John Alexander Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath (1 March 1831 – 20 April 1896), styled Viscount Weymouth between March and June 1837, was a British peer and landowner, and a diplomat for almost sixty years.
Background and education
Born in
St James's
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, he was the son of
Henry Thynne, 3rd Marquess of Bath and his wife Harriet, second daughter of
Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton.
He succeeded his father as
Marquess
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in June 1837, aged six.
[ Lord Bath was educated at ]Eton College
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and Christ Church, Oxford
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. He was a devout Anglo-Catholic
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and a determined opponent of the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874
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which sought to suppress Ritualism
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in the Church of England
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.
He owned 55,000 acres, largely in County Monaghan
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, Wiltshire
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, Somerset
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and Shropshire
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.
Career
He held the office of Envoy Extraordinary for the coronation of King Pedro V of Portugal
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Early life and reign
As the eldest son of Maria II of Portugal, Queen Maria II and ...
on 27 May 1858, and Envoy Extraordinary for the coronation of the Emperor Franz Joseph I as King of Hungary
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on 25 July 1867.
From 1874 to 1893, he was a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery National Portrait Gallery may refer to:
* National Portrait Gallery (Australia), in Canberra
* National Portrait Gallery (Sweden), in Mariefred
*National Portrait Gallery (United States), in Washington, D.C.
*National Portrait Gallery, London
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, as well as a trustee of the British Museum
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in 1883. He was Chairman of Wiltshire County Council and, having been a Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset from 1853, was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
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Lord Lieutenants of Wiltshire
* William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke 1 ...
in 1889, a post he held until his death in 1896.
He served as treasurer of the Salop Infirmary in Shrewsbury
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in 1865.
Beriah Botfield, who tenuously claimed a family connection with the Thynnes, left to the Marquess after his death in 1863 his collections of early printed and colour plate books and paintings including Dutch landscapes, which have largely remained at Longleat House
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Longleat is set in of parklan ...
.
Family and death
He married Frances Isabella Catherine Vesey, daughter of Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci and 4th Baron Knapton (21 September 1803 – 23 December 1875), was an Anglo-Irish peer and Conservative politician.
Background
de Vesci was the son of The 2nd Viscount de Vesci and Franc ...
, on 20 August 1861. They had six children:
* Sir Thomas Henry Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath (1862–1946)
*Lady Alice Emma Thynne (1864–1942), married 1883 Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 8th Baronet.
*Lady Katherine Georgina Louisa Thynne (1865–1933), married Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer
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and had issue.
*Lord John Boteville Thynne (1867–1887), died young and unmarried.
*Lady Beatrice Thynne (1867–1941), died unmarried. She had been the heiress of her brother Alexander, including the manor of Church Stretton
Church Stretton is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, south of Shrewsbury and north of Ludlow. The population in 2011 was 4,671. , Shropshire, which on her death passed to her nephew Henry, Viscount Weymouth.
*Lieut.-Col. Lord Alexander George Boteville Thynne (1873–14 September 1918),[Record at Commonwealth War Graves Commission website]
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University of Toronto Libraries, accessed 16 Dec 2017.
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