John Wallop, Viscount Lymington

Who was John Wallop, Viscount Lymington?

John Wallop, Viscount Lymington was a British politician, styled Hon. John Wallop from 1720 to 1743.

The eldest son of John Wallop, 1st Viscount Lymington, Wallop was educated at Winchester School from 1731 to 1734 and at Christ Church, Oxford in 1735. From 1739 to 1740, he was mayor of Lymington.

On 12 July 1740, he married Catherine Conduit, the daughter of John Conduitt and great-niece of Isaac Newton, by whom he had four sons and a daughter:

John Wallop, 2nd Earl of Portsmouth

Hon. Henry Wallop, a Groom of the Bedchamber

Hon. Rev. Barton Wallop, married Camilla Powlett Smith in 1771 and had issue, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge

Hon. Bennet Wallop, married and had issue

Hon. Catharine Wallop, married on 3 October 1770 Hon. Lockhart Gordon and had issue

In 1741, Wallop was returned to Parliament on his family's interest for Andover; he and John Pollen defeated William Guidott and John Pugh, the former a local official and former MP who had gotten himself disliked by the Andover corporation. Wallop was likewise returned for Whitchurch, where he had inherited an interest through his wife, but chose to sit for Andover.