Hugh Fortescue (1665–1719)

Origins

Career

Marriages and children

• Firstly on 19 October 1692 to Bridget Boscawen, a daughter and eventual heiress of Hugh Boscawen, by his wife Margaret Clinton, a daughter of Theophilus Clinton, 4th Earl of Lincoln, and one of the co-heiresses of the Barony of Clinton upon the death of Edward Clinton, 5th Earl of Lincoln in 1692. Bridget was the only child to outlive her father Hugh Boscawen, ; she brought money with her marriage thus increasing Fortescue's fortune. By Bridget Boscawen he had four children as follows:
• *Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Clinton, summoned to Parliament in 1721 as Baron Clinton, and in 1746 created Baron Fortescue of Castle Hill and Earl of Clinton. He rebuilt his ancestral manor house at Filliegh as a magnificent Palladian mansion which he called Castle Hill. He died leaving no sons when the earldom became extinct, but in accordance with the special remainder the Barony of Fortescue devolved on his younger half-brother Matthew Fortescue, 2nd Baron Fortescue.
• *Boscawen Fortescue, died unmarried;
• *Theophilus Fortescue, died unmarried;
• *Margaret Fortescue, died unmarried.

• Secondly, after 1708, he married Lucy Aylmer, a daughter of Matthew Aylmer, 1st Baron Aylmer. A stone relief-sculpted heraldic cartouche erected by him survives above the entrance door of his seat of Ebrington Manor House in Gloucestershire, displaying the arms of Fortescue impaling Aylmer. By Lucy Aylmer he had two further children:
• *Matthew Fortescue, 2nd Baron Fortescue, who in 1751 inherited the Barony of Fortescue by the special remainder following the death without male children of his elder half brother Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Clinton. His eldest son was Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Fortescue, of Castle Hill.
• *Lucy Fortescue, married George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

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