Background
He was the elder son of the famously unhappy marriage between Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke and Lady Diana Spencer, daughter of Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough. St John was educated at Eton College in Berkshire and Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1777. He succeeded his father as viscount in 1787.
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