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NameMajor General William Robert Feilding Viscount Feilding 
[36], [60, Denbigh article, Vol IV, p. 182]
[36], [60, Denbigh article, Vol IV, p. 182]Birth5 Jun 1760, (bapt in) Monks Kirby, Warwicks
Baptism14 Jul 1760, Monks Kirby, Warwicks
Death8 Aug 1799, Newcastle
Generaldvp. MP. Col of 22nd Light Dragoons. Maj-Gen.
FatherBasil Feilding Earl of Denbigh (1719-1800)
Spouses
1Anne Catherine Powys [36], [60, Denbigh article, Vol IV, p. 182], [21, Her baptism, batch no C014012], [3, Her death, Q1 of 1852, Shrewsbury dist, vol 6a, p. 487]
[36], [60, Denbigh article, Vol IV, p. 182], [21, Her baptism, batch no C014012], [3, Her death, Q1 of 1852, Shrewsbury dist, vol 6a, p. 487]FatherThomas Jelf Powys (ca1744-1805)
MotherLissey Anne Cooper (<1753-1832)
Marriage26 Apr 1791, St George's, Hanover Sq [60, Denbigh art, Vol IV, p.178 seq], [26, “1791: Powys An C and Feilding Wm R, Westminster (St Geo Han Sq)”]
Notes for Major General William Robert Feilding Viscount Feilding
His baptism transcription from FamilySearch:
Name William Robert Feilding
Gender Male
Christening Date 14 Jul 1760
Christening Date (Original) 14 JUL 1760
Christening Place MONKS KIRBY,WARWICK,ENGLAND
Birth Date 05 Jun 1760
Father's Name Basil Feilding
Mother's Name Mary Cotton
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From the History of Parliament:
FIELDING, William Robert (1760-99)
Constituency Dates
BERE ALSTON 2 Dec. 1780 - 1790
NEWPORT 1790 - 1796
b. 15 June 1760, 1st s. of Basil, 6th Earl of Denbigh, by Mary, da. and coh. of Sir John Cotton, 6th Bt. m. 26 Apr. 1791, Anne Catherine, da. of Thomas Jelf Powys of Berwick House, Salop., 3s. 3da.
Lt. 7 Ft. 1777; capt. 75 Ft. 1778; capt. 3 Drag. Gds. 1779; lt.-col. 22 Lt. Drag. 1782; raised 22 Regt. of Lt. Drag. 1794, of which he was col.- d. ; maj.-gen. 1795.
At the by-election of December 1780 Feilding, while under age, was returned unopposed for Bere Alston on the Duke of Northumberland’s interest. In Parliament he steadily supported North’s Administration till its fall. On 8 May 1781, in his first reported speech, he condemned the Yorkshire reform petitions as ‘a very dangerous spirit of innovation ... He did not think the object of the reform, even if quietly effected, a subject so much to be desired; it must at least be done with great caution.’ Nor did he believe that ministerial influence had increased, in fact ‘a new third party’ had sprung up in that House, unknown to former periods. He meant the country gentlemen; the balance of power in that House was taken out of the hands of the minister, and placed in those of the country gentlemen ... men neither to be frowned into servility nor hussaed into faction; by the support of these men, and not as had been asserted, by the low arts of corruption, did the present minister stand.
According to Horace Walpole, Feilding was to have moved the Address of thanks for the King’s speech in November 1781, but when its optimistic tone was scarcely modified at the news of Cornwallis’s defeat at Yorktown, he ‘avoided being as ridiculous as the royal speech by excusing himself’. Feilding voted for Shelburne’s peace preliminaries, 18 Feb. 1783, and did not vote on Fox’s East India bill, 27 Nov. 1783. He was classed as an Administration supporter in Robinson’s list of January 1784, in Stockdale’s of 19 Mar., and Adam’s in May. At the general election he was again returned for Bere Alston by Northumberland. On 27 Nov. 1787 Feilding praised Pitt’s successful policy in Holland, declaring that he ‘exulted in the respectable figure Great Britain had made in the eyes of Europe by her well-timed and successful exertions’.3But although Lord Lovaine, who in 1786 had inherited Bere Alston from his father, the 1st Duke of Northumberland, sided with Pitt, Feilding voted with the Opposition over the Regency, 1788-9, and on 22 Dec. 1788 suggested that ‘an immediate declaration be made of the Prince of Wales, Regent’—
A Prince born among us, whose filial tenderness and natural goodness of heart had already endeared him to all who knew him, and gave the best promise of being as anxious with the legislature in securing his father’s rights as ... Parliament could wish or expect.4
In 1790 he was returned for Newport, by Lovaine’s brother, the 2nd Duke of Northumberland, who was in opposition to Pitt.
Feilding died v.p. 8 Aug. 1799.
1. Debrett, iii. 222-5.
2. Last Jnls. ii. 378.
3. Stockdale, xiii. 8-10.
4. Stockdale, xvi. 151-2.
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Name William Robert Feilding
Gender Male
Christening Date 14 Jul 1760
Christening Date (Original) 14 JUL 1760
Christening Place MONKS KIRBY,WARWICK,ENGLAND
Birth Date 05 Jun 1760
Father's Name Basil Feilding
Mother's Name Mary Cotton
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From the History of Parliament:
FIELDING, William Robert (1760-99)
Constituency Dates
BERE ALSTON 2 Dec. 1780 - 1790
NEWPORT 1790 - 1796
b. 15 June 1760, 1st s. of Basil, 6th Earl of Denbigh, by Mary, da. and coh. of Sir John Cotton, 6th Bt. m. 26 Apr. 1791, Anne Catherine, da. of Thomas Jelf Powys of Berwick House, Salop., 3s. 3da.
Lt. 7 Ft. 1777; capt. 75 Ft. 1778; capt. 3 Drag. Gds. 1779; lt.-col. 22 Lt. Drag. 1782; raised 22 Regt. of Lt. Drag. 1794, of which he was col.- d. ; maj.-gen. 1795.
At the by-election of December 1780 Feilding, while under age, was returned unopposed for Bere Alston on the Duke of Northumberland’s interest. In Parliament he steadily supported North’s Administration till its fall. On 8 May 1781, in his first reported speech, he condemned the Yorkshire reform petitions as ‘a very dangerous spirit of innovation ... He did not think the object of the reform, even if quietly effected, a subject so much to be desired; it must at least be done with great caution.’ Nor did he believe that ministerial influence had increased, in fact ‘a new third party’ had sprung up in that House, unknown to former periods. He meant the country gentlemen; the balance of power in that House was taken out of the hands of the minister, and placed in those of the country gentlemen ... men neither to be frowned into servility nor hussaed into faction; by the support of these men, and not as had been asserted, by the low arts of corruption, did the present minister stand.
According to Horace Walpole, Feilding was to have moved the Address of thanks for the King’s speech in November 1781, but when its optimistic tone was scarcely modified at the news of Cornwallis’s defeat at Yorktown, he ‘avoided being as ridiculous as the royal speech by excusing himself’. Feilding voted for Shelburne’s peace preliminaries, 18 Feb. 1783, and did not vote on Fox’s East India bill, 27 Nov. 1783. He was classed as an Administration supporter in Robinson’s list of January 1784, in Stockdale’s of 19 Mar., and Adam’s in May. At the general election he was again returned for Bere Alston by Northumberland. On 27 Nov. 1787 Feilding praised Pitt’s successful policy in Holland, declaring that he ‘exulted in the respectable figure Great Britain had made in the eyes of Europe by her well-timed and successful exertions’.3But although Lord Lovaine, who in 1786 had inherited Bere Alston from his father, the 1st Duke of Northumberland, sided with Pitt, Feilding voted with the Opposition over the Regency, 1788-9, and on 22 Dec. 1788 suggested that ‘an immediate declaration be made of the Prince of Wales, Regent’—
A Prince born among us, whose filial tenderness and natural goodness of heart had already endeared him to all who knew him, and gave the best promise of being as anxious with the legislature in securing his father’s rights as ... Parliament could wish or expect.4
In 1790 he was returned for Newport, by Lovaine’s brother, the 2nd Duke of Northumberland, who was in opposition to Pitt.
Feilding died v.p. 8 Aug. 1799.
1. Debrett, iii. 222-5.
2. Last Jnls. ii. 378.
3. Stockdale, xiii. 8-10.
4. Stockdale, xvi. 151-2.
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Notes for William Robert & Anne Catherine (Family)
On the Faculty Office licence for 23rd April 1791,
“William Robert Feilding ... of the parish of St george hanover Square, Middx, batchelor and over 21 intendeth to marry Anne Catherine Powys of the Parish of Saint mary le Bone Middx, a spinster, a minot aged nineteen years and up ... with the consent of ... her father Thomas Jelf Powys to ... narry ... in the parish church of Saint George Hanover Square Middx.”
Signed Feidling and T J Powys.
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And Ancestry has turned up trumps with an image of the parish register for marriages:
[ St George, Hanover Square > 1786-1792 >
“ Marriages April 1791
“. . . .
“267
“ The Rt. Honble. William Robert Fielding [sic] commonly called Lord Viscount Fielding
“of this Parish Batchelor and Anna Catherine Powys of the Parish of St Marylebone
“a Monoe were married in this Church by Livence by and with the Consent of Thomas
“Jelf Powys Esqr the Natural and lawful Father of ths said Minor this
“twenty sixth Day of April in the Year 1791 by me [signed] John Peterborough
“This Marriage was Solemnized between us [signed] Feilding (sic) Anna Catherine Powys.
“In the presence of [signed] T J Powys Thos Boweller”
Note the different spellings of Feilding.
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“William Robert Feilding ... of the parish of St george hanover Square, Middx, batchelor and over 21 intendeth to marry Anne Catherine Powys of the Parish of Saint mary le Bone Middx, a spinster, a minot aged nineteen years and up ... with the consent of ... her father Thomas Jelf Powys to ... narry ... in the parish church of Saint George Hanover Square Middx.”
Signed Feidling and T J Powys.
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And Ancestry has turned up trumps with an image of the parish register for marriages:
[ St George, Hanover Square > 1786-1792 >
“ Marriages April 1791
“. . . .
“267
“ The Rt. Honble. William Robert Fielding [sic] commonly called Lord Viscount Fielding
“of this Parish Batchelor and Anna Catherine Powys of the Parish of St Marylebone
“a Monoe were married in this Church by Livence by and with the Consent of Thomas
“Jelf Powys Esqr the Natural and lawful Father of ths said Minor this
“twenty sixth Day of April in the Year 1791 by me [signed] John Peterborough
“This Marriage was Solemnized between us [signed] Feilding (sic) Anna Catherine Powys.
“In the presence of [signed] T J Powys Thos Boweller”
Note the different spellings of Feilding.
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