Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh
Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh, 3rd Earl of Desmond, styled Viscount Feilding from 1675 to 1685, was an Anglo-Irish peer and courtier.
Peerage
Feilding inherited the English Earldom of Denbigh and the Irish Earldom of Desmond in 1685, from his father, William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh and 2nd Earl of Desmond.Family
Basil Feilding was born in 1668 in County Kilkenny, Ireland. He was the son of William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh, and Mary King, daughter of Sir Robert King.On 22 June 1695, he married Hester Firebrace, daughter of Sir Basil Firebrace, 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Hough.
Denbigh and his wife had six daughters and four sons:
- Lady Mary Feilding, married physician William Cockburn
- William, Viscount Feilding
- Lady Bridget Feilding
- Hon. Basil Feilding, died as an infant
- Lady Elizabeth Feilding
- Lt.-Col. Hon. Charles Feilding, married widowed Lady Bridges formerly Elizabeth Palmer, daughter of Sir Thomas Palmer, and was father of the a naval officer of the same name who was involved in the Affair of Fielding and Bylandt.
- Lady Hester Feilding
- Hon. George Feilding
- Lady Diana Feilding
- Lady Frances Feilding married as first wife to 8th Earl of Winchilsea