Bluett Wallop
Bluett (or Bluet) Wallop (27 April 1726 – 6 June 1749) was a British soldier and politician.
The fourth son of John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth, Bluett was appointed a Page of Honour to George II on 8 November 1739.[1] He served the King on campaign in Flanders in 1743 and 1744. In the latter year, he left the King's service, having obtained a commission as a cornet in Honywood's Regiment of Horse. He was with his regiment at Fontenoy, and soon thereafter got a captaincy in Lord Sempill's Regiment of Foot. He fought at Culloden, and later got the captaincy of a troop of horse and served as equerry to the Duke of Cumberland.[2]
In 1747, he was returned to Parliament as a member for Newport, Isle of Wight, owing to his father's influence as Governor of the Isle of Wight.[3] He died of smallpox in 1749.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Bucholz, R.O. (2006). "Index of officers: Wa – Wh". Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 11 (revised): Court Officers, 1660-1837. pp. 1582–1625.
- ^ Collins's Peerage
- ^ "Wallop, Hon. Bluett (1726–49)". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
- ^ Gent. Mag., v. 19, p. 284
- 1726 births
- 1749 deaths
- 1st King's Dragoon Guards officers
- 42nd Regiment of Foot officers
- British Army personnel of the Jacobite rising of 1745
- British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession
- British MPs 1747–1754
- Deaths from smallpox
- Members of Parliament for Newport (Isle of Wight)
- Wallop family
- Younger sons of earls