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Adm. pens. at EMMANUEL, June 2, 1768. Of Leics. [Only] s. of Sir Henry, 1st Bart., Lieut.-Governor of Jamaica and Commander-in-Chief there; Governor of the Province of New York, 1765 (and Catharina Maria, eldest dau. of Samuel Long, of Longville, Jamaica). [B. 1756 (sic) in Jamaica.] School, Eton. ' Matric. Michs. 1768; B.A. 1773; M.A. 1776. Succeeded as 2nd Bart., Sept. 11, 1769. Author, The New Paradise of Dainty Devices (a volume of poems, containing a parody of Gray's Elegy, entitled Elegy written in a College Library; some were reprinted in 1778, as Poetical Trifles). Resided at Bath. Died, unmarried, Jan. 16, 1780, at Taplow, when the Baronetcy became extinct. (Burke, Extinct Baronetcies; D.N.B., which calls him John Henry; Eton Coll. Reg., John Henry.)