Baronet Sir John Lade

1759 - Abt 1838  (78 years)

• Name	John Lade
  Prefix	Baronet Sir
  Born	1 Aug 1759  [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Abt 1838  [4]
  Person ID	I604	UK Thrale family
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2010

  
  

  Father	Baronet Sir John Lade, M.P.,   b. Abt 1690,   d. 21 Apr 1759  (Age ~ 69 years)
  Mother	Lady Mary Thrale,   b. 1733, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England ,   d. 1802, Saint Michaels, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England  (Age 69 years)
  Alt. Marriage	Aft 27 May 1756  [5]
  Married	Jun 1756  [6]
  Family ID	F49	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lady Letitia Derby,   d. 1825
  Married	Abt 1787
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2004
  Family ID	F291	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Sir John Lade (1759 - 1838) Sir John Lade, 2nd Baronet, from a mezzotint by Frederick Bromley after the 1778 portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, published 1862 by Henry Graves

  
  

• Notes

  John inherited the baronetcy at his birth on the following August 1 after the death of his father (Gent. Mag. xxix. 194; lxxii. 376). He was made the ward of his uncle Henry Thrale 1724-1781 and fulfilled Dr. Johnson's worst predictions, becoming one of the notorious rakes of the Prince of Wales's circle, going through his own fortune and his mother's, which he inherited in 1802, and landing in King's Bench prison in 1813, whence Lady Keith (Queeney Thrale) tried to rescue him by appealing, in vain, to his former patron, the Prince Regent. Bowood Papers. Johnson sent the verses to Mrs. Thrale on August 8. Both the covering note and the verses are now in the Huntington Library. The verses were first published entire in Mrs. Piozzi's British Synonymy (1794) but the fourth stanza appeared in her Anecdotes (p. 281). One of Henry Thrale?s sisters was Lady Mary Lade (1733-1802), who married Baronet Sir John Lade on 27 May 1756. They had a son, also called John who inherited his father?s fortune and Baronetcy. Sir John Lade the junior was made ward of Henry Thrale, but when freed of this he took Samuel Johnson's advice and became a notorious rake. See: http://www.thrale.com/sir_john_lade

  
  

• Sources

  [S10] Complete works of Samuel Johnson, Edited by Donald Greene, (1984). [S16] Gentleman's Magazine, xxix. 194; Ixxii. 376 (Reliability: 3). [S2] A New Thraliana, Richard William Thrale, ((St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, Falconer Press, 1973)), 69 (Reliability: 3). [S40] Thraliana, Katherine C Balderston, (Oxford University Press 1951). [S13] Faculty Office Marriage Licence Allegations 1701-1850, Order 0052305 (Reliability: 3). [S16] Gentleman's Magazine, June 1756 (Reliability: 3).