English peer
Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth (21 May 1710 – 1751) of Longleat House in Wiltshire was an English peer, descended from Sir John Thynne (c.1515-1580) builder of Longleat.
Origins.
He was born on 21 May 1710, the son of Thomas Thynne (d.1710) by his wife Lady Mary Villiers. His father died a month before Thomas was born.
Inheritance.
On 28 July 1714, aged four, on the death of his great uncle Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth, he inherited Longleat House and its great estates and succeeded to the baronetcy of Thynne, of Kempsford, Gloucestershire, and (by special remainder) to the titles of Baron Thynne of Warminster, Wiltshire, and Viscount Weymouth, of Dorset. He also inherited land at Buckland, Gloucestershire on the death of his uncle James Thynne in 1709.
Career.
In 1733 he was appointed High Steward of Tamworth and was also Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England from 1735 to 1736. Between 4 December 1739 and 1751, he held the royal offices of Keeper of Hyde Park, Keeper of the Mall, and Ranger of St. James's Park, all in the City of Westminster. Shortly after his Hyde Park appointment, he began the construction of the Serpentine Lakes at Longleat, apparently in imitation of Hyde Park's Serpentine.
Marriages and children.
He married twice:
Death and burial.
He died on 12 January 1750/51, at Horningsham, Wiltshire, and was buried there on 22 January.
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