Henry Robartes, 3rd Earl of Radnor

Henry Robartes, 3rd Earl of Radnor (c. 1695 – February 1741) was an English landowner, Earl of Radnor in the peerage of Great Britain and a member of the House of Lords from 1723 until his death.

Henry Robartes, 3rd Earl of Radnor
Earl of Radnor
Radnor as a boy, attributed to Michael Dahl
Tenure1723–1741
PredecessorCharles Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor
Other titles4th Baron Robartes
Bornc. 1695
DiedFebruary 1741
Paris
NationalityEnglish

Early life and family

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Robartes was the first son of Russell Robartes (1671–1719), by his marriage to Lady Mary Booth, a daughter of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington. He had a brother and two sisters. His father was a younger son of Robert Robartes, Viscount Bodmin, the eldest son and heir of John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor.

In 1723 he succeeded his father’s older brother Charles Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor, in his peerages and estates.

He spent little time at Lanhydrock House, his country seat in Cornwall, and when it was visited by the antiquary John Loveday he found it in a sorry state.[1]

 
Lanhydrock

Dying unmarried in Paris in 1741, Radnor was succeeded in his peerages by an older unmarried cousin, John Robartes, but left his property to a nephew, George Hunt, the son of his sister Mary, whose heir was his niece Anna Maria Hunt.[2] She married Charles Bagenal Agar, and their son Thomas Agar-Robartes inherited the Lanhydrock estate and was created the first Baron Robartes.[3]

References

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  1. ^ The Book Collector, Vol. 54, Issues 1-4 (Book Collector Limited, 2005), p. 218
  2. ^ John Edwards Griffith, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families, with Their Collateral Branches in Denbighshire, Merionethshire, and Other Parts (Bridge Books, 1914), p. 171
  3. ^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage (London: Dean & Son, 1878), p. 524


Peerage of England
Preceded by Earl of Radnor
1723–1741
Succeeded by