[1] His father, grandson of Sir Lewis Roberts, was knighted by William III "for his steady attachment to religion and the law.
It was revived in 1762 for Gabriel Hanger, who was made 1st Baron Coleraine of the second creation.
As the peerage was Irish he was able to continue to sit in the House of Commons and was afterwards MP for Bridgwater between 1763 and 1768.
[4] He was described by his son as "one of those respectable, independent old English characters in the House of Commons called County Gentlemen".
[2] Lord Coleraine died at Bray, Berkshire at the age of 73 and was buried at Driffield.