 He was educated at Charterhouse School and St Paul's by 1703 and was admitted at St John's College, Cambridge on 12 January 1704 and Lincolns Inn on October 22, 1706.Between 1709 and 1712 he travelled abroad in France and Italy.He was married in 1714 to Anne Somerset, daughter and coheiress of Lord Arthur Somerset of Poston Court in Vowchurch, Herefordshire (younger son of Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort), by his wife Mary, daughter and heiress of Sir William Russell, 1st baronet of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire.