James Cranfield, 2nd Earl of Middlesex
James Cranfield, 2nd Earl of Middlesex( 1621 – 16 September 1651), styled Lord Cranfield from 1622 until 1645, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and inherited his peerage in 1645.
Cranfield was the son of Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex and was baptised on 27 December 1621.
In April 1640, Cranfield was elected Member of Parliament for Liverpool in the Short Parliament.
He inherited the earldom on the death of his father in 1645.
Middlesex was nominated as Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire in 1646 and Keeper of Kingswood Forest in 1647.
In 1648, he was a Parliamentary commissioner to the Treaty of Newport.
Cranfield married Lady Anne Bourchier, daughter of Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath.
His daughter Elizabeth married John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater.
He was succeeded by his brother Lionel who became the 3rd Earl of Middlesex.
Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart
Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart KT( 1 May 1708 – 10 March 1770), styled Lord Huntingtower from 1712 to 1727, was a Scottish nobleman.
Lionel's father, a namesake in 1712 predeceased his father Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart — on the latter's death in 1727, Lionel inherited the earldom and five main estates: Ham House in Surrey, Helmingham Hall in Suffolk, Harrington and Bentley in Northamptonshire, and in Cheshire.
The following year he went on a Grand Tour.
In 1729, he was elected High Steward of Ipswich, a post he held for 41 years.
Also in 1729 he married Lady Grace Carteret( 1713- 1755 St James's), daughter of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, by whom he had sixteen children, nine of whom did not reach age 17:
In 1743 he was made Knight of the Thistle.
He was apparently very parsimonious towards his eldest son, who married Charlotte Walpole in 1760 without his father's knowledge.
Sir Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Baronet
Sir Lionel Tollemache (1624 – 1669)
3rd Baronet of Helmingham was the head of a powerful East Anglian family whose seat was Helmingham Hall in Suffolk, England.
He was the son of Sir Lionel Tollemache, 2nd Baronet and Elizabeth Stanhope, daughter and heiress of John Stanhope, 1st Baron Stanhope of Harrington.
Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland
Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland( c. 1456 – 6 February 1499) was an English peer.
He was the grandfather of Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland.
Lionel Tollemache, 8th Earl of Dysart
Lionel William John Tollemache, 8th Earl of Dysart( 18 November 1794 – 23 September 1878), known as Lionel Manners until 1821, as Lionel Tollemache between 1821 and 1833, and styled Lord Huntingtower between 1833 and 1840, was a British peer and Tory politician.
Gilbert Talbot, 3rd Baron Talbot
Gilbert Talbot, 3rd Baron Talbot( c. 1332–1387) was an English nobleman and soldier.
He was the grandfather of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury.
Sir Robert Cotton, 3rd Baronet
Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet( 2 January 1695 – 27 August 1748) was a politician in Great Britain.
He was Member of Parliament( MP) for Cheshire from 1727 to 1734 and for Lostwithiel from 1741 to 1747.
He married Elizabeth Tollemache( died 6 August 1746), the daughter of Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart and his wife Grace Wilbraham.
Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart
Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart (30 January 1649 – 23 February 1727 n.s.), styled Lord Huntingtower from 1651 to 1698, was a British Tory Member of Parliament and nobleman.
Dysart was the son of Sir Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Baronet (d.1669), and Elizabeth, 2nd Countess of Dysart (d.1698).
Educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, Lionel succeeded to his father's baronetcy on his death, but also a raft of debts which bred in him a habit of frugality which was not shed in later years.
In 1673, he contested Suffolk as a Tory; defeated by Sir Samuel Barnardiston,
1st Baronet, he had the return falsified by the sheriff, Sir William Soame, and took his seat in Parliament.
An election committee declared Barnardiston elected who initially obtained £1,000 damages from him in a suit before the King's Bench, but the decision was overturned by the Court of Exchequer Chamber.
Huntingtower was made a freeman of Eye in 1675.
He briefly served as Member of Parliament for Orford in 1679 as a member of the Habeas Corpus Parliament.
In 1685, he was again returned for that borough and made portman of Orford, an office he held until about 1709.
On 30 September 1680, he married Grace Wilbraham, the daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Wilbraham, 3rd Baronet.
They had five children:
Huntingtower went out of Parliament again upon the fall of James II.
However, he was returned for Suffolk in 1698, and generally supported Tory principles.
In that year, he succeeded his mother to become Earl of Dysart.
In 1702, he was appointed Vice-Admiral of Suffolk and became (until 1716)
a freeman of Dunwich, and in 1703, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk.
He was also named High Steward of Ipswich that year, an office he held until his death.
As Lord Lieutenant, he purged moderate Churchmen from lieutenancy offices.
He was Mayor of Orford during the summer of 1704.
His support for the "Tack" of the Occasional Conformity Bill led to his removal from his county offices in 1705.
Campaigning on the basis of his support for the Tack, he was returned for Suffolk again in 1705.
As a Scottish peer, he was forced to leave the House of Commons by the Acts of Union 1707.
He was offered a barony in the Peerage of Great Britain by Queen Anne upon her accession, but declined.
Predeceased by his only son in 1712, Dysart remained a Tory, and was considered a possible Jacobite, until his death in 1727.
His male-line grandson Lionel inherited his titles.
Rosamund Greaves, 11th Countess of Dysart
Rosamund Greaves, 11th Countess of Dysart( 15 February 1914 – December 2003) was a Scottish peer.
Rosamund was the eldest of three daughters of Wenefryde Agatha Greaves( 1889 – 1975), 10th Countess of Dysart and Major Owain Edward Whitehead Greaves.
On her mother's death in 1975 Lady Rosamund became the 11th Countess of Dysart.
Rosamund never married or had issue therefore on her death in December 2003, her younger sister, Lady Katherine, succeeded to the titles of Countess of Dysart and Lady Huntingtower.
John Brydges, Marquess of Carnarvon
John Brydges, Marquess of Carnarvon( 15 January 1703 – 7 April 1727), styled Viscount Wilton from 1714 to 1719, was a British Member of Parliament, heir apparent to the Duke of Chandos.
John was the fourth, but eldest surviving son of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos and his first wife Mary.
He was educated at Westminster School, from which he graduated in 1718.
Viscount Wilton, as he then was, matriculated at University of Oxford on 4 November 1719, from which he received a Doctor of Civil Law on 8 April 1721.
He also studied at Leyden that year.
Carnarvon completed his education with a Grand Tour of Europe from 1721 to 1723.
After his return to England, he married Lady Catherine Tollemache, daughter of Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart, on 1 September 1724.
The couple had two children: Carnarvon was returned on his father's electoral interest for the constituency of Steyning in January 1726, at a by-election following the death of John Pepper.
However, he died in April 1727 of smallpox.
His place was filled by William Stanhope, lately Ambassador to Spain.

Question: Who is the paternal grandfather of Lionel Tollemache, 3Rd Earl Of Dysart?
Answer: Sir Lionel Tollemache, 2nd Baronet