Other Windsor, 3rd Earl of Plymouth (30 June 1707 – 23 November 1732) was an English peer and landowner, a member of the
House of Lords
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from 1728 until his death.
His first name goes back in the Windsor family to Other, or Othoere, the father of
Walter Fitz Other, who was
constable of Windsor Castle
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in the time of
William the Conqueror
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.
The son of
Other Windsor, 2nd Earl of Plymouth
Other Windsor, 2nd Earl of Plymouth (27 August 1679 – 26 December 1727) was a British peer, styled Lord Windsor from his father's death in 1684 to 1687. He was a Hanoverian Tory, supportive of the Hanoverian Succession.
The son of Other Winds ...
, and Elizabeth Whitley, he was educated at
Eton College
Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, C ...
,
['']Burke's Peerage
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'', volume 3 (2003), p. 3153 where he was a contemporary of
Henry Fielding
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, and succeeded his father as
Earl of Plymouth
Earl of Plymouth is a title that has been created three times: twice in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
History
The first creation was in 1675 for Charles FitzCharles, one of the dozens of illegitimate ...
and
Baron Windsor
Earl of Plymouth is a title that has been created three times: twice in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
History
The first creation was in 1675 for Charles FitzCharles, one of the dozens of illegitima ...
on 26 December 1727,
[ but had to wait until he was 21 to be admitted to the House of Lords.
On 7 May 1730 Plymouth married Elizabeth Lewis, a daughter of Thomas Lewis. He died in 1732, aged 25, and was succeeded by his only son, ]Other Lewis Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth
Other Lewis Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth (12 May 1731 – 21 April 1771) was a British peer, styled Lord Windsor until 1732.
At the age of one, he succeeded his father Other Windsor, 3rd Earl of Plymouth, as Earl of Plymouth. In 1736, his mater ...
(1731–1771).[Sir Bernard Burke, ''A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire'' (1883), page 591]
References
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1707 births
1732 deaths
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People educated at Eton College