Hugh Fortescue (1665–1719)

Hugh Fortescue (2 June 1665 – December 1719) of Filleigh and Weare Giffard Hall in Devon and of Ebrington Manor[1] in Gloucestershire, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1689 and 1713.

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Origins

Fortescue was the eldest son and heir of Arthur Fortescue (1622–1693) of Penwarne, Mevagissey, Cornwall and of Filleigh in Devon, and his wife Barbara Elford, a daughter of John Elford of Sheepstor in Devon.[2]

Career

Fortescue was returned as Member of Parliament for Tregony at the 1689 English general election.[3] At the 1695 English general election he was returned as MP for Grampound. He was returned as MP for Truro at the 1698 English general election. He was returned again as MP for Tregony at the two general election of 1701. At the 1705 English general election he was returned as MP Mitchell and was returned there again at the 1708 British general election. He was returned as MP for Lostwithiel at the 1710 British general election.[4] He was not prominent in the House of Commons being jailed for absence on two occasions and as well as a number of non-attendances.[5]

Marriages and children

Fortescue married twice:

Arms of Boscawen: Ermine, a rose gules barbed and seeded proper
  • Firstly on 19 October 1692 to Bridget Boscawen (d. 1708), a daughter and eventual heiress of Hugh Boscawen, (1625–1701) by his wife Margaret Clinton, a daughter of Theophilus Clinton, 4th Earl of Lincoln, and one of the co-heiresses of the Barony of Clinton upon the death of Edward Clinton, 5th Earl of Lincoln in 1692. Bridget was the only child (out of eight sons and two daughters) to outlive her father Hugh Boscawen, (1625–1701); she brought money with her marriage thus increasing Fortescue's fortune. By Bridget Boscawen he had four children as follows:
    • Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Clinton (1696–1751), summoned to Parliament in 1721 as Baron Clinton, and in 1746 created Baron Fortescue of Castle Hill (with special remainder) and Earl of Clinton (with normal remainder).[6] He rebuilt his ancestral manor house at Filliegh as a magnificent Palladian mansion which he called Castle Hill. He died leaving no sons when the earldom became extinct, but in accordance with the special remainder the Barony of Fortescue devolved on his younger half-brother Matthew Fortescue, 2nd Baron Fortescue (1719–1785).
    • Boscawen Fortescue, died unmarried;
    • Theophilus Fortescue, died unmarried;
    • Margaret Fortescue (d. 14 March 1760), died unmarried.
Arms of Aylmer: Argent, a cross sable between four Cornish choughs proper[7]

References

  1. His arms sculpted over front door
  2. Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 355
  3. "FORTESCUE, Hugh (1665-1719), of Penwarne, Mevagissey, Cornw". History of Parliament Online (1660-1690). Retrieved 18 July 2019.
  4. "FORTESCUE, Hugh (1665-1719), of Penwarne, Mevagissey, Cornw". History of Parliament Online (1690-1715). Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  5. "The Ancestry Of Lord Ebrington, One Of The Candidates For St Ives". The Cornishman (60). 4 September 1879. p. 6.
  6. Vivian, p. 355
  7. Kidd, Charles, Debrett's peerage & Baronetage 2015 Edition, London, 2015, p. P72
  8. See image Archived 14 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine in listed building text described incorrectly as "Aylmer quartering Fortescue."
Parliament of England
Preceded by
Charles Trevanion
Charles Porter
Member of Parliament for Tregony
1689–1695
With: Charles Boscawen 1689
Robert Harley 1689–1690
Sir John Tremayne 1690–1694
The Earl of Kildare 1694–1695
Succeeded by
Francis Robartes
James Montagu
Preceded by
John Tanner
John Buller
Member of Parliament for Grampound
1695–1698
With: John Tanner
Succeeded by
John Tanner
Sir William Scawen
Preceded by
Francis Robartes
Philip Meadowes
Member of Parliament for Tregony
with Francis Robartes

1701–1702
Succeeded by
Hugh Boscawen
Joseph Sawle
Preceded by
Renatus Bellott
Francis Basset
Member of Parliament for Mitchell
1705–1707
With: Sir William Hodges, Bt
Succeeded by
Parliament of Great Britain
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Parliament of England
Member of Parliament for Mitchell
1707–1710
With: Sir William Hodges, Bt
Succeeded by
Abraham Blackmore
Richard Belasyse
Preceded by
Francis Robartes
Horatio Walpole
Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel
1710–1713
With: John Hill
Succeeded by
Sir Thomas Clarges, Bt
Erasmus Lewis
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