Life

Born 14 November 1741, he was the second son of John Larpent (1710–1797), who was forty-three years in the Foreign Office, and twenty-five years chief clerk there. His mother was a daughter of James Pazant of a refugee Norman family. John was educated at Westminster, and entered the foreign office. He was secretary to John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford

John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford

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 at the Peace of Paris (1763), and to Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford

Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford

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 when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

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In November 1778 he was appointed inspector of plays by the Marquis of Hertford, who was then Lord Chamberlain

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. He is said to have been strict and careful, and to have left behind him manuscript copies of all the plays submitted to the inspector from 1737 till 1824. He died 18 January 1824.

Family

Larpent married, first, on 14 August 1773, Frances (d. 9 November 1777), eldest daughter of Maximilian Western of Cokethorpe Park, Oxfordshire, and by her he had two sons, the eldest was Francis Seymour Larpent. His second wife, whom he married 25 April 1782, was Anna Margaretta, elder daughter of Sir James Porter

James Porter

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, by Clarissa Catherine, eldest daughter of Elberd, second baron de Hochepied (of the German empire); by her he had two sons, John James and George Gerard de Hochepied Larpent, both of whom, by license dated 14 June 1819, added the name De Hochepied. On 25 March 1828 the elder son succeeded his mother's brother as seventh Baron de Hochepied, a license to bear the title in England having been granted 27 September 1819.