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The Viscount Campden
Posthumous portrait of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden (by J. Henesy, 1737)
Member of Parliament for Rutland
In office
1640–1643
Serving with Sir Guy Palmes
Preceded byParliament suspended since 1629
Succeeded bySeats vacant until 1646
Personal details
Born
Baptist Noel

1611
Exton, Rutland, England
Died29 October 1682(1682-10-29) (aged 70–71)
Spouses
Lady Anne Feilding
(m. 1632; died 1636)​
Anne Bourchier, Countess of Bath
(m. 1638; died 1639)​
Hester Wotton
(m. 1639; died 1645)​
(m. 1655)​
RelationsBaptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden (grandfather)
Children19
Parent(s)Edward Noel, 2nd Viscount Campden
Hon. Juliana Hicks

Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden (1611 – 29 October 1682) was an English politician.[1] He was Lord Lieutenant of Rutland, Custos Rotulorum of Rutland and the Member of Parliament for Rutland.

Early life

Baptist Noel was born at Exton Hall, Rutland the son of Edward Noel, 2nd Viscount Campden and the former Hon. Juliana Hicks. His younger brother, Hon. Henry Noel, married Mary Perry. His sister, Hon. Elizabeth Noel, was the wife of John Chaworth, 2nd Viscount Chaworth, and other sister, Hon. Mary Noel, was the wife of Sir Erasmus de la Fontaine, of Kirby Ballers.

His father was the eldest son and heir of Sir Andrew Noel and Mabel Harington (sister of John Harington, 1st Baron Harington). His mother was the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden and Elizabeth May, sister of Sir Humphrey May, Master of the Rolls, children of Richard May, a merchant tailor of London.

Career

In 1640, he was returned alongside Sir Guy Palmes as a Member of Parliament for Rutland after Parliament had been suspended since 1629.

Noel succeeded to his titles on the death of his father in 1643 and was required to leave the House of Commons. He was also Baron Noel of Ridlington and Baron Hicks of Ilmington. He was elected as a knight of the shire for Rutland in the Long Parliament of 1640.

During the Civil War he was a military commander, rising to the level of brigadier-general. A supporter of King Charles, he was fined £9,000 for delinquency and Campden House, his house at Campden was destroyed.

Personal life

Memorial to Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden, in the church of St Peter & St Paul, Exton

Noel was married four times. His first marriage was on 25 December 1632 to Lady Anne Feilding, a daughter of William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh. Before her death on 24 March 1636, they had three children, all of whom died young.[2]

His second marriage was on c. June 1638 to Anne Bourchier, Countess of Bath. Ann, the widow of Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath, was a daughter of Sir Robert Lovett of Liscombe, Buckinghamshire. She died in 1639.

He married thirdly on 21 December 1639 to Hester Wotton, a daughter of Thomas Wotton, 2nd Baron Wotton. Before her death on c. 1645, they were the parents of four daughters and two sons, including:

His fourth, and final, marriage was on 6 July 1655 to Lady Elizabeth Bertie (1640–1683),[6] daughter of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey. Together, they were the parents of nine children, including:

Lord Campden died on 29 October 1682 and was buried in the church of St Peter and St Paul, Exton. His grave is marked by a fine marble tomb by Grinling Gibbons, dating from 1685, showing the Viscount with his fourth wife, Lady Elizabeth Bertie, and carvings of his nineteen children.[8] He was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Edward Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough.[9]

References

6 Annotations

First Reading

Paul Brewster  •  Link

Wheatley Notes: Baptist, third Viscount Campden, Lord Lieutenant of Rutlandshire. Died 1682. Campden House was built about 1612 by Sir Baptist Hicks, first Viscount Campden. The third Earl entertained Charles II here immediately after the Restoration. The house was burnt down March 23rd, 1862, and rebuilt soon afterwards.

Second Reading

Bill  •  Link

Baptist Noel, second Viscount Campden, Lord Lieutenant of Rutlandshire. Ob. [died] 1683. Campden House was occupied in 1846 as a Ladies' School, it contained some fine rooms, of which engravings have been made.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

Bill  •  Link

Baptist Lord Viscount Campden, was as loyal as his father to King Charles I. having raised and maintained at his own costs, troop of horse, and a company of foot in the King's service, at his then garrison at Beaver; and paid to the sequestrators 9000l. composition for his estate, besides 150l. per ann. settled on the teachers of the times. After the restoration of King Charles II. he was made Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Rutland; and departing this life at Exton, was buried on the north-side of that church, where a noble monument is erected to his memory, the statues of his Lordship, and his last Lady, standing upright between a pedestal, &c. and on two tables of black marble, are the following inscriptions:
Here resteth Baptist Noel, Lord Viscount Campden, Baron of Ridlington and Ilmington, Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Rutland. His eminent loyalty to his two Sovereigns King Charles I. and II. his conjugal affection to four wives; his paternal indulgence to nineteen children; his hospitality and liberality to all that desired or deserved it, (notwithstanding inestimable losses in his estate, frequent imprisonments of his person, spoil and havock of several of his houses, besides the burning of that noble pile of Campden) have justly rendered him the admiration of his contemporaries, and the imitation of posterity. He left his life for the exchange and fruition of a better, the 29th day of October, in the LXXI. year of his age, anno domini M.DC.LXXXIII
---Peerage of England. A. Collins, 1756.

He [Sir Baptist Hicks] left no Heirs Male, whereupon this Manor [Campden] passed to Juliana his eldest Daughter, who marrying to Edward Lord Noel, he became Lord of it and dying in 1643, left it to Baptist Lord Noel, his Son and Heir who in right of his Mother was made Viscount Camden ...
---Magna Britannia. T. Cox, 1720.

Third Reading

San Diego Sarah  •  Link

L&M: Baptist HICKES MP (1612 - 1682), 3rd Lord Campden, His London house (Campden House' taxed on 32 hearths in 1664) on what is now Campden Hill, Kensington.

It was the largest house in the parish after Holland House.

San Diego Sarah  •  Link

Can Wikipedia sort this out?

Baptist Hickes MP (1551–1629) was a wealthy London merchant, and also represented Tavistock and Tewkesbury in the Commons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bap…

In 1627 Hickes was created baronet of Campden in the County of Gloucester, with remainder to heirs male of his body.

In 1628, Hickes was raised to the peerage as Baron Hicks, of Ilmington in the County of Warwick, and 1st Viscount Campden of Campden in the County of Gloucester, with remainder to his son-in-law, Edward Noel, husband of his daughter Juliana Hickes Noel.

At Baptist Hickes MP, 1st Lord Campden's death in 1629, he was succeeded in the barony and viscountcy -- according to the special remainder -- by son-in-law, Edward Noel MP (1582 - 1643) now the 2nd Viscount Campden.

Edward Noel had represented Rutland in Parliament, and in 1617, 12 years prior to succeeding his father-in-law, he had been raised to the peerage as Baron Noel of Ridlington after being raised to a baronetcy, of Brook, in the county of Rutland in 1611.
https://www.historyofparliamenton…

Edward, Baron Noel of Ridlington and 2nd Viscount Campden MP’s son, another Baptist, also sat as a Member of Parliament for Rutland in 1640.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bap…

On Edward Noel, 2nd Viscount Campden MP’s death in 1682 the titles passed to his son, Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden MP.

Baptist Noel MP (1658 – 1690) represented Rutland and Hampshire and also served as Lord Lt. of Hampshire and of Rutland.
https://www.historyofparliamenton…

In 1681, one year before succeeding his father, Edward Noel MP (1641–1689) was created Baron Noel of Titchfield.

In 1682, one month after his father's death, Edward, Baron Noel of Titchfield MP was further honored when he was made 1st Earl of Gainsborough. Both titles were created with remainder, failing male issue of his own, to the male issue of his father.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edw…

Edward Noel, 4th Viscount Campden (created 1st Earl of Gainsborough in 1682)'s son, Wriothesley Baptist Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough (1661 – 1690), sat briefly as a Member of Parliament for Hampshire.

On the 2nd Earl of Gainsborough’s death, the line of Baptist Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough failed.

The 2nd Earl of Gainsborough was succeeded -- according to the special remainder -- by his cousin, the 3rd Earl. He was the son of Baptist Noel, son of the 3rd Viscount Campden from his fourth marriage and half-brother of Baptist Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough.

Then came
Baptist Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough (1684–1714)
Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough (1708–1751)
Baptist Noel, 5th Earl of Gainsborough (1740–1759)
etc.
All titles became extinct on the death of the 6th Earl, in 1798.

San Diego Sarah  •  Link

"L&M: Baptist HICKES MP (1612 - 1682), 3rd Lord Campden" IS WRONG
-- Phil and L&M are right.

SHOULD BE:

L&M: Baptist NOEL MP (1612 - 1682), 3rd Lord Campden. His London house (Campden House' taxed on 32 hearths in 1664) on what is now Campden Hill, Kensington. It was the largest house in the parish after Holland House.

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References

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