Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham

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Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham

Also Known As: "1st Marquess of Rockingham"
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Birthplace: Tidmington
Death: December 14, 1750 (57)
Wentworth Woodhouse
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Son of Hon. Thomas Watson-Wentworth and Alice Proby
Husband of Lady Mary Finch
Father of Prime Minister Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham; William Watson-Wentworth, Viscount Higham; Lady Mary Watson-Wentworth; Henrietta Sturgeon and Lady Anne Watson-Wentworth

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About Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham

Lieutenant-General Thomas Wentworth (c. 1693–1747) was a British Army commander of the early 18th century.

  • Commander of the land troops in the amphibious expedition against Cartagena de Indias following the deaths of the original commander, Lord Cathcart, and his second-in-command, General Spotswood, during the War of Jenkins' Ear.

He and his troops arrived there in 1741 in a fleet led by Rear-Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle to reinforce Vice-admiral Edward Vernon, but the British forces still failed to take the town and the land forces suffered catastrophic losses of nearly ninety percent over the course of two years campaigning, mostly from disease.

He was an M.P. for Whitchurch in 1743, and voted with the Administration in 1744, then served in Flanders. In 1745, he was with George Wade, during the Jacobite rising of 1745. He did not vote on the Hanoverians in 1746; he died in November 1747.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wentworth_(British_Army_officer)



1732 - Thomas Wentworth Colonel of 39th (The Dorsetshire) Regiments of Foot Raised in Ireland as Colonel Richard Coote's Regiment of Foot
Reference: - Page 115 Lumley, Goff Amalgamations in the British Army 1660-2008 (Partizan Press 2009)