Philip Meadows (1708-1781) was Deputy Ranger of Richmond Park (1761-1781).

Family and early life

He was the third son of

Sir Philip Meadowes Sir Philip Meadowes or Meadows (1672–1757) was an English politician and diplomat. Life He was baptised on 21 May 1672, the second son of Sir Philip Meadows of Chattisham, Suffolk and his wife Constance Lucy. He studied at Trinity College, Oxfo ...

and Dorothy, sister of

Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth (pronounced "Boscowen") ( ; ca. 1680 – 25 October 1734), was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons for Cornish constituencies from 1702 until 1720 when he was raised to the peerage ...

. In 1734 he married Frances (born 1711), only daughter of William Pierrepoint, Earl of Kingston. Meadow's uncle was

and was thus the first cousin of the Hon. Edward Boscawen,

Admiral of the Blue The Admiral of the Blue was a senior rank of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, immediately outranked by the rank Admiral of the White (see order of precedence below). From 1688 to 1805 this rank was in order of precedence third; after 1805 ...

and his wife

Frances Boscawen Frances Evelyn "Fanny" Boscawen (née Glanville) (23 July 1719 – 26 February 1805) was an English literary hostess, correspondent and member of the Blue Stockings Society. She was born Frances Evelyn Glanville on 23 July 1719 at St Clere, Kemsi ...

whose daughter was

Elizabeth Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort Elizabeth Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (''née'' Berkeley; 9 April 1799) was born in Stoke Gifford in Gloucestershire to John Symes Berkeley and Elizabeth Norborne.G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warr ...

. Meadow's wife, Lady Frances Meadows, died in 1795, Philip having pre-deceased her. Philip Meadows and Lady Frances Meadows had two sons: * Charles Pierrepoint, 1st Earl Manvers * Sir William Medows

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Medows, Philip 1708 births 1781 deaths People from Richmond, London