Thomas Newport, 4th Earl of Bradford explained

Thomas Newport
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Succession:4th Earl of Bradford
Reign:1734 – 18 April 1762
Reign-Type:Title held
Predecessor:Henry Newport, 3rd Earl of Bradford
Father:Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford
Birth Date:c. 1696

Thomas Newport, 4th Earl of Bradford (c. 1696 – 18 April 1762[1]), was an English peer and noble.

Newport was the third son of Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford.[2] His mother Mary was the third daughter of Sir Thomas Wilbraham, 3rd Baronet.[2] After a fall from his horse in his youth, Newport suffered from feeble-mindedness for the rest of his life.[3]

Richard, his father's second son and Member of Parliament, had died in 1716,[4] and so on the death of his oldest brother Henry Newport, 3rd Earl of Bradford, in 1734, he succeeded in the titles and entailed estates, such as Weston Park, Staffordshire.[1]

Newport died unmarried in Weston Park in Staffordshire.[3] His estate, including the manor of Walsall, was transferred to his sister Diana, Countess of Mountrath,[5] while all his titles became extinct.[3]

In 1815, the earldom was revived for Orlando Bridgeman, a descendant of a daughter of the 2nd Earl.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Doyle (1886), p. 208.
  2. Collins (1756), p. 158.
  3. Cokayne (1912), p. 275.
  4. Cruickshanks, Handley and Hayton (2002), p. 1024.
  5. Web site: Walsall: Manors Pages 169-175 A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17, Offlow Hundred (Part). Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1976. . British History Online.
  6. Burke (1832), p. 135.