Person St John; Henry (1678 - 1751); Viscount Bolingbroke St John Henry Henry St John 1678 - 1751 British Male 10 October 1678 12 December 1751 Baptism: Battersea (10 October 1678) Burial: Beside his wife in the family vault at Battersea, Surrey

La Source, near Orleans, France (1720); Dawley, near Uxbridge (1725-1739); Battersea Manor (1744-death)

Education: Eton College; ?Christ Church, Oxford; DCL (1702) Career: Travelled in France (1698-1699); MP for Wootton Bassett (1701-1708); MP for Berkshire (1710-1712); Secretary at War (1704-1708); Privy Councillor (1710-1714); Secretary of State for the North (1710-1713); Secretary of State for the South (1713-1714); Director of the South Sea Company (1711-1715); Lord Lieutenant of Essex (1712-1714); Ambassador to Paris (1712); virtually became Prime Minister shortly before the death of Queen Anne (1714), when he fled to France to escape impeachment; put under attainder (1715); hypothetically created Earl of Bolingbroke by the Old Pretender (1715); Secretary of State to the Old Pretender (1715-1716) when he was dismissed and rejected Jacobitism; pardoned and allowed to return to England, although still excluded from the House of Lords (1723); died of cancer of the face Honours: Baron St John of Lydiard Trevoze, Wiltshire, and Viscount Bolingbroke (1712) Son of Sir Henry St John, Bart, afterwards Viscount St John, of the Manor House, Battersea, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick. Married: 1) Frances, daughter of Sir Henry Winchcombe, Bart, of Bucklebury, Berkshire, and his first wife, Elizabeth Hungerford; 2) Marie Claire, widow of Philippe le Valois, Marquess of Villette, and daughter of Amand des Champs, Seigneur de Marcilly, and his wife, Elisabeth Indroit, who was one of his mistresses during his first marriage The South Sea Company (officially The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas and other parts of America, and for the encouragement of the Fishery) was a British joint-stock company founded in 1711, created as a public-private partnership to consolidate and reduce the cost of the national debt. To generate income, in 1713 the company was granted a monopoly (the Asiento) to supply enslaved Africans to the islands in the 'South Seas' and South America. Company stock rose greatly in value as it expanded its operations dealing in government debt, and peaked in 1720 before suddenly collapsing to little above its original flotation price. The notorious economic bubble thus created, which ruined thousands of investors, became known as the South Sea Bubble. Fellow 29/01/1713 Sources: DNB; GEC Notes: Confirmed the Society's privileges on behalf of Queen Anne (19 February 1713) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Anglo American Cataloguing Rules (second edition) rules for double barrelled and compound surnames NA7725 21/11/2001 Andyg Gudrun 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB yes 458552f9-9e28-4c81-be92-d415286ba9b9