born 1672, Liscarton, County Meath, Ire.
died July 17, 1726, Kensington, near London, Eng.
British soldier.
He served as a trusted colleague with the duke of Marlborough in the War of the Spanish Succession . Later he became involved in intrigues to secure the succession for the Hanoverian George I (1714). He crushed a Jacobite rebellion in 1716, was granted an earldom in 1718, and was promoted to commander in chief in 1722.