Lord Lovelace was granted £1,600 by a revenue bill on 5 May 1709. However, during the last month of his six-month tenure, two of the Governor's sons—John and Wentworth—died, probably of pneumonia, and he himself died on 6 May 1709.
Lord Lovelace received a financial grant on May 5th, 1709, but his six-month term ended with the deaths of two of the Governor's sons from pneumonia in their final month. Lord Lovelace himself died on May 6th, 1709.