thrale & thrall family history
Baronet Sir John Lade
1759 - Abt 1838 (78 years)
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Name John Lade Prefix Baronet Sir Birth 1 Aug 1759 [1, 2, 3] Gender Male Death Abt 1838 [4] Notes - John inherited the baronetcy at his birth on the following August 1 after the death of his father (Gent. Mag. xxix. 194; lxxii. 376). He was made the ward of his uncle Henry Thrale 1724-1781 and fulfilled Dr. Johnson's worst predictions, becoming one of the notorious rakes of the Prince of Wales's circle, going through his own fortune and his mother's, which he inherited in 1802, and landing in King's Bench prison in 1813, whence Lady Keith (Queeney Thrale) tried to rescue him by appealing, in vain, to his former patron, the Prince Regent. Bowood Papers. Johnson sent the verses to Mrs. Thrale on August 8. Both the covering note and the verses are now in the Huntington Library. The verses were first published entire in Mrs. Piozzi's British Synonymy (1794) but the fourth stanza appeared in her Anecdotes (p. 281).
One of Henry Thrale?s sisters was Lady Mary Lade (1733-1802), who married Baronet Sir John Lade on 27 May 1756. They had a son, also called John who inherited his father?s fortune and Baronetcy. Sir John Lade the junior was made ward of Henry Thrale, but when freed of this he took Samuel Johnson's advice and became a notorious rake.
See: http://www.thrale.com/sir_john_lade
Person ID I604 UK Thrale family Last Modified 17 Apr 2010
Father Baronet Sir John Lade, M.P., b. Abt 1690 d. 21 Apr 1759 (Age ~ 69 years) Mother Lady Mary Thrale, b. 1733, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England 
d. 1802, Saint Michaels, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England (Age 69 years) Alt. Marriage Aft 27 May 1756 [5] Marriage Jun 1756 [6] Family ID F49 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Lady Letitia Derby d. 1825 Marriage Abt 1787 Family ID F291 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 13 Feb 2004
- John inherited the baronetcy at his birth on the following August 1 after the death of his father (Gent. Mag. xxix. 194; lxxii. 376). He was made the ward of his uncle Henry Thrale 1724-1781 and fulfilled Dr. Johnson's worst predictions, becoming one of the notorious rakes of the Prince of Wales's circle, going through his own fortune and his mother's, which he inherited in 1802, and landing in King's Bench prison in 1813, whence Lady Keith (Queeney Thrale) tried to rescue him by appealing, in vain, to his former patron, the Prince Regent. Bowood Papers. Johnson sent the verses to Mrs. Thrale on August 8. Both the covering note and the verses are now in the Huntington Library. The verses were first published entire in Mrs. Piozzi's British Synonymy (1794) but the fourth stanza appeared in her Anecdotes (p. 281).
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Photos Sir John Lade (1759 - 1838)
Sir John Lade, 2nd Baronet, from a mezzotint by Frederick Bromley after the 1778 portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, published 1862 by Henry Graves
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Sources - [S10] Edited by Donald Greene, Complete works of Samuel Johnson, (1984).
- [S16] Gentleman's Magazine, xxix. 194; Ixxii. 376 (Reliability: 3).
- [S2] Richard William Thrale, A New Thraliana, ((St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, Falconer Press, 1973)), 69 (Reliability: 3).
- [S40] Katherine C Balderston, Thraliana, (Oxford University Press 1951).
- [S13] Faculty Office Marriage Licence Allegations 1701-1850, Order 0052305 (Reliability: 3).
- [S16] Gentleman's Magazine, June 1756 (Reliability: 3).
- [S10] Edited by Donald Greene, Complete works of Samuel Johnson, (1984).