Lionel Tollemache, 5th Earl of Dysart (6 August 1734 – 20 February 1799), styled Lord Huntingtower until 1770, was an English peer.
Lord Huntingtower received no settlement from his father at his
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, and, feeling he owed him nothing, married without his knowledge or consent.
The bride was
Charlotte, daughter of
Sir Edward Walpole, whom he married on 2 October 1760 at St James's Church, Piccadilly. Charlotte's uncle
Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (; 24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English Whig politician, writer, historian and antiquarian.
He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham, southwest London ...
called Huntingtower "a very handsome person".
He succeeded to the earldom a decade later.
Charlotte died, after a long and painful illness,
[Pritchard, Evelyn (2007). ''Ham House and its owners through five centuries 1610–2006''. London: Richmond Local History Society. p.42. ISBN 9781955071727.] at
Ham House on 5 September 1789. Dysart remarried, on 19 April 1791, to Magdalene Lewis, sister of his brother Wilbraham's wife. He had no children by either wife, and upon his death at Ham House in 1799 was succeeded by his brother
Wilbraham.
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External links
Dysart, Earl of (S, 1643)Cracroft's Peerage
Ham House homepage
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1734 births
1799 deaths
Earls of Dysart
People from Ham, London
Lionel Tollemache, 5th Earl Dysart
