Charles Colyear, 2d earl of Portmore
1700–85
Politician and socialite. MP for Andover, 1727–30. When young, known as Beau Colyear. Interested in horse-racing; a conspicuous member of London society. Succeeded to the earldom in 1730.
Sources
Complete peerage
ODNB s.v. Colyear, David
Bibliography
Complete peerage: The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. By George Edward Cokayne. Revised edition. Edited by Vicary Gibbs, et al. 13 vols. in 14. London: St Catherine Press. 1910–59.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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