of influence with James, who on his accession raised Jermyn to the Peerage of England in 1685 as Baron Dover in the county of Kent, and appointed him Lieutenant-General of the Royal Guard in 1686. He was one of the first Catholics to be admitted to the Privy Council of England. Despite his debauched private life, as a politician, he was a moderate and sensible influence on the king. While his loyalty was never in question, he was not afraid to speak his mind to James, or to disagree with him in public. At the Glorious Revolution, Dover adhered to James, whom he followed abroad, and in July 1689 the deposed sovereign created him Baron Jermyn of Royston, Baron Ipswich, Viscount Cheveley and Earl of Dover in the Jacobite Peerage, these titles not being recognised by the English Government, though Dover became generally known as the Earl of Dover. He commanded a troop at the Battle of the Boyne, but shortly afterwards made his submission to King William III. He spent the rest of his life living quietly at his London townhouse, or at his country estate Cheveley, near Newmarket. He succeeded his brother Thomas as 3rd Baron Jermyn in 1703, and died in 1708. As he left no children by his wife, Judith, daughter of Sir Edmund Poley, of Badley, Suffolk, his titles became extinct at his death. His estates were inherited by his niece, Hon. Merolina Jermyn, wife of Sir Thomas Spring, 3rd Baronet. References |- 1630s births 1708 deaths Dover, Henry Jermyn, 1st Baron 3 Earls in the Jacobite peerage Earls of Dover English Jacobites Lord-Lieutenants of Cambridgeshire Jermyn Members of the Privy Council of England Peers created by James II (1689–1701) People from Rushbrooke with Rougham Henry