(1713 - 88), Jacobite courtier, s. of Hon. John Caryll of Harting, Sx.; suc. gd.-fa. 1736 as 3rd B. Caryll[J]; met the Young Pretender on 1744 expedition to Scotland; to France c.1767; m. 1 1738 Hon. Dorothy Molyneux (d. 1760), dau. of 4th Vct. Molyneux, 2 Mary Scarisbrick (c.1743 - 83); d. Dunkirk.
1770 - 5 Florence, Rome
Having sold his estates in Sussex, Lord Caryll joined the Young Pretender's household, probably in 1767. He was formally appointed his secretary in 17721 (his predecessor Andrew Lumisden had been dismissed in 1768), though his remuneration was confined to a 'table and lodging';2 'he has not even dogs-wages for his trouble, but does all for stark love and kindness'.3 He had previously been sent to Paris in 1770 to seek French approval for Charles's marriage, returning to Rome in October 17714 and he escorted Charles's young bride, the Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern, from Loreto to Macerata for the marriage on 17 April 1772.5 Thereafter he was at the centre of Charles's unsuccessful and blustering negotiations with the Pope concerning his title and status.6 Caryll sympathised with Charlotte, Charles's daughter, in her vain plea to her father for support in 1773 - 4 and he showed much sympathy for Princess Louise as she became disenchanted with her husband. Caryll too grew increasingly uncomfortable with Charles's intemperance, and in March 1775 Caryll and his wife left for Rome to attend urgent family business, despite Charles's insistence that no member of his household should go to Rome before the Pope had approved his royal title. It was then said that Caryll intended to pass his retirement in Flanders,7 but he was again acting for Charles at Versailles c.1785.8 He died in Dunkirk 'in poverty and distress' in 1788. His cousin John Farquharson remembered him as 'one of the genteelest, best-bred men I ever knew'.3
1. F. McLynn, Charles Edward Stuart, 492. 2. Dennistoun, 2:105. 3. Ibid., 149n. 4. McLynn (at n1), 492, 495. 5. Dennistoun, 2:316. 6. McLynn (at n1), 503 - 12. 7. Thorpe letters MSS (1 Apr. 1775). 8. McLynn (at n1), 547.
