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The Viscount Campden | |
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.jpg) 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 by | Parliament suspended since 1629 |
| Succeeded by | Seats vacant until 1646 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Baptist Noel 1611 Exton, Rutland, England |
| Died | 29 October 1682(1682-10-29) (aged 70–71) |
| Spouses | Lady Anne Feilding
(m. 1632; died 1656)Anne Bourchier, Countess of Bath
(m. 1638; died 1639)Hester Wotton
(m. 1639; died 1645) |
| Relations | Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden (grandfather) |
| Children | 19 |
| 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
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 1656, 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:
- Hon. Mary Noel (d. 1719), who married, as his second wife, James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton, before 1664.
- Hon. Juliana Noel (1645–1667), who married, as his second wife, William Alington, 3rd Baron Alington, in 1664.
- Hon. Elizabeth Noel (d. 1719), who married Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley, in 1677.[3]
- Edward Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough[4]
- Henry Noel, who married Elizabeth Wale, third daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Wale, Alderman of London.[5]
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:
- Baptist Noel (1658–1690), who married Susannah Fanshawe, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Fanshawe, of Jenkins in Barking, in 1662.[7]
- Hon. John Noel (d. 1718), who married Hon. Elizabeth Ingram, widow of Edward Ingram, 2nd Viscount Irvine, sister of Bennet Sherard, 1st Earl of Harborough, and eldest daughter of Bennet Sherard, 2nd Baron Sherard, in 1696.
- Hon. Catherine Noel (1657–1723/4), who married, as his third wife, John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland.
- Hon. Martha Penelope Noel, who married Dormer.
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
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Hill, John Harwood (1875). The History of Market Harborough: With that Portion of the Hundred of Gartree, Leicestershire, Containing the Parishes of Baggrave, Billesdon, Bosworth ... and Wiston; with an Account of the Lords of the Manors and Their Pedigrees; and a List of the Patrons and Rectors of Each Living; a Description of the Churches, Monuments, &c. Subscriber. p. 221. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
- ^ Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1848. p. 90. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
- ^ "NOEL, Hon. Edward (1641-89), of Exton, Rutland of Titchfield, Hants". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
- ^ "NOEL, Hon. Henry (1642-77), of North Luffenham, Rutland". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
- ^ Lely, Sir Peter. "Portrait of a Lady of the Noel Family, identified as Elizabeth Noel, Viscountess Campden (1640 - 1683)". Fergus Hall Master Paintings.
- ^ "NOEL, Hon. Baptist (1658-90), of North Luffenham, Rutland". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
- ^ "TOMB OF VISCOUNT CAMPDEN AT EXTON CHURCH". World Monuments Fund.
- ^ "Brig. Gen. Sir Baptist Noel 3rd Viscount Campden". Retrieved 18 September 2011.
3 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.