Lewis Theobald (1688 bapt.–1744)

Identifiers
Grubstreet: 63182
VIAF: 2479987
Wikidata: Q1822165

Timeline

• 2 April 1688

  Baptized

  Lewis Theobald is born to Mary, second wife to Peter Theobald (d. 1690), an attorney, in Sittingbourne, Kent.

• September 1690

  Father dies

  When Theobald's father dies in 1690, he is taken into the family of his godfather Lewis Watson, third Baron Rockingham.

• 18 September 1744

  Death

  Theobald dies of jaundice at his house in Wyan's Court attended only by his friend of thirty years, John Stede. He is interred at Pancras on the 20th, at 6 o'clock pm.