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Governor Of Galway
The Governor of Galway was a military officer who commanded the garrison at Galway in the west of Ireland. The post became a sinecure and in 1833 was to be abolished from the next vacancy. List of governors * 1616: Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde (died 1635) * Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde (died 1657) * Henry de Burgh * 1651: General Preston (fled to France, 1651) * 1652: Colonel Peter Stubbers (for Parliament) * 1655: Colonel Thomas Sadleir * –1691: Henry Dillon, 8th Viscount Dillon * 1691: Sir Henry Belasyse * John Eyre * 1712: Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde * 1714: John Ussher * 1718: George St George, 1st Baron St George * 1747–: Stratford Eyre (died 1765) * 1768–1793: Robert Sandford * 1793–1825: Peter Daly * 1826–1839: Sir John Elley References {{Governors in Ireland Politics of Galway (city) Galway Galway ( ; ga, Gaillimh, ) is a City status in Ireland, city in the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Galway
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Michael Burke, 10th Earl Of Clanricarde
Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde (; ; 1686–1736), styled Lord Dunkellin (; ) until 1722, was an Irish peer who was Governor of Galway (1712) and a Privy Counsellor in Ireland (1726). Career He was the son of John Burke, 9th Earl of Clanricarde and educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He was appointed Governor of Galway in 1712 and invested as a Privy Counsellor in Ireland on 15 July 1726. On his death he was buried in Christchurch, Dublin. Family He married Anne, the daughter of Speaker John Smith and the widow of Hugh Parker, who after her death in 1732 was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey. They had 2 sons and 2 daughters: * John Smith de Burgh, 11th Earl of Clanricarde * Lady Anne de Burgh (died 1794) who married Denis Daly * Lady Mary Bourke who married George Jennings * Hon. John Bourke (died 1719) Arms References Further reading * ''Portumna Castle and its Lords'', Michael Mac Mahon, 1983. * ''Burke:People and Places'', Eamon Bourk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politics Of Galway (city)
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external force, including wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Elley
Lieutenant-General Sir John Elley KMT OS (9 January 176423 January 1839) was a British soldier who joined the cavalry as a private and rose to general officer rank. He fought with distinction during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and later served as the last Governor of Galway and as Member of Parliament for Windsor. Early life Information about Elley is scarce, perhaps partly because of his humble origins. He was born in London in 1764. His father ran an eating-house at Furnival's Inn, Holborn. Apprenticed to Mr. John Gelderd, a tannery owner of the village of Meanwood near Leeds, West Yorkshire, he became engaged to his master's daughter Anne. After her untimely death, he enlisted in 1789 as a trooper in the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards and saw service in the Flanders Campaign (1793–1795). Army career Elley made his first step out of the ranks by becoming a cornet in his regiment on 14 June 1794. On 30 January 1796, he was promoted to lieutenant, and 11 J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Beatson
Robert Beatson, LL.D. FRSE FSA (1741–1818) was a Scottish compiler and miscellaneous writer. Life He was born on 25 June 1741 at Dysart in Fife, Scotland, the son of David Beatson of Vicarsgrange. He was educated for the military profession, and on one of his title-pages describes himself as 'late of his majesty's corps of Royal Engineers'. The ''Dictionary of National Biography'' states it was probably as a subaltern in this corps that he accompanied the unsuccessful expedition against Rochefort in 1757 (but he was only 15 years old and he is not listed by the Corps History as being an engineer on the expedition), and was present with the force which, reaching the West Indies early in 1759, failed in the attack on Martinique, but succeeded in capturing Guadeloupe. He is represented in 1766 as retiring on half-pay, and as failing, in spite of repeated applications, to secure active employment during the American War of Independence. However, in 1784 Beatson was a first lieu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stratford Eyre
Stratford Eyre (fl. 1731–1755) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and governor of Galway. Background and origin Eyre was a descendant of John Eyre, who had settled in County Galway in the 1650s and established a dynasty under the Protestant Ascendancy. Stratford was the son of Samuel Eyre (Governor of Galway in 1715) and Anne née Stratford. He was appointed High Sheriff of County Galway for 1731. He served as a Colonel at Battle of Culloden in 1746. Governor of Galway He was appointed Governor of the town in 1747. Froude described the then state of the town: ''He found himself set to defend a town of which the walls had not been repaired for a quarter of a century; the castle in ruins; the very name of military authority forgotten. By law no Catholics ought to have been in Galway at all. There were thirty Catholics there to one Protestant, and the Protestant was becoming Protestant but in name. There were 180 ecclesiastics, Jesuits friars, and seculars. Robert Martin, owner of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George St George, 1st Baron St George
George St George, 1st Baron St George (c. 1658 – 4 August 1735) was an Anglo-Irish politician, soldier and peer. St George was the son of Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet and Olivia Beresford, daughter of Michael Beresford, of Coleraine, County Londonderry. He represented County Roscommon (Parliament of Ireland constituency), County Roscommon in the Irish House of Commons between at least 1692 and 1715. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1695. He held the post of Vice-Admiral of Connaught from 1696 to his death. In 1715 he was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron St George, of Hatley Saint George in the Counties of Roscommon and Leitrim. St George gained experience as a soldier. In 1689 he took command of Solomon Richards (soldier), Solomon Richards' 17th Foot, infantry regiment which had just taken part in a failed expedition under John Cunningham (officer), John Cunningham to rescue the Siege of Derry, besieged city of Derry, the failure of which led to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ussher (died 1741)
John Ussher (circa 1682 – 1741) was an Irish soldier and Member of Parliament. He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Beverley Ussher by his wife Grace, daughter of Sir Richard Osborne, 2nd Baronet. His nephews John Ussher and Beverley Ussher were also MPs. He reached the rank of captain in General Lumley's Regiment of Horse, seeing action at the Battle of Blenheim. On 20 December 1714 he married Mary St George, daughter and heiress of Sir George St George, later Lord St George. In November 1715 he was elected to the Irish House of Commons for his father-in-law's former constituency of Carrick, sitting until his death. He later also served as Governor of Galway and, from 1735, Vice-Admiral of Connaught. His son St George Ussher succeeded to his seat in Parliament. He later adopted the surname St George and was created Baron St George. His daughter Olivia married Arthur French and their son Christopher adopted the surname St George in 1774; he was the grandfather of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Belasyse (died 1717)
Sir Henry Belasyse (1648 – 14 December 1717), also spelt Bellasis, was an English military officer from County Durham, who also sat as MP for a number of constituencies between 1695 and 1715. Beginning his military career in 1674 under William of Orange, he proved an effective soldier who was trusted with a variety of senior commands, but was unpopular with his contemporaries. In the Glorious Revolution of November 1688, he helped secure the north of England for William, before fighting in Ireland and Flanders in the 1688 to 1697 Nine Years War. During the War of the Spanish Succession in 1702, he was held responsible for the looting that followed the Battle of Cádiz, an event seen as having badly damaged the House of Habsburg cause. As a result, he was dismissed from the army in 1703; he never held active command again, although he was appointed Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed from 1713 to 1715. First returned to Parliament for Morpeth in 1693, he began his political l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galway
Galway ( ; ga, Gaillimh, ) is a City status in Ireland, city in the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht, which is the county town of County Galway. It lies on the River Corrib between Lough Corrib and Galway Bay, and is the List of settlements on the island of Ireland by population, sixth most populous city on the island of Ireland and the List of urban areas in the Republic of Ireland by population, fourth most populous in the Republic of Ireland, with a population at the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census of 83,456. Located near an earlier settlement, Galway grew around a fortification built by the Kings of Connacht, King of Connacht in 1124. A municipal charter in 1484 allowed citizens of the by then walled city to form a Galway City Council, council and mayoralty. Controlled largely by a group of merchant families, the Tribes of Galway, the city grew into a trading port. Following a period of decline, as of the 21st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Dillon, 8th Viscount Dillon
Henry Dillon, 8th Viscount Dillon (died 1714) was an Irish soldier and politician. In 1689 he sat in the Patriot Parliament. He fought for the Jacobites during the Wiiliamite War, defending Galway against Ginkel and surrendering it in 1691 after a short siege. He obtained the reversal of his father's attainder in 1696 recovering his father's lands. Birth and origins Henry was born about 1665, probably at his parents' house at Kilmore, County Roscommon, Ireland. He was the second but eldest surviving of the three sons of Theobald Dillon and his wife Mary Talbot. At that time his father was heir apparent of Lucas Dillon, 6th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen, a remote cousin. His father's family was Old English and descended from Sir Henry Dillon who had come to Ireland with Prince John in 1185. Henry's mother was a daughter of Sir Henry Talbot of Templeogue. The Talbots also were an Old English family. Both his parents were Catholic. He had two brothers, which are list ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Stubbers
Peter Stubbers, Mayor of Galway, fl. 1654. Colonel Stubbers was the first non-Tribal Mayor of Galway. The old corporation was forcibly dissolved in October 1654 and Colonel Stubbers, as one of the leading Cromwellian officers of the town's occupiers, became Mayor. He also seized Mayor Lynch's splendid house, now the King's Head pub. On 12 May, Galway surrendered to Sir Charles Coote, "and it was at that time considered so very strong, that the loss of it carried with it the fate of Ireland, and was the determination of the rebellion." Colonel Stubbers became Governor of the town. It was a usual practice of the governor and other Cromwellian officers throughout the county to take people out of their beds at night and sell them for slaves to the West Indies. It is estimated that Stubbers sold out of the county over 1,000 persons in conjunction with the fellow Cromwellian officers including his son-in-law Edmond Bray. Bray was married to Stubbers daughter Tryphena. His neighbour to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
