[citation needed] In 1675 he succeeded his father to the titles.

He and Mohun had killed Coote in a duel and it was common for a seventeenth-century jury in such cases to take a lenient view of such matters.

[2] He died in 1701 and was succeeded by his son Edward Rich, 7th Earl of Warwick (1698–1721).

[1] In early 1697 he married Charlotte Myddelton, a daughter of Sir Thomas Myddelton, 2nd Baronet, by whom he had one son: Charlotte, who survived her husband, was later married to the celebrated writer Joseph Addison.

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