Thomas Newport, 4th Earl of Bradford
Thomas Newport | |
|---|---|
| 4th Earl of Bradford | |
 Weston Park - seat of the Earls of Bradford | |
| Earl of Bradford | |
| Title held | 1734 – 18 April 1762 |
| Predecessor | Henry Newport, 3rd Earl of Bradford |
| Titles and styles | The Honourable |
| Born | c. 1696 |
| Died | 18 April 1762 |
| Father | Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford |
Thomas Newport, 4th Earl of Bradford (c. 1696 – 18 April 1762),[1] styled The Honourable from 1708 to 1734, 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 was transferred to his sister Diane, 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.[5]
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{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - Cokayne, George Edward (1912). Vicary Gibbs (ed.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Vol. vol. II. London: The St Catherine Press Ltd.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - Collins, Arthur (1756). The Peerage of England. Vol. vol. III. London.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - Eveline Cruickshanks; Stuart Handley; D. W. Hayton, eds. (2002). The House of Commons, 1690–1715. Vol. vol. IV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-77221-4.
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