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{{short description|ScottishEnglish noblemanpeer}}
{{other people|Lionel Tollemache|Lionel Tollemache (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox peerperson
| name = LionelThe TollemacheEarl of Dysart
| image = Lionel Tollemache, 5th Earl of Dysart - oval.jpg
| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| image_size = 240px
| caption = Lionel Tollemache (1734–1799), 5th Earl of Dysart, c.1750, British (English) School
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1734|08|06|df=y}}
| birth_place = England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1799|02|20|1734|08|06|df=y}}<!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} -->
| death_place = England
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| tenure =1770–1799
| other_titles = Baron Huntingtower
| residence = [[Ham House]]
| nationality =
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| predecessor = [[Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart]]
| heir =
| successor = [[Wilbraham Tollemache, 6th Earl of Dysart]]
| spouse = Charlotte Walpole<br>Magdalene Lewis
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|succession=[[Earl of Dysart|5th Earl of Dysart]]}}'''Lionel Tollemache, 5th Earl of Dysart''' (6 August 1734 – 20 February 1799) was a Scottish nobleman, styled '''Lord Huntingtower''' from birth until his succession to the Dysart earldom in 1770.
 
|succession=[[Earl of Dysart|5th Earl of Dysart]]}}'''Lionel Tollemache, 5th Earl of Dysart''' (6 August 1734 – 20 February 1799) was a Scottish nobleman, styled '''Lord Huntingtower''' from birth until his1770, successionwas toan theEnglish Dysart earldom in 1770peer.
 
Lord Huntingtower received no settlement from his father at his [[Age of majority|majority]], and, feeling he owed him nothing, married without his knowledge or consent.<ref name="LHW1">{{citation |url=https://archive.org/stream/letterschronolog04walp#page/430/mode/2up| title=Letter to George Montagu, 2 October 1760|work=The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford|first=Horace |last=Walpole |authorlink=Horace Walpole |editor-first=Paget |editor-last=Toynbee |volume=IV|pages=430–431|year=1903}}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=https://archive.org/stream/letterschronolog04walp#page/432/mode/2up| title=Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 5 October 1760|work=The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford|first=Horace |last=Walpole |authorlink=Horace Walpole |editor-first=Paget |editor-last=Toynbee |volume=IV|pages=432–434|year=1903}}</ref> The bride was [[:File:Read - Charlotte Walpole, Countess of Dysart.jpg|Charlotte]], daughter of [[Edward Walpole|Sir Edward Walpole]], whom he married on 2 October 1760 at St James's Church, Piccadilly.<ref>''The Register of Marriages solemnized in the Parish Church of St James within the Liberty of Westminster & County of Middlesex. 1754–1765.'' No. 2030. 2 October 1760.</ref> Charlotte's uncle [[Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford|Horace Walpole]] called Huntingtower "a very handsome person".<ref name="LHW1"/> He succeeded to the earldom a decade later.