Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Earl of Gainsborough | |
Birth Name: | Baptist Noel |
Birth Date: | 1708 |
Occupation: | Aristocrat |
Parents: | Baptist Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough Lady Dorothy Manners |
Relatives: | John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland (grandfather) |
Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough (1708 – 21 March 1751) was an English peer and Member of Parliament, styled Viscount Campden until 1714.
He was the son of Baptist Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough and Lady Dorothy Manners, the second daughter of John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland, by his third wife, the Hon. Catherine Noel (eldest daughter by his fourth wife of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden). His sister, Lady Susan Noel married their second cousin, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury.
In 1714, he inherited the earldom of Gainsborough upon his father's death.
Gainsborough was High Steward of Chipping Campden and was appointed Warden and Chief Ranger of Lyfield Forest in 1737.
In 1728 he married Elizabeth Chapman. Their children were:[1]
The earl died in his early forties, and was succeeded by his eldest son. His widow later married his cousin, Thomas Noel.[1] On the death of the 6th Earl of Gainsborough in 1798, all his titles became extinct and his estates were inherited by his nephew Sir Gerard Noel, 2nd Baronet. In 1841 his eldest son, Sir Charles Noel, 3rd Baronet, was created Earl of Gainsborough.[1]