Sir John LADE, Baronet

1759 - Abt 1838  (78 years)

• Name	John LADE
  Prefix	Sir
  Suffix	Baronet
  Birth	1 Aug 1759  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Note	1775
  	Samuel Johnson wrote some verses on the new Sir John's coming of age, remarking on his extravagance which his life as a friend of the Prince Regent eroded most of his inherited fortune.
  Physical Description	1778
  		Sir John Lade, 1778. Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
  Note	8 Aug 1780
  	Ode to Sir John Lade (younger) by Samuel Johnson on His Coming of Age ‘A short song of congratulation’ Long-expected one and twenty Lingering year at last is flown Pomp and pleasure, pride and plenty Great Sir John, are all your own. Loosened from the minor’s tether, Free to mortgage or to sell, Wild as wind, and light as feather, Bid the slaves of thrift farewell. Call the Bettys, Kates, and Jennys Every name that laughs at care, Lavish of your grandsire’s guineas, Show the spirit of an heir. All that prey on vice and folly Joy to see their quarry fly, Here the gamester light and jolly, There the lender grave and sly. Wealth, Sir John, was made to wander, Let it wander as it will; See the jockey, see the pander, Bid them come, and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high, What are acres? What are houses? Only dirt, or wet or dry. If the guardian or the mother Tell the woes of wilful waste, Scorn their counsel and their pother You can hang or drown at last.
  Death	Abt 1838  [5]
  Notes	He was made the ward of his uncle Henry Thrale 1724-1781 and become one of the notorious rakes of the Prince of Wales' circle, going through his own fortune and his mother's, which he inherited in 1802. He landed in King's Bench prison in 1813, whence Lady Keith (Queeney Thrale) tried to rescue him by appealing, in vain, to his former patron, the Prince Regent. . Thanks to Sue Atkinson for her contributions.
  Person ID	I604	UK Thrale family | Fairfolds and Hammonds Thrale branch, Marshalswick Thrale branch
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2025

  
  

  Father	Sir John LADE, Baronet MP,   b. Abt 1690   d. 21 Apr 1759 (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Lady Mary THRALE,   b. 1733, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England d. 1802, Saint Michaels, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	27 May 1756
  		At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
  Family ID	F49	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lady Letitia DERBY   d. 1825
  Marriage	Abt 1787
  Family ID	F291	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2004

  
  

• Histories

  Henry Thrale's parliamentary career His political view, electoral addresses and results.

  
  

• Sources

  [S10] Edited by Donald Greene, Complete works of Samuel Johnson, (1984). [S16] Gentleman's Magazine, xxix. 194; Ixxii. 376. In St. Michaels, St. Albans, aged about 69 Mary, Lady Dowager Lade, daughter of Ralph and brother of Henry Thrale formerly Member for the Borough of Southwark and widow of Sir John Lade of Warbleton in Sussex, who died 21st of April 1759 of a mortification arising from an amputation of his leg which had been broken by a fall from a horse leaving her with child, of a son who was born a Baronet August 1st following and now succeeds to the whole of his mother's property. [S2] Richard William Thrale, A New Thraliana, (Falconer Press, St Albans.), 69. [S123] "The Hertfordshire Thrales & the Streatham family". The New Rambler, 1995/6, (The Johnson Society of London). [S40] Editor: Katherine C Balderston, Thraliana, (Oxford University Press 1951).