Sir Henry Fetherstonhaugh, 2nd Baronet (22 December 1754 – 24 October 1846), known as Harry, was an English aristocrat. The son of Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh , he was educated at

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and

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. He made the Grand Tour in 1775-76 but passed most of it in sexual and hunting adventures. Like his parents and uncle 25 years earlier, he was painted by

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in Rome, and later employed

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to lay out the gardens to his country manor, Uppark. He was the Member of Parliament for

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from 1782 to 1796, but never once spoke in the House of Commons, and has been described as a "witless playboy". Sir Harry was a good friend of the

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(later King George IV), who stayed at Uppark during the mid-1780s. He took the teenaged

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as a mistress to live with him at Uppark in 1780 and to entertain his guests at the many parties he hosted, but rejected her when she became pregnant with his child in 1781. A frequent guest at Uppark, Charles Greville, took her in as his mistress on condition that the child, Emma Carew, was fostered out. On 12 September 1825, when over 70, Fetherstonhaugh married Mary Ann Bullock, his head dairy maid, aged 18 or 21, and upon his death left his entire estate to her. After her husband's death Mary Ann continued living at Uppark with her sister, Frances (b. 1817).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fetherstonhaugh, Henry 1754 births 1846 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of University College, Oxford Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain British MPs 1780–1784 British MPs 1784–1790 British MPs 1790–1796