He spent little time at Lanhydrock House, his country seat in Cornwall, and when it was visited by the antiquary John Loveday he found it in a sorry state.[1]
Dying unmarried in Paris in 1741, Radnor was succeeded in his peerages by an older unmarried cousin, John Robartes, but left his property to a nephew, George Hunt, the son of his sister Mary, whose heir was his niece Anna Maria Hunt.[2] She married Charles Bagenal Agar, and their son Thomas Agar-Robartes inherited the Lanhydrock estate and was created the first Baron Robartes.[3]
References
^The Book Collector, Vol. 54, Issues 1-4 (Book Collector Limited, 2005), p. 218
^John Edwards Griffith, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families, with Their Collateral Branches in Denbighshire, Merionethshire, and Other Parts (Bridge Books, 1914), p. 171
^Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage (London: Dean & Son, 1878), p. 524