George Thorold

[1] Thorold was created a baronet in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 9 September 1709, with a special remainder, if he had no sons, to his younger brother Samuel.

[1] Alexander Pope described his procession as Lord Mayor: 'Twas on the day when Thorold, rich and grave Like Caesar, triumphed both on land and wave.

He died without surviving issue in Bloomsbury Square, London, on 29 October 1722 aged 56 and was buried at Harmston on 11 November.

His younger brother Samuel inherited the baronetcy, while his widow, Elizabeth, married secondly George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton (as his second wife).

He left the estate at Harmston to his distant cousin Nathaniel Thorold, who was given a new baronetcy by King George II on 24 March 1741.