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Custos Rotulorum Of Tipperary
The Custos Rotulorum of County Tipperary was the highest civil officer in County Tipperary. The position was later combined with that of Lord Lieutenant of Tipperary. Incumbents *c.1694–1704 Standish Hartstonge *1769–1806 Francis Mathew, 1st Earl Landaff Francis Mathew, 1st Earl Landaff (September 1738 – 30 July 1806) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer. Mathew was the only son and heir of Thomas and Mary Mathew. His father's family had settled in Ireland from Wales a generation before. He ... *1807–1853 Francis Aldborough PrittieJohn Debrett''Scotland and Ireland'' Irish Peerage (G. Woodfall, 1822), p.1276. For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Tipperary References {{Custodes Rotulorum Tipperary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Tipperary
County Tipperary ( ga, Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary, and was established in the early 13th century, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland. It is Ireland's largest inland county and shares a border with 8 counties, more than any other. The population of the county was 159,553 at the 2016 census. The largest towns are Clonmel, Nenagh and Thurles. Tipperary County Council is the local authority for the county. In 1838, County Tipperary was divided into two ridings, North and South. From 1899 until 2014, they had their own county councils. They were unified under the Local Government Reform Act 2014, which came into effect following the 2014 local elections on 3 June 2014. Geography Tipperary is the sixth-largest of the 32 counties by area and the 12th largest by population. It is the third-largest of Munster's 6 counties by both size and popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Lieutenant Of Tipperary
This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of County Tipperary between 1831 and 1922. There were lieutenants of counties in Ireland until the reign of James II, when they were renamed governors. The office of Lord Lieutenant was recreated on 23 August 1831. Governors * James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormond (attainted 1715) * Richard Pennefather: 1746–1777 (died 1777) * Richard Pennefather: 1777–1831''The Royal Kalendar'' for 1831p. 389 (died 1831) * Francis Mathew, 1st Earl Landaff: 1777–1800 (died 1806) * Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden: –1803 (died 1803) * Cornelius O'Callaghan, 1st Baron Lismore: –1797 (died 1797) * John Bagwell: 1792–1816 (died 1816) * Stephen Moore: * Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 1st Earl of Donoughmore: Beatson's ''Political Index'' (1806) vol. IIIp. 373 –1825 (died 1825) * William Bagwell: 1807AspinallBAGWELL, William (c.1776-1826), of Marlfield, co. Tipperary.in ''The History of Parliament 1790–1820''.–1826 (died 1826 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standish Hartstonge (Kilkenny City MP)
Standish Hartstonge (1656–31 May 1704) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician from Kilkenny city, who was MP for Kilkenny City in the Irish House of Commons from 1695 until his death. He was born in Norfolk, a younger son of the eminent judge Sir Standish Hartstonge, 1st Baronet and his first wife Elizabeth Jermyn, daughter of Francis Jermyn (or Jermy) of Gunton Hall. His family moved to Ireland, where they already owned property, in the late 1660s. He entered King's Inns in 1681. His brother John Hartstonge became Church of Ireland bishop of Ossory in 1693. Through the bishop's influence, Standish was made Recorder of Kilkenny from 1694, and also served as Custos Rotulorum of County Tipperary under his father's patron the Duke of Ormond. An anonymous comic verse c.1700, namechecking various Dublin Castle courtiers of the Lord Lieutenant, suggests the ideal beau would be one who "like Hartstong loves". He died unmarried. Although his 1704 will and testament states ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Mathew, 1st Earl Landaff
Francis Mathew, 1st Earl Landaff (September 1738 – 30 July 1806) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer. Mathew was the only son and heir of Thomas and Mary Mathew. His father's family had settled in Ireland from Wales a generation before. He had one sister, Catherine, who married firstly Philip Roe, and secondly John Scott, 1st Earl of Clonmell. She died in 1771. Mathew served in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for County Tipperary between 1768 and 1783. In 1769 he was High Sheriff of Tipperary. On 12 October 1783 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Landaff, of Thomastown in the County of Tipperary, and assumed his seat in the Irish House of Lords.''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Aldborough Prittie
Francis Aldborough Prittie (4 June 1779 – 8 March 1853) was an Irish Member of Parliament in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. He was the second son of Henry Prittie, 1st Baron Dunalley, an Irish peer and MP in the Parliament of Ireland. His elder brother was Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley. Francis entered Trinity College Dublin in 1795. After serving for Doneraile in the Parliament of Ireland in 1800, he was elected MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Carlow shortly after the Act of Union, but resigned after three months to take the Escheator of Munster. He was later elected for County Tipperary, sitting from 1806 to 1818 and 1819 to 1831. He was appointed Custos Rotulorum of Tipperary in 1807, a sinecure normally held for life. He was appointed High Sheriff of Tipperary for 1838–39. He died in 1853 aged 73. He had married twice; firstly to Martha, daughter of Cooke Otway of Castle Otway, Tipperary and the widow of George Hartpole of Shrule Castle, Queen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Custos Rotulorum
''Custos rotulorum'' (; plural: ''custodes rotulorum''; Latin for "keeper of the rolls", ) is a civic post that is recognised in the United Kingdom (except Scotland) and in Jamaica. England, Wales and Northern Ireland The ''custos rotulorum'' is the keeper of an English, Welsh and Northern Irish county's records and, by virtue of that office, the highest civil officer in the county. The position is now largely ceremonial. The appointment lay with the Lord Chancellor until 1545, but is now exercised by the Crown, under the Royal sign-manual, and is usually held by a person of rank. The appointment has been united with that of the lord-lieutenancy of the county throughout England since 1836. The ''custos rotulorum'' of Lancashire was formerly appointed by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and that of County Durham vested in the Bishop of Durham until the abolition of its palatine rights. Traditionally, he was one of the justices of the peace. The custos rotulorum of the Isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
