Print. In 1714 (6 November) Aylmer became the second Governor of Greenwich Hospital in which role he was also 'ex officio' Ranger of Greenwich Park and lived in the Queen’s House, where he entertained George I on several occasions. He died on 18 August 1720 and was buried in St Alfege's on the 23rd. Aylmer was mainly responsible founded the Hospital School for the sons of seamen at Greenwich. The proposal for this dated to 1712, based on the entry receipts to view the Painted Hall after Thornhill finished the ceiling, but the earliest reference to the education of boys at Hospital expense (at Thomas Weston's school in Greenwich) is from August 1715. On 1 May 1718 Aylmer was created Baron Aylmer of Balrath in the Irish peerage. Other copies of this mezzotint, of which there is one on p.67 of the volume of Greenwich-related portraits compiled by Charles Kadwell (1847) in the Greenwich Heritage Centre, has a simple cartouche in the top right corner identifying the sitter and with the statement that he 'entertain'd the 4 Kings on Board the Royal Soveraign 1710'. [PvdM 10/11]