(1715 - 47), 1st surv. s. of 2nd D. of Grafton; educ. Eton; Dilettanti 1736; MP 1737 - 47; m. 1741 Ldy. Dorothy Boyle (d. 1742), dau. of 4th E. of Cork [I] and 3rd E. of Burlington.
1734 - 5 Turin (Nov. - 24 Dec. 1734), Milan (Dec. 1734), Florence, Lucca (by 15 Feb. 1735), Rome, Turin (Apr.), Genoa (Aug.), Venice, Turin (Nov. - Dec. 1735) [London Mar. 1736]
1744 (Oct.)
With his tutor Walter Chetwynd, Lord Euston arrived in Turin in November 1734.1 Late in December they set out with the Countess of Essex for Milan, Florence, Lucca and Rome; Euston had returned to Turin in April 1735.2 On 6 August 1735 Chetwynd, with Lord Berkeley and his son and Lord and Lady Bolingbroke, was staying in a house on the Loire, near Amboise;3 with Lord Euston, he was to meet Lord Essex in Genoa later that month.4 They had visited Venice before November, when Euston was taken ill at Turin with small-pox on the eve of his departure for Paris.5 On 31 December Elizeus Burges told Lord Essex that 'everybody speaks so well of [Lord Euston] & Mr Chetwynd, that I am very sorry I was not at Venice when they were here'.6 Euston was recovering in December and was back in London in March 1736.7
Despite Burges's judgment, Euston became a wild and brutal man. After the death of his wife in childbirth, he was reported (in October 1744) to have eloped to Italy with a Lincolnshire heiress, Miss Nevill, 'a celebrated beauty' who came of a very ancient family and had 'eleven thousand pounds for her fortune'; but he did not marry her.8
1. SP 92/37 (Villettes, 10 Nov. 1734). 2. SP 92/39 (Villettes, 23 Apr. 1735). 3. Add 27734, f.22 (R. Knight, 6 Aug. 1735). 4. Add.27734, f.19 (Fane, 14 Aug. 1735). 5. SP 92/39 (Villettes, 19 Nov. 1735). 6. Add.27734, f.216. 7. Add. 27734, ff.199, 201, 216. Add.27735, f.108. 8. HMC Denbigh, 5:257.