Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh

Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh (3 January 1719 – 14 July 1800) was an English earl.

Throwing up his Majesty's fox hounds (1782), a satirical sketch depicting Denbigh in his role as Master of the Royal Harriers and Foxhounds.
Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh

He was the son of William Feilding, 5th Earl of Denbigh, and Isabella Haeck de Jong.[1] He succeeded to the title of 6th Earl of Denbigh on 2 August 1755. He married Mary Cotton, daughter of Sir John Cotton, 6th Baronet, and Jane Burdett, on 12 April 1757. Their first son was William Feilding, Viscount Feilding. Their second son was Charles John Fielding, born 20 December 1761, who published a poem dedicated to his brother titled The Brothers, an Ecologue (1781).[2] In 1779 Charles prosecuted James Donally for highway robbery, who had accused him of sexual assault.[3] He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and died abroad unmarried. [4] Basil married, secondly, Sarah Farnham, daughter of Edward Farnham, on 21 July 1783.

He owned the Newnham Paddox estate in Warwickshire.[5]

He was "Master of the Royal Harriers and Foxhounds" from 1762 until March 1782, when the post was abolished.[5] In 1773 Horace Walpole called him "the lowest and most officious of the Court-tools".[5]

References
  1. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003
  2. Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Vol 1: England (1820, p.159); Charles John Feilding, The brothers, an eclogue (1781), Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Gale, available at http://find.gale.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=tou&tabID=T001&docId=CW112271682&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE [Accessed 12 June 2020].
  3. Old Bailey Proceedings Online, February 1779, trial of JAMES DONALLY, otherwise PATRICK DONALLY (https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=t17790217-40) [Accessed 12 June 2020]; Simon Deveraux, "Donally, James (fl. 1779–1784), blackmailer." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 23 Sep. 2004, available at https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-65517 [Accessed 12 June 2020].
  4. Collins's Peerage of England: Contains the earls to the termination of the seventeenth century (1812, p.280).
  5. "print; satirical print". British Museum. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
Peerage of England
Preceded by
William Feilding, 5th Earl of Denbigh		 Earl of Denbigh
1755–1800		 Succeeded by
William Feilding, 7th Earl of Denbigh
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