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Tylney, John Child, 1712-1784
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1712-1784
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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.