Sir Henry Bedingfeld, 3rd Baronet
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Sir Henry Arundell Bedingfeld, 3rd Baronet (c. 1689 – 15 July 1760),[1] was an English landowner and baronet.
He was the only surviving son of Elizabeth Arundell and Sir Henry Bedingfeld, 2nd Baronet of Oxburgh Hall,[2] who accompanied Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester to England in 1660.[3] His sisters were Margaret Bedingfeld (wife of Sir John Jerningham, 4th Baronet) and Frances Bedingfeld (wife of Sir Francis Anderton, 6th Baronet).[4] His father had previously been married to Lady Anne Howard, a daughter of Charles Howard, 2nd Earl of Berkshire, but she died without issue.[3]
His paternal grandparents were Margaret Paston (a daughter of Edward Paston of Appleton, Norfolk) and Sir Henry Bedingfeld, 1st Baronet, who had been created a baronet in 1661 as compensation for the family's unrecovered loss for supporting the Royalist cause during the English Civil War.[5] Among his extended family was first cousin, Mary Bedingfield, who married Sir John Swinburne, 3rd Baronet of Capheaton, Northumberland (a son of Sir William Swinburne, 2nd Baronet).[4] His maternal grandparents were Sir John Arundell of Lanherne, Cornwall and Hon. Elizabeth Roper (a daughter of the 3rd Baron Teynham).[3]
Career
Upon the death of his father on 14 September 1704, he succeeded as the 3rd Baronet Bedingfeld, of Oxburgh.[6]
