Lot Essay
In 1782 he married Catherine, only daughter and heiress of William Pierce Hall, of Downton Hall, Shropshire. He represented the boroughs of Evesham and Bramber and was the Chief Secretary to the Board of Control in 1784. In 1791 he was created a baronet and soon after inherited the family baronetcy from his brother Edward in 1794. Edward had inherited the title after the untimely death of his cousin Sir Theodosius Boughton, 7th Bt. in 1780. Sir Theodosius died before attaining his majority in suspicious circumstances. After a coroner's inquest, his brother-in-law, Captain Donellan was tried and convicted of poisoning him with a draft administered by his mother Lady Boughton. Although Donellan protested his innocence to the end, and the evidence was far from strong, he was executed in Warwick in 1781