Henry Thynne, 3rd Marquess of Bath

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Henry Frederick Thynne, 3rd Marquess of Bath (born May 24, 1797 , † June 24, 1837 in Longleat ) was a British nobleman, politician and naval officer.

Origin and career in the Royal Navy

Henry Thynne was the second son of Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath and Isabella Elizabeth Byng, daughter of George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington . He first attended with his brother John , the Eton College and entered 1810 as the younger son of a nobleman as a supernumerary volunteer in the Royal Navy in and served on the HMS Royal William . After his takeover as midshipman , he served on the ships HMS Fortune , HMS Tigre , HMS Royal George , HMS Blake , HMS Malta , HMS Impregnable , HMS Royal Sovereign and HMS Tennant before he was promoted to lieutenant on August 7, 1816. As a lieutenant served on the Ganymede , HMS Active , HMS Cambrian and HMS Glasgow , before he served in the Mediterranean and East Indies on the HMS Tagus and the HMS Alacrity , whose captain Henry Stanhope finally proposed him for promotion. On June 9, 1821, he became Commander in command of the sloop HMS Frolic . In 1822 he was promoted to captain and on July 30th became the commandant of the frigate HMS Termagant , with which he set off for India in September 1822, but was ordered back after his arrival and on his return on September 7th 1823 was paid half pay . His career served as an example of patronage in the Royal Navy for MP Joseph Hume . He accused Thynne of having been promoted to captain only by his father's rank, who had been inducted into the Order of the Garter in July 1823 , and despite his faults and inexperience.

Political career

Thynne has now itself as a deputy for than in February 1824 borough rotten applicable Weobley , elected after his cousin Lord Frederick Cavendish Bentinck had waived the local mandate. On March 22, 1824 he took up his mandate in the House of Commons . Like his father and uncle John Thynne , however, he remained an unremarkable MP who made no speeches and supported government policies. However, he refused to vote against Catholic emancipation , contrary to the interests of his traditional Anglican family, and did not take part in the vote.

On March 11, 1825 he was appointed commander of the frigate HMS Ranger , which was supposed to bring several diplomats to South America and then undertake survey work. He left Portsmouth by ship on July 10, 1825 , and was succeeded as MP by his brother William . In March 1828 he was ordered back to Great Britain and reached Portsmouth from Rio de Janeiro with a freight consisting of gold and diamonds worth 1.2 million dollars on June 11, 1828. Immediately after his return he was re-elected as a member of Weobley, whereupon he voluntarily applied for half pay. On July 6, 1828, he was transferred to the Royal Corps of Signals , but was no longer active.

In the House of Commons he voted against the anti-Catholic petition put forward from Wiltshire and in March 1829 agreed to the now adopted Catholic emancipation. In August 1830, he and his brother William were re-elected to Weobley. In the House of Commons, he voted against a constituency reform that should dissolve his constituency. His drunkenness caused talk not only in his family after he had to be taken out of parliament on March 22, 1831, heavily drunk. Nevertheless, in April 1831, he was re-elected as MP for Weobley together with his brother Edward . He remained an opponent of the constituency reform until the end , through which he finally lost his mandate in 1832. He then withdrew from public life.

Marquess of Bath

When his eldest brother Thomas died unexpectedly in January 1837 without leaving an heir, he became his father's heir and carried the courtesy title Viscount Weymouth . His father died on March 27, 1837, which he inherited his extensive lands and the title of Marquess of Bath . However, he died surprisingly only three months later and was buried in Longbridge Deverill . His early death prevented the division of the property, which his father had decreed in his will, as he determined the property to provide for his widow, who did not remarry. Only after her death on January 2, 1892 could his father's will be carried out.

Family and offspring

On April 19, 1830 he had married Harriet Baring, a daughter of MP Alexander Baring and Anne Louise Bingham. From the marriage he had two sons and two daughters:

Most of the land and its titles were inherited by his eldest son, John. His second son Henry was MP for Wiltshire South in the House of Commons from 1859 to 1885 .

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Thomas Thynne Marquess of Bath
1837 		John Thynne
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SURNAME Thynne, Henry, 3rd Marquess of Bath
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thynne, Henry Frederick; Bath, Henry Frederick Thynne Marquess of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman, politician and naval officer
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1797
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1837
Place of death Longleat House