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Borrowes
Borrowes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Kildare Borrowes (other), multiple people, including: **Sir Kildare Borrowes, 3rd Baronet (c. 1660–1709), Irish MP for Kildare County 1703–1709 ** Sir Kildare Borrowes, 5th Baronet (c. 1721–1790), his grandson, Irish MP for Kildare County 1745–1776 * Walter Borrowes (1691–1741) Irish politician * Borrowes baronets See also * Borrows Borrows is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alison Borrows (born 1992), Australian slalom canoeist * Brian Borrows (born 1960), English footballer * Chester Borrows (born 1957), New Zealand politician * Edward Borrows, founde ...
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Borrowes Baronets
The Borrowes Baronetcy of Grangemellon in the County of Kildare, was a title in the Baronetage of Ireland. It was created on 14 February 1646 for Erasmus Borrowes, High Sheriff of Kildare in 1641. Erasmus was the son of Henry Borrowes of Gilltown (died 1615), who emigrated from Devon to Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth I. Through his mother Jane, Erasmus was the grandson of the distinguished soldier and politician Sir Arthur Savage. Sir Walter Borrowes, 2nd Baronet, was High Sheriff of Kildare in 1673. Sir Kildare Borrowes, 3rd Baronet was twice High Sheriff of Kildare and a member of the Irish Parliament for Kildare County. His son Sir Walter Borrowes, 4th Baronet represented Harristown and Athy in the Irish Parliament. The latter's son Sir Kildare Borrowes, 5th Baronet represented Kildare County and was High Sheriff of Kildare in 1751. The 6th Baronet was High Sheriff of Queen's County in 1800. Erasmus Dixon Borrowes, 9th Baronet was High Sheriff of Kildare in 1873 and High Sh ...
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Walter Borrowes
Sir Walter Dixon Borrowes, 4th Baronet (1691 – 9 June 1741) was an Irish politician. He was the eldest son of Sir Kildare Borrowes, 3rd Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Dixon, daughter of Sir Richard Dixon and his wife Mary Eustace of Calverstown. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1709, he succeeded his father as baronet. Borrowes represented Harristown in the Irish House of Commons between 1721 and 1727. Subsequently, he sat for Athy until his death in 1741. On 18 March 1720, Borrowes married Mary Pottinger, daughter of Captain Edward Pottinger. They had three sons. Borrowes died at Calverstown Calverstown () is a small village in County Kildare, Ireland. It lies south of the town of Kilcullen and about from each of the towns of Athy, Kildare, Naas and Newbridge. It is an old settlement located close to the archaeological sites of ..., County Kildare, which had come to his mother as the heiress of her nephew, Robert Dixon, and was succeeded in the baron ...
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Sir Kildare Borrowes, 5th Baronet
Sir Kildare Dixon Borrowes, 5th Baronet (20 January 1722 – 22 June 1790) was an Irish politician. He was the oldest son of Sir Walter Borrowes, 4th Baronet and his wife Mary Pottinger, daughter of Captain Edward Pottinger. In 1741, Borrowes succeeded his father as baronet. Between 1745 and 1776, he represented Kildare County in the Irish House of Commons. Borrowes was also elected for Randalstown in 1760, but chose not to sit. In 1751, he was appointed High Sheriff of Kildare. The main Borrowes family seat was at Barretstown Castle near Ballymore Eustace. They also inherited an estate at Calverstown in Kildare from their Dixon cousins (Kildare was the grandson of the Dixon heiress, Elizabeth). Marriages and children In February 1759, Borrowes married Elizabeth Short, only daughter of John Short. After her death in 1766, he married secondly Jane Higginson, daughter of Joseph Higginson on 10 May 1769. He had three sons and a daughter by his first wife, as well as four sons and t ...
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Sir Kildare Borrowes, 3rd Baronet
Sir Kildare Borrowes, 3rd Baronet (c. 1660 – May 1709) was an Irish politician. He was the son of Sir Walter Borrowes, 2nd Baronet and his first wife Lady Eleanor FitzGerald, daughter of George FitzGerald, 16th Earl of Kildare and Lady Joan Boyle. His mother's family were the richest in County Kildare and this cemented the position of the Borrowes family in the local landed gentry. In 1685, Borrowes succeeded his father as baronet. He was High Sheriff of Kildare in 1697 and again in 1707. Borrowes sat in the Irish House of Commons for Kildare County from 1703 until his death in 1709. His owned Barretstown Castle, which he inherited from his mother, but his main residence was at Gilltown.Cokayne George Edward ''Complete Baronetage'' Reprinted Gloucester 1983 Vol.2 p.270 He married Elizabeth Dixon, eldest daughter of Sir Richard Dixon and Mary Eustace of Calverstown Calverstown () is a small village in County Kildare, Ireland. It lies south of the town of Kilculle ...
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Kildare Borrowes (other)
Kildare Borrowes may refer to: *Sir Kildare Borrowes, 3rd Baronet (c. 1660–1709), Irish MP for Kildare County 1703–1709 *Sir Kildare Borrowes, 5th Baronet (1730–1790), his grandson, Irish MP for Kildare County 1745–1776 * Kildare Borrowes (cricketer) (1852–1924), English cricketer See also *Borrowes baronets The Borrowes Baronetcy of Grangemellon in the County of Kildare, was a title in the Baronetage of Ireland. It was created on 14 February 1646 for Erasmus Borrowes, High Sheriff of Kildare in 1641. Erasmus was the son of Henry Borrowes of Gilltown ... * Borrowes (surname) {{human name disambiguation, Borrowes, Kildare ...
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