[3] He was a book collector and passed his collection to his eldest son John.

[2] By her he left a son, Robert (1688–1748), who succeeded him, and a daughter, Jane, who married Rev.

A zealous Tory, he sat as Member of Parliament for Essex from 1727 until his death.

He was a confidant of the Young Pretender and was privy to the plans for the abortive French invasion of 1744, which was intended to support a Jacobite rising in Essex.

Educated at the Middle Temple and Trinity College, Oxford, he succeeded his father in the baronetcy and as Member of Parliament for Essex in 1748 and sat as a Tory until his death, unmarried, in 1759.