(1696 - 1751), e. s. of 1st. D. of St Albans (the illeg. s. of Charles II); sty. E. of Burford - 1726 when suc. fa. as 2nd D.; educ. Eton and New Coll. Oxf. 1714; MP 1718 - 26; m. 1722 Lucy Werden; KB 1725; KG 1741.
1716 - 17 Turin (Oct. 1716), Padua (22 Jan. 1717), Venice (23 Jan.), Pesaro (by 5 Jun.), Rome (by 9 Jun.), Naples (10 Jun.), Rome (by 15 Sep.), Genoa ( - by 21 Dec.), Turin
With Lord Nassau Powlett, Lord Burford left Geneva on 7 October 1716 for Turin, where they were both to enter the Academy.1 His direct descent from Charles II excited Jacobite interest; 'I wish', wrote Lord Wharton to the Earl of Mar, 'some care could be taken to fix those two young noblemen who ... are gone to Turin, in the right interest, and perhaps some of your friends there may do it effectually'.1 On 22 January Burford and Powlett were in Padua,2 and they arrived in Venice the following day.3 They passed through Pesaro shortly before 5 June en route for Rome, and on 9 June David Nairne told John Paterson 'The two lords you mention, Nassau and Burford, are here, but I have heard nothing yet of their seeing the King'.4 On 10 June they arrived in Naples, at the same time as Sir Richard Corbet.5 On 15 September William Kent in Rome told Burrell Massingberd that 'my Ld Burford did me ye honour with other gentelmen to come upon ye Scaffold, to see me paint'.6 By 21 December Burford and Powlett had left Genoa for Turin.7
1. HMC Stuart, 3:62. 2. Brown 1529, 1530. 3. SP 99/61, f.301 (Cunningham, 29 Jan. 1717). 4. HMC Stuart, 4:319, 333. 5. SP 93/4 (Fleetwood, 11 Jun. 1717). 6. Kent letters MSS. 7. SP 79/8 (Henshawe, 21 Dec. 1717).