Edward Harley, 5th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

Edward Harley, 5th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (20 February 1773 – 28 December 1848) was an English nobleman.


The Earl of Oxford
and Earl Mortimer
Arms of the Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer: Or, a bend cotised sable
Personal details
Born
Edward Harley

20 February 1773
Died28 December 1848 (aged 75)[1]
Brampton Bryan Hall, Herefordshire
Spouse(s)Jane Elizabeth Scott
Children8, including Alfred Harley, 6th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer and Lady Charlotte Bacon
ParentsJohn Harley
Roach Vaughan

Harley was the son of John Harley (dean of Windsor) and Roach Vaughan. Edward succeeded to the titles and estates (including the Harley family seat at Brampton Bryan) of his father's elder brother Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer on the 4th Earl's death without issue in 1790.

In 1803 Henry Bickersteth became the Earl's medical attendant whilst the Earl was on a tour of Italy, staying with him until 1805. Edward became Bickersteth's friend and patron and in 1835 Bickersteth married the earl's eldest daughter. In 1804 Edward sold the Ewyas Lacy tithes by auction.[2] He commissioned work from the architect Robert Smirke.[3]

Family

The Countess of Oxford and her daughter, Lady Jane Elizabeth Harley (follower of John Hoppner)

He and his wife Jane Elizabeth Scott (a notable mistress of Lord Byron) married 3 March 1794 and had eight children, including the following:[4][5]

Due to his wife's infidelity, doubts were expressed about the paternity of many of the children, who were unkindly referred to as "the Harleian Miscellany."

The earl died on 28 December 1848 at his seat at Brampton Bryan Hall.[1]

Notes

  1. "Death of the Earl of Oxford". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 1 January 1849. p. 8.
  2. "Research paper: Tithe owners in Ewyas Lacy, 19th century, Ewyas Lacy Study Group". www.ewyaslacy.org.uk. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
  3. "Art and artists | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
  4. Burke, Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Harrison. p. 266. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  5. Innes, Anne; Innes, Eliza; Innes, Maria (1844). The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility. Saunders and Otley. p. 413. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  6. "The Law Journal Reports". E.B. Ince. July 18, 1857. Retrieved July 18, 2019 via Google Books.
  7. Collen, Henry. "A portrait of Lady Frances Vernon Harcourt in blue dress , 1839". Artnet.
  8. LordByron.org: Lady Frances Venables-Vernon- Harcourt (née Harley), Lt.-Col. Henry Venables-Vernon- Harcourt
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by
Edward Harley
Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
1790–1848
Succeeded by
Alfred Harley


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