[1] and was educated privately before entering the Inner Temple (1672) and Christ Church, Oxford.

[3] He was created as one of Harley's Dozen when twelve new peerages were distributed to shift the political balance in the Whig-dominated House of Lords towards the Tories in order to secure the Peace of Utrecht.

[2] In 1690 he married Elizabeth (1672-1702), daughter of John Searle of Finchley, by whom he had 5 children: In 1704 he married Anne Barnard, (c. 1670–1723), the daughter of Robert Weldon (or Wilding), a merchant in Fleet Street, London and Colonel of the Tower Hamlets Regiment.

Anne had previously been married to Sir Robert Barnard of Brampton, 3rd Baronet, with whom she had had six children.

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