Background
Coventry was the second but eldest surviving son of William Coventry, 5th Earl of Coventry, and his wife Elizabeth (née Allen), and was educated at Winchester and University College, Oxford.
Coventry was the second but eldest surviving son of William Coventry, 5th Earl of Coventry, and his wife Elizabeth (née Allen), and was educated at Winchester and University College, Oxford.
Winchester College; University College.
The latter year he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords. He also served as Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire from 1751 to 1808 and was a Lord of the Bedchamber to George II from 1752 to 1760 and to George III from 1760 to 1770. Lord Coventry married firstly Maria, daughter of Colonel John Gunning, in 1752.
She died in 1760.
Barbara, daughter of John Street John, 11th Baron Street John of Bletso, in 1764. There were children from both marriages. Lady Coventry died in 1804.
Lord Coventry survived her by five years and died in September 1809, aged 87.
9th Parliament of Great Britain. 10th Parliament of Great Britain.