Gerard Noel, 2nd Baronet

Sir Gerard Noel Noel, 2nd Baronet (born Edwardes , born July 17, 1759 in Tickencote, Rutland , † February 25, 1838 in Exton , Rutland) was a British nobleman and politician .

Life

Family coat of arms of Gerard Noel from 1798

He was born as Gerard Noel Edwardes and was the only son of Gerard Anne Edwardes (1734-1773) from his marriage to Lady Jane Noel (1733-1811). His father was an illegitimate son of Lord Anne Hamilton (1709-1748), son of James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton . His mother was a daughter of Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough . In 1773 he inherited Welham Grove in Leicestershire from his father .

On December 20, 1780, he married Diana Middleton (1762-1823), the only daughter and heiress of Admiral Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, in London .

In 1784 he was first elected to the British House of Commons . In Parliament he sat from 1784 to 1788 as an MP for Borough Maidstone in Kent and from 1788 to 1808 and from 1814 to 1838 as Knight of the Shire for County Rutland.

After the death of his maternal uncle Henry Noel, 6th Earl of Gainsborough , on April 8, 1798, he inherited a substantial part of his property including the family estate of Exton Park in Rutland and took it on this occasion with a royal license from May 5, 1798 Family name "Noel" and its coat of arms.

Due to a special inheritance regulation, he inherited his father-in-law's title of nobility as 2nd Baronet of the Navy when his father-in-law died on June 17, 1813, which he had been awarded on October 23, 1781 in the Baronetage of Great Britain . His wife also inherited the title of 2nd Baroness Barham .

After the death of his first wife, he married Harriet Gill († 1826), daughter of an Anglican minister from Scraptoft in Leicestershire, on May 4, 1823, as a second marriage. After she died in 1826, he married on August 13, 1831 a woman named Isabella († 1867), widow of Raymond Evans.

progeny

From his first marriage he had five daughters and eight sons:

• Louisa Elizabeth Noel († 1816) ⚭ 1807 William Henry Hoare;
• Emma Noel († 1873) ⚭ 1873 Stafford O'Brien;
• Charlotte Margaret Noel († 1869), ⚭ (1) 1813 Thomas Welman, ⚭ (2) 1839 Thomas Thompson;
• Augusta Julia Noel († 1833) ⚭ 1833 Thomas Gisborne Babington;
• Juliana Hicks Noel († 1855) ⚭ 1834 Rev. Samuel Philips;
• Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough (1781–1866), MP for Rutland 1808–1814, ⚭ (1) 1809 Elizabeth Welman, ⚭ (2) 1817 Elizabeth Gray, ⚭ (3) 1820 Arabella Hamlyn-Williams, ⚭ (4 ) 1833 Lady Frances Jocelyn;
• Rev. Gerard Thomas Noel (1782-1851), Canon of Winchester, ⚭ (1) 1806 Charlotte Sophia O'Brien, ⚭ (2) 1841 Susan Kennaway;
• William Middleton Noel (1789–1859), MP for Rutland 1838–1840, ⚭ 1817 Anne Yates;
• Frederick Noel (1790–1833), Captain of the Royal Navy , ⚭ 1815 Mary Woodley;
• Rev. Francis James Noel (1793-1854), pastor of Nettlestead and Teston , Kent;
• Berkeley Octavius ​​Noel (1794-1841) ⚭ 1820 Letitia Penelope Adderley;
• Rev. Leland Noel Noel (1797–1870), Vicar at Exton, Canon of Peterborough, ⚭ 1824 Mary Arabella Foljambe;
• Rev. Baptist Wriothesley Noel (1799–1873) ⚭ 1826 Jane Baillie.

His second and third marriages were childless.

He died in 1838 at the age of 78 on his Exton Park estate and was buried there as well. His eldest son Charles Noel , who inherited him as 3rd Baronet in 1838, had inherited the title of 3rd Baron Barham from his mother in 1823 and was made Earl of Gainsborough in 1841 .

Web links

• Sir Gerard Noel at Hansard (English)
• Baronetage: MIDDLETON of the Navy at Leigh Rayment's Peerage ( Memento from October 25, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
• Sir Gerard Noel Noel, 2nd Bt. On thepeerage.com

predecessor	title	successor
Charles Middleton	Baronet, of the Navy 1813-1838	Charles Noel