(1721 - 85), 3rd s. of John Upton of Castle Upton, co.Antrim; m. 1769 Elizabeth Boughton; cr. B. Templetown [I] 1776.
1753 Capua (10 Mar.)
1759 Turin (25 Jul.), Genoa (15 Sep.)]
1766 - 7 see Henry, 1st Baron Holland
1773 - 5 Florence (by 30 Oct. 1773), Rome (1774 - 5)
Clotworthy Upton was listed in Capua on 10 March 1753 with Brinsley Butler, Robert Rochfort and others.1 He was possibly the 'C. Upton' who wrote to Lord Charlemont from Turin on 25 July and from Genoa on 15 September 1759.2 He certainly passed the winter of 1766 - 7 in Naples with Lord Holland and his party, see Henry, 1st Baron Holland.
His last visit to Italy in 1773 - 5 was made with his wife, an amateur artist of some distinction. They were in Switzerland from at least November 1771 (when their eldest son was born in Geneva) to September 1773.3 In October 1773 they were in Florence, Upton being presented at Court on the 30th.4 'Mr and Mrs Upton & Child' arrived in Rome in 1774, Mrs Upton being then described as modelling in 'clay & wax'.5 Their daughter Elizabeth Albana was born at Albano in August 1775, and they had returned to England by 1776 when Upton was created Baron Templetown. Piranesi later dedicated a plate to Mrs Upton in his Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi [1778]; for Mrs Upton's subsequent visits to Italy, see Elizabeth, Baroness Templetown.
1. ASN cra 1257. 2. HMC Charlemont, 1:170 (listed). 3. Hervey (Wm.) Jnl., 240. 4. Gazz.Tosc. 5. Hayward List, 15, 34.