Fitzgerald, James, first duke of Leinster (1722–1773), politician and landowner, was born on 29 May 1722 at Carton, co. Kildare, Ireland, the second son but surviving heir of Robert Fitzgerald, nineteenth earl of Kildare (1675–1744), landowner, and Lady Mary O'Brien (1692–1780), eldest daughter of ...
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Fitzgerald, James, first duke of Leinster (1722–1773), politician and landowner
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Fitzgerald, William Robert, second duke of Leinster (1749–1804), landowner and political reformer
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Fitzgerald, William Robert, second duke of Leinster (1749–1804), landowner and political reformer, was born on 12 March 1749 at Arlington Place, Piccadilly, London, the second of nineteen children of James Fitzgerald, first duke of Leinster (1722–1773), politician, and his wife, Lady Emily Mary Lennox (1731–1814)...
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Hamilton, James, first duke of Abercorn (1811–1885), landowner and politician
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revised by Peter Gray
Hamilton, James, first duke of Abercorn (1811–1885), landowner and politician, eldest son of James, Viscount Hamilton (d. 1814), and his wife, Harriet, daughter of the Hon. John Douglas, was born on 21 January 1811 in Seamore Place, Mayfair, Westminster. He succeeded as ...
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Lawless, Valentine Browne, second Baron Cloncurry (1773–1853), politician and landowner
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Lawless, Valentine Browne, second Baron Cloncurry (1773–1853), politician and landowner, only surviving son of Nicholas, first Baron Cloncurry (1733–1799), and Margaret (1748–1798), only child and heir of Valentine Browne of Mount Browne, co. Limerick, a wealthy Roman Catholic brewer of Dublin, was born in ...
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O'Neill, John, first Viscount O'Neill (1740–1798), politician and landowner
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O'Neill, John, first Viscount O'Neill (1740–1798), politician and landowner, was born on 16 January 1740 at Shane's Castle, co. Antrim, the eldest son of Charles O'Neill (d. 1769), MP and landowner, and Catherine Alice (d. 1790), third daughter of St John Brodrick MP...
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Parnell, Charles Stewart (1846–1891), politician and landowner
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Parnell, Charles Stewart (1846–1891), politician and landowner, was born on 27 June 1846 at Avondale, co. Wicklow, the seventh of the eleven children of John Henry Parnell (1811–1859), deputy lieutenant and high sheriff for co. Wicklow, and his wife, Delia Tudor (1816–1896), daughter of ...
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Ponsonby, Frederick, third earl of Bessborough (1758–1844), politician and landowner
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Ponsonby, Frederick, third earl of Bessborough (1758–1844), politician and landowner, was born on 24 January 1758, most probably at 1 Cavendish Square, London, the fifth (but only surviving) son of William Ponsonby, second earl of Bessborough (1704–1793), and his wife, Lady Caroline Cavendish (1719–1760)...
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Ponsonby, John William, fourth earl of Bessborough (1781–1847), politician and landowner
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Ponsonby, John William, fourth earl of Bessborough (1781–1847), politician and landowner, was born on 31 August 1781, the eldest son of Frederick Ponsonby, third earl of Bessborough (1758–1844), and his wife, Henrietta Frances Ponsonby (1761–1821), the second daughter of John, first Earl Spencer...
