He married Jemima Montagu, daughter of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich and Jemima Crewe, in an arranged marriage on 31 July 1665. Samuel Pepys had a hand in the marriage and wrote of it at some length in his diary.
On July 31, 1665, he married Jemima Montagu, daughter of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, and Jemima Crewe, in an arranged marriage orchestrated by Samuel Pepys, who chronicled the event in his diary.