It did, however, bring very extensive properties, including the parish of Gosfield, £100,000, and the parliamentary borough seat of St Mawes, Cornwall. The marriage brought little happiness and no children. A correspondent of Alexander Pope, she was Nugent's senior, and already twice widowed by John Newsham, of Chadshunt, Warwickshire, and John Knight, of Gosfield Hall, Essex. 1756), daughter of James Craggs (1657–1721), postmaster general, and sister of James Craggs (1686–1721), secretary of state. His second marriage (23 March 1736/7) was to Anne (Anna) (d. Robert Nugent himself faced unsubstantiated claims of having fathered an illegitimate child ( c.1730) by his first cousin, Clare Nugent. The first of these was illegitimate, though it seems to have presented few obstacles to his advancement. Nugent left two sons, Field-marshal Sir George Nugent (qv), soldier and MP, and Sir Charles Edmund Nugent, admiral of the fleet. Edmund (Edmond) Nugent, but died in 1771, many years before his father. Nugent's first marriage (14 July 1730) was to Lady Emilia (Estelle) Plunkett (Plunket), second daughter of Peter Plunkett, Lord Fingall. It is largely such detail, the hearsay of wits or foes, that survives. Horace Walpole, for example, famously coined the verb ‘to nugentise’ in reference to his succession of marriages to rich widows. Thus cheer'd and eager to pursue, / I mount, till glorious to my view, / Locke spreads the realms of day.’ Indeed, much of Nugent's private life was public property. It was the subject of one of his better-known and more dramatic poems, the Ode to Pulteney (1739): ‘Restless I roam'd, when from afar / Low Hooker shines, the friendly star / Sends forth a steady ray. Among the few incontrovertible events of his early life was his conversion as a young man from catholicism's ‘dark creeds and mystic law’ to the established church.
Frequently overlooked by historians, the details of Nugent's life are sparse, often merely anecdotal, and remain heavily coloured by the polemics of his own age.
1740), fifth and youngest daughter of Robert Barnewall, 9th Lord Trimlestown. 1739) of Carlanstown and his wife Mary (d. Westmeath, second son of Michael Nugent (d. (1702–88), 1st Earl Nugent, poet, and politician, was born in Carlanstown, Co.
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