George Richard St John, 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke, styled The Honourable George St John from his birth until 1787, was a British politician. He became famous in his own lifetime for embarking on an ext
portrait by John Hoppner
Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke was a British peer and landowner. His father was John St John, 2nd Viscount St John, half-brother of Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke. His mother was
George St John, 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke
…four sons. The two lovers had to leave England and live on the continent for a time. He was the elder son of the famously unhappy marriage between Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke and Diana Spencer, daughter of Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough. St John was educated at Eton College in Berkshire and Christ Church, Oxford…
Portrait of Bolingbroke
"Turf, with Jockey up, at Newmarket", painting c.1766 by George Stubbs of one of Bolingbroke's famous racehorses. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection