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 26 BATH [Thomas Thynne, j/j/^^ Viscount Weymouth, s. and h. ap., b. 9 Apr. 1796. Ed. at St. John's Coll. Cambridge; M.A., 1816; M.P. (Tory) for Weobley 1818-20. He w., 11 May 1820, Harriet Matilda, da. of Thomas Robbins. He d. s.p. and v.p., 16 Jan. 1837, at Shanks House, Dorset, aged 40. Will pr. Apr. 1837. His widow m. Count Inghirami. She d. at Florence, 18 June 1873.] III. 1837. 3. Henry Frederick (Thynne), Marquess of Bath, iv-, (^c, 2nd, but 1st surv. s. and h., b. 24 May 1797. Capt. marcn. ^^^^ ^g^^. p^_p_ ^^^^^ ^^^ Weobley, 1824-26, and 1828-32. He m., 10 Apr. 1830, Harriet, 2nd da. of Alexander (Baring), 1st Lord Ashburton, by Anne, da. of William Bingham, of Philadelphia. He d. (a few months after he sue. to the Peerage) 24 June, and was bur. I July 1837, at Longleat, aged 40. Will pr. July 1837. His widow, who was b. 3 May 1804, in Bruton Str., Midx., d. 1 Jan. 1892, at Muntham Court, Findon,(^) Sussex, and was bur. at Longbridge Deverill. Will pr. at /; 1 5 1,386. IV. 1837. 4. John Alexander (Thynne), Marquess OF Bath, i^c, J s. and h., b. i Mar. 1831, bap. at St. James's, Westm. ^ ' Ed. at Eton, and at Ch. Ch. Oxford. Envoy Extraor- dinary C") to Portugal for the investiture (at Belem, near Lisbon, 27 May 1858) of King Pedro V with the order of the Garter, and subsequently to Austria, for the investiture (at Vienna, 25 July 1867) of the Emperor, Francis Joseph. On the former of these occasions he received the order of the Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword of Portugal. Trustee of the Nat. Portrait Gall. 1874-93; Trustee of the Brit. Museum 1883, and Lord Lieut, of co. Wilts 1889, till his death. A Conservative. He w., 20 Aug. 1 861, Frances Isabella Catherine, ist da. of Thomas (Vesey), 3rd Viscount de Vesci [I.], by Emma, yst. da. of George Augustus (Herbert), nth Earl of Pembroke. He d. 20 Apr. 1896, aged 65, at Venice, and was bur. at Longbridge Deverill. Will pr. at ;^263,i70.('^) His widow, who was ^.26 May 1840, was living 19 10. V. 1896. 5. Thomas Henry (Thynne), Marquess of Bath [1789], Viscount Weymouth and Baron Thynne of Warminster [1682], and a Baronet [1641], ist s. and h., b. 15 July 1862, in the Stable Yard, St. James's; j/y/^i? Viscount Weymouth till 1896; ed. (^) She had bought this place in 1850. V.G. C") See, for a list of these Garter Missions, Appendix B in this volume. (■^j " He has frozen down into the very exemplar of an immaculate, unemotional self-possessed British aristocrat." {Society in London, 1885, p. 85). He was a Con- servative, but " never played a prominent part in politics, though he devoted a considerable part of his time and energies to county business, and was universally respected as a highly cultured, scrupulously honourable English gentleman of the best type. . . . Always a shy man ... he remained to the last, under a cloak of reserve bordering on hauteur, one of the most kind hearted men." (Obit, notice in The Times). V.G.