(1718 - 72), e. s. of 2nd E. of Lichfield; sty. Vct. Quarendon 1718 - 43 when suc. fa. as 3rd E.; educ. Westminster and St John's Oxf. 1736; MP 1740 - 3; m. 1745 Dinah Frankland; FSA 1767.
1739 - 40 Genoa (14 Sep. 1739 - ), Leghorn, Florence (1 Oct. - 14 Dec. 1739), Siena, Rome ( - by 28 Feb. 1740), Naples (by 17 Apr. - 6 May - ), Rome ( - 11 May), Loreto, Bologna (18 May), Modena, Venice (c.23 May - 7 Jun.), Padua (7 - 19 Jun.), Vicenza, Turin [England Sep. 1740]
1760 - 1 Turin (by 4 Nov. 1760), Milan (Apr. 1761), Genoa
Quarendon's factual and mildly cynical travel journal (Quarendon jnl.MSS) provides little more than his itinerary. After spending several months in the Academy at Angers, he went on to Italy with Sir Roger Newdigate. They sailed from Marseilles to Genoa arriving in mid-September 1739. He continued by sea to Leghorn and stayed in Florence from 1 October1 to 14 December, displaying, according to Stosch, marked Jacobite sympathies.2 He passed through Siena (where he considered the Duomo as the 'noblest piece of Gothick performance now exstant') to Rome, where he was staying in the Strada Frattina at Easter 1740.3 Stosch reported that Quarendon and Lord Stafford were receiving 'extraordinary marks of distinction' at Rome, a circumstance he attributed to Lord Stafford's Jacobite governor (see William, 3rd Earl Stafford); they had consorted with the Young Pretender, John Murray and a 'Mr Fitzmorris' [Henry Fitzmaurice], before leaving for Naples by 28 February.4 While they were in Naples Stosch continued to report that they were courting the Pretender 'assiduously'.2
Both Stafford and Quarendon objected to these and other printed allegations of their Jacobitism, Quarendon complaining to the 'Imperial Minister in Rome' and Stafford approaching the 'Governour of Milan' and consul Edward Allen in Naples (who was convinced of his integrity).5 Quarendon left Naples after 6 May,5 and Rome on 11 May, travelling to Venice via Loreto and Bologna, where he was disappointed in Raphael's St Cecilia ('ye work is much cried up but is ye most Indifferent I have seen of this author'). He stayed in Venice nearly two weeks before going on to Padua, Vicenza and Turin, and he was in Paris by August.
Having succeeded his father as 3rd Earl of Lichfield, he returned to Italy in 1760 and was in Turin in November.6 The following April he was in Milan, about to go on to Genoa; he complained that the Milanese never did anything but eat, play or sit and were quite 'void of ideas', but he briefly enjoyed the company of Lord Gormanston, John Needham and Edmond Rolfe.7
1. SP 98/42 (Florence Newsletter, 5 Oct. 1739). 2. SP 98/43, f.33 (Walton, 17 Apr. 1740). 3. AVR sa, S.Lorenzo in Lucina. 4. SP 98/43, ff.10, 13, 19 (Walton, 31 Jan., 7, 28 Feb.
1740). 5. SP 93/10 (E. Allen, 24 May 1740). 6. Robinson letters MSS, vr12330 (4 Nov. 1760). 7. Abercairny MSS 391 (Lichfield, 21 Apr. 1761).