Henry Thynne (politician, around 1644)
Henry Frederick Thynne (* around 1644; † 1705 ) was an English politician and courtier.
Henry Frederick Thynne came from the English Thynne family . He was the youngest son of Henry Frederick Thynne, 1st Baronet and Mary Coventry, daughter of Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry and Elizabeth Aldersey. He made a career as a courtier and became Secretary of the Privy Council and Under- Secretary of State . He also managed the royal library in St James's Palace , leaving the actual work to librarians like Richard Bentley , and was treasurer of Queen Catherine of Braganza , who, however, lived again in Portugal after the death of her husband Charles II and died in 1705.
He married Dorothy Philips, daughter of the lawyer Francis Philips of Kempton Park, Sunbury , Middlesex . He had several children with her:
- Thomas Thynne († 1710) ∞ Lady Mary Villiers
- Dorothy Thynne (1692–1777) ∞ John Howe, 1st Baron Chedworth
His grandson Thomas Thynne , who was born posthumously in 1710 after the death of his son Thomas , became heir to the lands of the Thynne family and the title of his brother after the death of Henry Thynne's brother Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth in 1714.
Web links
- Cracroft's Peerage: Weymouth, Viscount (E, 1682)
- Henry Frederick Thynne on thepeerage.com , accessed September 23, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ^ Kristine Louise Haugen: Richard Bentley. Poetry and enlightenment . Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2011. ISBN 978-0-674-05871-2 , p. 274
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Thynne, Henry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thynne, Henry Frederick (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English politician and courtier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1644 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1705 |