Lord Leicester married Sarah, daughter and heiress of William Dunn Gardner, in 1807.

Lord Leicester also became a patron, and appointed Noble his chaplain.

Lord Leicester died at Penshurst at the age of nearly 81.

Lord Leicester began the construction of Holkham Hall in Norfolk.

Lord Leicester was succeeded by his eldest son from his second marriage, the second Earl.

Lord Leicester survived her by five years and died in November 1941, aged 93.

During the First World War, while in the army, he met Lady Rosemary Coke, Lord Leicester's daughter-in-law.

In 1944, Lord Leicester was asked if he would remove five huts on his part of the island, together with others on the coast opposite.

Brettingham also stated that Lord Leicester found the design with curved colonnades wasteful and adopted the current short corridor links.

Lord Leicester, Holkham's owner and Brettingham's employer, was a particular hero of Curzon's.