pub. London: London County Council:1980, publisher=

, pages=117–166 , chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol40/pt2/pp117-166 , chapter=Grosvenor Square: Individual Houses Built before 1926 *{{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=148 , oclc=902976023 {{s-start {{s-hon {{succession box , before= The Earl of Leicester , title=

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