Lady Wentworth was set to marry Richard Tufton, 5th Earl of Thanet but James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth proposed himself instead although he was already married.
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He was succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother, Richard.
Through his father he was a great-great-grandson of Lord Burghley.