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FitzWalter, Earl (GB, 1730 - 1756)

Creation: let.pat. 14 May 1730

Extinct: 29 Feb 1756

Family name: Mildmay

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Arms:

Quarterly:  1st and 4th, Argent three Lions rampant Azure armed and langued Gules (Mildmay);  2nd and 3rd, Argent a Bend engrailed Sable (Ratcliffe)

Crest:

A Lion rampant guardant Azure

Supporters:

On either side a Lion guardant Azure crowned with a Chapeau Gules turned up Ermine

Motto:

 Alla ta hara

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Benjamin [Mildmay], 19th Baron FitzWalter later 1st Earl Fitzwalter, PC

brother and heir of Charles [Mildmay], 18th Baron FitzWalter, and 2nd son of Benjamin [Mildmay], 17th Baron FitzWalter, by his wife Hon Catherine Fairfax, only dau. of William [Fairfax], 3rd Viscount Fairfax

bapt.

27 Dec 1672

mar.

18 Jun 1724 Lady Frederica Darcy (b. c. 1688; widow of Robert [Darcy], 3rd Earl of Holderness;  d. 7 Aug 1751), 1st dau. and cohrss. of Meinhardt [Schomberg], 3rd Duke of Schomberg, by his wife Caroline Elizabeth of Bavaria, morganatic dau. of Charles Louis, Elector Palatine

died

s.p.s. 29 Feb 1756

created

14 May 1730 Viscount Harwich, of Harwich in the County of Essex, and Earl Fitzwalter

note

Equerry to Prince George of Denmark 1706-08; Chief Commissioner of the Salt Duties 1714-20; Chief Commissioner of Excise 1720-28; suc. his brother 16 Feb 1727/8 as 19th Baron FitzWalter; Privy Councillor 1735; First Lord of Trade 1735-37; Treasurer of the Household 1737-55; Lord Lieutenant of Essex 1741-56

On the death of the 1st Earl FitzWalter the Earldom of FitzWalter and the Viscountcy of Harwich became extinct but the Barony of FitzWalter fell into abeyance amongst the issue of his aunt, Hon Mary Mildmay, the only sister of the 16th and 17th Barons FitzWalter.  The abeyance was terminated 30 Sep 1924 after nearly 169 years in favour of one of the co-heirs, Henry FitzWalter Plumptre.

 First written 22 Nov 2005

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