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==Later life==
==Later life==
He spent the rest of his life living quietly at his London townhouse or at his country estate at Cheveley Park, [[Cheveley]], near [[Newmarket, Suffolk|Newmarket]]. He succeeded his brother Thomas as ”’3rd Baron Jermyn”’ in 1703, and died on 6 April 1708. In accordance with his will, his body was moved to the English Convent and Friary of the [[Discalced Carmelites]] in Bruges, where he was buried in an elaborate Catholic ceremony on 24 May 1708. As he left no children by his wife, Judith, his titles became extinct at his death. His estates were inherited by his nieces, Hon. Merolina Jermyn, Lady Spring, wife of [[Sir Thomas Spring, 3rd Baronet]], and Hon. Mary Jermyn, Lady Davers, wife of [[Sir Robert Davers, 2nd Baronet]].{{cite book |last=Harvey |first=William |author-link= |date=1868 |title=The Visitation of Suffolke (Volume 2) |url= |location= |publisher=S. Tymms |page=185 |isbn=}}
He spent the rest of his life living quietly at his London townhouse or at his country estate at Cheveley Park, [[Cheveley]], near [[Newmarket, Suffolk|Newmarket]]. He succeeded his brother Thomas as ”’3rd Baron Jermyn”’ in 1703, and died on 6 April 1708. In accordance with his will, his body was moved to the English Convent and Friary of the [[Discalced Carmelites]] in Bruges, where he was buried in an elaborate Catholic ceremony on 24 May 1708. As he left no children by his wife, Judith, his titles became extinct at his death. inherited by his nieces, Hon. Merolina Jermyn, Lady Spring, wife of [[Sir Thomas Spring, 3rd Baronet]], and Hon. Mary Jermyn, Lady Davers, wife of [[Sir Robert Davers, 2nd Baronet]].{{cite book |last=Harvey |first=William |author-link= |date=1868 |title=The Visitation of Suffolke (Volume 2) |url= |location= |publisher=S. Tymms |page=185 |isbn=}}
[[Dover Street]] in London’s [[Mayfair]] was named after Lord Dover after he participated in a development syndicate led by [[Sir Thomas Bond, 1st Baronet]] in 1683.{{Cite book|title=The London Encyclopaedia|date=1993|publisher=PaperMac|last1=Weinreb|first1=Ben|last2=Hibbert|first2=Christopher|isbn=0333576888|edition= Rev.|location=London|oclc=28963301|page=241}}
[[Dover Street]] in London’s [[Mayfair]] was named after Lord Dover after he participated in a development syndicate led by [[Sir Thomas Bond, 1st Baronet]] in 1683.{{Cite book|title=The London Encyclopaedia|date=1993|publisher=PaperMac|last1=Weinreb|first1=Ben|last2=Hibbert|first2=Christopher|isbn=0333576888|edition= Rev.|location=London|oclc=28963301|page=241}}
English noble (1636–1708)
Henry Jermyn, 3rd Baron Jermyn and 1st Baron Dover, 1st Jacobite Earl of Dover PC (c. 1636 – 6 April 1708) was an English courtier, peer and favourite of James II.
Jermyn was born into a Royalist gentry family shortly before the English Civil War. During the exile of the royal family and after the Stuart Restoration in 1660, he was a member of the court of Charles II of England thanks to the influence of his powerful uncle, Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans. At court he surpassed his uncle in reputation for profligacy and was the sometime lover of Anne Hyde, Lady Castlemaine, Lady Shrewsbury and, reputedly, Sarah Jennings.[1][2]
A Roman Catholic, he aligned himself with James, Duke of York and received many honours upon James’ accession to the throne in 1685. He remained loyal to James after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 and fought as a Jacobite during the Williamite War in Ireland, but in 1690 he pledged his loyalty to William and Mary. He was referred to in the Memoirs of the Count de Grammont as “Little Jermyn” and “the favoured of Venus and the desperate duellist”.[3]
Early life and family[edit]
Jermyn was the second son of Thomas Jermyn, of Rushbrooke, Suffolk, who died in 1659, and his wife Rebecca Rodway, who married secondly Henry Brouncker, 3rd Viscount Brouncker.[1] Throughout Jermyn’s childhood his family, who owned large estates in Suffolk, were ardently loyal to the House of Stuart. Jermyn’s father, an equerry to Charles I, supported the king during the Civil War and spent a period in exile during the Commonwealth of England. His grandfather, Thomas Jermyn, had served as Comptroller of the Household to Charles I, while Jermyn’s uncle, Lord St Albans, was a close associate of Henrietta Maria of France during her period of refuge in France from 1644.[4]
Courtier under Charles II[edit]
Jermyn joined his father in exile from England after 1645. Lord St Albans, who was secretary to the Queen Dowager until her death in 1669, obtained places at the exiled royal court for his nephews, Jermyn and his elder brother Thomas. Jermyn was given a post in the household of the James, Duke of York, despite the strong disapproval of Charles II.[1] The prince and Jermyn became firm friends. By the mid-1650s, Jermyn had gained a…
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