(1717 - 94) of Well Vale, Lincs, s. of George Dashwood of Holborn and gd.-s. of Sir Samuel Dashwood, Kt.; Oriel Oxf. 1735; m. 1744 Anne Bateman.
1740 - 41 Turin, Milan (two months), Florence (by 2 Oct. 1740 - after 15 Jan. 1741), with visits to Pisa, Leghorn and Siena (early Nov.); Rome (after 15 Jan. - Apr.), Florence, Padua (by 4 Jun.), Venice (6 - 12 Jun.) [London by Oct.]
Samuel Dashwood had been in Turin1 and Milan before he arrived in Florence by 2 October 1740.2 On 5 November he wrote from Florence to Sir Roger Newdigate saying he had spent two months in Milan ('I never was so tired of a Place in my life'), and had come to Florence and 'launch'd out at once into high life'; he had met Sir Francis Dashwood (who, however, had left Florence on 3 October), Lord Lincoln and Lady Walpole (later Countess of Orford), Lady Pomfret and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ('who says I'm so Odd a fellow she does not know what to make of me'); he was shortly going with George Pitt, Nathaniel Castleton and Edward Holdsworth to Pisa, Leghorn and Siena ('where I should lik'd to have been a great while ago'), but would return to Florence while the others went on to Rome.3 Lady Pomfret (who refers in her diary and letters distinctly to both 'Sir Francis' and 'Mr Dashwood') saw a great deal of 'Mr Dashwood' in Florence between 10 October and 30 December and recorded Dashwood's departure for Rome soon after 15 January 1741.4 He gave regular concerts each Wednesday which she attended, and he continued to enjoy the company of Pitt and Castleton, together with Richard Boughton, Samuel Sturgis and G.B. Maria Uguccioni (from the office of records in Florence, a suitor of Lady Pomfret's daughter Sophia); he also met Mann and Horace Walpole. He left for Rome in January 1741.
In Rome he was still with Pitt and Castleton, and sometimes with Francis Naylor; he also frequently saw Lord Lincoln and the Pomfrets, who arrived on 17 March.5 He was in Padua on 4 June 1741 with Lord Lincoln and Lord Elcho,6 and two days later he was in Venice with Lord Elcho, Naylor and the Pomfrets; on 8 June they all visited the arsenal.7 He left Venice for Paris on 12 June with Lord Elcho,8 and was back in London by October.9
1. Spence Letters, 421. 2. Pomfret Corr., 2:52. 3. Newdigate MSS, B1620. 4. Pomfret jnl.MSS (10 Oct. - 30 Dec. 1740). Pomfret Corr., 2:167, 177, 231. 5. Pomfret Corr., 2:308; 3:38. 6. Spence Letters, 390. 7. Pomfret Corr., 3:209, 212. 8. Ibid., 3:209, 224. 9. Spence Letters, 411.