- GB-2014-WSA-019561
- Person
- 1712-1784
TYLNEY, JOHN CHILD, 2ND EARL TYLNEY (I), brother of Richard Tylney, Viscount Castlemaine (qv); bapt. 22 Oct 1712; adm. Jul 1721 (as John Child); in under school list 1725; at Eton Coll. 1725-8; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 18 Apr 1732; MA 1734; styled Viscount Castlemaine 1734-50; assumed, with his father, the additional surname of Tylney 24 Mar 1733/4; FRS 11 Dec 1746; succeeded father as 2nd Earl Tylney (I) Mar 1749/50; travelling in Italy 1752-3; MP Malmesbury 1761-8; his homosexuality caused him to leave England permanently in the early 1760s to settle in Italy, where he spent the summers in Florence and the winters in Naples; described by Horace Walpole as “the most generous creature in the world”; bequeathed his great fortune to his nephew, Sir James Tylney Long, Bart. (qv); d. unm. at Naples 17 Sep 1784.