Lieutenant-General Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford,, also known in Jacobite Peerage as the 1st Duke of Strafford and 3rd Baron Raby from 1695 to 1711, was an English peer, diplomat and statesm
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford, KG, of Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire, was a prominent landowner.
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1672–1739)
…and cornet and 1st major in the same 20 January 1694. On 7 May 1695, Wentworth was appointed a groom of the bedchamber to the king. When his cousin William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford died without issue on 16 October 1695, Wentworth succeeded him as the 3rd Baron Raby. He did not inherit the Strafford fortune or the Jacobean house…
Memorial to William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford and one of his two wives. York Minster
Inscription on the above monument to William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford, describing his ancestry and succession