Family and Education
b. 7 Aug. 1631, 1st s. John Tufton, 2nd earl of Thanet, and Margaret (d.1676), da. and coh. of Richard Sackville†, 3rd earl of Dorset; bro. John Tufton, 4th earl of Richard Tufton, 5th earl of Thomas Tufton, 6th earl of Thanet, and Hon. Sackville Tufton‡. educ. travelled abroad (Italy) 1651–3. Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford, ed. D.J.H. Clifford, 108. m. 11 Apr. 1664 (with £10,000), Chatsworth, Cork mss, misc box 1, Burlington Diary, 11 Apr. and 15 May 1664, 1 Feb. 1665. Elizabeth (1643–1725), da. Richard Boyle, 2nd earl of Cork [I] and Baron Clifford of Lanesborough (later earl of Burlington), s.p. d. 24 Nov. 1679; will 18 June 1677, pr. 8 Dec. 1679. TNA, PROB 11/361.
Offices Held
Sheriff (hered.), Westmld. 1676–d.
Capt. coy. of horse 1666.
Parlimentarian
Associated with: Hothfield House, Kent;Hasted, Kent, vii. 516-20.; Thanet House, Aldersgate Street, London 1664-c.1677.Haley, Shaftesbury, 410-11; London Past and Present, i. 23.;
Likenesses
funerary monument, c.1679, St Margaret’s parish church, Rainham, Kent.
Volume
Lords 1660-1715
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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