RICH, Edward, Henry (1698-1721)

Warwick succeeded to the title when just three years old. He died of fever not long after attaining his majority, a few weeks after having visited Newgate prison in the company of some other men of fashion, where they had been ‘not a little diverted’. Post Boy, 17-19 Aug. 1721, Daily Journal, 29 July 1721. Full details of his career will be considered in the second part of this work.