William Chetwynd, 4th Viscount Chetwynd of Bearhaven (25 November 1721 – 12 November 1791) was a

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Whig politician who sat in the

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from 1747 to 1754.

Early life

Chetwynd was born on 25 November 1721 and was baptised on 21 December 1721 at

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in London. He was the eldest of two sons and four daughters of

William Chetwynd, 3rd Viscount Chetwynd William Richard Chetwynd, 3rd Viscount Chetwynd (1684 – 3 April 1770) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1770. Early life Chetwynd was the youngest son of John Chetwynd (1643–1702) and thus younger brother o ...

and the former Honora Baker. His father was an MP and diplomat who served as British Resident Minister at Genoa and, later,

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. His mother was the daughter of William Baker,

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at Algiers in 1715. His father was the youngest son of

John Chetwynd John Chetwynd (1643 – 9 December 1702), of Rudge, near Sandon, Staffordshire was an English Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of John Chetwynd of Rudge. He was Member of Parliament for Stafford from 1689 to 1695, and again in 170 ...

and, thus, a younger brother of

Walter Chetwynd, 1st Viscount Chetwynd Walter Chetwynd, 1st Viscount Chetwynd (3 June 1678 – 21 February 1736), of Rudge and Ingestre, Staffordshire was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1702 and 1734. Chetwynd was the eldest son of John Chetwynd o ...

and

John Chetwynd, 2nd Viscount Chetwynd John Chetwynd, 2nd Viscount Chetwynd (c.1680 – 21 June 1767) was a British diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1715 and 1747. Chetwynd was the second son of John Chetwynd of Ingestre and his wife Lucy Roane, daughter ...

from whom he inherited the viscountcy. He matriculated at

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on 2 December 1737.

Career

He held the office of Whig

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for Stockbridge between 1747 and 1754. He held the office of Equerry to the King between 1758 and 1760.G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14'' (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes,

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, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 189. Upon his father's death on 3 April 1770, he succeeded as the 4th

Viscount Chetwynd Viscount Chetwynd, of Bearhaven in the County of Kerry, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1717 for Walter Chetwynd, with remainder to the issue male of his father John Chetwynd. He was made Baron Rathdowne, in the County of ...

of Bearhaven as well as the 4th Baron Rathdowne, even though he had been disinherited by his father. His sister Mary Chetwynd married Rev. Hon. Richard Henry Roper (son of the 8th

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Personal life

On 28 October 1751, he married Susannah Cope, daughter of

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, MP, and Mary Jenkinson (the third daughter of Sir Robert Jenkinson). Together, they were the parents of: * Hon. Susannah Chetwynd (d. 1818), who married wealthy planter, Munbee Goulburn, of Amity Hall, Vere Parish, Jamaica, in 1782. * Hon. William Chetwynd (1753–1779), a captain in the

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who died unmarried. * Jonathan Chetwynd (b. ), who died in infancy. * Hon. John Whitmore Chetwynd (1754–1788), a captain in the

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of HMS ''Expedition'' who died unmarried in Jamaica. * Richard Chetwynd, 5th Viscount Chetwynd (1757–1821), who married Charlotte Cartwright, daughter of Thomas Cartwright and Mary Catherine Desaguliers (eldest daughter of Gen.

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), in 1791. * Maj.-Gen. Granville Anson Chetwynd-Stapylton (1758–1834), the Paymaster and Inspector General of Marines who married Martha Stapylton, daughter of Henry Stapylton and Harriot Warton, in 1783.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. volume 1, page 766. * Hon. Anderlechtia Clarissa Chetwynd (1765–1855), who married, as his second wife, Lord Robert Seymour, son of

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and Lady Isabella Fitzroy (a daughter of

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, and thus descended in the illegitimate line from King Charles II), in 1806. Lady Chetwynd died on 3 March 1790. Lord Chetwynd died at

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on 12 November 1791. He was buried at

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Descendants

Through his daughter Susannah, he was a grandfather of

Henry Goulburn Henry Goulburn PC FRS (19 March 1784 – 12 January 1856) was a British Conservative statesman and a member of the Peelite faction after 1846. Background and education Born in London, Goulburn was the eldest son of a wealthy planter, Munbee G ...

, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and

Frederick Goulburn Frederick Goulburn (1788 – 10 February 1837) was a British army officer and the first Colonial Secretary of New South Wales (1 January 1821 to 7 January 1826). He was the third son of Munbee Goulburn of Portland Place London, and his wife S ...

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, among others. Through his son Granville, he was a grandfather of Granville William Chetwynd Stapylton, a pioneer explorer and surveyor in Australia.

References

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