Thomas Newport, 4th Earl of Bradford

Thomas Newport
Thomas Newport
	Weston Park - seat of the Earls of Bradford
4th Earl of Bradford
Title held	1734 – 18 April 1762
Predecessor	Henry Newport, 3rd Earl of Bradford
Born	c. 1696
Died	18 April 1762
Father	Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford

Thomas Newport, 4th Earl of Bradford (c. 1696 – 18 April 1762),[1] was an English peer and noble.

Newport was the third son of Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford.[2] His mother Mary was the third daughter of Sir Thomas Wilbraham, 3rd Baronet.[2] After a fall from his horse in his youth, Newport suffered from feeble-mindedness for the rest of his life.[3] Richard, his father's second son and Member of Parliament had died in 1716,[4] and so on the death of his oldest brother Henry Newport, 3rd Earl of Bradford, in 1734, he succeeded in the titles and entailed estates, such as Weston Park, Staffordshire.[1]

Newport died unmarried in Weston Park in Staffordshire.[3] His estate, including the manor of Walsall, was transferred to his sister Diana, Countess of Mountrath,[5] while all his titles became extinct.[3]

In 1815, the earldom was revived for Orlando Bridgeman, a descendant of a daughter of the 2nd Earl.[6]

Notes

Doyle (1886), p. 208.
Collins (1756), p. 158.
Cokayne (1912), p. 275.
Cruickshanks, Handley and Hayton (2002), p. 1024.
"Walsall: Manors Pages 169-175 A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17, Offlow Hundred (Part). Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1976". British History Online.
Burke (1832), p. 135.

Doyle, James William Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England. vol. I. London: Longmans, Green & Co.
Cokayne, George Edward (1912). Vicary Gibbs (ed.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. vol. II. London: The St Catherine Press Ltd.
Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley.
Collins, Arthur (1756). The Peerage of England. vol. III. London.
Eveline Cruickshanks; Stuart Handley; D. W. Hayton, eds. (2002). The House of Commons, 1690–1715. vol. IV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-77221-4.

Peerage of England
Preceded by Henry Newport	Earl of Bradford 1734–1762	Extinct

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