Birth1709
Baptism3 Sep 1709, Whissendene, Rutland
Death23 Feb 1770
BurialStapleford, Leics
General1st s., 3rd earl. dsps.
Notes for Bennet Sherard Earl of Harborough
He had no other children by his 1st, 2nd or 4th wives. His titles were in herited by his borther and expired in his gt-nephew in 1859.
Vicary Gibbs, ed of CP, quotes the Countess Cowper in Feb 1767 as saying: “All the Earls of Harborough have had some defect. This wants head.”
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