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Thynne Sir George Trevelyan remarks that any one who sat up with Weymouth might get a notion of how his grandfather, the brilliant Carteret, used to talk when reaching his second bottle. Charles James Fox and the Prince of Wales were among his boon companions at Brooks's and at White's.

Weymouth married, in May 1759, Elizabeth Cavendish Bentinck, elder daughter of the second Duke of Portland. She died, at the age of ninety-one, on 12 Dec. 1825. All her daughters, says Mrs. Delany, were beautiful and good. Only five often survived their father. Louisa, the eldest, married Heneage, fourth earl of Aylesford; Henrietta, the third, became the second wife of the fifth Earl of Chesterfield ; Isabella, the youngest, was lady of the bedchamber to the Duchess of Gloucester. Weymouth was succeeded as Marquis of Bath by his eldest son, Thomas Thynne (1765-1837), the grandfather of John Alexander Thynne, fourth marquis [q. v.] His second son, George Thynne (1770-1838), succeeded in 1826 his uncle Henry Frederick Thynne as Baron Carteret of Hawnes, and was himself succeeded by his younger brother, John Thynne (1772-1849), on whose death the barony became extinct.

[Botfield's Steramata Botvilliana; Doyle's Official Baronage; G. E. C[okayne]'s Peerage; Burke's Peerage, 1896; Walpole's Memoirs of George III, ed. Barker, i. 174, 204, 311, 261-2, iii. 84, 96-7, 101, 107, 129, 193, 196-7, iv. 2n., 123-4, 156, 158-61, 163, 183, Last Journals, and Letters, passim; Bedford Corresp. ii. 231, iii. 309, 355, and Private Journal; Grenville Papers, ii. 102, iii. 163, 213, 242, 308, iv. 58, 251, 268, 274, 301, 312. 339, 341, 383 n.; Autobiogr. and Corresp. of Mrs. Delany, iii. 361, 540, 611, iv. 317, v. 92, 164, &c., vi. 140, 484; Fitzmaurice's Life of Shelburne, i. 277-8, 309, ii. 124, iii. 32-3; Albemarle's Memoirs of Rockingham, ii. 50, 354; Chatham Corresp. iv. 60, 63 n.; Gent. Mag. 1796. ii. 972; Letters of George III to Lord North, ed. Donne, especially Nos. 54, 97, 324, 327, 374, 381, 464, 473, 480., 523, 536-7, 601 n., 609-10; Jesse's Memoirs of George III, i. 427-8, 432-4-7, 508, 510-11, ii. 243, 254-6w.; Diary of Madame d'Arblay, 1891, ii. 330-2 ; Hist, of White's Club, 1892,5. 138, ii. 38-9; Wraxall's Memoirs, 1884, ii. 299, 300; Trevelyan's Early Hist. of C. J. Fox, pp. 72-3, 81, 138, 171, 226; Evans's Cat. Engr. Portraits; Architect. Antiquities, ii. 105-8. Among the papers at Longleat is a letter from Gibbon to Weymouth (20 Aug. 1779), with a copy of the war manifesto he was employed by ministers to draw up (Memoirs, 1827, i. 224); Hist. MSS. Comm. 3rd Rep. p. 198.]

 THYNNE, WILLIAM (d. 1546), editor of Chaucer's works, is said, on no very sound authority, to have been younger son of John de la Inne, by his wife, Jane Bowdler (cf. Genealogist, new ser. i. 153, by Mr. J. H. Round). His family bore the alternative surname of Botfield or Boteville, and he is often called 'Thynne alias Boteville' (cf., Stemmata Botevilliana). According to Wood he was a native of Shropshire, and was educated at Oxford. Authentic extant documents first reveal him in 1524 as second clerk of the kitchen in the household of Henry VIII (Pat. 15 Hen. VIII, pt. ii. membrane 18). In 1526 he had become chief clerk of the kitchen, with full control of royal banquets. The office was connected with the board of green cloth, and its holder enjoyed an official lodging at Greenwich. Henry VIII showed him much favour. On 11 Feb. 1524 he was granted the reversion of the office of bailiff of Rye, Essex, and on 24 Oct. 1526 an annuity of 10l. out of the issues of the manor of Cleobury Barnes, Shropshire. On 20 Aug. 1528 he became bailiff of the town and keeper of the park of Bewdley (Pat, 20 Hen. VIII, pt. i. m. 24), and on 22 Dec. following he was granted, with John Chamber and John Thynne, the next presentation to the church of Stoke Clyinslond (Pat. 20 Hen. VIII, pt. ii. m. 11). On 21 July 1529 he was appointed customer of wools, hides, and fleeces in the port of London, and on 8 Oct. 1529 receiver-general of the earldom of March and keeper of Gateley Park, Wigmoresland. In 1531 Thynne obtained from the prior and convent of Christchurch, near Aldgate in London, a lease for fifty-four years of the rectorial tithe of Erith in Kent, and in a house there he passed much of his life. Subsequently, in 1533, Thynne became one of the cofferers of Queen Anne Boleyn, and on 27 March 1533 the king made him a gift of oak-trees. In a document dated 16 April 1536 Thynne was described as clerk comptroller of the royal household, and a reference was made to him in 1542 as 'clerk of the Green Cloth.' On 12 May 1546 Thynne made over to a friend, William Whorwood, his right in the capacity of bailiff of Bewdley Park 'to a buck in summer and a doe in winter.' He died on 10 Aug. 1546, and was buried in the church of All Hallows Barking, where there is a handsome brass to his memory. His will, dated 16 Nov. 1540, was proved on 7 Sept. 1546. His wife Anne, daughter of William Bond, clerk of the green cloth, was sole executrix and chief legatee. The overseers were Sir Edmund Peckham [q. v.], cofferer of the king's household, and the testator's nephew, Sir John Thynne [q. v.] The widow afterwards married successively Sir Edward Broughton and Hugh Cartwright. She died intestate before