Henry St John, 5th Viscount Bolingbroke (30 March 1820 – 7 November 1899) was a British peer. He assumed his peerage on the death of his father, Henry St John, 4th Viscount Bolingbroke, in 1851. He took his seat in the House of Lords later the following year.
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First "marriage"
After inheriting the title, Henry did not return to the family seat at Lydiard Park, Wiltshire, but preferred to stay in London. In 1852 he met the half-Jewish Ellen Medex, daughter of Charles and Miriam Medex. Although the couple never married, they masqueraded as Mr and Mrs Morgan, and for over thirty years lived at various addresses in London and Brighton. During these years Ellen gave birth to four children, only one of whom, Ellen Rose (b.1863), survived. She was baptized Ellen Rose St John Morgan.
Ellen died in 1885 and was buried in a vault in the Egyptian Avenue at Highgate Cemetery, north London. Despite a lack of any evidence of a marriage, she was interred as "Ellen, Viscountess Bolingbroke".
Second "marriage"
After this Henry moved back to Lydiard Park and after meeting Mary Elizabeth Emily Howard, a young servant girl, installed her as his housekeeper.
