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Baptist Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough

Baptist Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough

English peer and Member of Parliament


Baptist Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough (1684 – 17 April 1714) was an English peer and Member of Parliament.

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Early life

Baptist Noel was born in 1684. He was the son of Baptist Noel and cousin of Wriothesley Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough.

Career

Noel inherited the earldom from his cousin in 1690. He served as the High Steward of Chipping Campden.

Personal life

Noel married his first cousin Lady Dorothy Manners, daughter of Catherine Wriothesley Noel (daughter of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden) and John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland. They had three sons and three daughters:[1]

Death and legacy

The earl died of smallpox, aged 29,[1] on 17 April 1714, and was succeeded by his eldest son.[4]


References

  1. Arthur Collins (1756). Peerage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of England, Now Existing... W. Innys. p. 523.
  2. John Burke; Sir Bernard Burke; Bernard Burke (1841). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland. Scott, Webster, and Geary. p. 388.
  3. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Volume 2, page 1504.
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