Death and Descendants
Conduitt died on 23 May 1737 and was buried in Westminster Abbey on 29 May to the right of Sir Isaac Newton. His wife, Catherine, who died in 1739, was buried with him. In his will dated 1732 he left his estate to his wife and made her guardian of their daughter Catherine, underage. On his death, Catherine's trustees sold the estate at Cranbury Park as well as estates at Weston and Netley, near Southampton to Thomas Lee Dummer, who succeeded him as MP for Southampton
His daughter Catherine later married John Wallop, Viscount Lymington (d. 1749) in 1740. He was the eldest son of John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth, and their son, John Wallop, succeeded as second earl of Portsmouth.
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