Arthur Pomeroy, 1st Viscount Harberton (16 January 1723 – 9/11 April 1798) was an Anglo-Irish politician. He was born in Cork, the eldest son of the Rev John Pomeroy,

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, and his wife Elizabeth Donnellan of Cloghan,

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. He sat in the

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as the

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for County Kildare from 1761 until he was raised to the

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as Baron Harberton in the

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on 10 October 1783. He was further created Viscount Harberton on 5 July 1791. He married Mary Colley, daughter of Henry Colley of Castle Carbury, great uncle of the 1st

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, by his wife Lady Mary Hamilton, daughter of

James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn, PC (Ire) ( – 1734) was a Scottish and Irish peer and politician. Appointed a groom of the bedchamber to Charles II after the his father's death in battle, he took the Williamite side at the Gloriou ...

. They had seven children, including Henry, 2nd Viscount, Arthur, 3rd Viscount and John, 4th Viscount Harberton. His youngest daughter, Mary, married Sir John Craven Carden, 1st Baronet of

Templemore Templemore () is a town in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is a civil parish in the historical barony of Eliogarty. It is part of the parish of Templemore, Clonmore and Killea in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly. The 2011 Cens ...

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.The gentleman's magazine, and historical chronicle, Volume 79, Part 1, pg 130. Another daughter, Henrietta, married

James Hewitt, 2nd Viscount Lifford James Hewitt, 2nd Viscount Lifford (27 October 1750 – 15 April 1830), was an Anglo-Irish peer and Church of Ireland clergyman. Hewitt was the eldest son of James Hewitt, 1st Viscount Lifford, and his first wife Mary Rhys Williams. The Hewitt ...

, but died after only two years of marriage. Two other children, George and Elizabeth, died unmarried. He was an ancestor of General

George Colley George Colley (18 October 1925 – 17 September 1983) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Tánaiste from 1977 to 1981, Minister for Energy from 1980 to 1981, Minister for Tourism and Transport from 1979 to 1980, Minister for ...

(1835–81).

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