Baronet Sir John Lade, M.P.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Property: Etchingham, Sussex, England; Estate at Etchingham, bought by his guardians when he came of age
• Residence: Warbleton, Sussex, England
• Occupation: 1751-1775, Camelford, Cornwall, England; Member of Parliament

Notes:

Sir John Lade. 1st Baronet of Warbelton, Sussex. Was made a Baronet in March 1758

Samuel Johnson wrote some verses on the new Sir John's coming of age, remarking on his extravagance which his life as a friend of the Prince Regent eroded most of his inherited fortune! He died as a result of a fall from his horse, which was before the birth of his son John.

The posthumous son of John Inskip, who married Mary Thrale, Henry Thrale's sister, in 1755, was made a baronet in March, 1758, under the name of John Lade, and died on April 21, 1759, from blood poisoning that resulted from the breaking of a leg in hunting

It is speculated that she bore an illegitimate child for Colonel Sir Philip Jennings Clerke M.P. (died 1788) after the death of her husband Sir John Lade.

John married Lady Mary Thrale in Jun 1756. Mary (daughter of Ralph Thrale, M.P. and Mary Dabbins) was born in 1733 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England; died in 1802 in Saint Michaels, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England; was buried on 31 Mar 1802 in Warbleton, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

John married Lady Letitia Derby about 1787. Letitia died in 1825. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]