John Lovelace, 4th Baron Lovelace (16721709) was the Governor of both

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and

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He was the son of William Lovelace of

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. He was the grandson of Francis Lovelace, son of Richard Lovelace, 1st Baron Lovelace. Despite being born into an aristocratic family, the 3rd Baron Lovelace had weakened the family's fortunes through gambling, leaving John heavily in debt. He served in the military following the inheritance of his peerage. In 1701, Lord Lovelace married Charlotte, the daughter of Sir John Clayton, but her poor dowry little improved his financial situation. The couple had six children:

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(d. 1709), Charlotte (d. 1705), Charles (d. 1707), Wentworth (d. 1709), Neville (d. 1736) and

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(d. 1788), who married Lord Henry Beauclerk in 1739. No portraits of the 4th Baron Lovelace have surfaced to date. However, in 1705 he was described by a Scottish writer named John Macky as follows: "Lieutenant Colonel of the Horse Guards; a very pretty gentleman of good sense and well at court; a short, fat brown man, not forty years old." On 21 March 1708, Lord Lovelace was appointed to the governorship of New York and

to replace Lord Cornbury. After a harrowing nine-week trans-Atlantic voyage Governor Lovelace, his wife and three sons John, Wentworth, and Neville arrived in New York on 18 December 1708. Well received by the Assemblies of both colonies, he proceeded to convict several of Cornbury's supporters, members of the corrupt Cornbury Ring, including former Governor

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. Lord Lovelace was granted £1,600 by a revenue bill on 5 May 1709. However, during the last month of his six-month tenure, two of the Governor's sons—John and Wentworth—died, probably of pneumonia, and he himself died on 6 May 1709.E.B. O'Callaghan (Ed.) Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York. Vol. V, pp.80-81. His funeral was held in Trinity Church, New York City and he was buried on 12 May in the

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. His widow and two-year-old son Neville returned to

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, where Lady Charlotte gave birth to

who was baptised in Westminster on 14 January 1710.

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NJ State Library: John Lovelace
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Online article about Lovelace with the information that he was the grandson of Francis Lovelace
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