sentences:  On 2 February 1788, Wentworth married Mary, Dowager Countess Ligonier, a daughter of the 1st Earl of Northington and widow of the 1st Earl Ligonier of the second creation.The union did not produce any children, although Wentworth had fathered an illegitimate son, Thomas Noel (1774–1853), who became rector of Kirkby Mallory.There he conducted the marriage ceremony of his cousin, Anne Isabella, to Lord Byron in 1815.