Edward Rich, 7th Earl of Warwick

Edward Henry Rich, 9th Baron Rich, 7th Earl of Warwick and 4th Earl of Holland (January 1698 – 16 August 1721), of Holland House, Kensington, Middlesex, was an English peer and member of the House of Lords, styled Lord Rich until 1701 He is chiefly remembered as the stepson of the celebrated writer Joseph Addison.

After his father's death, Charlotte in 1716 remarried the writer Joseph Addison, who had been her son's tutor.

[citation needed] Because he died so young it is perhaps difficult to form any firm judgment on his character.

On one view he was a notorious wastrel, and the despair of his stepfather, hence Addison's deathbed remark to him about dying like a Christian.

The other view was that he was "an exceptionally studious and intellectual young man", who in his short life was much loved by his friends and family.