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Lewis Thomas Watson, 2nd Baron Sondes (18 April 1754 – 21 June 1806) was a British Whig politician and peer. Early lifeLewis Thomas Watson was the son of Lewis Watson, 1st Baron Sondes and Grace Pelham, a daughter of Henry Pelham. He was educated at Eton between 1765 and 1771. CareerIn 1774, his father's old friend (and first cousin twice removed), Lord Rockingham, offered Sondes a seat in Parliament for Lewis at Pontefract; however, Sondes declined due to the price of £3,500 asked by the borough's patron, Lord Galway. In 1775, the death of Sir Charles Saunders left a vacancy at Hedon. Rockingham did not wish to lose the seat to the Government, and recommended Watson as a candidate to Saunders' election manager, William Iveson, who had inherited Saunders' interest in the borough. However, the by-election in January 1776 was contested by Christopher Atkinson, and proved unexpectedly expensive; Sondes paid £3,600 and complained to Rockingham when bills came for a further £1,200 later in the year.[1] Watson was a faithful member of Rockingham's opposition to the North ministry, but never spoke in the Commons. He put himself forth as a candidate for Kent in 1780 but withdrew on finding that he was not supported in the county.[1] At the 1784 election, he stood for Seaford on the long-dormant Pelham interest against the Treasury candidates. Defeated by one vote, he lodged an election petition holding that the bailiff had not given the four days notice required of the election, and the election was voided in 1785, although he did not stand there again.[2] Without his knowledge, he was put in as a Whig candidate at Canterbury at the 1790 election, but finished at the bottom of the poll.[3] Watson was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Northamptonshire in April 1793,[4] and of Kent on 29 June.[5] PeerageIn 1795, he succeeded to his father's title and assumed his seat in the House of Lords.[6] Sondes sold the manor of Garthorpe, Leicestershire to Wilbraham Tollemache, 6th Earl of Dysart in 1803.[7] Militia activitiesOn 19 May 1798, he was commissioned colonel of the Kent Supplementary Militia.[8] This was converted to the 3rd Kent Militia, and he was breveted colonel in the Army on 13 October, his rank to last while the militia remained embodied.[9] When a number of volunteer regiments were raised after the breakdown of the Peace of Amiens, Sondes was commissioned lieutenant-colonel commandant of the Lees Court Volunteer Infantry on 27 September 1803,[10] and colonel of the Lath of Scray Regiment of Volunteers, part of the Kent militia on 20 October.[11] He held the colonelcy of the latter until his death, when he was succeeded by George Harris.[12] FamilyOn 30 November 1785, he married Mary Elizabeth Milles (1767–1818), only daughter and heiress of Richard Milles (c. 1735–1820),[13] a Member of Parliament for Canterbury from 1761 to 1780.[14] They had seven children:
He was succeeded by his son, Lewis Watson, when he died on 21 June 1806.[6] Sondes was buried at Rockingham, Northamptonshire.[7] References1. ^1 {{HistoryofParliament|1754 |first=John |last=Brooke |authorlink=John Brooke (British historian) |title=WATSON, Hon. Lewis Thomas (1754-1806). |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/watson-hon-lewis-thomas-1754-1806}} {{S-start}}{{s-par|gb}}{{s-bef| before = Sir Charles Saunders | before2= Beilby Thompson }}{{s-ttl| title = Member of Parliament for Hedon2. ^{{HistoryofParliament|1754 |first=John |last=Brooke |authorlink=John Brooke (British historian) |title=Seaford |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/constituencies/seaford}} 3. ^{{HistoryofParliament|1790|first=R. G. |last=Thorne |title=Canterbury |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/constituencies/canterbury}} 4. ^{{London Gazette|issue=13521|page=321|date=20 April 1793}} 5. ^{{London Gazette|issue=13548|page=614|date=20 July 1793}} 6. ^1 Edmund Lodge, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=My0EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA490 The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage: With Sketches of the Family] (Saunders and Otley, 1845), p.490. Retrieved 16 October 2016. 7. ^1 {{cite book |title=Rockingham Castle and the Watsons |first=Charles |last=Wise |publisher=Elliot Stock |location=London |year=1891 |pages=114–115 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bNIKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA114}} 8. ^{{London Gazette|issue=15016|page=412|date=15 May 1798}} 9. ^{{London Gazette|issue=15074|page=1010|date=23 October 1798}} 10. ^{{London Gazette|issue=15623|page=1288|date=24 September 1803}} 11. ^{{London Gazette|issue=15632|page=1436|date=18 October 1803}} 12. ^{{London Gazette|issue=15942|page=983|date=2 August 1806}} 13. ^{{cite web|title=Sir Joshua Reynolds {{!}} Mrs. Lewis Thomas Watson (Mary Elizabeth Milles, 1767–1818) {{!}} The Met|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437450?sortBy=Relevance&ao=on&ft=duke+of&offset=500&rpp=100&pos=542|website=metmuseum.org|publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art|accessdate=13 February 2017}} 14. ^{{Rayment-hc|c|2|date=March 2012}} | with = Beilby Thompson | years = 1776–1780}}{{s-aft| after = Christopher Atkinson Saville| after2=William Chaytor }}{{s-reg|gb}}{{s-bef |before=Lewis Watson}}{{s-ttl |title=Baron Sondes|years=1795–1806}}{{s-aft |after=Lewis Watson}}{{S-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Sondes, Lewis Watson, 2nd Baron}} 11 : 1754 births|1806 deaths|Barons in the Peerage of Great Britain|British Army officers|British Militia officers|British MPs 1774–80|Deputy Lieutenants of Kent|Deputy Lieutenants of Northamptonshire|Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies|Whig (British political party) MPs|People educated at Eton College |
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