Sir Henry Arundell Bedingfeld, 3rd Baronet ( – 15 July 1760),
was an English landowner and baronet.
Early life
He was the only surviving son of Elizabeth Arundell and
Sir Henry Bedingfeld, 2nd Baronet of
Oxburgh Hall
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,
who accompanied
Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester
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From the age of two, Henr ...
to England in 1660.
His sisters were Margaret Bedingfeld (wife of
Sir John Jerningham, 4th Baronet) and Frances Bedingfeld (wife of
Sir Francis Anderton, 6th Baronet).
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, 1949), p. 1950. His father had previously been married to Lady Anne Howard, a daughter of
Charles Howard, 2nd Earl of Berkshire
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Early career
Howard m ...
, but she died without issue.
His paternal grandparents were Margaret Paston (a daughter of Edward Paston of Appleton, Norfolk) and
Sir Henry Bedingfeld, 1st Baronet, who had been created a baronet in 1661 as compensation for the family's unrecovered loss for supporting the
Royalist
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cause during the
English Civil War
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.
Among his extended family was first cousin, Mary Bedingfield, who married
Sir John Swinburne, 3rd Baronet of
Capheaton
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,
Northumberland
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(a son of
Sir William Swinburne, 2nd Baronet).
His maternal grandparents were Sir John
Arundell of Lanherne
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Lanherne
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, Cornwall and Hon. Elizabeth Roper (a daughter of the
3rd Baron Teynham).
Career
Upon the death of his father on 14 September 1704, he succeeded as the 3rd Baronet Bedingfeld, of Oxburgh.
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, 2003, volume 1, p. 899.
Personal life
On 28 August 1719, Sir Henry married Lady Elizabeth Boyle (–1751), eldest daughter of
Charles Boyle, 3rd Earl of Cork
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Early life
Hon. Charles Boyle was the eldest son of Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan and his first wife, Lady Jane Seymour.
...
(also known as the 2nd
Earl of Burlington
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in the
Peerage of England
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) and Juliana Noel (the only daughter and heiress of
Hon. Henry Noel, himself the second son of the
3rd Viscount Campden).
Together, they were the parents of:
* Elizabeth Bedingfeld, who married Charles Biddulph, son of John Biddulph and Mary Arundell.
*
Sir Richard Henry Bedingfeld, 4th Baronet (1720–1795), who married Hon. Mary Browne, daughter of
Anthony Browne, 6th Viscount Montagu
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, in 1761.
* Edward Bedingfeld (b. 1730), who married his second cousin, Mary Swinburne, second daughter of
Sir John Swinburne, 3rd Baronet, and Mary Bedingfeld in 1754.
Lady Bedingfeld died in 1751.
Sir Henry died on 15 July 1760 and was buried at Oxburgh. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Richard, and his last will, dated 17 June 1760, was proven (by probate) in 1760.
[George Edward Cokayne, editor, ''The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes'' (; reprint, ]Gloucester
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, 1983), volume III, p. 151.
Descendants
Through his son Richard, he was a grandfather of
Sir Richard Bedingfeld, 5th Baronet
Sir Richard Bedingfeld, 5th Baronet (23 August 1767 – 22 November 1829), was an English landowner and baronet.
Early life
Bedingfeld was born on 23 August 1767. He was the only son and heir of Sir Richard Bedingfeld, 4th Baronet (1720–1795) o ...
(1767–1829), who married Charlotte Georgiana Jerningham, daughter of
Sir William Jerningham, 6th Baronet.
References
External links
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