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Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart, KT (1 May 1708 – 10 March 1770), styled Lord Huntingtower from 1712 to 1727, was an English peer and landowner.[1]
The Earl of Dysart | |
|---|---|
 Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart, 1730, by John Vanderbank the Younger (1694–1739) | |
| 4th Earl of Dysart | |
| Predecessor | Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart |
| Successor | Lionel Tollemache, 5th Earl of Dysart |
| Known for | High Steward of Ipswich Knight of the Thistle |
| Born | 1 May 1708 England |
| Died | 10 March 1770 (aged 61) London, England |
| Noble family | Tollemache |
| Spouse(s) | Grace Carteret |
| Issue | Lionel Wilbrahim Louisa, and others |
| Father | Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart |
| Mother | Henrietta Cavendish |
| Occupation | Landowner |
Lionel's father, a namesake in 1712 predeceased his father Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart – on the latter's death in 1727, Lionel inherited the earldom and five main estates: Ham House in Surrey, Helmingham Hall in Suffolk, Harrington and Bentley in Northamptonshire, and 20,000 acres (8,100 ha; 31 sq mi) in Cheshire. The following year he went on a Grand Tour.[2]
In 1729, he was elected High Steward of Ipswich, a post he held for 41 years.[2]
In 1729, he married Lady Grace Carteret (1713–1755 St James's), daughter of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, by whom he had sixteen children, nine of whom did not reach age 17:
In 1743 he was made Knight of the Thistle.[1] He was apparently very parsimonious towards his eldest son, who married Charlotte Walpole in 1760 without his father's knowledge.[11][12]
Grace, Lady Dysart, died at the Earl's new house in New Burlington Street, St James's. Dysart died in 1770, aged 72 and was buried in Helmingham. He was succeeded as earl by his eldest son, Lionel who erected no memorial to either parent and left no legitimate children. The title came for eight years to the next surviving son, Wilbraham who outlived his older, childless sister and then passed to the second of three surviving daughters who inherited the title after her brothers and died aged 95.[2]
The funerary hatchments of the Earl and Countess are now in St Andrew's Church, Ham.
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