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Died of Apoplexy is in Disease.
On 21st November 1579 Thomas Gresham (age 60) died of apoplexy. He was buried in St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate.
On 8th December 1626 John Davies (age 57) died of apoplexy.
In January 1662 Frederick Cornwallis 1st Baron Cornwallis (age 50) died of apoplexy. His son Charles (age 30) succeeded 2nd Baron Cornwallis.
On 6th March 1685 Thomas Spencer 3rd Baronet (age 46) died of apoplexy. He was buried in the Spencer Chapel at Church of St Bartholomew, Yarnton. His first cousin Thomas succeeded 4th Baronet Spencer of Yarnton in Oxfordshire.
On 2nd April 1701 Henry Howard 7th Duke of Norfolk (age 46) died of apoplexy. He was buried in the Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle [Map]. His nephew Thomas (age 17) succeeded 8th Duke Norfolk, 19th or 26th Earl Arundel, 9th Earl Surrey, 6th Earl Norfolk, 3rd Earl Norwich, 19th Baron Mowbray, 20th Baron Segrave, 17th Baron Furnivall, 21st Baron Strange Blackmere, 18th Baron Talbot, 16th Baron Maltravers, 16th Baron Arundel, 3rd Baron Howard of Castle Rising.
In August 1711 Anthony Henley (age 44) died of apoplexy.
On 20th May 1713 Bishop Thomas Sprat (age 78) died of apoplexy at the Bishop's Palace, Bromley. He was buried in the south side of the Chapel of St Nicholas, Westminster Abbey [Map].
On 17th December 1721 Richard Lumley 1st Earl Scarborough (age 71) died of apoplexy at Gerard Street, Soho. His son Richard (age 35) succeeded 2nd Earl of Scarborough, 3rd Viscount Lumley, 2nd Baron Lumley.
On 3rd May 1733 Richard Cox 1st Baronet (age 83) died of apoplexy. His grandson Richard (age 31) succeeded 2nd Baronet Cox Dunmanway in County Cork.
On 26th October 1738 Richard Loraine (age 38) died of apoplexy. He was buried at St Wilfrid's Church, Kirkharle [Map]. His ledger stone has the inscription: "Here lyes the Body of Richard Loraine, Esq., who was a proper handsome man of good sense and behaviour: he dy'd a Batcheler of an Appoplexy walking in a green field near London, October 26th, 1738, in the 38 Year of his Age."
Richard Loraine: Around 1700 he was born to William Loraine 2nd Baronet and Anne Smith.
On 8th August 1805 Richard Worsley 7th Baronet (age 54) died of apoplexy at Appuldurcombe House, Isle of Wight. He was buried at All Saint's Church, Godshill. His fourth cousin Henry (age 49) succeeded 8th Baronet Worsley of Appuldurcombe.
On 31st August 1807 Coulson Wallop (age 32) died of apoplexy whilst imprisoned at Verdun.
On 1st August 1813 Henry Vane-Tempest 2nd Baronet (age 42) died of apoplexy. Baronet Vane of Long Newton in County Durham extinct. Memorial and vault at St Mary's Church, Long Newton [Map] sculpted by Richard Westmacott (age 38).
On 11th February 1822 Arthur William Devis (age 59) died of apoplexy at Caroline Street Bedford Square Camden. He was buried at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map].
On 17th January 1824 Thomas Maitland (age 63) died of apoplexy.
On 25th May 1829 Charles John Gardiner 1st Earl Blessington (age 47) died of apoplexy without issue. Earl Blessington, Viscount Mountjoy, Baron Mountjoy extinct.