(c.1717 - 56) of Abbots Langley, Herts, o. s. of 1st B. Raymond; suc. fa. 1733 as 2nd B.; m. 1741 Hon. Mary Blundell, dau. of Vct. Blundell [I]; FRS 1740.
1736 - 8 Florence (Nov. 1736 - Mar. 1737), Lucca, Venice (by 29 May), Florence (by 18 Aug. 1737 - ), Venice ( - Jul. 1738), Florence (5 Jul. - ) [England by 3 May 1739]
By December 1736 Lord Raymond and his governor had been in Florence a month with Lord Barrington.1 During the Carnival in March they assisted Lord Middlesex in presenting 'une masque superbe', and the same three afterwards produced an opera in Lucca, see Charles, Earl of Middlesex. Raymond arrived in Venice on 29 May 1737,2 but was back in Florence in August, when he witnessed the murder of Denys Wright.3 In July 1738 he returned to Florence from Venice with Lord Middlesex4 and he was apparently an active member of the Masonic Lodge which the latter had founded there.5 For reasons which are not clear, on 16 April 1739 Cardinal Corsini was asking the Grand Duke to expel both Lord Raymond and Stosch from Florence, but Raymond was back in England by 3 May 1739, when he was elected Grand Master of the Masonic Order in England.5 Horace Mann later recalled that Raymond had offered Stosch £100 for his intaglio Meleager.6
1. HMC Denbigh, 5:207. 2. SP 99/63, f.348 (Brown, 29 May 1737). 3. SP 98/40, f.175 (Rhodes, 20 Aug. 1737). Wal.Corr., 37:34n9. 4. SP 98/40 (Florence Newsletter, 8 Jul. 1738). 5. Lepper 1950, 11, 55. 6. Wal.Corr., 17:264.