Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland

Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland (16 December 1605 17 March 1663) was an English diplomat and landowner who held the presidency of Munster, Ireland.

Life

He was the second but eldest surviving son of the 1st Earl of Portland, by his second wife Frances Walgrave. He was born at Neyland, Essex.

In 1632 and 1633, he undertook a diplomatic mission to the courts of France, Savoy, Florencee and Venice.[1] He succeeded his father as Earl of Portland in 1635.

Supplementing his estates, in 1663 as the owner of Coulsdon manor in Surrey had no male heir, Charles II granted it to "Jerome second Earl of Portland" in consideration of his surrender of the presidency of Munster to the Crown.[2]

Engraving of Frances Stuart, Countess of Portland by Wenceslas Hollar after Anthony van Dyck

Family

Lord Portland married Lady Frances Stuart (19 March 1617 − 13 March 1694), a daughter of the 3rd Duke of Lennox, on 10 June 1632. He was succeeded by their son Charles.

He was a first cousin of Jeremiah Clarke, a Governor of Rhode Island in the American Colonies.

Styles from birth to death

References

  1. Gary M. Bell, A handlist of British diplomatic representatives 1509-1688 (Royal Hisotrical Society, Gudides and handbooks, 16, 1990).
  2. H.E. Malden (editor) (1912). "Parishes: Coulsdon". A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
Political offices
Preceded by
Unknown
Governor of the Isle of Wight
16331642
Succeeded by
The Earl of Pembroke
(Parliamentary)
Preceded by
The Earl of Portland
Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire
16351646
With: The Earl of Southampton 16411646
and The Duke of Richmond
English Interregnum
Vice-Admiral of Hampshire
16351646
Vacant
Title next held by
The Earl of Pembroke
(Parliamentary)
Honorary titles
Preceded by
Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper
Vice-Admiral of Hampshire
16601662
Succeeded by
The Lord Colepeper
Governor of the Isle of Wight
16601661
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Richard Weston
Earl of Portland
16351663
Succeeded by
Charles Weston


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