William Feilding, 5th Earl of Denbigh and 4th Earl of Desmond (26 October 1697 – 2 August 1755), styled as Viscount Feilding until 1717, was an English nobleman. The Thames at Twickenham

Denbigh was the son of

Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh, 3rd Earl of Desmond (1668 – 18 March 1717), styled Viscount Feilding from 1675 to 1685, was an Anglo-Irish peer and courtier. Peerage Feilding inherited the English Earldom of Denbigh and the Irish Ear ...

and Hester Firebrace, only daughter of

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. He succeeded his father to the Earldom of Denbigh, in the

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, and the Earldom of Desmond, in the

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, in 1717. In 1718 at

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, Lord Denbigh married Isabella Haeck de Jong (1694–1769), daughter of Peter Haeck de Jong,

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of Utrecht. Lady Denbigh's sister, Maria Catherina Haeck de Jong, later married the

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, who, according to Lord Egmont, took after Denbigh's example of marrying an older Dutchwoman for love. Lord Denbigh and his wife had one son, Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh, who succeeded to the earldom. In the 1730s, the Earl and Countess of Denbigh were said to have been living "very elegantly in the middle of a fine vineyard three miles from

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". The family were good friends of

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and

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, respectively. After Lord Denbigh's death in 1755, Lady Denbigh went to live with her sister, the Marchioness of Blandford. Both sisters died and were buried in Richmond, Middlesex.

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