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Other Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth

Other Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth

British Earl (1751–1799)

Other Hickman Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth FRS (30 May 1751 - 12 June 1799), styled Lord Windsor until 1771, was an English nobleman.

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The Tribuna of the Uffizi by Johann Zoffany. Place cursor over artworks or persons to identify them.

Early life

Styled Lord Windsor from birth, he was the eldest son of Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth and the Honourable Catherine, daughter of Thomas Archer, 1st Baron Archer.[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 22 April 1773. He was Colonel of the Glamorganshire Militia, 6 August 1779.[2] Other Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth was featured in Johan Zoffany's painting Tribuna of the Uffizi painted between 1772 and 1778. The 5th Earl is one of a number of visiting English noblemen to the Tribuna room in the Uffizi in Florence, Italy. The painting is part of the United Kingdom's Royal Collection.[3]

Marriage

Lord Plymouth married his first cousin the Honourable Sarah, daughter of Andrew Archer, 2nd Baron Archer, on 20 May 1778. She was a notable botanist. They had several children, including:

Death

Lord Plymouth died in June 1799, aged 48, and was succeeded in the earldom by his son, Other. The Dowager Countess of Plymouth married as her second husband William Amherst, 2nd Baron Amherst, later Earl Amherst.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    thepeerage.com Other Hickman Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth
  2. [2]
    The Official Baronage of England: Pembroke-Zetland, James William Edmund Doyle
  3. [3]
    "The Tribuna of the Uffizi". Royal Collection.; text adapted from Shawe-Taylor, Desmond (2009). The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life. London: Royal Collection Publications. ISBN 978-1905686070.
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