Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh

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Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh, 3rd Earl of Desmond (1668 – 18 March 1717), styled Viscount Feilding from 1675 to 1685, was an Anglo-Irish peer and courtier.

Peerage

Feilding inherited the English Earldom of Denbigh and the Irish Earldom of Desmond in 1685, from his father, William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh and 2nd Earl of Desmond.

Family

Basil Feilding (also Fielding) was born in 1668 in County Kilkenny, Ireland. He was the son of William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh, and Mary King, daughter of Sir Robert King. On 22 June 1695, he married Hester Firebrace (died 1725), daughter of Sir Basil Firebrace, 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Hough. who succeeded. Another son, Charles Feilding, was the father of He died on 18 March 1717. Denbigh and his wife had six daughters and four sons:

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