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and Lady Elizabeth Tuchet, daughter of

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. Upon the deaths of his mother's two brothers, the Earldom became extinct, but the barony passed in the female line. He gained the rank of

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in the

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. He married, Elizabeth Delaval, daughter of Sir

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and Susannah Robinson, on 21 May 1781 in Hanover Square,

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. Later he married Augusta Henrietta Catherina Boisdaune, daughter of Rev. André Boisdaune and Elizabeth Strode, on 2 May 1792. Thicknesse-Touchet died in Sandridge Lodge, near

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and was buried in Melksham. He was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, George Thicknesse-Touchet (1781–1837). His second son John was killed at the battle of Copenhagen in 1801.Eton School Lists, 1791-1850

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